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Prophecy vs SAS Enterprise Guide comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Prophecy
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
16th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
AI Data Analysis (296th)
SAS Enterprise Guide
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Data Preparation Tools category, the mindshare of Prophecy is 0.0%. The mindshare of SAS Enterprise Guide is 7.7%, down from 15.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Preparation Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAS Enterprise Guide7.7%
Prophecy0.0%
Other92.3%
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Featured Reviews

MM
Data Measurement & Reporting Advisor at Evernorth/Cigna
Automated data collection has replaced manual emails and now connects business forms to back-end reports
Prophecy can be improved, as right now the form is very limited. We have to do a lot of manual entry with the form to get it set up. We have a lot of things that change year over year, so I have to go in there and manually play around with it, manually changing this and that. Having dynamic forms, having the forms connect to back-end data, and basically making the forms more streamlined would be my need from Prophecy. Everything else on the back end, the pipelines, and those types of things have been pretty easy to understand. I think once you get things set up, I've been very impressed with it. The only improvement at least for my side would be the form.
Namanjbaraiya Baru - PeerSpot reviewer
Biostatistician 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

"Prophecy has positively impacted my organization by greatly speeding up development time and providing capabilities of using DBT alongside functionalities associated with that, making it a very good tool to avoid coding much and utilize AI with the graphical tools available without needing to code."
"The form feature of Prophecy is so valuable for our team because it saves us a lot of time."
"Prophecy has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to offer it as an ETL layer for our incentive management application, which has improved our story and demos to customers during the sales cycle."
"SAS has all kinds of useful features, so I think it is very good for analysis."
"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."
"Takes advantage of our Enterprise SAS Grid."
"The point and click makes it easy to transfer the knowledge to new employees."
"SAS Enterprise Guide's stability is fantastic."
"The solution is user-friendly, the resource for the query builder is very useful, and the ability to explore the data is a benefit."
"Enterprise Guide is much better at generating reports than many solutions."
"SAS Enterprise Guide can be very easily used by business users to filter and sort the data and build queries."
 

Cons

"Prophecy is pretty stable, but there are often some unexpected issues that arise, especially performance issues or problems with Airflow on deployments."
"Prophecy is generally stable, although it does have a few issues at times, such as the Fabric connection randomly dropping and the environment freezing occasionally."
"Prophecy can be improved, as right now the form is very limited."
"Sometimes you have to rely on support, and that is a bit time-consuming. They take a while to respond to an inquiry."
"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."
"It's not really user-friendly and it's difficult to configure as well."
"I would like to see better Charting in this solution."
"I had difficulty with the diagrammatic flow chart style representation of projects. When projects got too large and complex (which was basically every project, except the most trivial). There just wasn't enough real estate to display the flow chart and dependencies without a lot of scrolling, even when a flow was down to minimum tasks. My recourse was making the flow less "atomic". E.g., rather than use the various subset, etc., tasks as program nodes to display the details, I would write chunks of code that did a few things and use them as SAS program nodes."
"Sentiment analytics would be a great feature to add into EG."
"Setting up SAS Enterprise Guide is somewhat messy and complex, but it works for what we do."
"Now that I have experience with Tableau, I think the visualization part of SAS EG could be more user friendly and easier to use. Tableau is very easy to use. It's just does a lot of work by itself, including color schemes. I think that could be incorporated easily into SAS EG, which would make it a much better product. Then you would not need Tableau."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"Management liked it a lot because the license per seat was cheaper than a traditional SAS environment."
"The pricing and associated costs are substantial."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
56%
Healthcare Company
25%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Construction Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
24%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
Healthcare Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise16
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Prophecy?
My experience with Prophecy's pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the tool can be expensive, and the licensing adds more to that. We try to add the licensing and increase the number only whe...
What needs improvement with Prophecy?
There are a few things to improve in Prophecy, such as scheduling the models and jobs; with the introduction of Prophecy Automate, I think that will improve that. I also see that there are some mis...
What is your primary use case for Prophecy?
I have been using Prophecy for the last year and a half. My main use case for Prophecy is to perform data transformations in Snowflake. A quick specific example of a data transformation I use Proph...
What needs improvement with SAS Enterprise Guide?
Some data visualization tools may be improved by SAS Enterprise Guide. The interface of SAS Enterprise Guide is good, and I would not add anything else about the needed improvements.
What is your primary use case for SAS Enterprise Guide?
My main use case for SAS Enterprise Guide is performing statistical analysis, scheduling job codes, and scheduling flows. I use SAS Enterprise Guide for performing statistical analysis on clinical ...
What advice do you have for others considering SAS Enterprise Guide?
I suggest others go through SAS training before utilizing SAS Enterprise Guide because it is far more advanced than one might initially think. I want to give one piece of advice to all SAS 9.4 user...
 

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