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Alteryx vs Alteryx Designer Cloud vs SAS Enterprise Guide comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Data Preparation Tools category, the mindshare of Alteryx is 8.2%, down from 26.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Alteryx Designer Cloud is 8.8%, up from 8.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAS Enterprise Guide is 7.6%, down from 16.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Preparation Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Alteryx8.2%
SAS Enterprise Guide7.6%
Alteryx Designer Cloud8.8%
Other75.4%
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Featured Reviews

ManojBehera - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Staff Cyber Security Cloud Data Architect at GE Healthcare
Automated complex ETL workflows have reduced coding effort and improved data integration
One area for improvement is in integrating mostly the data which comes from telemetry, where I can see some sort of improvisations can be made. It is a massive amount of unstructured data, and I believe Alteryx is able to handle it, but there can be some improvements. Suggestions for improvements in Alteryx include areas for increasing efficiency, particularly in processing telemetry data, which involves dealing with large volumes of unstructured data. Additionally, I believe when we use filter tools immediately after the input source, there can be slowdowns when handling massive data. The user experience of Alteryx is generally good, but there are areas for improvement from a user's perspective, particularly regarding user interface enhancements. I think there's always room for improvement, but otherwise, Alteryx has been a great tool for me. We haven't experienced significant disruptions while increasing data volumes, though I sense there could be performance issues as data grows exponentially. This is an area that could use improvement in Alteryx.
reviewer1464411 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Automation Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Robust, great for financial decision making, and very scalable
This product really needs to improve its ease of use. The solution needs to do a better job of promoting and marketing itself. Alteryx is much better at this and as a consequence is more recognizable. Trifacta needs to showcase its technology better. It truly should encompass the A to Z execution of how you execute business process modeling in an intelligent automation form. A future release needs to be something that's easier to handle. I wouldn't say a layman should be able to use the solution as data wrangling is something that somebody has got to really be certified in. I have a friend who's worked at IBM for 30 years, and now he's just getting certified as a data scientist. However, if the solution was designed as something that really could assist a new data scientist or kids coming out of college, something that's easier for them to wrap their heads around, that would be helpful. The interface on Trifacta is way too busy. I used to do UX and it's just awful. It looks a little bit like Excel. I can't stand it. The UI of Alteryx is much, much better.
Namanjbaraiya Baru - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Officer - Biostatistics & Programming at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
Automated scheduling has transformed clinical analysis workflows and saves significant time
The best feature of SAS Enterprise Guide is scheduling jobs and flows. The scheduling jobs and flows feature stands out to me because of its ease of use and reliability, as I have to perform so many tasks. By scheduling jobs and code, it makes tasks much easier for me. By using SAS Enterprise Guide, which I currently use after previously using SAS 9.4, the time-saving feature of scheduling jobs and code and performing statistical analysis more advanced along with some low-code features makes our timeline very easy to achieve. In SAS Enterprise Guide, I also use data management and statistical analysis, and the statistical analysis accuracy along with data management, data cleaning, and data performing is very good.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Overall, the solution as a whole is extremely useful."
"The scheduling within the solution is excellent."
"Any company considering a data processing platform which is light, offers good flexibility, and deals with moderate or low sized data, will find this is a really good spend."
"It has certainly paid for itself on a per-user basis."
"I like the solution's velocity, the speed with which it processes data, and its ease of use."
"Alteryx allowed us to access all the data, blend it, and output it as a dashboard for the user to access any time they needed it."
"The value add of Alteryx is the agility for making changes, and speed of deployment."
"The product is very stable and super fast, five-star. It's significantly more stable than it's nearest competitor."
"The solution is extremely robust, works well for data scientists, and can really help them drill down on the information in order to give management tangible data points for larger business decisions."
"The most valuable feature is the click and drop function."
"The data cleaning part is valuable. SAS is a very powerful tool to work with and connect with different sources. We have several tables, and we are looking up tables from one place to another place. We are connecting with different data sources. The data is not coming from one source. There are several sources of data, and we have information coming from different sources. There are some flat files, and there is some information from the data warehouse."
"Statistical functionality and basic database interaction can become very straightforward for business users that don't have a background in SQL and data analysis."
"It has improved tremendously moving from providing an easy menu-driven system to also providing an excellent platform for developing and running full production systems, with minimal coding, which enabled increasing popularity among many non-programmers."
"SAS EG is a reliable program that consistently performs well when it comes to manipulating large datasets."
"We now mostly use the Enterprise Guide for such scheduling purposes, so error processes will not inhibit the others."
"Takes advantage of our Enterprise SAS Grid."
"Areas where SAS EG does a better job than regular SAS are in the realm of importing and exporting data. For instance, exporting a SAS data set in Unix to an Excel spreadsheet on a PC is a simple task compared to doing the same task with Base SAS."
 

