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Industry usage of SAS application like Olap cube,web report studio and BI dashboard

d14 — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 02:40:47 GMT

Hi,

Want to understand, how much % users in industry uses these web applications Web report studio, BI dashboard and olap cube as reporting tool.

Does SAS recommends them as reporting tool industry wise.

Thanks,

Re: Industry usage of SAS application like Olap cube,web report studio and BI dashboard

jakarman — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 09:17:25 GMT

Did you see the SAS VA product?

Re: Industry usage of SAS application like Olap cube,web report studio and BI dashboard

d14 — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 10:23:01 GMT

Yes I have their demo. How successful the reporting applications are i.e. wrs,cubes ... how can I find how widely they are used. Any reference will be helpful. Is VA going to take over sas bi tools

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Re: Industry usage of SAS application like Olap cube,web report studio and BI dashboard

jakarman — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:06:34 GMT

One of the best things to do is review the analyst viewpoint reports. They are made by other companies Gartner Forrester as well known ones.

SAS is sharing those on their site: http://www.sas.com/en_us/news/analyst-viewpoints.html Yes it is also sales promotion so some caution on what is said is important.

This one is SAS very proud on: http://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/en_us/doc/analystreport/forrester-wave-agile-bi-platforms-107215.pdf Ik like to read the vendor profile chapters.

From Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms there is again a nice quadrant, but the strengths/cautions on each vendor is to read.

The difference VA and OLAP Web/BI and AMO (Addin Microsoft Office) / Eguide may not be clear from first sight.

SAS VA is selfservice like OLAP but bypassing the OLAP cube building with DI/BI in datamarts. It is done as cubes internally (in memory).

I am seeing VA being promoted for this instead of OLAP WEB/BI WRS. VA is rather new (2 year s now) and WEB portal Olap is some 10 years old.

AMO Eguide is more suited for advanced users doing also a lot of data manipulations.

Re: Industry usage of SAS application like Olap cube,web report studio and BI dashboard

d14 — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 08:16:13 GMT

Thanks Jaap... this helps and a good article.