SAS BI Review - why 4.3 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Mar 26, 2022

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What is SAS BI?

`SAS Business Intelligence is a business intelligence software that can help users to access to the information they need in their preferred format. The software can integrate data across your enterprise and deliver self-serve analysis and reporting to make sure that the business users focus more on growing their business and spend less time behind discovering information.

SAS, the company behind this business intelligence solution, was founded back in 1976. The company has served over 70,000 customers so far including 91 of the top 100 companies from the 2013 Fortune Global 500 list and offers business intelligence solution for business companies of various shapes and sizes.

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Who is it best for?

SAS Business Intelligence is perfect for companies of all shapes and sizes. Automotive, media, high-tech, consumer goods, defense and security, insurance, retail, oil and gas and utilities industry can use this software. Ausgrid, Staples and Scotiabank are some of the clients of SAS Business Intelligence.

Main features and functionalities

SAS Business Intelligence comes with predictive business intelligence, self-service reporting, data integration, forecasting, data and text mining and statistics features. The visual analytics feature can help users to find new patterns, explore all their data and publish reports to various devices. Users can enjoy the power of SAS analytics in the MS Office’s familiar interface. The software provides fully integrated business analytics framework to make it easier for users to share consistent views of their business.

Most of the business intelligence solution offers business intelligence by checking the historical reports which gives you very limited insight. However, this business intelligence solution can help you to understand the past, predict the outcomes of your business and monitor the present condition. The software also supports integration with Twitter streams and bringing them into your dashboard feed directly. Other notable features are: ad-hoc analysis, customizable dashboard and online analytical processing.

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $8,000 per year. ITQlick pricing score is 5.4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for SAS BI. You can also find here pricing information from SAS BI's website.

Pros

• SAS Business Intelligence comes with a big library of in-built predefined functions
• SAS Business Intelligence can give users instant access to analysis and reports
• The technical support of SAS Business Intelligence offers phone and online support
• The business intelligence solution offers analytics for MS Office unlike other similar tools
• The business intelligence software comes with fully integrated business analytic framework unlike other similar tools

Cons

• SAS Business Intelligence doesn’t offer any free trial version for users like other similar tools
• SAS Business Intelligence’s user interface can be difficult to use for some users
• The technical support of SAS Business Intelligence doesn’t offer any 24/7 live phone support for users
• The business intelligence solution is not good with data manipulation and extraction comparing to other similar tools
• The business intelligence software doesn’t offer any prior data messaging feature for users

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of SAS BI vs alternative software solutions.

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