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SAS Visual Analytics Reviews & 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

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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

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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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Verified User in Government Administration

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/7/2025

"Intuitive, simple in the good sense"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

Anyone can pick it up and use it easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

Its undersold in its capabilities, thats why it doesnt get the praise it deserves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/6/2025

"useful tool for daily work to be productive"

2.5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

easy to use and navigate and output to MS product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

when version update didn't get right, it can be problematic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/7/2025

"A great option for data exploration and reporting."

5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

Easy to use for non technical users. Great for data exploration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

Some limitations for complex calculations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Udbhasan D.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/15/2024

"Best platform for building data stories"

5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

1. Easy data mining and data preparation

2. Ease of use in terms of statistical analysis and understanding behavioral patterns

3. integration of legacy SQL helps experienced individuals to come to the platform and use it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

More focus on low code no code approach, to encourage pure business users to start using the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/9/2024

"Data and Insights with SAS Visual Analytics"

5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

The intuitive interface facilitates dynamic data exploration, one can visualise the data with future predictions and empowering users to derive actionable insights effortlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

Occasional complexity in advanced features may pose a learning curve for new users, as I started using it in my college and utilitied this ib many of my projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

robertson B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/17/2024

"SAS Visual Analytics"

5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

I like being abke to chart out my data with options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

I can be somewhat confusing without training Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/12/2023

"Visualizes Effortlessly"

5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

The interface of SAS Visual Analytics is simple, clean, and intuitive. With the ability to drag-and-drop even I, someone who is still learning how to use the software, was able to pick it up quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

I wish there was a pop-up description that appeared when you hover over icons. While the documentation is clear and easy to understand, it's still frustrating to me that I'm not able to immediately have a brief description at-hand as I'm figuring things out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/13/2023

"SAS Visual Analytics is an unbelievably powerful tool to garner insights from data."

5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

SAS VA paints a picture about the data very quickly in a streamlined way. I appreciate that VA can create new objects from subsets of existing visuals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

It's not really a dislike, but I can definitely foresee some learning curves if someone is not used to building out these "objects." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAS Visual Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

SAS VA is shortening the time to garner insights about data. On the forecasting side, it was particularly eyeopening on how the different forecasting models are competed with each other and the best model is chosen. This is an absolute game changer. Please continue to add more types of forecasting models like HMM to the forecast testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paul A.

System Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/30/2023

"Presentation on SAS VA"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

Easy to understand the datas how it goes through the tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

Nothing to pin point as we have next upgrade Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kenneth W.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/13/2023

"Fast answers on many levels"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SAS Visual Analytics?

SAS Visual Analytics makes fast reports on large amounts of data - it is a great tool for reporting, get a fast overview and drill down into the details Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Visual Analytics?

We have had some issues making parameters work when upgrading the SAS VA version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.