Thank you for being active in the VA community! SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Enterprise Miner have some overlapping functionality, but are designed to work with the same data. A suggestion is to consider the general skills and needs of your users, and the broader user community. Do you have other needs to support visualization, dashboarding or general reporting? If so, Visual Analytics might be a good fit. On the other hand, if your community includes advanced statisticians, SAS Enterprise Miner is a powerful tool. Decision trees, regression analysis and neural networks are all very traditional statistical analysis functions. Visual Analytics can do linear regression analysis, decision trees, and basic network diagrams. SAS Enterprise Miner offers more depth around the functions you have described here. If a user is highly advanced, requires more functionality around the procedures described, and the user would like to publish the model to a data store then Enterprise Miner is likely the preferred choice. Enterprise Miner provides robust neural networks, allows you to tweak and compare multiple models and supports a broad palette of predictive analytics. The products are designed to work together and by the end of the year, we expect to rollout new versions of both products. We are excited that a web-based mining product will be integrated with the SAS Visual Analytics Hub, enabling you to move easily between the functions. Your advanced analysts will have access to the tools they need (in a web-based environment), and your business analysts can share information, publish reports, and perform related analysis and explorations of the data.
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