SAS Viya Reviews & Overview

SAS (Statistical Analysis System) Enterprise BI Server is a comprehensive, easy-to-use BI software solution, which empowers all to make fact-based decisions. SAS is a leader in the business analytics and BI market. It caters for all major industries ranging from education to finance to government and healthcare. 

SAS integrates advanced visual analytics directly into the BI tool. You can collect Twitter streams and combine them into the dashboards. Also, SAS operates on in-memory server that works well with big and small data, thereby making analysis more coherent. It offers powerful reporting and query features, alerts and predictive analytics.

SAS Visual Analytics alleviates pressure on the IT department via self-service comprehensive reviews. It requires no coding for complex results including decision trees, network diagrams and on-going BI forecast analytics. Interactive reports can be designed fast and shared via mobile devices, on web and across other Microsoft apps. Reports can be closely analyzed and the data drilled-through to view comprehensive details.

SAS Visual Analytics also has the potential to collect Twitter streams and convey them directly into the dashboard feed. All this is possible with the help of thought-clouds, which aids users to discover trending topics connected to your business. The software has the ability to determine which words are utilized most often, and when drilled-down to the details, in what context, all these with the aim of helping you obtain an in-depth view of what others are thinking and saying about your company or product.

In addition, SAS offers licenses of its in solution in five categories: SMBs, individuals, government, academics and enterprises. It also offers customized performance offerings. Visual analytics includes features which are unique in the BI domain including its collection of strong, advanced analytics directly into a BI tool. It has a 36% share of the advanced analytics market, which is above the share of the next 10 vendors all-together.