Compare SAS Visual Analytics and Pentaho Data Integration - May 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - SAS Visual Analytics or Pentaho Data Integration?

SAS Visual Analytics is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Pentaho Data Integration, and SAS Visual Analytics is rated higher (85/100) than Pentaho Data Integration (70/100). Pentaho Data Integration offers users more features (12) than SAS Visual Analytics (8).

Looking for the right Business Intelligence solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

SAS Institute Vs. Pentaho

SAS Institute: SAS Institute is a Cary, North Carolina- based developer of analytics software. It owns the largest market share for advanced analytics and is the world's largest private software company.SAS (pronounced "sass") develops and markets its software (also called SAS), which helps companies gather, store, access, analyze and report on corp...

Pentaho: Pentaho offers a suite of open source Business Intelligence (BI) products called Pentaho Business Analytics providing data integration, OLAP services, reporting, dashboarding, data mining and ETL capabilities.

Who is more expensive? SAS Visual Analytics or Pentaho Data Integration?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Business Intelligence software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for SAS Visual Analytics and Pentaho Data Integration.

SAS Visual Analytics price starts at $8,000 per year , On a scale between 1 to 10 SAS Visual Analytics is rated 6, which is similar to the average cost of Business Intelligence software. Pentaho Data Integration price starts at $100 per user/month , When comparing Pentaho Data Integration to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Business Intelligence software cost.

Bottom line: SAS Visual Analytics cost is around the same cost of Pentaho Data Integration.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared SAS Visual Analytics Vs. Pentaho Data Integration based on some of the most important and required Business Intelligence features.

SAS Visual Analytics: Dashboard, Performance Measurements, Data Analysis Tools, Data analysis, Dashboards & KPIs, Visual Discovery, Data visualization, ETL.

Pentaho Data Integration: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support, Basic Reports, Dashboard.

Target customer size

The most common users of SAS Visual Analytics belongs to the small (with 10 to 100 employees) to medium-sized (with 100 to 1,000 employees) businesses as well as larger enterprises making use of the services from the sectors of IT, data and web hosting and related information services, mainly with business intelligence and data analytics. Pentaho Business Analytics is perfect for companies of various shapes and sizes.