We performed a comparison between Alteryx and SAS Enterprise Guide based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Preparation Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is user-friendliness, as Alteryx can be used by those without any coding experience or experienced data scientists as it has the functionality to embed R and Python scripts."
"The design portion of this tool is easy to use without code, which his something that something we can appreciate."
"The scheduling within the solution is excellent."
"The three data signs and data engineering are great features."
"It saves time on a lot projects. "
"It helps clean messy data and provides spatial analysis."
"The product's Macros probably are one of the most useful aspects."
"Automation is the most valuable aspect for us. The ability to wrap business logic around the data is very helpful."
"It streamlines our workflow involving multiple steps, from data extraction to modeling, and it is aimed at improving various aspects of banking operations, including customer retention and risk management."
"In Daman, I had used the data module, where you can join the table and take whatever data we require for our work. You join tables and create columns as you wish, then analyze data in various ways depending on what the problem is. We used it to detect fraud, abnormalities, anomalies, abnormal trends, etc. It's also good for exporting and importing tables."
"It has definitely improved our communication with senior management."
"Brought better performance by having people work on a powerful server instead of a workstation."
"SAS EG offers many excellent features, such as parallel execution on the same server, controlling output datasets in the process flow, and conditional processing."
"This solution allows for simplified working with large datasets."
"Enterprise Guide is much better at generating reports than many solutions. We often use it to generate reports, and people interpret them how they like. They often probably use Excel spreadsheets or something like that after they get our data."
"The point and click makes it easy to transfer the knowledge to new employees."
"The workflow and pipeline need to improve."
"The solution can be quite complex in some aspects."
"It would be nice if they can provide Alteryx with more options for In-DB connectivity. That functionality is there, but it doesn't include all software we are connecting."
"It is a little bit pricey."
"The only area where the product lags is documentation and videos on the analytical app and the batch macro."
"The learning curve is long, and there is lack of e-learning; the tool is not user-friendly to a non-technical user."
"More statistics tools: We can use to compare SPSS statistics with some automated advisory."
"It should have Linux support. It currently supports only Windows. It does not support any other platform. Its price should also be lower. Their US partner management program is actually unresponsive. One of the reasons why we don't have a formalized partnership plan with them is because their partner management team is atrociously unresponsive. This is something that they need to change."
"I would like to see better Charting in this solution."
"It would be very useful if EG could be enhanced to automatically file and clear the project log to ensure non-stop running of the project."
"We don't use SAS Enterprise Guide that much here because we haven't explored some of the statistical modeling capabilities. However, I do not think SAS Enterprise Guide provides all the machine learning features that we want. Those would be separate products from SAS, such as SAS Buyers or any of the other solutions, which will give us the capabilities that we are looking for."
"I would like to see integration with schedulers when run from hosting environments such as Citrix."
"Recently, we realized that SAS Enterprise Guide is not so stable and gives us some outputs which are not suitable...Sometimes it's quite hard to report its stability issues."
"Setting up SAS Enterprise Guide is somewhat messy and complex."
"For some of the advanced functions, you need to learn some SAS code to get what you want."
"More bi-directional integration with the SAS Studio suite of tools is needed."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Data Preparation Tools with 74 reviews while SAS Enterprise Guide is ranked 2nd in Data Preparation Tools with 24 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while SAS Enterprise Guide is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Enterprise Guide writes "Easy to use, drag and drop interface, with good built-in help facilities". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Dataiku, Databricks, RapidMiner and Anaplan, whereas SAS Enterprise Guide is most compared with Toad Data Point and Altair Monarch. See our Alteryx vs. SAS Enterprise Guide report.
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