SAS Visual Analytics vs IBM Cognos Analytics

SAS® Visual Analytics empowers decision makers with business reports and dashboards anywhere, anytime! SAS® Visual Analytics App, part of the SAS Visual Analytics product family, enables you to view and interact with reports that can contain a variety of charts, graphs, gauges, tables, and other report objects.   With easy-to-use multi-touch gestures, you can move through the application, filter and drill into data in the reports, and make decisions in the office, in meetings, or out on the road. Business users can interactively explore vast amounts of data and collaborate with others via the SAS Visual Analytics App. When reports and data change, the app updates the view ensuring users are always up to date.   Requirements: A supported version of SAS Visual Analytics: •SAS Visual Analytics on SAS® Viya® •SAS Visual Analytics 7.5 (SAS® 9.5)   SAS Visual Analytics server backend versions 8.5, 8.4, 8.3, and 7.5.   Highlights: • Anywhere you go. You can work with reports whether you are connected or not. • Interactive reports, dashboards and graphs. A variety of reports, dashboards, graphs, and gauges provide the customization and flexibility you need to meet your wide range of business demands. • Multiple gestures. You can use familiar gestures, including pinch, zoom, tap, and multi-touch. • Fast. Just as you’d expect – the application provides great response times and a fantastic experience while you work with your reports. • Secure. Data access is based on user role and access permissions. • Access to big data. You have the ability to access big data from SAS Visual Analytics. Release 7.5 is powered by SAS® LASR(TM) Analytic Server. Release 8.3 and later, on SAS Viya, are powered by SAS® Cloud Analytic Services (CAS).   License Agreement:   Your use of this application indicates your acceptance of the terms of the SAS Institute Inc. License Agreement for SAS® Visual Analytics App Software, linked to below. If you do not agree with these terms, you are not authorized to use the application.

With the new IBM Cognos Analytics mobile app, you stay tuned into your data like never before. See the insights you care about most at-a-glance, receive notifications of key changes, share visualizations, and use natural language to perform analysis on the fly. Features: • Uses existing content in IBM Cognos Analytics • Leverages the IBM Cognos Analytics industry-leading governance architecture • Works with existing IBM Cognos Analytics data connections, data models, and meta-data • Eliminates mobile-specific authoring requirements in dashboard pinned visualizations • Works with single-sign-on (SSO) • Reduces administration impact The app is compatible with the IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud Hosted, and IBM Cognos Analytics On-Demand cloud, and on-prem services.