SAS Studio vs Enterprise Guide

[DU]

Our analyst group has been asked to compare SAS Studio to Enterprise Guide.   Management would like to have developer's move towards SAS Studio as their primary tool for development/analysis.  We understand that SAS Studio will not allow you to handle capabiities such as the creation of Stored Processes.  Can anyone share their experience regarding SAS Studio and whether it is a viable replacement.

[Paul_OldenKamp_org]

 You might start with Phil Holland's 2015 SGF paper,

"SAS® Enterprise Guide or SAS® Studio: Which is Best for You?"

The link is http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings15/2683-2015.pdf

Paul

[DU]

Thanks. That was the first resource I reviewed.

[LinusH]

Problem is the each has their own requirements. So the important part of your investigation should be your requirements.

Said that, EG as you already assumes is a more capable tool. Tha't probably because it has been around for quite some time now.

But I'm pretty sure that SAS Studio in the end will be a natural replacement.

When it's time for you to do the change, depends (again) on your requirements.

Can you elaborate what you mean by development?

EG is a good toll for Stored Process creation, ad-hoc analysis and persona programming.

If you have ETL like development, neither of the tools suffice (DI Studio is the right choice for SAS ETL).

[DU]

Development from the standpoint of Stored Processes. I should have used a better term. We provide 'tools' by means of detailed reports for our various customers. For example, we have 'developed' a tool for select users to alert them to issues with material that they manage. It checks many SAS tables and can use RED YELLOW GREEN indicators to highlight potential issues.

[AmyP_sas]

You are correct that Studio doesn't provide a development environment for stored processes like EG does.  We do have some experimental functionality in Studio to read existing stored processes & display them as Studio tasks.  But I was hoping to drill in a bit more into your use of stored processes since we're trying to enhance the Studio task model to provide an alternative.  Have you looked into creating tasks in Studio & if so, what were the things that you wanted to do that tasks didn't support?  Looking for use cases to help drive development.

[DU]

We have only begun to review SAS Studio. I will talk to the team to get you more details.

[LinusH]

Well if stored process development is a requirement it seems like a no brainer. Stay on EG until SAS Studio supports stored processes, at least for those developers.

[DU]

Agreed, but it is a management issue and have been asked to review both even though we know that EG is more robust and mature than Studio.  It might be a better choice as it increases its capabilities.

[jennifert]

Hi DU,

Another resource that might be of some help is the SAS Studio FAQ, which you can access here:  

SAS Studio Help Center.

thanks,

Jennifer

[DU]

Thanks... I will check it out!