We performed a comparison between Altair Monarch and SAS Enterprise Guide based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Alteryx, SAS, Quest Software and others in Data Preparation Tools."Monarch lets you quickly extract in your preferred format."
"The product has a drag-and-drop feature that is excellent for business users and that makes it easy-to-use."
"The solution is user-friendly, the resource for the query builder is very useful, and the ability to explore the data is a benefit."
"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."
"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."
"It is also compatible with other softwares, such as Excel."
"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."
"Scheduling downtime of some programs has been eliminated."
"I rate Altair Monarch seven out of 10 for affordability. Recently, the pricing model changed from end-user licensing to a concurrent licensing model."
"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."
"I see no reason for limiting the process to sequential all the time."
"The stability is not very reliable."
"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 product is missing a visualization component so we have to use a separate tool for visualization."
"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."
"The technical support response time has been consistently slow, and this has been a concern."
"There needs to be a community of SAS Enterprise Guide users for assistance. For example, as they do for Python or SQL."
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 and Toad Data Point.
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