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SAS Enterprise Guide vs Toad Data Point comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 10, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

SAS Enterprise Guide
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Toad Data Point
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (21st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Data Preparation Tools category, the mindshare of SAS Enterprise Guide is 7.9%, down from 17.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Toad Data Point is 4.5%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Preparation Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Toad Data Point4.5%
SAS Enterprise Guide7.9%
Other87.6%
Data Preparation Tools
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2232579 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Provides speedy server access for data analysis and modeling but lacks stability and needs to improve its visualization capabilities
Recently, we realized that SAS Enterprise Guide is not so stable and gives us some outputs which are not suitable, but it works well on rerunning the program. Sometimes it's quite hard to report its stability issues. Most of the time, its stability issues need to be reported with which our colleagues help. Another issue is that SAS Enterprise Guide gives us hardware output, but when we run a program that does not run correctly, we don't know what's wrong even though the output is good. When we try to report to technical support and they run the program, they cannot find anything from the log, but it is the same issue we find in the solution when we run it afterward. Sometimes we need to restart the computer, and it works, which is not so good. We set up quite a few programs to autorun, and sometimes the customer is not confident that the result would be good. It would be easier to use the solution if it had more functions. The solution needs to be more stable. The additional feature I want to see in the future would be visualization because, currently, the visualization from SAS is a bit like Python or similar ones in general.
Sudunagunta Bhavya Lekha - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Data Analyst at Lumendata
Drag-and-drop workflows have accelerated cross-database analysis and simplified daily reporting
I consider user interface modernization in Toad Data Point to be an area for improvement; it could be enhanced with a more modern, web-based look and smoother navigation, focusing on better UX and dashboard customization. Real-time collaboration could benefit from trying Git-style integration, which would strengthen team collaboration features. Performance with large data sets sometimes slows down our workflows, so implementing a better optimization engine specifically for big data workflows could enhance functionality, along with improvements in cloud-native deployment for better browser access. For the dashboarding feature, I believe Toad Data Point could improve by offering more interactive dashboards and advanced visualizations beyond the current basic charts and pivots. Implementing capabilities such as drill-down, interactive filters, and dynamic parameter selections would align more with BI-style interactivity. Visualizations compared to tools such as Microsoft Power BI or Tableau are quite limited, so enhancing this area with cloud-hosted interactive dashboards and seamless auto-refresh options would greatly improve user experience.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Brought better performance by having people work on a powerful server instead of a workstation."
"I think that this solution is a good start to get into the data analysis field."
"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."
"The product has a drag-and-drop feature that is excellent for business users and that makes it easy-to-use."
"SAS/EG is a very good tool for data management and analytics tasks."
"It has definitely improved our communication with senior management."
"This solution allows for simplified working with large datasets."
"It has improved tremendously moving from providing an easy menu-driven system to also providing an excellent platform for developing and running full production systems, with minimal coding, which enabled increasing popularity among many non-programmers."
"Toad Data Point made our query testing a lot faster and more efficient, and we saw a lot of time-saving in our development process."
"The best thing about it is its automation features."
"We love it."
"It provides better SQL development tooling than SQL Developer, which is not a sufficient tool for all development use cases. It offers power developers the tools they need."
"We had an unsupported version of Hyperion that needed to be replaced, and Toad Data Point allowed us to quickly transition to a similar solution and to easily convert all of our preexisting queries (more than 300) to the new solution with minimum effort."
"What I like the most about Toad Data Point is the automation feature, which is mostly useful for us, and I have not found it in any other systems that I have worked with so far, and it can easily schedule any automation tasks that we provide."
"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."
"I would estimate that Toad Data Point saves me about 30 to 70 percent of my time depending on the work type."
 

Cons

"I feel that the performance could be increased by leveraging multi-thread with any SAS BI platform, not just the high performance ones."
"Our data warehouse is built on the Netezza database. We have SAS BI, and we populate the Netezza database. When we have tables with, for example, a hundred million rows in Netezza, SAS Enterprise Guide doesn't work. It doesn't return any results. It works for around 30 to 40 million rows, but it is not working for anything more than that. This issue is only with the Netezza database. With Oracle, it is quite good. They can improve its performance with the Netezza database. There should be one unique tool that includes SAS Data Integration Studio and SAS Enterprise Guide for more integration capabilities. With SAS Enterprise Guide, it is not possible to create connections and libraries and build transformations that can be used for other projects. This tool should have all capabilities that SAS Enterprise Guide does not have. Such a tool would be perfect because it will be used by developers and business users at the same time. In addition to the integration capabilities, they should also provide more deployment capabilities. There should be an option to easily create SAS packages and export them from one environment to another. There could also be a possibility to connect with R and Python. Open-source tools are hot in the market nowadays, and it would be good to extend its capabilities."
"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."
"More bi-directional integration with the SAS Studio suite of tools is needed."
"There needs to be a community of SAS Enterprise Guide users for assistance. For example, as they do for Python or SQL."
"Setting up SAS Enterprise Guide is somewhat messy and complex."
"It is expensive."
"The Mac license is incredibly expensive. It is 1,600 dollars each, which is more than the Windows version. Scalability is difficult when it is that costly."
"I used their report writing a little bit, however, it could improve since it's not a really good report writer and it's a little clunky."
"Visualizations compared to tools such as Microsoft Power BI or Tableau are quite limited, so enhancing this area with cloud-hosted interactive dashboards and seamless auto-refresh options would greatly improve user experience."
"What could be improved is probably the user interface."
"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."
"However, when accessing large data volumes and running complex queries like nested queries or stored procedures, Toad Data Point might get hung during those operations, which is the only significant challenge I encounter."
"On the scheduling server, some scheduled reports just sit there and never execute for the first time."
"Toad Data could improve by having additional features, such as query prediction."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I did look at the prices a few years ago, and I believe it was approximately $1,000 for a yearly subscription at that time."
"Management liked it a lot because the license per seat was cheaper than a traditional SAS environment."
"It is expensive. We get a different price based on our corporate rate. So, I'm not sure what the general cost is because we got a special rate for it."
"In general, SAS has high prices, which is a reason why some clients don't use SAS solutions. The licensing is on a yearly basis."
"The pricing and associated costs are substantial."
"It is very expensive. We have a basic license, and there are many features that are not available with the basic version."
"The cost of this product is reasonable."
"The price of Toad Data Point was approximately $500 annually."
"The Mac licenses are expensive, costing 1,600 dollars each. This is much higher than for the Windows version. I maintain a very limited number of licenses due to this cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Healthcare Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Healthcare Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Toad Data Point?
The pricing is cost-effective; it is neither too cheap nor too expensive, it's a good value.
What needs improvement with Toad Data Point?
Areas for improvement in Toad Data Point usage could include a better UI interface, building in AI assistance, and faster performance for large databases, especially since accessing a terabyte of d...
What is your primary use case for Toad Data Point?
My use case is mainly for business analysis, and I also use it for some parts of machine learning and AI, and in some cases, I use it for healthcare purposes.
 

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Sample Customers

Canary Islands Statistics Institute
Concordia University
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