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SAS Enterprise Guide vs Toad Data Point comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 10, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

SAS Enterprise Guide
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Toad Data Point
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
3rd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (20th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Data Preparation Tools category, the mindshare of SAS Enterprise Guide is 7.7%, down from 21.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Toad Data Point is 5.3%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Preparation Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Toad Data Point5.3%
SAS Enterprise Guide7.7%
Other87.0%
Data Preparation Tools
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2232579 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Provides speedy server access for data analysis and modeling but lacks stability and needs to improve its visualization capabilities
Recently, we realized that SAS Enterprise Guide is not so stable and gives us some outputs which are not suitable, but it works well on rerunning the program. Sometimes it's quite hard to report its stability issues. Most of the time, its stability issues need to be reported with which our colleagues help. Another issue is that SAS Enterprise Guide gives us hardware output, but when we run a program that does not run correctly, we don't know what's wrong even though the output is good. When we try to report to technical support and they run the program, they cannot find anything from the log, but it is the same issue we find in the solution when we run it afterward. Sometimes we need to restart the computer, and it works, which is not so good. We set up quite a few programs to autorun, and sometimes the customer is not confident that the result would be good. It would be easier to use the solution if it had more functions. The solution needs to be more stable. The additional feature I want to see in the future would be visualization because, currently, the visualization from SAS is a bit like Python or similar ones in general.
Sudunagunta Bhavya Lekha - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Data Analyst at Lumendata
Drag-and-drop workflows have accelerated cross-database analysis and simplified daily reporting
I consider user interface modernization in Toad Data Point to be an area for improvement; it could be enhanced with a more modern, web-based look and smoother navigation, focusing on better UX and dashboard customization. Real-time collaboration could benefit from trying Git-style integration, which would strengthen team collaboration features. Performance with large data sets sometimes slows down our workflows, so implementing a better optimization engine specifically for big data workflows could enhance functionality, along with improvements in cloud-native deployment for better browser access. For the dashboarding feature, I believe Toad Data Point could improve by offering more interactive dashboards and advanced visualizations beyond the current basic charts and pivots. Implementing capabilities such as drill-down, interactive filters, and dynamic parameter selections would align more with BI-style interactivity. Visualizations compared to tools such as Microsoft Power BI or Tableau are quite limited, so enhancing this area with cloud-hosted interactive dashboards and seamless auto-refresh options would greatly improve user experience.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is also compatible with other softwares, such as Excel."
"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."
"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."
"The Query Builder is very valuable."
"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."
"Statistical functionality and basic database interaction can become very straightforward for business users that don't have a background in SQL and data analysis."
"The query builder feature is the most valuable."
"Scheduling downtime of some programs has been eliminated."
"I have never experienced any issues with customer service."
"We love it."
"With Toad Data Point, I can automate most steps automatically."
"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."
"What I like the most about Toad Data Point is the automation feature, which is mostly useful for us, and I have not found it in any other systems that I have worked with so far, and it can easily schedule any automation tasks that we provide."
"The best thing about it is its automation features."
"I would estimate that Toad Data Point saves me about 30 to 70 percent of my time depending on the work type."
"One of the greatest features is that you can get data from anywhere to anywhere with Toad Data Point."
 

Cons

"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."
"The stability is not very reliable."
"The product is missing a visualization component so we have to use a separate tool for visualization."
"Sentiment analytics would be a great feature to add into EG."
"Machine learning is not utilized and that could enhance the product."
"Setting up SAS Enterprise Guide is somewhat messy and complex."
"The technical support response time has been consistently slow, and this has been a concern."
"I feel that the performance could be increased by leveraging multi-thread with any SAS BI platform, not just the high performance ones."
"I used their report writing a little bit, however, it could improve since it's not a really good report writer and it's a little clunky."
"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."
"It's not user-friendly. Once you start using it, you eventually get to know the features."
"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."
"It's not user-friendly. Once you start using it, you eventually get to know the features."
"What could be improved is probably the user interface."
"Visualizations compared to tools such as Microsoft Power BI or Tableau are quite limited, so enhancing this area with cloud-hosted interactive dashboards and seamless auto-refresh options would greatly improve user experience."
"The Mac license is incredibly expensive. It is 1,600 dollars each, which is more than the Windows version. Scalability is difficult when it is that costly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing and associated costs are substantial."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The Mac licenses are expensive, costing 1,600 dollars each. This is much higher than for the Windows version. I maintain a very limited number of licenses due to this cost."
"The cost of this product is reasonable."
"The price of Toad Data Point was approximately $500 annually."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
29%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
9%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
24%
Healthcare Company
9%
Retailer
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise16
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Toad Data Point?
The pricing for Toad Data Point is where it gets into trouble. Microsoft is free, so if you get SQL Server, you get all the other stuff with it. You have to use several Microsoft tools that don't a...
What needs improvement with Toad Data Point?
I consider user interface modernization in Toad Data Point to be an area for improvement; it could be enhanced with a more modern, web-based look and smoother navigation, focusing on better UX and ...
What is your primary use case for Toad Data Point?
We are working for US banking, and for that, we have a project where we are using PowerCenter along with ETL; in that, we are using Toad Data Point for the SQL queries. Drag-and-drop functionality ...
 

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