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SAS Visual Analytics

SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.

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SAS Visual Analytics - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: April 2026

SAS Visual Analytics overview

What is SAS Visual Analytics?

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 & Analytics including Augmented Analytics

• Interactive Reporting

• Location Analytics

• Conversational AI through chatbots on SAS Conversation Designer

• Automated Explanation using Natural Language

• Outlier Detection for report consumers

• Data Explain for report consumers

Visual Analytics support sharing and collaboration of insights to decision makers as they make collective decisions as part of their tasks or process or jobs, including in embedded insights using APIs and SDKs. The goal is for everybody to take decisive action and stay agile as market conditions change and business needs demand a quick response.

Starting price

8000 /
per year

Alternatives

with better value for money

Pros & Cons

Ease of Use

Data Management

User Interface

Pricing

SAS Visual Analytics’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

4.3

(59)

SAS Visual Analytics pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

1-2(1)

3-4(32)

5(26)

What do users say about SAS Visual Analytics?

The software is intuitive in all areas to use for both statisticians and non-statisticians.

Select to learn more

Who uses SAS Visual Analytics?

Based on 59 verified user reviews.

Company size

Enterprises

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Renewables & Environment

Management Consulting

Higher Education

Media Production

Others

Use cases

Data Visualization

Dashboard

Business Intelligence

Statistical Analysis

Reporting

SAS Visual Analytics's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from SAS Visual Analytics users:

Regression analysis

5.0

(2)

Search/Filter

4.0

(4)

Data connectors

4.0

(12)

Statistical simulation

4.8

(4)

Predictive analytics

4.0

(1)

All SAS Visual Analytics features

Features rating:

4.5

(59)

Access controls/permissions

4.5

(4)

Activity dashboard

(0)

Ad hoc Analysis

(0)

Ad hoc query

(0)

Ad hoc reporting

(0)

AI/Machine learning

(0)

Alerts/Escalation

(0)

Alerts/Notifications

4.5

(2)

API

(0)

Application management

(0)

Association discovery

(0)

Augmented analytics

(0)

Automated responses

(0)

Automatic backup

(0)

Canned responses

(0)

Charting

(0)

Chatbot

(0)

Collaboration tools

(0)

Customer support

(0)

Customizable branding

(0)

Customizable dashboard

4.0

(3)

Customizable fields

(0)

Customizable reports

(0)

Customizable templates

(0)

Customization

(0)

Dashboard creation

4.4

(5)

Data connectors

4.0

(12)

Data discovery

4.0

(1)

Data import/export

4.3

(16)

Data management

4.0

(2)

Data mining

(0)

Data transformation

4.3

(3)

Data visualization

4.4

(19)

Decision support

(0)

Decision tree

(0)

Demand forecasting

(0)

Drag & drop

3.0

(1)

ETL

(0)

Financial reporting

(0)

Forecasting

(0)

For education

(0)

For healthcare

(0)

Geographic maps

(0)

Heatmaps

(0)

High volume processing

(0)

HIPAA compliant

(0)

Intent recognition

(0)

Interactive reports

(0)

Key performance indicators

4.0

(2)

KPI monitoring

3.8

(4)

Live chat

(0)

Machine learning

(0)

Marketing reports

(0)

Mobile access

(0)

Modeling & simulation

3.0

(1)

Monitoring

3.0

(1)

Multi-Language

(0)

Multiple data sources

4.4

(8)

Multivariate analysis

(0)

Natural language processing

4.0

(1)

No-Code

(0)

Performance metrics

3.0

(1)

Pre-Configured bot

(0)

Predictive analytics

4.0

(1)

Private dashboards

(0)

Public dashboards

(0)

Publishing/Sharing

(0)

Real-Time analytics

(0)

Real-Time data

(0)

Real-Time monitoring

4.0

(1)

Real-Time notifications

(0)

Real-Time reporting

(0)

Real-Time updates

(0)

Regression analysis

5.0

(2)

Relational display

4.0

(1)

Reporting/Analytics

4.5

(19)

Reporting & statistics

4.0

(3)

Role-Based permissions

(0)

Sales reports

(0)

Scheduled/Automated reports

(0)

Search/Filter

4.0

(4)

Secure data storage

(0)

Self-service analytics

4.0

(1)

Single page view

2.0

(1)

Single sign on

(0)

SSL security

(0)

Statistical analysis

4.5

(4)

Statistical simulation

4.8

(4)

Storytelling

(0)

Strategic planning

(0)

Templates

(0)

Third-Party integrations

5.0

(1)

Time series analysis

(0)

Transcripts/Chat history

(0)

Trend/Problem indicators

(0)

Version control

(0)

Visual discovery

(0)

Web services

(0)

Widgets

(0)

SAS Visual Analytics alternatives

SAS Visual Analytics

4.3

(59)

Starting from

8000

Per year

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.2

Features

4.5

Value for Money

3.9

Customer Support

4.0

Microsoft Power BI

4.6

(1.8K)

learn more

Starting from

/user

Per month

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.1

Features

4.5

Value for Money

4.4

Customer Support

4.2

Tableau

4.6

(2.3K)

learn more

Starting from

/user

Per month

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.1

Features

4.5

Value for Money

4.2

Customer Support

4.2

Google Analytics 360

4.7

(8K)

learn more

Starting from

Free

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.2

Features

4.6

Value for Money

4.7

Customer Support

4.2

SAS Visual Analytics pricing

Value for money rating:

3.9

(59)

Starting from

8000

Per year

Pricing details

Subscription

Free trial

Free plan

Pricing range

User opinions about SAS Visual Analytics price and value

Value for money rating:

3.9

(59)

To see what individual users think of SAS Visual Analytics's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“It is a great tool to spruce up reports, and make them more convincing!”

Julian V.

Assistant Professor of Finance

“In spite of the high upfront cost to our small business (we paid $14,000+ for a year or use), we received a notification our software would be expiring less than five months after we had been connected to our technical setup representatives and had the software for less than six months.”

Sai S.

Executive Director

SAS Visual Analytics integrations (24)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 59 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as SAS Visual Analytics integrations and how users feel about them.

SAS Enterprise Guide

Integration rating: 4.4 (5)

“Le informazioni recuperate dai dati testuali da SAS Text Miner possono essere elaborate da SAS Enterprise Guide ed utilizzata come input per lo sviluppo di modelli previsionali o per la definizione del prezzo di un determinato prodotto assicurativo. ”

“L’integrazione permette di rappresentare, in report di dettaglio, le analisi statistiche eseguite in SAS Enterprise Guide. ”

Mariangela M.

Data scientist

1/2

SAS Studio

Integration rating: 4.8 (4)

“L’integrazione mi permette di visualizzare i risultati delle analisi condotte ”

“Integrazione permette di eseguire analisi statistiche sulle evidenze definire da sas text miner”

Donata B.

Biostatistician

1/2

SAS Enterprise Miner

Integration rating: 4.7 (3)

“L’integrazione mi permette di visualizzare i risultati delle analisi e comprenderne meglio il contenuto”

“Con SAS Visual analytics sono in grado di visualizzare in modo molto chiaro e personalizzabile i risultati delle analisi di SAS Enterprise Miner, sopperendo ad un punto di debolezza di quest’ultimo. ”

Donata B.

Biostatistician

1/2

Tableau

Integration rating: 4.0 (1)