We performed a comparison between SAS Enterprise Guide and Toad Data Point 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."Scheduling downtime of some programs has been eliminated."
"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."
"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."
"The product has a drag-and-drop feature that is excellent for business users and that makes it easy-to-use."
"Takes advantage of our Enterprise SAS Grid."
"One of the features of the SAS Enterprise Guide is that it has a server, and we can access the server."
"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 most valuable features of Toad Data are you could write a parameterized query and it wouldn't error out, it would give you the parameters that you could input. The auto-formatting feature is useful because it was great for keeping your queries neat and understandable. The auto comment, and uncomment toggles that you could do were convenient."
"The Connectivity and Connection Manager supports a broad number of connection types, and it is trivial for end-users to set up their own connections to sources."
"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."
"Setting up SAS Enterprise Guide is somewhat messy and complex."
"I would like to see integration with schedulers when run from hosting environments such as Citrix."
"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."
"They should provide more information for the errors or logs. Currently, it gives you just the error message without explaining anything."
"I would like to see better Charting in this solution."
"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."
"On the scheduling server, some scheduled reports just sit there and never execute for the first time. After manually executing the first time, they run with no issues."
"Toad Data could improve by having additional features, such as query prediction. This could help someone who's not the strongest programmer. If the software could help them write queries correctly it would be very helpful, especially for small development teams or teams that lack the input skills necessary to write and program efficiently."
SAS Enterprise Guide is ranked 2nd in Data Preparation Tools with 24 reviews while Toad Data Point is ranked 3rd in Data Preparation Tools with 2 reviews. SAS Enterprise Guide is rated 8.2, while Toad Data Point is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of SAS Enterprise Guide writes "Easy to use, drag and drop interface, with good built-in help facilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Toad Data Point writes "Easy to learn, good connectivity to multiple data sources, and helpful supprt". SAS Enterprise Guide is most compared with Alteryx and Altair Monarch, whereas Toad Data Point is most compared with SSIS, Alteryx, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Azure Data Factory and Denodo. See our SAS Enterprise Guide vs. Toad Data Point report.
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