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2021-01-05T17:28:24Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAS Analytics?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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2024-02-21T15:47:19Z
Feb 21, 2024
AltanAtabarut - PeerSpot reviewer
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May 4, 2024

@Adbul Samad Gabru I agree SAS is extremely expensive for no reason... Every year a new open source feature comes either in parallel processing or drag and drop (nocode modelling) or NLQ natural language querying... So there are many free or cheap alternatives are popping up, but the SAS pricing is stable... Big mistake for SAS... 
SAS UI sucks with very small fonts as if I'm a 14 year old...  Plus there is a steep learning curve with very little NLQ or GenAI integrations into Viya... (they are very late in recent developments in AI world, so why am I paying huge for a legacy software) 
Did you know that they have actually a pricelist for each country per purchasing parity (for example %50 discount for Turkey, Taiwan, %60 for India etc.) but for sales people to achieve their target numbers the pricing is decided manually, very old school...

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2024-01-25T09:46:00Z
Jan 25, 2024
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May 4, 2024

@Tanin U best priced tool is Visual Analytics, 900 USD per user per year...

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2021-02-24T16:28:25Z
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AltanAtabarut - PeerSpot reviewer
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May 4, 2024

@Ariful Mondal They have a bundle called SAS Analytics for IoT and it's unlimited number of users for 100K USD... best bang for the bucks... And it includes %90 of all SAS capabilities, including BI, Automl, forecasting, optimization, decisioning...

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2021-12-14T17:42:00Z
Dec 14, 2021
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2021-01-05T17:28:24Z
Jan 5, 2021
AltanAtabarut - PeerSpot reviewer
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May 4, 2024

@Dieter Steinmann For half the money you pay, you can have the cake and eat it using Alteryx or DATAIKU with KNIME it's 1/3 of the money you pay...

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