DAVinCI LABS vs. SAS Enterprise Miner

Text Miner option is very useful to uncover trending themes in very large data sets.

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• Developing and evaluating ensemble models.
• A very transparent interface.

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• 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.

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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!

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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.

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• 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.

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