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I was reading this interesting blog here from Jiangtang Hu, where he compares SAS Enterprise Miner with IBM’s Intelligent Miner and SPSS Clementine (interesting he didn’t compare Oracle’s Data Mining offering)
His outcome was SAS EM wins on most areas except the User Interface.
I must say that after doing an upgrade for a client to SAS 9.2 M3 and SAS Enterprise Miner 6.2 the other day, I logged straight into Enterprise Miner to see if it still looked as ugly as it always has, and the answer is yes.
Now I know look and feel doesn’t actually make that much of a difference to actual usability (just sales 
, and that SAS Enterprise Miner normally has a very limited set of users in an organisation (compared to Web Report Studio which looks damn sexy in 4.3).
But you would think that at some stage in the many upgrades and updates since SAS Enterprise Miner 4.1 the development team would have at least adopted the nice look and feel of DI Studio or the other good looking Studio interfaces.
SAS Enterprise Miner is starting to look very 80′s (especially those top buttons!) and not in a cool retro Miami Vice sort of way either!
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