SAS 9.4 vs SAS Enterprise Miner

[NKormanik]

Would someone please shed a little light as to the basic difference between SAS 9.4 and SAS Enterprise Miner?

There appears to be much overlap as far as procedures, such as regression.

Enterprise Miner has additional 'machine learning' capabilities.

Trying to sort it out.

Thanks!

[LinusH]

I'm probably not the best person to aswer this, but just to this started.

Yes, there is an overlap on what kind of analysis you can do, and create and test models.

But EM gives you a framework for this job, with a GUI.

I believe also some feutures are more or less unique for EM, e.g. I don't think you can work with neural networks OOTB in SAS Foundation.

[NKormanik]

Exploring some, it looks like EM is more difficult to get going with.  That's a problem for newbies.

SAS 9.4 has tremendous documentation, and there are hundreds of example programs out on the internet from around the world to pattern your own problem after.

Not sure how much time to spend attempting to learn EM.

Plus, the future direction of SAS seems to be Viya.

[SASKiwi]

SAS Enterprise Miner is tied to SAS 9.4 and as such is a legacy product

The equivalent product on Viya is SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning.

It has a much more modern interface and is really the way forward.

[LinusH]

If you have an option to start with Viya VDMML it's most likely a better choice.