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“SAS Enterprise Guide Offers Strong Analysis but Faces Cloud Integration Barriers”
“Powerful legacy SAS front-end, but clunky and dated for modern analytics and workflows. ”
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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.
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 like the low-code, no-code interface; the platforms transparency to see the underlying SAS code (a benefit to learning SAS code and more advanced logic); and the visual workflows are great for me to see jobs (queries, joins, and other outputs) for documentation and validating jobs for peer-review.
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.
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 Outdated and cluttered user interface - The layout feels busy and inconsistent.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.
As a BI Analyst, it doesn't seamlessly connect with some modern BI tools. This has led to additional steps in data modeling, which isn't a deal breaker but it does take extra time. With that in mind, I would say that Enterprise Guide does not have robust data visualization. It's not that it doesn't have the capabilities, it just doesn't have the breadth of some of the more modern tools out there.
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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. - 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
SAS Predictive Analytics: Trust, Speed, and Scale versus Open Source
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. - Software Developer50M-1B USDInsurance (except health)Review Source
Visual Workflow and Script Integration Enhance SAS Enterprise Guide Functionality
As a QA engineer, I find SAS Enterprise Guide to be an easy to use data analysis tool that helps me to not only quickly access and read different tables e different databases but also easily organize my workflow using its GUI.