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“Challenges With SAS Online Documentation and Rising Costs For Pharmaceutical CROs”
“Powerful legacy SAS front-end, but clunky and dated for modern analytics and workflows. ”
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The screen views let you navigate folders, programs, logs and datasets easily to facilitate writing code and validating your work. Using macros is simplified within Enterprise Guide - having macro libraries and catalogs at your fingertips. SAS Support has been very helpful in the past with fast, thorough technical responses to questions regarding SAS Enterprise and general syntax.
I like that SAS EG provides a bridge between GUI-based workflows and traditional SAS coding. The process flow view makes complex jobs easier to understand and document, and the point and click tasks helps new users generate code they can learn from and modify. It connects smoothly to our existing SAS environment and data sources, and once a project is set up it is straightforward to run and maintain.
I have found so many efficient and powerful commands, functions and procedures using the SAS coding language. I prefer it over SQL. I have also been able to automate scheduling of SAS EG projects using Windows Task scheduler.
Online documentation is difficult to use. If you don't know the exact wording or syntax to look up, it's difficult to find help. I usually default to finding online forums rather than trying to wade through SAS help. The SAS online documentation also doesn't provide enough examples to show how to use certain PROCs and options. Better examples especially on more advanced statistics PROCs would be more helpful than just listing options. SAS Enterprise is very expensive to license and the costs can be prohibitive. A recent change in licensing for pharmaceutical CROs multiplied costs at my previous company to almost 10 times what it had been the year before.
Performance Stability with larger jobs - EG can be slow to open projects and run flows when working with large tables. It will sometimes freeze or crash, and recovering work is not always easy. Outdated and cluttered user interface - The layout feels busy and inconsistent. Windows for code, logs, and results are easy to lose track of. Resizing panels doesn't always stick. Importing data from excel is finnicky - Excel files that contain formulas often need to be cleaned or saved as a csv before import. This adds extra steps to simple tasks.
The connectivity issues have limited what we are now able to use Enterprise Guide for. I believe some of these issues would be solved by going to Viya but I'm not sure what the roadmap for that is. One of the sources that SAS Fed Server couldn't connect to was Spark, which is a fairly common cloud data source.
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- Finance Associate1B-10B USDHealthcare and BiotechReview Source
Powerful legacy SAS front-end, but clunky and dated for modern analytics and workflows.
I use SAS daily as an analyst working with large healthcare datasets. Overall, it has been a reliable way to access our SAS environment and package repeatable processes in one place. The visual process flows make it easy to follow a job, and new users can become productive without needing to code. - Director of Research and Development<50M USDHealthcare and BiotechReview Source
Challenges With SAS Online Documentation and Rising Costs For Pharmaceutical CROs
SAS Enterprise has many tools and views to facilitate writing code, reviewing data, managing libraries and macros. - Data and Analytics Manager10B+ USDBankingReview Source
SAS Enterprise Guide Offers Strong Analysis but Faces Cloud Integration Barriers
I've used SAS Enterprise Guide since 2011. I think it is a very powerful analytics tool and I've been able to provide great value using it. However, during our migration to the cloud, we've encountered issues establishing connections to cloud data sources when using Federation Server. This is not directly related to EG but greatly reduces what tasks we can use EG for when connecting to cloud resources. - BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
Low-Code Interface Eases Data Integration But Visualization Features Remain Limited
I primarily use SAS Enterprise Guide in combination with other SAS products to integrate and analyze data from multiple sources, including SAS datasets, Oracle databases, and Amazon Redshift. For someone who is rather new to data modeling, I appreciate the low-code, no-code interface of workflows that alleviated some growing pains for navigating our complex data environment. As a BI Analyst, I often export these results to third-party BI tools, as Enterprise Guide doesn't have the robust visual detail as other BI platforms. Still, exporting content and integrating with other platforms has been relatively easy to navigate. - Director of Data and Analytics<50M USDConsumer GoodsReview Source
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SAS is an exceptional organization that we rely on heavily for our predictive analytics engines. Their commitment to research and development as well as testing and quality control is second to none in the software industry.