SAS Enterprise Guide Reviews

• Data preparation
• Statistics.

Efficiency.

Click and drop function.

Licensing.

We make the most use of scheduled processing with Base SAS. If there is an error in one process, the others do not run as well because of possibly one error. Therefore, we now mostly use the Enterprise Guide for such scheduling purposes, so error processes will not inhibit the others.

SAS EG improved my organization. We do not bother any longer with some programs did not run, hence having to rerun them again. 

Scheduling downtime of some programs has been eliminated. The process flows are a very exciting feature to use. Also, for the tasks, this makes it easier to just filter without having to really code.

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 use it for quality assurance and identification of outliers. EG is great for a quick standardized sort of analysis.

It has definitely improved our communication with senior management.

The point and click makes it easy to transfer the knowledge to new employees. It is also compatible with other softwares, such as Excel. 

Sentiment analytics would be a great feature to add into EG, as well as compatibility with machine learning languages, such as Python and R. 

It is the solution that we have been using since before I started working at my organization.

SAS EG is an excellent tool for data manipulation and analysis.

SAS EG has evolved significantly, especially in the past 10 years. 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. As result of this, the application overall helped greatly improve the efficiency of the organization.

SAS EG offers many excellent features, such as parallel execution on the same server, controlling output datasets in the process flow, and conditional processing. Just to name a few.

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.

I have been using SAS for over 20 years and EG since its inception. I am happy with its power to manipulate data in a flexible, efficient way.

Everyday use for application development (reporting, data analysis, scoring, and ETL). 

SAS EG really helped us fix a security problem with SAS PC by bringing the data on a secure SAS server. Then, we could have the end users use SAS EG for work with SAS. This secured the overall solution, also bringing better performance by having people work on a powerful server instead of a workstation.

Some of the tasks provided are really useful, such as "characterize data". This feature saved me a lot of time in the past years by providing me with a complete picture of a data table with just a few clicks. It is great for profiling data.

I feel that the performance could be increased by leveraging multi-thread with any SAS BI platform, not just the high performance ones.

I see no reason for limiting the process to sequential all the time.

People used to work with SAS PC a lot where I used to work. This was causing security issues with data residing on physical PCs.

Using with SAS Grid, data manipulation, preparation, and modeling development.

• Enabled us to remove PC SAS, which reduced risk.
• Takes advantage of our Enterprise SAS Grid.

• The Copy task feature
• Portability with SAS Studio
• User interface and code builder

More bi-directional integration with the SAS Studio suite of tools is needed.

We use SAS EG to manipulate large datasets and prepare them for actuarial analysis with other programs, as well as ad hoc analysis.

SAS EG is a reliable program that consistently performs well when it comes to manipulating large datasets. Furthermore, the process flow and code wizards help keep things well organized so that it's easy to pass on projects to other analysts.

As discussed above, the process flow and code wizards are very valuable as they allow any analyst, even those totally new to SAS, to quickly learn about new projects and get up to speed so that they can start working with it as fast as possible. The base SAS functionality of SAS EG delivers when it comes to consistently handling large datasets and, for the most part, it's not too difficult to write custom code to do whatever you want to do with your data. If things are ever too much, SAS's technical support team is easy to contact and incredibly helpful with any problem.

I realize that this is fairly impractical as a request, given how SAS EG is programmed, but I'd love it to be as quick as base SAS for simpler data queries. The intention of SAS EG is that the SAS commands are executed on a server, so this isn't a very fair comment to make. I do find the online documentation can, at times, be a little difficult to read through and understand and sometimes there aren't a lot of examples to help you understand. I'd love for there to be more examples as well as a summary post of some sort on how to go about interpreting the nuances of how the documentation is written.

SAS has absolutely excellent technical support. I've reached out on multiple occasions for various issues, usually involving how to code something or an error with my code, and always gotten a response back within 24 hours. The technical support staff has always worked with me to ensure that they solve my issue and are very good at what they do; I've never been disappointed, even when asking about an issue with Windows that I was trying to circumvent by going beyond SAS's intended functionality.

SAS has excellent customer service and their products are well tested and perform their intended function, however, they aren't inexpensive. Generally speaking, there is a higher initial cost to obtain a license and then a reduced renewal cost, but you'll be paying the renewal cost for as long as you want to keep using their software programs. SAS is careful to keep pricing a private matter, so it's hard to know if you're paying more or less than other clients for a license. It's also difficult to shop around and price compare as you need to enter into a discussion with a SAS representative to obtain a quote, personalized to you.

SAS/EG is a very good tool for data management and analytics tasks. You can use the workflow to create jobs in a guided mode or you can write code in SAS/BASE. The workflow possibility is a very good option, because you don't need to know programming to create analytics projects.

This tool has improved the work in customer intelligence or business intelligence departments.

I found difficulties when trying to connect to Big Data environments, such as Apache Spark.

For 10 years using SAS/EG and SAS/BASE.

No.

No.

An eight out of 10.

I have also used R. Both are good tools.

The initial setup was not complex. It took only two days.

I think the price is high. Now you have alternatives, open source to do analytics projects, and the licensing of SAS/EG is expensive.

I have also used R. Both are good tools.

If you have enough budget, it is a very good tool. It's important to take into account that if you need to work with advanced models like neural networks or random forest that models are not supported by SAS/EG, you will need another SAS tool, such as SAS Enterprise Miner.