We performed a comparison between Alteryx and SAS Enterprise Guide based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Preparation Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has a very strong community that is involved in the product. It helps make the usage easier and helps us find answers to our questions."
"There are a lot of good customization capabilities."
"It helps clean messy data and provides spatial analysis."
"The ease-of-use allows non-technical business users to directly create their own solutions without the use of additional development resources."
"It's super easy to learn how to use it — the learning curve is very small."
"It saves time on a lot projects. "
"Alteryx has helped us spend more time identifying results instead of performing analysis manually. It has helped us in our loading process, including scrubbing data and identifying data elements that need to be corrected. It enables us to understand our data sets a lot better."
"I like that I can merge data from different sources into one place."
"Takes advantage of our Enterprise SAS Grid."
"Filter and sort query builder is valuable. The ability to do advanced SAS programming is also a useful feature because we can do anything by using Enterprise Guide. It has a lot of functionalities. We can build ETL processes. There are clients who are using SAS Enterprise Guide to build ETL processes. They have a SAS-based program that is scheduled to run at a certain frequency to produce some reports for the business. It is a very useful tool for ETL unit tests and functional tests. You can also do data science projects in SAS Enterprise Guide by using different statistics. During my MBA, we used SAS Enterprise Guide for our statistic course. To query the data, there are many solutions such as SQL, but these tools are only a part of the integration. They are only useful for querying the data and require knowledge of SQL, so they are not suitable for business users. SAS Enterprise Guide can be very easily used by business users to filter and sort the data and build queries. It is not necessary to have coding skills to use SAS Enterprise Guide. For this reason, it is attractive for businesses."
"We are able to work on the server, and I can copy a data set and share it with someone in my team. Similarly, if I want some data from them, I can get it. Being able to work on the server and being able to switch from one user to another is a good thing. It is reliable and powerful, and its community is very wide."
"The query builder feature is the most valuable."
"We are using SAS Enterprise Guide on a basic level and the Pro SQL and other procedures within it are the most useful right now. Additionally, it has a wide feature set and capabilities"
"Enabled us to remove PC SAS, which reduced risk."
"We do not bother any longer with some programs did not run, hence having to rerun them again."
"Enterprise Guide is much better at generating reports than many solutions. We often use it to generate reports, and people interpret them how they like. They often probably use Excel spreadsheets or something like that after they get our data."
"Sometimes workflows tend to queue up, and they tend to get canceled for some reason that we don't know sometimes."
"Alteryx's development environment could be improved as it requires installation locally and can't be developed in the cloud."
"The solution can be quite complex in some aspects."
"The learning curve is long, and there is lack of e-learning; the tool is not user-friendly to a non-technical user."
"Alteryx can improve the model management and deployment processing of large workloads."
"If there is any way to make the learning curve less steep, that would be ideal."
"The only area where the product lags is documentation and videos on the analytical app and the batch macro."
"The technical support could have a little bit of improvement."
"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."
"Sentiment analytics would be a great feature to add into EG."
"Setting up SAS Enterprise Guide is somewhat messy and complex."
"Machine learning is not utilized and that could enhance the product."
"There needs to be a community of SAS Enterprise Guide users for assistance. For example, as they do for Python or SQL."
"I feel that the performance could be increased by leveraging multi-thread with any SAS BI platform, not just the high performance ones."
"More bi-directional integration with the SAS Studio suite of tools is needed."
"The product is missing a visualization component so we have to use a separate tool for visualization."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Data Preparation Tools with 74 reviews while SAS Enterprise Guide is ranked 2nd in Data Preparation Tools with 24 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while SAS Enterprise Guide is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Enterprise Guide writes "Easy to use, drag and drop interface, with good built-in help facilities". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and IBM SPSS Statistics, whereas SAS Enterprise Guide is most compared with Toad Data Point, Altair Monarch and Trifacta Wrangler Enterprise. See our Alteryx vs. SAS Enterprise Guide report.
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