Course5 Discovery vs. SAS Enterprise Guide

We rely heavily on Course5 for our business decisions every day. It gives us insights that we were really missing before getting set up with Course5.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• Data Visualization.
• Predictive Modeling.
• Trend Analysis.
• Data Analysis.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• I do wish there was a feature that keeps a dynamic list of company benchmarks that update in real-time and use that to be a comparison goal line in metrics.
• Some of the SQL syntax highlighting/auto-completion will not work.
• Sometimes text widgets will just "disappear" after I have dragged them onto the canvas.

Incentivized

• errors could be more detailed
• when you export in different excel sheets, its grouped together, which could be a problem in certain circumstances
• it would be nice to have a function to tell if some tables is open and by whom

Incentivized

On account of current user experience and the organization-wide acceptance.

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.

Incentivized

Although I use SAS support for information on functions, these are SAS related and haven't really come across anything that is specifically for SAS EG.

Incentivized

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.

Having the ability to see data from so many sources for our finance, support, marketing, and sales departments at a glance without having to pull data every day and make pivot tables each time is absolutely critical for us. Our leadership team is able to make crucial business decisions more quickly and more easily thanks to Course5.

Incentivized

SAS EG has better Graphical User Interface to build project trees and help users to create data queries/calculations. SAS EG can handle bigger data sets compared to other programs. You can easily clean the data sets and manipulate the data. It is easier to send the project tree to other users. However SAS EG has less free online training material over internet.

Incentivized

• We saved time because the analytics were presented in a way that made sense.
• Return on Investment.
• Scalability as a company.

Incentivized

• SAS EG has improved the overall efficiency as data processing is very fast and the results are highly accurate.
• It's one license cost is much more than the salary of some of the employees here and it takes a few months to recover that cost.
• Overall profit has increased as people learn it very fast and start deploying the work very easily.