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SAS Enterprise Guide pros and cons

Vendor: SAS
4.1 out of 5

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PROS

SAS Enterprise Guide facilitates statistical functionality and basic database operations for business users without SQL or data analysis skills.
It supports robust data operations such as joining tables, creating columns, and analyzing data for purposes like fraud detection.
SAS Enterprise Guide excels in importing and exporting data, making tasks like exporting datasets from Unix to Excel simpler compared to Base SAS.
The tool enables effective collaboration, allowing users to work on servers, copy datasets, and easily share them with team members.
It is versatile, supporting various tasks including ETL processes, unit testing, functional testing, and data science projects.

CONS

Users experience challenges with performance, particularly with large datasets in the Netezza database.
There is a need for improved integration and deployment capabilities, including easier creation and export of SAS packages, and connections with R and Python.
Integration with schedulers in hosted environments like Citrix is desired.
Advanced functions often require learning SAS code, making it less user-friendly for some users.
The stability and technical support response times have been concerns for users.
 

SAS Enterprise Guide Pros review quotes

it_user254223 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager - Business Intelligence at www.datademy.es
Aug 9, 2017
SAS/EG is a very good tool for data management and analytics tasks.
it_user816771 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Enterprise Data Management, Analytics CoE at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Feb 8, 2018
Enabled us to remove PC SAS, which reduced risk.
it_user824046 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Risk and Fraud Analyst at a financial services firm
Feb 21, 2018
An excellent tool for data manipulation and analysis.
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MG
Consultant BI senior - spécialité SAS at a financial services firm
Feb 21, 2018
Brought better performance by having people work on a powerful server instead of a workstation.
it_user824175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 21, 2018
Scheduling downtime of some programs has been eliminated.
it_user824289 - PeerSpot reviewer
Statistician
Feb 21, 2018
SAS EG is a reliable program that consistently performs well when it comes to manipulating large datasets.
EL
Economist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 22, 2018
It has definitely improved our communication with senior management.
it_user1018842 - PeerSpot reviewer
Portfolio Analytics Manager at heritage
Feb 22, 2019
The most valuable feature is the click and drop function.
GF
Sr Manager - Reporting, Analytics and Quality Control (Business Transformation) at Golden 1 Credit Union
Aug 29, 2019
This solution allows for simplified working with large datasets.
reviewer1219965 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Dec 2, 2019
Statistical functionality and basic database interaction can become very straightforward for business users that don't have a background in SQL and data analysis.
 

SAS Enterprise Guide Cons review quotes

it_user254223 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager - Business Intelligence at www.datademy.es
Aug 9, 2017
I found difficulties when trying to connect to Big Data environments, such as Apache Spark.
it_user816771 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Enterprise Data Management, Analytics CoE at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Feb 8, 2018
More bi-directional integration with the SAS Studio suite of tools is needed.
it_user824046 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Risk and Fraud Analyst at a financial services firm
Feb 21, 2018
It would be very useful if EG could be enhanced to automatically file and clear the project log to ensure non-stop running of the project.
Learn what your peers think about SAS Enterprise Guide. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2026.
885,376 professionals have used our research since 2012.
MG
Consultant BI senior - spécialité SAS at a financial services firm
Feb 21, 2018
I feel that the performance could be increased by leveraging multi-thread with any SAS BI platform, not just the high performance ones.
it_user824175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 21, 2018
A log belongs to each program. I have experienced a situation where when I run just the exec files, it replaces the whole log and I wanted to see the earlier log, then this was not possible.
it_user824289 - PeerSpot reviewer
Statistician
Feb 21, 2018
I do find the online documentation can, at times, be a little difficult to read through and understand and sometimes there aren't a lot of examples to help you understand.
EL
Economist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 22, 2018
Sentiment analytics would be a great feature to add into EG.
it_user1018842 - PeerSpot reviewer
Portfolio Analytics Manager at heritage
Feb 22, 2019
Licensing.
GF
Sr Manager - Reporting, Analytics and Quality Control (Business Transformation) at Golden 1 Credit Union
Aug 29, 2019
I would like to see better Charting in this solution.
reviewer1219965 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Dec 2, 2019
I would like to see integration with schedulers when run from hosting environments such as Citrix.