Cons

"The tool could include more native connectors, such as for global ERPs, instead of requiring additional fees for these connections."
"Its most valuable feature lies in its functionality."
"When configuring target tables, it is difficult to see the full text when deciding on load operations."
"The solution could work on the BI side of the tool to make it a bit better."
"More statistics tools: We can use to compare SPSS statistics with some automated advisory."
"The principal problem is the pricing. They're expensive products."
"The learning curve is long, and there is lack of e-learning; the tool is not user-friendly to a non-technical user."
"The next feature release should include easier reporting."
"This product really needs to improve its ease of use."
"Our data warehouse is built on the Netezza database. We have SAS BI, and we populate the Netezza database. When we have tables with, for example, a hundred million rows in Netezza, SAS Enterprise Guide doesn't work. It doesn't return any results. It works for around 30 to 40 million rows, but it is not working for anything more than that. This issue is only with the Netezza database. With Oracle, it is quite good. They can improve its performance with the Netezza database. There should be one unique tool that includes SAS Data Integration Studio and SAS Enterprise Guide for more integration capabilities. With SAS Enterprise Guide, it is not possible to create connections and libraries and build transformations that can be used for other projects. This tool should have all capabilities that SAS Enterprise Guide does not have. Such a tool would be perfect because it will be used by developers and business users at the same time. In addition to the integration capabilities, they should also provide more deployment capabilities. There should be an option to easily create SAS packages and export them from one environment to another. There could also be a possibility to connect with R and Python. Open-source tools are hot in the market nowadays, and it would be good to extend its capabilities."
"Sentiment analytics would be a great feature to add into EG, as well as compatibility with machine learning languages, such as Python and R."
"They should provide more information for the errors or logs. Currently, it gives you just the error message without explaining anything."
"I would like to see integration with schedulers when run from hosting environments such as Citrix."
"I found difficulties when trying to connect to Big Data environments, such as Apache Spark."
"It's not really user-friendly and it's difficult to configure as well."
"The stability is not very reliable."
"It is expensive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"​Very transparent.​"
"It is an expensive solution."
"The seat is too expensive."
"The price for Alteryx Designer is reasonable but the price for Alteryx Server for universal collaborations is too expensive."
"Its price should be lower. The key thing that we see is that talking about ROI is an important element at the time of purchase. Cost becomes a factor in every discussion. Justifying the ROI for these kinds of workflows is always a challenge, and the only way to counter the challenge is by addressing the pricing."
"Alteryx is an expensive solution."
"I don't know much about the licensing, but there are some additional costs for certain features."
"The desktop platform costs $5,000 per year. It's very costly."
Information not available
"I did look at the prices a few years ago, and I believe it was approximately $1,000 for a yearly subscription at that time."
"The pricing and associated costs are substantial."
"Management liked it a lot because the license per seat was cheaper than a traditional SAS environment."
"It is very expensive. We have a basic license, and there are many features that are not available with the basic version."
"In general, SAS has high prices, which is a reason why some clients don't use SAS solutions. The licensing is on a yearly basis."
"It is expensive. We get a different price based on our corporate rate. So, I'm not sure what the general cost is because we got a special rate for it."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
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Financial Services Firm
29%
Healthcare Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business33
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise56
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise16
 

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Sample Customers

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Vodafone, Stanford University, Nike, Ericsson, Samsung, Intel, Google, Thmson Reuters, Honeywell, Dow, Deloitte, Barclays
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