SAS Visual Analytics Reviews & Product Details

SAS Visual Analytics Product Details

SAS® Visual Analytics is a single application for reporting, data exploration and analytics that empowers everyone to easily discover and share powerful insights.

Seller

SAS Institute Inc.

Discussions

SAS Visual Analytics Community

Languages Supported

Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Product Description

SAS Visual Analytics is our flagship offering for self-service data preparation, visual discovery, interactive reporting, and dashboards--as well as easy-to-use analytics--with governance. SAS Visual Analytics allows non-technical users to create, share and execute BI and Analytics workflows for interactive reporting and free-form exploration. The primary functional components supported by SAS Visual Analytics are: Self-service Data Preparation, Data Exploration and Analytics including Augmented Analytics, Interactive Reporting, Location Analytics, Conversational AI through chatbots on SAS Conversation Designer, Automated Explanation using Natural Language, and Outlier Detection and Data Explain for report consumers. SAS Visual Analytics supports sharing and collaboration of insights to decision makers as they make collective decisions as part of their tasks or process or jobs. The goal is for everybody to take decisive action and stay agile as market conditions change and business needs demand a quick response.

Overview by

Crystal Sullivan (Customer Engagement Analyst at SAS)

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

4 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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SAS Visual Analytics Media

SAS Visual Analytics Demo - See the big picture – and underlying connections.

Quickly spot important relationships in your data using suggestions and clearly identified related measures. Use machine learning and natural language explanations to find, visualize and narrate stories and insights that are easy to understand and explain. Find out why something happened, examine...

SAS Visual Analytics Demo - Get answers backed by data, results driven by insight.

Easy-to-use predictive analytics enables even business analysts to assess possible outcomes and make smarter, data-driven decisions – no programming required. Smart algorithms reduce the need for manual experimentation. And you can work collaboratively with experts to focus on what’s most relevant.

SAS Visual Analytics Demo - Streamline the discovery process.

Self-service data preparation gives business users the ability to import their own data, join tables, apply data quality functions, create calculated columns and more – all with drag-and-drop ease. By empowering users to access, combine, clean and prepare their own data in an agile – and trusted ...

SAS Visual Analytics Demo - Turn seeing into understanding with dynamic visuals.

Create stunning interactive reports and dashboards. Quickly summarize key performance metrics and share them via the web and mobile devices. Executives and front-line staff can quickly interact with and collaborate on insights, slice and dice them to find their own answers, and better understand ...

SAS Visual Analytics Demo - Add the 'where' to the 'what.'

Add geographical context to your analyses and visualizations by combining traditional data with location data. Location analysis brings the “where” dimension to the forefront so you can analyze data in new ways to get the full picture before making decisions while identifying location-specific op...

SAS Visual Analytics Demo - Gain chat-enabled insights

An intuitive, low-code visual interface enables you to create and deploy custom, natural language chatbots. Get text responses, access data, reports and visualizations, and even apply analytics and AI through a natural language, conversational interface. Configure bots within the SAS environment ...

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Daniel S.

Business Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/7/2025

"My Experience with SAS VA: Intuitive Visualization and Advanced Analytics"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

What I like best about SAS Visual Analytics is how it empowers users to explore data visually without needing deep technical skills. The drag-and-drop interface and interactive dashboards make it easy to uncover insights quickly and share them across teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

Sometimes, performance can be an issue when working with large datasets or complex reports—especially in cloud environments. Optimizing for speed and responsiveness could make a big difference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Arthur Diego P.

Business Intelligence Analyst

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/28/2025

"Excellent tool for Data Visualization"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

The ease of building panels, low-code style Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

The limitation of existing graphics and the lack of some customizations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Tyler H.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/6/2025

"Drag and Drop Visuals"

4/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

SAS Visual Analytics is so easy to implement and start building visualizations. The drag and drop visuals are easy to use and look great. I use SAS Visual Analytics daily for a wide range of use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

Sometimes data load times can be slow (depending on size of datasets being used). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Juan Pablo L.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/7/2025

"Visual Analytics"

4/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

All the infinite possibilities you can create as it is a white page where you can work and create amazing thing according to your necessities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

The slow reaction as it increases the objects in the page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Dan-Andrei S.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/6/2025

"Intuitive and useful BI/BA product"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

You may get insights in few clicks. Easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

Documentation from the current Viya version is not so good as the previous one. Also, I was not able to find the Case study PDF, the one that solves the same problem in 3 ways, according to the user's skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Leonardo E.

Analista Inteligencia Segmentos Comerciales

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/7/2025

"Amazing experience"

5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

Easiest way to present the data and important insigths of my analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

Some features to add forms or images. I would like to add an easier way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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kumara t.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/7/2025

"Dashboard experience"

2/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

Making dashboard in VA is helpful as it help to translate my latest modelling outcome into insights right away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

Some functionality are limited. For example color coding are limited. Sync of dual axis is not straight forward either. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Kien L.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/7/2025

"First time beginner SAS user"

3.5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

Ability to utilize SAS across the board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

First time being introduced to SAS Visual Analytics and I can't say that there is anything I dislike yet. But I would definitely want to see more visual options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Li L.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/7/2025

"had use this tool the design dynamic graphs"

5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

there is so many features to dynamic pick subgroup to control the other graphs/characteristics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

tried to connect this dynamic graphs to online link to share with unlicensed colleagues, but it did not work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.