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."The filtering is fast, and it provides a search tool that is great."
"The tools are built-in. You just plug and play, drag and drop, once you understand how to use the tools, it is easy."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"Alteryx is a simple and easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its unlimited handling capabilities."
"The analytics are easy."
"The scheduling feature for the automation is excellent."
"The drag-and-drop features are useful for data scientists who do not like to code because it is already in the system."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Enterprise Guide is much better at generating reports than many solutions. We often use it to generate reports, and people interpret them how they like. They often probably use Excel spreadsheets or something like that after they get our data."
"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"
"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."
"One of the features of the SAS Enterprise Guide is that it has a server, and we can access the server."
"The query builder feature is the most valuable."
"It seems to me that it is not always user friendly."
"The solution could work on the BI side of the tool to make it a bit better."
"The next feature release should include easier reporting."
"Deep learning models are not currently supported."
"The gallery could improve in Alteryx. Additionally, if there was a Conditional Join feature it would be beneficial. Since I do not have this feature I have to use Python scripts."
"There's a big jump in terms of pricing between license tiers. I'm not sure I understand why the price jumps are so high."
"Alteryx's predictive data models are pretty average and can be improved."
"The solution just lacks in terms of data visualization. That is why we use Tableau and Qlik in our organization. They help to pick up the slack. If data visualization was added, Alteryx would be a very good tool, and much more complete."
"For some of the advanced functions, you need to learn some SAS code to get what you want."
"I see no reason for limiting the process to sequential all the time."
"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."
"We don't use SAS Enterprise Guide that much here because we haven't explored some of the statistical modeling capabilities. However, I do not think SAS Enterprise Guide provides all the machine learning features that we want. Those would be separate products from SAS, such as SAS Buyers or any of the other solutions, which will give us the capabilities that we are looking for."
"Machine learning is not utilized and that could enhance the product."
"It would be very useful if EG could be enhanced to automatically file and clear the project log to ensure non-stop running of the project."
"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 product is missing a visualization component so we have to use a separate tool for visualization."
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, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and IBM SPSS Statistics, 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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