Customizable and fast, this product is by far the best solution for business and financial analysis today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cost of this product may be prohibitive to smaller businesses, but it is worth it in the end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is an IDE for development teams, an analytical team workbench and is very accessible for users with less technical expertise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software allows users to create their own custom tasks through Vb, but does not provide any documentation or use for the user group. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAS enterprise guide has an intuitive interface, which makes it easy to build process flows and structure projects.

The tips that appear when you hover over a keyword.

I like being able to import and export shortcuts using kmf files when moving to a new client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be useful to be able to move programs to different process flows using drag and drop.

It does not work well with dataflux.

On some projects Ii ahve worked on, I have needed to use analytical procedures like proc forest, but it would have meant paying for another licence which would be quite expensive, so some analysis may move to R or Python. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used SAS Enterprise Guide for data cleaning, data manipulation, forecasting activities. The best part of the program is how easy it is to use and to learn. I have experience with SQL and how to structure algorithm. With SAS you will have friendly user interfaces which you can use for creating projects of data analysis.

Apart from being easy to learn, the tool can handle huge amount of data that can not be handled by Excel. You can load tables via Excel, txt, databases and other formats then use the queries and take your data out to use in Excel for further reporting, charting and analysis.

The tool has built in modules for forecasting but you can use the tool to generate your own forecasting methodology. Once you are done with your project, it is very easy to send the project tree to another person via email.

Lastly you can view your project in terms of coding language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Even though the project tree structure creates a user friendly project designing capability, it may sometimes cause a problem. Such as you need to know the project tree by heart such as which part of the tree should run first before running the second part. There are ways to order the project modules but still problems may occur. So while using, be sure to follow the modules and be aware of the broken links between the modules.

The other dislike of mine is the processing time. It may take a lot of time to run a project depending on how big is your project and how big your data is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use, find insights in the data because it is a strong analytical tool capable of handling vast amounts of data. Process Flows make it great to divide up all your related work and be able to have a flow through the data journey. Ability to link with other data services. The error messages are a lot more useful than competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is an old interface. It could be updated to make it more appealing. Appear Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While considering to buy a product, instead of paying attention to the needs of the current employees, it's important to calculate the scale and the consequences of the possible growth and the new team members. It's especially important to recognize for startups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAS needs to upgrade the way product served to the customers which include UIs, end-to-end processes and simplicity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has the great processing power (easily process 1 billion records) and great for performing ad hoc analysis, automated report generation etc. However not that much suitable for generating interactive reports.

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Not a good tool for creating data pipeline, can't create interactive reports and some of the features on client enterprise guide has bugs and also it is little heavy software which consumes more RAM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The syntax is very easy and all the inbuilt procedures and functions help in solving all the business problems. We can use this tool for reporting as well for generating statistical outputs. Its data processing speed is also pretty much high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a costly software because many free tools are available in the market which works the same but they are less efficient. Only basic stats functions are there we can not use this tool to build neural networks solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAS Enterprise Guide(EG) helps in generating SAS code in a quick way. It stores everything including libraries, tables, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing which I dislike about SAS Enterprise Guide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.