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."Geo features have made spatial mapping large retail universes possible."
"The GUI is simple and it integrates with Python."
"Alteryx is a low-code platform, and that's the biggest reason why we chose it."
"The solution has been stable."
"Predictive models, which are easy to use, and help a lot with fast design and deployment."
"The most valuable feature for me is integration."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is the intelligence suite."
"The product's Macros probably are one of the most useful aspects."
"Brought better performance by having people work on a powerful server instead of a workstation."
"One of the features of the SAS Enterprise Guide is that it has a server, and we can access the server."
"It has definitely improved our communication with senior management."
"It is also compatible with other softwares, such as Excel."
"The product has a drag-and-drop feature that is excellent for business users and that makes it easy-to-use."
"Similar to Microsoft Access, you can drag and drop. You can simply drag and drop objects onto the page and create various flows to establish your query within the project. You can extract those queries from the preview as needed."
"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"
"Areas where SAS EG does a better job than regular SAS are in the realm of importing and exporting data. For instance, exporting a SAS data set in Unix to an Excel spreadsheet on a PC is a simple task compared to doing the same task with Base SAS."
"More statistics tools: We can use to compare SPSS statistics with some automated advisory."
"We are hoping that the NLP features will also support Chinese characters."
"A feature which allows the user to be able to click on an output (in a file browser) and see the creation of the module would be fantastic."
"Alteryx is just as complicated as coding, in my opinion."
"There are a few imputation techniques which they really need to include."
"They should make the solution user-friendly for nontechnical people by giving specific names to the options."
"If there is any way to make the learning curve less steep, that would be ideal."
"I honestly can't think of anything that needs to be improved."
"There needs to be a community of SAS Enterprise Guide users for assistance. For example, as they do for Python or SQL."
"It is expensive."
"I would like to see integration with schedulers when run from hosting environments such as Citrix."
"The product is missing a visualization component so we have to use a separate tool for visualization."
"The technical support response time has been consistently slow, and this has been a concern."
"The stability is not very reliable."
"Setting up SAS Enterprise Guide is somewhat messy and complex."
"Our data warehouse is built on the Netezza database. We have SAS BI, and we populate the Netezza database. When we have tables with, for example, a hundred million rows in Netezza, SAS Enterprise Guide doesn't work. It doesn't return any results. It works for around 30 to 40 million rows, but it is not working for anything more than that. This issue is only with the Netezza database. With Oracle, it is quite good. They can improve its performance with the Netezza database. There should be one unique tool that includes SAS Data Integration Studio and SAS Enterprise Guide for more integration capabilities. With SAS Enterprise Guide, it is not possible to create connections and libraries and build transformations that can be used for other projects. This tool should have all capabilities that SAS Enterprise Guide does not have. Such a tool would be perfect because it will be used by developers and business users at the same time. In addition to the integration capabilities, they should also provide more deployment capabilities. There should be an option to easily create SAS packages and export them from one environment to another. There could also be a possibility to connect with R and Python. Open-source tools are hot in the market nowadays, and it would be good to extend its capabilities."
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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