SAS Enterprise Guide

What do you like best?

SAS Enterprise Guide is the best tool available for SAS Programming (including Base SAS, Advance SAS, or Macros). SAS Enterprise Guide is a very intuitive and helpful tool as it provides a lot of hints and tips while programming, thus ensuring that the program being written is free of errors or typo mistakes. It also provides integration with multiple SAS applications like SAS Stored Procedure. It also provides a graphical way to create Stored Procedures, which can be easily used by programmers who are not very familiar with Stored Procedures.

What do you dislike?

SAS Enterprise Guide is a Desktop based thick client. For this reason, SAS Studio is being preferred over SAS Enterprise guide by SAS Vendor, which is a web based interface. Though, good, but it is not a full fledged replacement of SAS Enterprise guide.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

SAS Programming is a 3rd generation language which is easy to write and understand. Being very intuitive, SAS Enterprise Guide gels very well and provides a very good interface for programming.