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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Posit

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APosit, formerly RStudio, is a modular data science platform, combining open source and commercial products.N/A

    SAS Viya

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AAn end-to-end platform for AI, data science, and analytics, used for modeling, as well as management and deployment of AI models.N/A
    Pricing
    PositSAS Viya
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PositSAS Viya
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    PositSAS Viya
    Considered Both Products
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    Chose Posit
    Personally, I would prefer SPSS over RStudio and SAS, but the cost for licenses for SPSS deters me from continuing to go with IBM's statistics software. RStudio has the advantage in that it is low cost and there are a lot of available resources on YouTube available for users …
    Incentivized
    Chose Posit
    RStudio is preferable to SPSS and SAS mainly because it is much lower cost to use even having a server license that we pay for the SAS licenses we used to have are too expensive and ultimately we decided to move away from using SAS for our reporting and data modeling needs.
    Incentivized
    Chose Posit
    In our organization RStudio is the main competitor for STATA. STATA has a larger number of users as it is far more user-friendly and has a large number of canned routines that work really well. RStudio is a niche software ideally suited to work with larger datasets.
    Incentivized
    Chose Posit

    RStudio has a huge repository of packages. There are over 10,000 packages in their central repository and this number is growing at a constant rate. These packages allow you to perform tasks that are not offered by any other statistical software unless you purchase their …

    Incentivized
    SAS
    Chose SAS Viya
    SAS is just as good as these tools but is pricier. I like that it handles data visualization and modeling together in one platform that's a novel mechanism that is fairly rare. Also, it's forecasting capabilities are nicely integrated with the functionality overall which makes …
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    PositSAS Viya
    Platform Connectivity
    Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of Posit and SAS Viya
    Feature
    Posit
    9.3
    27 Ratings
    SAS Viya
    -
    Ratings
    Connect to Multiple Data Sources8.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Extend Existing Data Sources10.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic Data Format Detection10.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of Posit and SAS Viya
    Feature
    Posit
    9.0
    27 Ratings
    SAS Viya
    -
    Ratings
    Visualization8.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive Data Analysis10.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Posit and SAS Viya
    Feature
    Posit
    10.0
    26 Ratings
    SAS Viya
    -
    Ratings
    Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment10.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations10.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Data Modeling
    Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Posit and SAS Viya
    Feature
    Posit
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    SAS Viya
    -
    Ratings
    Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single platform for multiple model development10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Service Model Delivery10.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model Deployment
    Comparison of Model Deployment features of Posit and SAS Viya
    Feature
    Posit
    9.9
    18 Ratings
    SAS Viya
    -
    Ratings
    Flexible Model Publishing Options10.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security, Governance, and Cost Controls9.915 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    PositSAS Viya
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (123 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.7
    (17 ratings)
    4.5
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    6.1
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)