"Monarch lets you quickly extract in your preferred format."
"We are able to work on the server, and I can copy a data set and share it with someone in my team. Similarly, if I want some data from them, I can get it. Being able to work on the server and being able to switch from one user to another is a good thing. It is reliable and powerful, and its community is very wide."
"The query builder feature is the most valuable."
"An excellent tool for data manipulation and analysis."
"The Query Builder is very valuable."
"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."
"Brought better performance by having people work on a powerful server instead of a workstation."
"Enabled us to remove PC SAS, which reduced risk."
"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."
"I rate Altair Monarch seven out of 10 for affordability. Recently, the pricing model changed from end-user licensing to a concurrent licensing model."
"They should provide more information for the errors or logs. Currently, it gives you just the error message without explaining anything."
"The stability is not very reliable."
"The technical support response time has been consistently slow, and this has been a concern."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see integration with schedulers when run from hosting environments such as Citrix."
"I feel that the performance could be increased by leveraging multi-thread with any SAS BI platform, not just the high performance ones."
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, Toad Data Point and Trifacta Wrangler Enterprise.
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