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SAS Enterprise Guide vs Zaloni Data Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 10, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

SAS Enterprise Guide
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Zaloni Data Platform
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
12th
Average Rating
6.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Data Governance (41st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Data Preparation Tools category, the mindshare of SAS Enterprise Guide is 7.9%, down from 16.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zaloni Data Platform is 4.3%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Preparation Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAS Enterprise Guide7.9%
Zaloni Data Platform4.3%
Other87.8%
Data Preparation Tools
 

Featured Reviews

Namanjbaraiya Baru - PeerSpot reviewer
Biostatistician at Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd.
Automated scheduling has transformed clinical analysis workflows and saves significant time
The best feature of SAS Enterprise Guide is scheduling jobs and flows. The scheduling jobs and flows feature stands out to me because of its ease of use and reliability, as I have to perform so many tasks. By scheduling jobs and code, it makes tasks much easier for me. By using SAS Enterprise Guide, which I currently use after previously using SAS 9.4, the time-saving feature of scheduling jobs and code and performing statistical analysis more advanced along with some low-code features makes our timeline very easy to achieve. In SAS Enterprise Guide, I also use data management and statistical analysis, and the statistical analysis accuracy along with data management, data cleaning, and data performing is very good.
reviewer1476264 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Solid multi-ingestion tool but with poor exception handling
The major pain point with Zaloni is that their exception handling is not good. If any event happens (an event is when the job stops in the middle of the process), it doesn't tell you at which point it failed and it doesn't tell the operations team how they should take corrective actions unless you call Zaloni and then identify the issues. That is one issue. Another issue is that sometimes your jobs fail and if you run it a second time, it will go through. A third area it could be improved is the deployment process. When you want to deploy anything, it has a lot of manual processes. For example, you have to create your password in an encrypted format, and then you have to use a lot of manual deployment process. They should actually be building something else, like using Jenkins or automating their process. I have suggested to them that they have to improve their deployment process because they want everyone to run a manual deployment. It takes a lot of time, about half a day, for any single deployment. Then test it, then it might not work, and then reverting back is not easy because of the manual deployment process. I think in recent versions they added a lot of upgrades and additional features including a lot of integrations. Before it was just AWS, later they extended it to Azure. I'm not sure how they have extended it to GCP. It has some built-in features and a lot of improvements now because the UI and the features were not easy to navigate. Regarding showing the metrics, it's okay. I will say it's neither easy nor hard, there is whatever is required. Lastly, on the governance side, it's not very good. We faced some issues with the Ranger version. Ranger was an authentication tool on big data and Zaloni had some compatibility issues with the Ranger at that time. Later they said those are all going to be resolved, but at that time it had some issues. I'm not sure whether it was working with the Sentry or not.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I think that this solution is a good start to get into the data analysis field."
"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"
"Filter and sort query builder is valuable. The ability to do advanced SAS programming is also a useful feature because we can do anything by using Enterprise Guide. It has a lot of functionalities. We can build ETL processes. There are clients who are using SAS Enterprise Guide to build ETL processes. They have a SAS-based program that is scheduled to run at a certain frequency to produce some reports for the business. It is a very useful tool for ETL unit tests and functional tests. You can also do data science projects in SAS Enterprise Guide by using different statistics. During my MBA, we used SAS Enterprise Guide for our statistic course. To query the data, there are many solutions such as SQL, but these tools are only a part of the integration. They are only useful for querying the data and require knowledge of SQL, so they are not suitable for business users. SAS Enterprise Guide can be very easily used by business users to filter and sort the data and build queries. It is not necessary to have coding skills to use SAS Enterprise Guide. For this reason, it is attractive for businesses."
"We work with large data sets that cannot be handled in Excel, and SAS gives us the opportunity and the privilege to work with large data sets, making it very easy and saving time because, for example, if I want to use the same data with Excel, it would take a whole day, but with SAS, I can do it in two or three hours at the most."
"An excellent tool for data manipulation and analysis."
"The product has a drag-and-drop feature that is excellent for business users and that makes it easy-to-use."
"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."
"SAS has all kinds of useful features, so I think it is very good for analysis."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to map data and write workflows with logic inside them."
"The entire need was to ingest it into big data and Zaloni was the fastest product to test and implement into production."
"You can create a lot of ingestions based on the file levels or based on the time."
 

Cons

"Sentiment analytics would be a great feature to add into EG, as well as compatibility with machine learning languages, such as Python and R."
"The product is missing a visualization component so we have to use a separate tool for visualization."
"Sentiment analytics would be a great feature to add into EG."
"More bi-directional integration with the SAS Studio suite of tools is needed."
"Sometimes you have to rely on support, and that is a bit time-consuming. They take a while to respond to an inquiry."
"I feel that the performance could be increased by leveraging multi-thread with any SAS BI platform, not just the high performance ones."
"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."
"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."
"When we have gone to the support team because something is wrong with the product, I would say that it has not been easy for them to sort things out and quickly give us a patch."
"Technical support is in need of improvement."
"The major pain point with Zaloni is that their exception handling is not good."
"The major pain point with Zaloni is that their exception handling is not good. If any event happens, it doesn't tell you at which point it failed and it doesn't tell the operations team how they should take corrective actions unless you call Zaloni and then identify the issues. That is one issue."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"It is very expensive. We have a basic license, and there are many features that are not available with the basic version."
"The pricing and associated costs are substantial."
"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."
"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."
"Management liked it a lot because the license per seat was cheaper than a traditional SAS environment."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise16
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with SAS Enterprise Guide?
Some data visualization tools may be improved by SAS Enterprise Guide. The interface of SAS Enterprise Guide is good, and I would not add anything else about the needed improvements.
What is your primary use case for SAS Enterprise Guide?
My main use case for SAS Enterprise Guide is performing statistical analysis, scheduling job codes, and scheduling flows. I use SAS Enterprise Guide for performing statistical analysis on clinical ...
What advice do you have for others considering SAS Enterprise Guide?
I suggest others go through SAS training before utilizing SAS Enterprise Guide because it is far more advanced than one might initially think. I want to give one piece of advice to all SAS 9.4 user...
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