Altair SLC (formerly the WPS industrial analytics platform, acquired by Altair in late 2021) is designed for data science and heavyweight data processing with the languages of SAS and R. Best known for its SAS language compiler, the software includes advanced graphical user interfaces, robust, high-performance data processing and production-ready application frameworks.
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Mathematica
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Wolfram's flagship product Mathematica is a modern technical computing application featuring a flexible symbolic coding language and a wide array of graphing and data visualization capabilities.
$1,520
per year
Pricing
Altair SLC
Wolfram Mathematica
Editions & Modules
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Standard Cloud
$1,520
per year
Standard Desktop
$3,040
one-time fee
Standard Desktop & Cloud
$3,344
one-time fee
Mathematica Enterprise Edition
$8,150.00
one-time fee
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Altair SLC
Mathematica
Free Trial
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No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
Optional
No setup fee
Additional Details
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Discounts available for students and educational institutions. The Network Edition reduce per-user license costs through shared deployment across any number of machines on a local-area network.
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Wolfram Mathematica
BI Standard Reporting
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Altair SLC
8.6
Ratings
2% above category average
Wolfram Mathematica
9.9
Ratings
16% above category average
Customizable dashboards
8.60 Ratings
9.90 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports
00 Ratings
9.80 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates
00 Ratings
9.90 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
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Altair SLC
8.6
Ratings
8% above category average
Wolfram Mathematica
9.9
Ratings
22% above category average
Drill-down analysis
8.60 Ratings
9.90 Ratings
Formatting capabilities
8.60 Ratings
9.90 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8.60 Ratings
9.90 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration
00 Ratings
9.90 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
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Altair SLC
8.8
Ratings
4% above category average
Wolfram Mathematica
9.3
Ratings
10% above category average
Publish to Web
8.60 Ratings
9.90 Ratings
Publish to PDF
8.60 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling
9.30 Ratings
8.90 Ratings
Report Versioning
00 Ratings
9.90 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers
00 Ratings
8.90 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
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For now coders, I would emphasize them to use drag and drop functionality. Otherwise, WPS Analytics is a robust tool for app development and data visualization that offers multiple languages such as SAS, SQL, R, and Python.
We are the judgement that Wolfram Mathematica is despite many critics based on the paradigms selected a mark in the fields of the markets for computations of all kind. Wolfram Mathematica is even a choice in fields where other bolide systems reign most of the market. Wolfram Mathematica offers rich flexibility and internally standardizes the right methodologies for his user community. Wolfram Mathematica is not cheap and in need of a hard an long learner journey. That makes it weak in comparison with of-the-shelf-solution packages or even other programming languages. But for systematization of methods Wolfram Mathematica is far in front of almost all the other. Scientist and interested people are able to develop themself further and Wolfram Matheamatica users are a human variant for themself. The reach out for modern mathematics based science is deep and a unique unified framework makes the whole field of mathematics accessable comparable to the brain of Albert Einstein. The paradigms incorporated are the most efficients and consist in assembly on the market. The mathematics is covering and fullfills not just education requirements but the demands and needs of experts.
Mathematica is incompatible with other systems for mCAx and therefore the borders between the systems are hard to overcome. Wolfram Mathematica should be consider one of the more open systems because other code can be imported and run but on the export side it is rathe incompatible by design purposes. A better standard for all that might solve the crisis but there is none in sight. Selection of knowledge of what works will be in the future even more focussed and general system might be one the lossy side. Knowledge of esthetics of what will be in the highest demand in necessary and Wolfram is not a leader in this field of science. Mathematics leves from gathering problems from application fields and less from the glory of itself and the formalization of this.
Wolfram Mathematica is a nice software package. It has very nice features and easy to install and use in your machine. Besides this, there is a nice support from Wolfram. They come to the university frequently to give seminars in Mathematica. I think this is the best thing they are doing. That is very helpful for graduate and undergraduate students who are using Mathematica in their research.
To better understand the data I work with, I extensively use the data discovery and visualization tools available on my workstations, and I always go for the best. Unfortunately, some other tools does not offer any tutorials for the features, making it difficult and time-consuming to analyze data, mainly after it has been implemented. In addition to videos and articles, WPS Analytics provides comprehensive tutorials for each feature.
The ability to manipulate algebraic expressions, nested lists, and data structures in Mathematica was unequalled when I first did the comparison. Since then, I've stuck with Mathematica mostly because it's "the tool I know."
Mathematica is our "go to" environment for developing solutions for our clients, so I suppose you could say that it is solely responsible for our revenues. On occasion we do use other platforms but Mathematica is a core component of our offer to clients.