We performed a comparison between SAS Enterprise Guide and Toad Data Point based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Alteryx, SAS, Quest Software and others in Data Preparation Tools."The query builder feature is the most valuable."
"Scheduling downtime of some programs has been eliminated."
"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 data cleaning part is valuable. SAS is a very powerful tool to work with and connect with different sources. We have several tables, and we are looking up tables from one place to another place. We are connecting with different data sources. The data is not coming from one source. There are several sources of data, and we have information coming from different sources. There are some flat files, and there is some information from the data warehouse."
"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."
"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."
"It has definitely improved our communication with senior management."
"An excellent tool for data manipulation and analysis."
"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 would like to see integration with schedulers when run from hosting environments such as Citrix."
"Sentiment analytics would be a great feature to add into EG."
"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."
"A log belongs to each program. I have experienced a situation where when I run just the exec files, it replaces the whole log and I wanted to see the earlier log, then this was not possible."
"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."
"The technical support response time has been consistently slow, and this has been a concern."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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, Altair Monarch and Trifacta Wrangler Enterprise, whereas Toad Data Point is most compared with SSIS, Alteryx, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Azure Data Factory and Denodo.
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