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Prophecy 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:
 

Categories and Ranking

Prophecy
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
16th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
AI Data Analysis (310th)
SAS Enterprise Guide
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
3rd
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 October 2026, in the Data Preparation Tools category, the mindshare of Prophecy is 0.1%. The mindshare of SAS Enterprise Guide is 7.6%, down from 13.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Preparation Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAS Enterprise Guide7.6%
Prophecy0.1%
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

"The form feature of Prophecy is so valuable for our team because it saves us a lot of time."
"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 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."
"The Query Builder is very valuable."
"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."
"It streamlines our workflow involving multiple steps, from data extraction to modeling, and it is aimed at improving various aspects of banking operations, including customer retention and risk management."
"We now mostly use the Enterprise Guide for such scheduling purposes, so error processes will not inhibit the others."
"In Daman, I had used the data module, where you can join the table and take whatever data we require for our work. You join tables and create columns as you wish, then analyze data in various ways depending on what the problem is. We used it to detect fraud, abnormalities, anomalies, abnormal trends, etc. It's also good for exporting and importing tables."
"The point and click makes it easy to transfer the knowledge to new employees."
"The solution is user-friendly, the resource for the query builder is very useful, and the ability to explore the data is a benefit."
 

Cons

"Prophecy can be improved, as right now the form is very limited."
"Prophecy is pretty stable, but there are often some unexpected issues that arise, especially performance issues or problems with Airflow on deployments."
"There needs to be a community of SAS Enterprise Guide users for assistance. For example, as they do for Python or SQL."
"Sentiment analytics would be a great feature to add into EG, as well as compatibility with machine learning languages, such as Python and R."
"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."
"Licensing."
"The stability is not very reliable."
"If these elements do pan out properly in Alteryx, I may like it better than SAS Enterprise Guide overall."
"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."
"When we have tables with, for example, a hundred million rows in Netezza, SAS Enterprise Guide doesn't work."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is very expensive. We have a basic license, and there are many features that are not available with the basic version."
"Management liked it a lot because the license per seat was cheaper than a traditional SAS environment."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
69%
Healthcare Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Construction Company
2%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Healthcare Company
9%
Manufacturing 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?
I think performance could be improved, and I know that it recalculates all the time and puts warnings out. Perhaps that could be toggled so people can opt out of that happening, which would be usef...
What is your primary use case for Prophecy?
My main use case for Prophecy is using it as an ETL layer for integrations into SAP's incentive management and territory and quota systems, under the generic name of SBM. An example of how I use Pr...
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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