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SAS Enterprise Guide vs Zaloni Data Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 10, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

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
Zaloni Data Platform
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
13th
Average Rating
6.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Data Governance (39th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Data Preparation Tools category, the mindshare of SAS Enterprise Guide is 7.9%, down from 17.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zaloni Data Platform is 4.0%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Preparation Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAS Enterprise Guide7.9%
Zaloni Data Platform4.0%
Other88.1%
Data Preparation Tools
 

Featured Reviews

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statistician 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.
reviewer1476264 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Solid multi-ingestion tool but with poor exception handling
The major pain point with Zaloni is that their exception handling is not good. If any event happens (an event is when the job stops in the middle of the process), it doesn't tell you at which point it failed and it doesn't tell the operations team how they should take corrective actions unless you call Zaloni and then identify the issues. That is one issue. Another issue is that sometimes your jobs fail and if you run it a second time, it will go through. A third area it could be improved is the deployment process. When you want to deploy anything, it has a lot of manual processes. For example, you have to create your password in an encrypted format, and then you have to use a lot of manual deployment process. They should actually be building something else, like using Jenkins or automating their process. I have suggested to them that they have to improve their deployment process because they want everyone to run a manual deployment. It takes a lot of time, about half a day, for any single deployment. Then test it, then it might not work, and then reverting back is not easy because of the manual deployment process. I think in recent versions they added a lot of upgrades and additional features including a lot of integrations. Before it was just AWS, later they extended it to Azure. I'm not sure how they have extended it to GCP. It has some built-in features and a lot of improvements now because the UI and the features were not easy to navigate. Regarding showing the metrics, it's okay. I will say it's neither easy nor hard, there is whatever is required. Lastly, on the governance side, it's not very good. We faced some issues with the Ranger version. Ranger was an authentication tool on big data and Zaloni had some compatibility issues with the Ranger at that time. Later they said those are all going to be resolved, but at that time it had some issues. I'm not sure whether it was working with the Sentry or not.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"This solution allows for simplified working with large datasets."
"Scheduling downtime of some programs has been eliminated."
"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."
"We now mostly use the Enterprise Guide for such scheduling purposes, so error processes will not inhibit the others."
"The point and click makes it easy to transfer the knowledge to new employees."
"One of the features of the SAS Enterprise Guide is that it has a server, and we can access the server."
"Some of the tasks provided are really useful, such as "characterize data"."
"This solution allows for simplified working with large datasets."
"The entire need was to ingest it into big data and Zaloni was the fastest product to test and implement into production."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to map data and write workflows with logic inside them."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to map data and write workflows with logic inside them."
"You can create a lot of ingestions based on the file levels or based on the time."
 

Cons

"I would like to see better Charting in this solution."
"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."
"It would be very useful if EG could be enhanced to automatically file and clear the project log to ensure non-stop running of the project."
"It would be very useful if EG could be enhanced to automatically file and clear the project log to ensure non-stop running of the project."
"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."
"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."
"More bi-directional integration with the SAS Studio suite of tools is needed."
"I feel that the performance could be increased by leveraging multi-thread with any SAS BI platform, not just the high performance ones."
"When we have gone to the support team because something is wrong with the product, I would say that it has not been easy for them to sort things out and quickly give us a patch."
"The major pain point with Zaloni is that their exception handling is not good."
"The major pain point with Zaloni is that their exception handling is not good. If any event happens, it doesn't tell you at which point it failed and it doesn't tell the operations team how they should take corrective actions unless you call Zaloni and then identify the issues. That is one issue."
"Technical support is in need of improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing and associated costs are substantial."
"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."
"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."
"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
Financial Services Firm
26%
Healthcare Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise16
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Also Known As

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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Canary Islands Statistics Institute
CDS Global, AIG,
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