SAS Key Features
SAS focuses on enterprise clients on a contract-based subscription basis, providing access to a great number of modular solutions. Many of them are geared towards corporate functionality like analytics, cloud and data management, IoT, and marketing segmentation.
The main product offering is an all-inclusive data analytics platform, SAS Viya. In terms of fraud prevention, SAS divides its focus into payment fraud and identity fraud. Within these areas, SAS recommends certain modules, some of which may have multiple applications for its customers. The recommended modules that address payment and ID fraud include:
- SAS Continuous Monitoring for Procurement Integrity, for internal and partner monitoring, with centralized management and investigation tools
- SAS Detection and Investigation, for fraud detection within the customer base, alert management, rule management, and case management
- SAS Identity 360, leveraging social media analysis, device fingerprinting, biometric and behavioral data
- SAS Fraud Management, organizing and centralizing the above
These solutions all make use of the extensive data and monitoring capabilities that SAS has folded into its services over the years. This gives the software a huge scope, and it can be utilized by many arms of a given organization.
- Comprehensive solutions: Regardless of vertical, there are applications within SAS’s stack that can be applied to any enterprise-level company, with a global support and data network and a legacy of data industry leadership.
- Scalable: SAS is present in the majority of Fortune 500 companies. With executive-specific, top-down modules, it is designed for ambitious companies who are looking to grow – with solutions that grow with them.
- Highly specified modules: SAS has developed or acquired technology to address what is seemingly every corporate pain point, no matter how granular the issue, or what vertical it is specific to. SAS also offers specific applications for the education sector, having a background in education itself.
- Requires extensive human resources: The number of applications that SAS offers means that multiple teams should be using it at any given time. Despite a focus on automated decision-making and autonomous uptime, the platform emphasizes managerial software to efficiently control all of the applications. Because not every company has these resources in place, SAS may not always be cost-efficient.
- Potentially slow: Due to the size and complexity both in terms of modules and coordinated management, you may find SAS to be occasionally unwieldy. As the software synchronizes decision-making and data across all modules, response times can vary, according to reviews.
- Less approachable UX: Compared to other offerings on the market, the interface is less design and workflow-oriented. Though SAS offers visualized data and insight graphs, the display is generally text-focused.
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Where SEON Wins Over SAS
- Compared to the potentially overwhelming scope of the SAS suite, SEON’s relatively lightweight option guarantees fast performance, even for businesses scaled for transactions in the thousands. As SEON also focuses on fraud and data specifically, a much smaller team can use the risk management platform to its fullest extent, relying on SEON’s automated processes and active support to streamline workflows.
- SEON is free for up to 2,000 API calls per month, and it has priced options for workloads beyond that, as well as faster processing. SAS is an enterprise-focused model that creates bespoke subscription contracts for its clients. Given that the SAS product can and should be used by multiple teams to get the most out of it, SEON may prove a more practical option for a range of businesses, regardless of their size.
- SEON provides your risk team real-time fraud-fighting data or AML data that never goes stale, as is the case with risk insights derived from pools of existing data.
- SEON’s API calls happen within seconds, even with batch lookups. If your business prioritizes speed for its transaction monitoring and minimizing customer friction, SEON is the solution.
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