Overall Satisfaction with SAS Enterprise Guide
We use it for analytics, and rough end extracts. This gives our staff administrative permissions to handle inside their SAS workflows, adding external data, and retaining repeatable steps to generate the same extract. We have both PC and Server SAS. My team uses the server a lot to handle larger analytical jobs. It is also used to handle data statistics and verify data quality.
- Flexible to data sources
- Works well across teams
- Helps with SQL code writing
- Difficult to write quickly, particularly if you need to change something in the data flow
- Lots of clicking, slow to develop
- Doesn't view data on the fly, hard to see what impact a particular change might have
- Lots of licensing costs, very costly for what it does, basically equivalent to Pandas, but with huge cost tag
- Integrates IT development with analytical/business areas by giving a "code share"
- Visual of data flow helps communicate process to others
- Reasonably shares programs with team mates
Python-based platforms like Pandas or Spark are very good too at displaying data and do exploratory analysis. I definitely prefer them to SAS EG. It's just too slow, and doesn't let you peek into the data very easily. Lots of clicking, and I'd rather just write some code, rather do clicking.
Do you think SAS Enterprise Guide delivers good value for the price?
No
Are you happy with SAS Enterprise Guide's feature set?
No
Did SAS Enterprise Guide live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of SAS Enterprise Guide go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy SAS Enterprise Guide again?
No