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."I like the fact that you can easily blend data from different platforms."
"It is efficient in optimizing our ability to get information."
"The modeling features are very good."
"Alteryx is so advanced. It's just drag and drop."
"The ease-of-use allows non-technical business users to directly create their own solutions without the use of additional development resources."
"The analytics are easy."
"I like the solution's velocity, the speed with which it processes data, and its ease of use."
"It allows for manipulation and automation, which has greatly reduced the amount of time required per project."
"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 is also compatible with other softwares, such as Excel."
"We are using SAS Enterprise Guide on a basic level and the Pro SQL and other procedures within it are the most useful right now. Additionally, it has a wide feature set and capabilities"
"We do not bother any longer with some programs did not run, hence having to rerun them again."
"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."
"The point and click makes it easy to transfer the knowledge to new employees."
"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."
"Statistical functionality and basic database interaction can become very straightforward for business users that don't have a background in SQL and data analysis."
"The interface could be improved."
"Sometimes, there are performance constraints. Especially when a large file has to be ingested, the system slows down a bit. Its performance is the only thing that can be improved."
"It is a little bit pricey."
"It's a technical product and those that don't have proper training will have to deal with a steep learning curve."
"I'd like it to be easier to work with PDF."
"The solution can be quite complex in some aspects."
"The solution just lacks in terms of data visualization. That is why we use Tableau and Qlik in our organization. They help to pick up the slack. If data visualization was added, Alteryx would be a very good tool, and much more complete."
"The solution can be made more affordable."
"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."
"There needs to be a community of SAS Enterprise Guide users for assistance. For example, as they do for Python or SQL."
"They should provide more information for the errors or logs. Currently, it gives you just the error message without explaining anything."
"Now that I have experience with Tableau, I think the visualization part of SAS EG could be more user friendly and easier to use. Tableau is very easy to use. It's just does a lot of work by itself, including color schemes. I think that could be incorporated easily into SAS EG, which would make it a much better product. Then you would not need Tableau."
"The stability is not very reliable."
"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."
"Setting up SAS Enterprise Guide is somewhat messy and complex."
"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."
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, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and IBM SPSS Statistics, 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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