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"One of the features of the SAS Enterprise Guide is that it has a server, and we can access the server.""Scheduling downtime of some programs has been eliminated.""The point and click makes it easy to transfer the knowledge to new employees.""An excellent tool for data manipulation and 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.""The query builder feature is the most 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.""Enabled us to remove PC SAS, which reduced risk."

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"The Connectivity and Connection Manager supports a broad number of connection types, and it is trivial for end-users to set up their own connections to sources.""The most valuable features of Toad Data are you could write a parameterized query and it wouldn't error out, it would give you the parameters that you could input. The auto-formatting feature is useful because it was great for keeping your queries neat and understandable. The auto comment, and uncomment toggles that you could do were convenient."

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"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.""More bi-directional integration with the SAS Studio suite of tools is needed.""I would like to see better Charting in this solution.""There needs to be a community of SAS Enterprise Guide users for assistance. For example, as they do for Python or SQL.""Recently, we realized that SAS Enterprise Guide is not so stable and gives us some outputs which are not suitable...Sometimes it's quite hard to report its stability issues.""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.""Setting up SAS Enterprise Guide is somewhat messy and complex.""Machine learning is not utilized and that could enhance the product."

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"Toad Data could improve by having additional features, such as query prediction. This could help someone who's not the strongest programmer. If the software could help them write queries correctly it would be very helpful, especially for small development teams or teams that lack the input skills necessary to write and program efficiently.""On the scheduling server, some scheduled reports just sit there and never execute for the first time. After manually executing the first time, they run with no issues."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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."
  • "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."
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  • "The cost of this product is reasonable."
  • "The price of Toad Data Point was approximately $500 annually."
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    Overview

    SAS Enterprise Guide is an intuitive statistical analysis solution that enables users of all backgrounds to engage in statistical analysis.

    Users can create and deploy customized tasks and dynamic content that best meet their needs. Interactive content can easily be shared on the cloud and the internet.

    Benefits of SAS Enterprise Guide

    Some of the benefits of using SAS Enterprise Guide include:

    • Provides users with robust, centralized, and role based system security. SAS Enterprise Guide enables users to protect their network from a wide variety of threats. A single system of security provides and authenticates system access credentials. Individuals are empowered to easily adjust their organization’s security credentials to meet their changing security needs.
    • Easily access and manipulate system data. SAS Enterprise Guide employs a user-friendly user interface that enables users to view and and use data without requiring them to have an extensive knowledge of coding. Business analysts can generate and disseminate reports without help. Information technology teams are freed up to handle more pressing issues. Datasets can also be embedded into the system so that users dont have to re-enter them into the system.

    Reviews from Real Users

    SAS Enterprise Guide is a statistical analysis tool that stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are the solution’s intuitive nature and the suite of functionalities that it offers. SAS Enterprise Guide makes it easy for users who lack a background in statistical analysis to create workflows. The solution enables users to customize and configure queries without requiring them to have a background in coding. SAS Enterprise Guide has a wide variety of functionalities. It is highly flexible and gives users the ability to complete many different tasks.

    The head of analytics at a communications services provider writes, “I think that the ease of use is the most valuable feature. I know SQL. I even taught SQL. But new people who come to the tool without in-depth knowledge of SQL or people who do not have an analytics background can still use the tool. It is very easy for these new users to climb the learning curve using SAS Enterprise Guide because of the way it was created with ease-of-use in mind. It is well-oriented to the business user. In no time new users are able to create workflows. Obviously, it is best if they have some basic knowledge of how things work in doing analysis — like the concept of joins, data profiling, and maybe some other SQL-related concepts. But the key here is they do not need to know how it is coded or the exact commands. All the features are available within Enterprise Guide through a drag-and-drop interface so queries can be built without extensive knowledge of how that works behind the scenes. The ease-of-use makes the tool valuable even for someone who is near the beginner level.”

    Monica B., an SAS Application Architect at a computer software company, writes, “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 statistics course.”

    Toad Data Point is a cross-platform, self-service, data-integration tool that simplifies data access, preparation and provisioning. It provides nearly limitless data connectivity, desktop data integration, visual query building and workflow automation.
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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm53%
    Healthcare Company16%
    Government11%
    Comms Service Provider5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm27%
    Government11%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Insurance Company8%
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    Financial Services Firm33%
    Healthcare Company11%
    Government9%
    Insurance Company7%
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    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise76%
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    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise84%
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    SAS Enterprise Guide is ranked 2nd in Data Preparation Tools with 24 reviews while Toad Data Point is ranked 3rd in Data Preparation Tools with 2 reviews. SAS Enterprise Guide is rated 8.2, while Toad Data Point is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of SAS Enterprise Guide writes "Easy to use, drag and drop interface, with good built-in help facilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Toad Data Point writes "Easy to learn, good connectivity to multiple data sources, and helpful supprt". SAS Enterprise Guide is most compared with Alteryx, Altair Monarch and Trifacta Wrangler Enterprise, whereas Toad Data Point is most compared with SSIS, Alteryx, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Azure Data Factory and Informatica PowerCenter.

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