SAS Visual Analytics vs Databox

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.

Databox is an agentic analytics platform for people responsible for business performance. It brings data from across the business into one place and organizes it around consistent metrics and the context that explains how the business works. Start with prebuilt metrics and definitions, or prepare your own data and create the custom metrics, calculations, and datasets you need. With that foundation in place, Databox does more of the recurring reporting and analysis. Ask its AI Analyst questions about your business and get clear answers with the reasoning behind them. Use Routines to surface important changes automatically. Turn insights into polished reports that explain what happened and why it matters. Or use Databox MCP to bring your performance data and context into AI tools like Claude, so analysis, decisions, and action can happen where you already work. Databox agents can also act on those insights directly in the platform. Using the same performance data, metrics, and business context as your team, they can take on recurring work and carry out next steps under your oversight. Because the data, metrics, context, analytical capabilities, and AI-powered workflows are connected in one platform, you do not have to assemble the foundation or repeat the same analysis yourself. Databox helps you understand what is changing, see what deserves attention, and take better-informed action faster, while you remain in control.