Thomas Y.

Senior Economist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/19/2019

"Easy-to-use user interface"

4.5/5

SAS Enterprise Guide Reviews & Product Details

SAS Enterprise Guide is a Windows-based client application that provides a user-friendly, point-and-click interface to the powerful analytics capabilities of SAS software. Designed to cater to both novice and experienced users, it facilitates data access, management, analysis, and reporting without the need for extensive programming knowledge. By integrating a wide array of analytical tasks with an intuitive graphical interface, SAS Enterprise Guide empowers users to efficiently conduct complex analyses and share results across their organization. Key Features and Functionality: - Intuitive Interface and Wizards: Offers guided access to SAS capabilities, from basic reporting to advanced analyses, through flexible wizards and an intuitive process flow diagram facility. - Comprehensive Analytical Tasks: Includes over 100 prebuilt tasks for descriptive statistics, predictive modeling, regression analysis, and more, enabling users to perform complex analyses without writing code. - Data Management: Provides a powerful graphical query builder for accessing and manipulating various data types, including SAS datasets and native Windows data types, without requiring SQL expertise. - OLAP Access and Visualization: Supports dynamic slicing, drilling, and pivoting of data for exploration, with integration capabilities for SAS OLAP Server and other third-party vendors supporting OLE DB for OLAP. - Result Distribution and Sharing: Facilitates the distribution of results through multiple channels, including SAS BI report/content repository, Microsoft Office documents, and email, ensuring seamless sharing and collaboration. - High-Performance Computing and Grid Enablement: Automatically detects grid environments for efficient processing, analyzes SAS programs to optimize performance, and enables parallel execution of tasks on the same server. Primary Value and User Solutions: SAS Enterprise Guide addresses the need for a self-service analytics environment that empowers business analysts and other users to perform sophisticated data analyses without relying heavily on IT departments. By providing guided access to data integration, preparation, analytics, and reporting, it enables users to quickly access data, conduct analyses, and distribute results, thereby accelerating decision-making processes. The integration with SAS Viya further enhances its capabilities, allowing users to leverage modern, cloud-based platforms for scalable and efficient analytics. This comprehensive toolset ultimately helps organizations harness their data effectively, leading to more informed business decisions and improved operational efficiency.

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Ryan L.

Direct Marketing Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/6/2026

"Efficient Data Retrieval for Accounts and Contacts"

4/5

What do you like best about SAS Enterprise Guide?

SAS enterprise guide is useful for pulling data on Accounts and Contacts at the Account level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Enterprise Guide?

Feels like a very old program. Could have a more modern UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robert B.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/7/2025

"From SQL to SAS, a little bit of a learning curve"

5/5

What do you like best about SAS Enterprise Guide?

I think that the interface is rather intuitive, and if you have a little patience, it's amazing to work with. As an everyday user, having that feature makes running multiple programs every day a row. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Enterprise Guide?

There are a couple of hiccups to overcome as a new user, with minute little things that may ruin a first experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dan B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/8/2025

"EG Rocks!"

5/5

What do you like best about SAS Enterprise Guide?

Allows me to code in any language I like, just like Base SAS, but it also has the GUI features to make subsetting, sorting, etc. without having to write code. Depending on my mood, I may use either and having the functionality to do so is amazing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Enterprise Guide?

The GUI features are a little harder to find for first time users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meryl C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/7/2025

"Base SAS to SAS EG Convert"

4/5

What do you like best about SAS Enterprise Guide?

SAS Enterprise Guide is easy to use and the data server capabilities are great for sharing data across a large organization. I use EG every day and easily adapted from being a base SAS user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Enterprise Guide?

The data steps, particularly copying files, are very slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luis Miguel S.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/7/2025

"Robustness in the process"

4/5

What do you like best about SAS Enterprise Guide?

I like that it is very robust in processing large volumes of information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Enterprise Guide?

In my organization, integration with cloud data has not been easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arturo G.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/7/2025

"I end the early session"

4/5

What do you like best about SAS Enterprise Guide?

The automation of workflows and scheduling times, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Enterprise Guide?

There is no temporary memory that saves changes when sessions are closed after covering the inactivity time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in E-Learning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/7/2025

"All in one place"

4/5

What do you like best about SAS Enterprise Guide?

First of all the product has everything in one place. its a heaven for data analytics, as its giving real time information in one go, and can enable decision makers doing there job at an effective pace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Enterprise Guide?

it has too much information in the subset so user might feel bit annoyed when trying out for the first time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emmanuel J.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/7/2025

"SAS Enterprise Guide"

5/5

What do you like best about SAS Enterprise Guide?

covers wide range of users from beginners to experts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Enterprise Guide?

Sometimes too much point and click , but SAS Studio fixed it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/7/2025

"Amazing workflow tool for entry level data users"

4/5

What do you like best about SAS Enterprise Guide?

SAS enterprises guide provides a great visual workflow application for no code query. Very easy to use with little knowledge needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAS Enterprise Guide?

Some features such as the query node when using it to join different tables together requires a lot of steps. Simplifying the joins and being able to join multiple tables within the same query step would be useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.