SAS Enterprise Miner is a data science and statistical modeling solution enabling the creation of predictive and descriptive models on very large data sources across the organization.
For those that are used to the SAS ecosystem, SAS Enterprise Miner is a massive move in the right direction. It makes doing analytics much more enjoyable. It is more user-friendly than Spotfire or Kinesis and seems to produce better results overall. SAS Enterprise Miner …
I like the algorithms SAS uses better than SPSS. I have been writing SAS code since the mid 1980s and trust their development team. Also offer great refresher class to academics.
SAS EM has a very great set of machine learning and predictive analytics toolsets, which helped our organization achieve its goals. We used other tools, but for us, SAS EM was the most intuitive and easy to learn the tool and it provides greater data exploration and data …
SPSS was used for model development before SAS in my organization. SAS brought a bigger more complete integrated solution than SPSS had. It allowed users to easily prepare their data with SAS/Enterprise Guide and then use it with Enterprise Miner. The data preparation tools of …
One of the major flaws is that the tool is basically an interface to SAS/STAT code. It generates code in the background and runs it. Because of that, some errors are warning might be a little difficult to understand for users who aren't proficient with SAS code.
R integration is nice but I would like to see the possibility to integrate even more statistical models different than SAS. That would allow for better performance optimization when really required.
The light client is java based and a little heavy on the OS. It would be nice to get a web-based version of the tool instead of the java one.
I have contacted SAS twice in the past year and they have been super responsive both times. They solved my problem. I am also registered for an in-person class next month and they called today to tell me that it will be an online-only session. They apologized for the change and registered me for the online version. Super helpful!
For those that are used to the SAS ecosystem, SAS Enterprise Miner is a massive move in the right direction. It makes doing analytics much more enjoyable. It is more user-friendly than Spotfire or Kinesis and seems to produce better results overall. SAS Enterprise Miner seems to be written by analysts for analysts.
It has a positive ROI to our business, as our sales lead rate increased after we started recommending SAS EM.
Our business operation numbers improved after we introduced SAS EM and started using predictive analytics for our customer retention and customer chain prediction.
The statistical modelling for the risk controls in our financial department helped to reduce the related residual risk.