We performed a comparison between Altair Monarch and SAS Enterprise Guide based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Alteryx, SAS, Quest Software and others in Data Preparation Tools."Monarch lets you quickly extract in your preferred format."
"Statistical functionality and basic database interaction can become very straightforward for business users that don't have a background in SQL and data analysis."
"It has improved tremendously moving from providing an easy menu-driven system to also providing an excellent platform for developing and running full production systems, with minimal coding, which enabled increasing popularity among many non-programmers."
"This solution allows for simplified working with large datasets."
"Brought better performance by having people work on a powerful server instead of a workstation."
"The product has a drag-and-drop feature that is excellent for business users and that makes it easy-to-use."
"We now mostly use the Enterprise Guide for such scheduling purposes, so error processes will not inhibit the others."
"SAS EG offers many excellent features, such as parallel execution on the same server, controlling output datasets in the process flow, and conditional processing."
"We do not bother any longer with some programs did not run, hence having to rerun them again."
"I rate Altair Monarch seven out of 10 for affordability. Recently, the pricing model changed from end-user licensing to a concurrent licensing model."
"For some of the advanced functions, you need to learn some SAS code to get what you want."
"I would like it to give more information rather than just a forever loop that forces you to shut down the system. Give you more error messages without stopping the entire project, or even the entire application. That it displays more error messages rather than terminating the application."
"The technical support response time has been consistently slow, and this has been a concern."
"Setting up SAS Enterprise Guide is somewhat messy and complex."
"It is expensive."
"I had difficulty with the diagrammatic flow chart style representation of projects. When projects got too large and complex (which was basically every project, except the most trivial). There just wasn't enough real estate to display the flow chart and dependencies without a lot of scrolling, even when a flow was down to minimum tasks. My recourse was making the flow less "atomic". E.g., rather than use the various subset, etc., tasks as program nodes to display the details, I would write chunks of code that did a few things and use them as SAS program nodes."
"The product is missing a visualization component so we have to use a separate tool for visualization."
"I would like to see better Charting in this solution."
Altair Monarch is ranked 4th in Data Preparation Tools with 1 review while SAS Enterprise Guide is ranked 2nd in Data Preparation Tools with 24 reviews. Altair Monarch is rated 9.0, while SAS Enterprise Guide is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Altair Monarch writes "In 10 minutes, I can do work that would take me two or three hours in another solution. ". 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". Altair Monarch is most compared with Alteryx and ETL Solutions Transformation Manager, whereas SAS Enterprise Guide is most compared with Alteryx and Toad Data Point.
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