SAS Visual Analytics vs Toucan

• Easily Create Models and Explore Data: Build models that are stable, accurate and easy to create, based on proven techniques. Interact with and prepare data for self-service analysis or visualization. Unify diverse datasets and present in an easy-to-interpret format.
• Discover Data Relationships and Patterns: Make data relationships easy to see and understand through machine learning that visualizes narratives from the data. Identify patterns in data through algorithms and pre-defined related measures.
• Visualize Data in Intuitive Graphics: Discover and display trends in the form of intuitive graphics, reports and dashboards, including geographical data displayed on interactive maps, making them easier to explain, share and understand.
• Glean Data-Based Insights: Gain insights and understand the business more thoroughly by identifying patterns, trends or important points in data. Improve transparency at every level — answer specific business questions, identify pain points in workflows, highlight areas for improvement and forecast future results much more accurately.
• Perform Guided and Augmented Analysis: Leverage a variety of augmented or automated features that facilitate the data discovery and analysis processes. Get suggestions on the best-fit graphic for a given set of data via augmented analytics. Identify potentially related groups of data based on pre-set factors through automated explanation, uncovering insights potentially missed by the naked eye.
• Make Better Business Decisions: Make data-driven business decisions based on historical information. Glean insights from data trends and patterns and apply them to forecasting, budgeting and other business planning.
• Share and Collaborate: Collaborate on dashboards and share them easily with internal teams, clients, management and other key groups. Add comments to reports, create alerts for report objects to notify key members when a trigger factor is met, distribute PDF reports securely and restrict access to maintain the report’s integrity.

Platform

• Centralize Business Data: Helps teams get on the same page by creating a single source of truth. Connects to the cloud, on-premise databases, spreadsheets and more to collect all of an organization’s data into one centralized hub.
• Speed Up Queries: Optimize data processing by minimizing queries through cache engines and custom indexes that accelerate webpage performance.
• Automated Reporting: Takes the heavy-duty work of development, design and maintenance out of data analytics with automatically updated data and scheduled reports. 
• Ease of Use: Explore and understand business insights through an intuitive UI – without requiring training, tutorials or coding experience. Caters to people who may not have the technical knowledge or programming skills to handle a more complicated BI tool.
• Accelerate Adoption: Educates and guides teams on how to create compelling data stories. Encourage autonomous, skilled data analysis with self-learning tools such as a glossary and contextual tips that help in data comprehension.
• Improve Data Literacy: Makes information accessible by displaying it visually, enabling transparency across departments and empowering all stakeholders to take BI into their own hands.
• Made for Collaboration: Interact with other teams and share power in decision-making through workspaces. Improve communication between departments and help them align with each other by annotating, discussing, exporting and sharing dashboards. 
• Never Say “So What?”: Support decision-making through data-driven strategies with built-in calls to action and adaptable recommendations. 
• Fast Implementation: Save more time and resources for analysis and data storytelling by accessing on any device through the web – nothing to install.
• Security: Protect data through no-code row-level security, custom user filters and granular permissions management for apps, dashboards, stories and datasets. The solution is hosted in a private cloud with SSL Grade A+ security certification and an infrastructure compliant with all RSSI expectations and RGPD standards. 

Embedded Analytics

• Build Once, Deploy Anywhere: Design one app for all devices and deploy anywhere to anyone in minutes, whether on the standard platform or as an embedded analytics product.
• Preserve Brand Identity: Maintain business branding through full customization and white labeling options, while offering the power of data storytelling and analytics to clients. 
• Multi-Tenancy: Handle who can see what by managing access to each embedding with granular control.
• Focus On What Matters: Saves the company time and money by helping teams focus dedicated efforts on products, alleviating the burden of developing analytics from scratch.
• Empower Non-Technical Teams: Build and deploy apps with a guided framework, even without coding experience.
• No On-Boarding Necessary: Boost adoption and customer retention through a client experience that feels familiar, with access to actionable insights from day one.
• Accelerate Time to Value: Empowers businesses to roll out robust solutions to clients in just two weeks.