SASの評判・口コミ 全3件

What do you like best?

Its efficient when you know how to code this well.

Robust as can tackle loads of data.

Comes with great online support.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Good to have, great to work on.

What do you dislike?

Though great with statistical analysis, SAS is not as good with data extraction and manipulation compared to say SQL. Say in order to merge two datasets, we have to sort both the datasets on the fields we are merging and sorting a large dataset takes a long time in SAS.

What do you like best?

Base SAS along with other packages cover almost the whole gamut of statistical analysis and techniques.SAS programming syntax can be considered as a high level language which is intuitive and easy to learn compared to other softwares like R.The extensive library of pre defined functions and user defined gives it an edge over other softwares. Further , Macro programming adds a massive scope with both global and local variables.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Though there are other open source and cheaper alternative available, SAS is going to rule for coming years with the kind of support it provides to the enterprises, continuous improvements with latest versions and validated and ever increasing functions library

What do you dislike?

- Difficult to extract data from sources & manipulate into usable fields. Needs prior data massaging

What do you like best?

- Large library of in-built macros/ predefined functions

- Ability to model a wide range of statistical scenarios

- Easier modeling & programming than R

Recommendations to others considering the product

Expensive but performance oriented industry leading tool though R is catching up and a much cheaper option

What do you dislike?

As a system administrator, I dislike the lack of an established work-flow for managing content and data in SAS BI. Aside from the built-in security of the Metadata and the underlying OS security, there seems to be very little to help promote governance, consistency and 'a single view' of data and information. The SAS-user mentality has traditionally been every-man-for-himself, and this seems to translate into SAS BI as well.

What do you like best?

SAS BI combined with the underlying SAS compute engine makes the tool a jack of all trades. Using the stored process feature combined with information maps and the portal, I can build a web-site to do just about anything.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Make sure you design well, document your design, and plan for portability. If you can pick up your stored process and run it, with little-to-no modification, in any of the SAS App Servers in your environment, you have maximized the availability of your business process to as many users as possible.

What do you dislike?

I really do not have any dislikes. What is there to dislike?

What do you like best?

I now have an alternate path of developing online dashboards and reports without relying on my core vendors. We have a small staff dedicated to SAS and we are able to produce a lot of instantaneous, relevant information to the end user.

What do you dislike?

It is a small thing, but with a series of separate clients I need to provide my credentials again and again.

What do you like best?

The SAS BI suite of clients work well together to set up an accessible BI framework. In my experience users have been able to make modifications easily, reducing the burden on the BI staff. The ability to use both web reports and stored processes gives our analysts choices in what to deliver and how to deliver it.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Be sure to consider Visual Analytics also. It looks like it would complement the rest of the BI clients, especially in the first stages of an analysis. It is very important, as it is with any BI system, to carefully develop the granularity of the objects made available to users. It can become very easy to generate garbage results if this isn't done.

What do you dislike?

The interdependency on the various BI tools to come out till the end visual represntation of the data. A single tool should be there, capable of doing all the data flow from raw data to cubes/ Imap till ID Portal.

What do you like best?

Flexibility of the data transformation and various visual representention on the end users channels.