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"The point and click makes it easy to transfer the knowledge to new employees.""Scheduling downtime of some programs has been eliminated.""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.""It is also compatible with other softwares, such as Excel.""We now mostly use the Enterprise Guide for such scheduling purposes, so error processes will not inhibit the others.""It has definitely improved our communication with senior management.""Brought better performance by having people work on a powerful server instead of a workstation."

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"It's easy to manage and support the user, our guests, and our customers if they have a problem.""The controller makes it easy to control everything from one platform. The management is easy."

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Cons
"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.""Sentiment analytics would be a great feature to add into EG.""The technical support response time has been consistently slow, and this has been a concern.""It is expensive.""I would like to see integration with schedulers when run from hosting environments such as Citrix.""They should provide more information for the errors or logs. Currently, it gives you just the error message without explaining anything.""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.""We don't use SAS Enterprise Guide that much here because we haven't explored some of the statistical modeling capabilities. However, I do not think SAS Enterprise Guide provides all the machine learning features that we want. Those would be separate products from SAS, such as SAS Buyers or any of the other solutions, which will give us the capabilities that we are looking for."

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"There are issues with certain Apple devices.""It's stable, but it depends on the office and location."

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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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  • "There is no license. The solution is free."
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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.”

    The Unifi Data Platform breaks down the barriers of operational data silos and democratizes information across the enterprise. At the heart of the platform is a comprehensive suite of self-service data discovery and preparation tools to empower business users. Employing machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, and optimized for the cloud, Unifi predicts what the business user wants to visualize and then connects the resulting data natively to the BI tool for fast, accurate results.

    Sample Customers
    Canary Islands Statistics Institute
    Big Incites, Cloudera, Flywheel Data, Hortonworks, MapR, Platfora, Qlik, Tableau Software, zData Inc.
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm53%
    Healthcare Company16%
    Government11%
    Comms Service Provider5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Government10%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Insurance Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm33%
    Real Estate/Law Firm16%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Government7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise76%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    SAS Enterprise Guide is ranked 2nd in Data Preparation Tools with 24 reviews while Unifi is ranked 6th in Data Preparation Tools with 2 reviews. SAS Enterprise Guide is rated 8.2, while Unifi is rated 8.0. 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 Unifi writes "Makes integration and monitoring users very easy". SAS Enterprise Guide is most compared with Alteryx, Toad Data Point and Altair Monarch, whereas Unifi is most compared with SSIS.

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