Amazon Forecast vs. SAS Enterprise Guide

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Forecast
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning to deliver accurate forecasts. Amazon Forecast can use historical time series data (e.g., price, promotions, economic performance metrics) to create accurate forecasts for businesses.N/A
SAS Enterprise Guide
Score 9.6 out of 10
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SAS Enterprise Guide is a menu-driven, Windows GUI tool for SAS.N/A
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Amazon ForecastSAS Enterprise Guide
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Amazon ForecastSAS Enterprise Guide
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Amazon ForecastSAS Enterprise Guide
Small Businesses
IBM SPSS Modeler
IBM SPSS Modeler
Score 7.8 out of 10
IBM SPSS Modeler
IBM SPSS Modeler
Score 7.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Posit
Posit
Score 9.1 out of 10
Alteryx
Alteryx
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM SPSS Modeler
IBM SPSS Modeler
Score 7.8 out of 10
IBM SPSS Modeler
IBM SPSS Modeler
Score 7.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon ForecastSAS Enterprise Guide
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(5 ratings)
5.3
(9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.3
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon ForecastSAS Enterprise Guide
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Amazon Forecast is well suited when you are a company that's looking for a simple and effective solution in terms of understanding and predicting your resources planning in the AWS. However, it's also good to know that the cost that is incurred is higher and not suited for anything other than the AWS solutions integrations.
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SAS
SAS Enterprise Guide is good at taking various datasets and giving analyst/user ability to do some transformations without substantial amounts of code. Once the data is inside SAS, the memory of it is very efficient. Using SAS for data analysis can be helpful. It will give good statistics for you, and it has a robust set of functions that aid analysis.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Built-in datasets
  • Accuracy
  • Machine learning
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SAS
  • I think the most useful aspect of SAS Enterprise Guide is the ability to use a point-and-click interface to create graphics, transform data, and perform statistics. The best part is that SAS Enterprise Guide creates base SAS code from the process, making it easy to reproduce analyses.
  • SAS Enterprise Guide makes creating summary statistics about as easy as it gets. If one doesn't know proc means or proc tabulate, one can use SAS Enterprise Guide instead.
  • The time-series forecasting procedures within SAS Enterprise Guide produce fairly good results. SAS Enterprise Guide makes time-series model comparisons relatively straight-forward.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Not easy for beginners as it requires insights to set the forecast
  • Much more expensive if considered for small businesses
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SAS
  • SAS Studio has some great examples that can be implemented. Adding a filter to the output datasets for one.
  • Some issues around having to enter my password every time I open it up. Some people are having this issue and others aren't. SAS admin is at a loss to work out why it's occurring.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
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SAS
On account of current user experience and the organization-wide acceptance.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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SAS
It's not all bad, but I don't believe that an enterprise purchase of SAS is worth the expense considering the widely available set of tools in the data analytics space at the moment. In my company, it's a good tool because others use it. Otherwise, I wouldn't purchase a new set of it because it doesn't have some of the better analytical functions in it.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
SAS
I did not use the technical support of SAS EG. I can say that I have had hard time to find online tutorials or projects for SAS EG. For instance, it is hard to find completed researches or designed algorithms used with SAS EG. Sometimes it just depends on user's skill set and experience with databases and programming.
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
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SAS
I've not worked hands-on with the implementation team, but there were no escalations barring a few hiccups in the deployment due to change in requirement & adoption to our company's remote servers.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Cost-effective and user-friendly.
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SAS
Why I prefer SAS EG: Data processing speed is much faster than that R Studio. It can load any amount of data and any type of data like structured or unstructured or semi-structured. Its output delivery system by which we have the output in PDF file makes it very comfortable to use and share that file to clients very easily. Inbuilt functions are very powerful and plentiful. Facility of writing macros makes it far away from its competitors.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Helped in planning the resources required.
  • ML and AI delivered near perfect forecasts.
  • Features and the details available for the cost is not enough.
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SAS
  • Positive (cost): SAS made a bundle that include unlimited usage of SAS/Enterprise Guide with a server solution. That by itself made the company save a lot of money by not having to pay individual licences anymore.
  • Positive (insight): Data analysts in business units often need to crunch data and they don't have access to ETL tools to do it. Having access to SAS/EG gives them that power.
  • Positive (time to market): Having the users develop components with SAS/EG allows for easier integration in a production environment (SAS batch job) as no code rework is required.
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