SAS EG Review
December 18, 2019
SAS EG Review
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SAS Enterprise Guide
We use SAS EG in the Business Intelligence and Research Departments for creating ad hoc and ongoing data shaping for reports. Mostly these are output to CSV files to be ingested into Qlik or Excel for further visualization and exploration. Some of the features EG has like the GUI for filtering, sorting and summarizing the data are useful for investigating the data attributes but most of the time I use short queries in SAS sql to get the insight I'm after. The Explore option in the dataset list in the servers can be handy because it allows you the freedom to use drop downs in the variable names for filters as is the cases in Excel or SAS studio however it's very slow if you're going to do this on a large dataset.
- Ability to load an AutoExec when opening a session ensuring everyone has the same global variables.
- Formatting with Ctrl I. If you're reading someone else's code and it's not formatted correctly you can highlight the area and hit Ctrl I.
- 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.
- I'm not involved in the financial side of SAS implementation, however the use of data to gain insight into the daily running of the business is always a must have and SAS EG has played an integral part in keeping the Executives up to date with work flow and financial information.
Although not used in the enterprise, I have used Anaconda Python to shape and cleanse data from Excel reports that was too difficult for SAS to complete. The object oriented nature and the Pandas package made ingestion of the data and reshaping more useful in this use case. Anaconda was only on my local machine in this case so it wasn't an enterprise option. In this case, the IDE I was using was Spyder. It's window compartment for variable and data frame creation is very helpful as the information is only a click away and the compartment also had metadata around the variable/data frame showing it's size and shape.
Do you think SAS Enterprise Guide delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with SAS Enterprise Guide's feature set?
Yes
Did SAS Enterprise Guide live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of SAS Enterprise Guide go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy SAS Enterprise Guide again?
Yes