SAS Data Management Advanced Reviews - Page 17

What do you like best about Base SAS?

Base SAS is very easy to learn and code. It makes it easy to see exactly what we are doing. There are plenty of character functions available to transform your data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

Price is comparatively high as compared to the competitors. Additional visualization options can be added for analysis purposes. Logs can be difficult to interpret sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Base SAS?

The user interface, the language and analysis methods are simple and easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

I do not like that the software is too expensive for a small organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Base SAS?

User friendly,can carry out complex task,can be used with other software programs also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

Well,not anything specifically,but cracking certification exam is little difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Base SAS?

The user friendly interface and versatile in usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

Sometimes the logs are confusing to a certain problem with code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Base SAS?

The possibilities to manipulate all kind of structured data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

You need ti know sql or sas language and system ''rules' Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Base SAS?

SAS programs are easy to write and maintain.

It has a rich set of procedures / functions which are very useful for reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

SAS Licencing cost is more and community version isn't easy available for students / professional to explore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Base SAS?

You can do your own coding and can execute a work much faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

The code learning process can be intensive and you have to love it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Base SAS?

incredibly stable platform.

Flexible.

Ability to connect to a very wide array of data sources and platforms.

Easy version control.

basic but highly effective interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

Difficult to import Excel files.

no native scheduling.

No GIT integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Base SAS?

Base SAS is a good entry-level application for new analysts. Its biggest advantages are the excellent online help system and dedicated customer support it provides on even the smallest aspect of the tool. Also, Base SAS works very well for simple data manipulations, exploratory data analysis and bi-variate analysis, although building complex models is not possible. Building complex machine learning models requires an upgrade to SAS-Stat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

SAS applications (including Base SAS) are costly to implement and deploy. SAS usually take a fair amount of time to add new algorithms related to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (vis-a-vis open-source platforms). Also, SAS is not very user friendly or intuitive to use compared to Python or R. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Base SAS?

In SAS, there can be multiple ways to accomplish the same outcome. Different programmers can use their own preferred techniques to accomplish the same thing. It's relatively straight forward so that even new programmers can come from a non-programming background and quickly pick up the basics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

Sometimes it's difficult to find the exact syntax to solve an advanced program and the SAS documentation does not go far enough with examples. I mostly turn to user conference papers and presentations to help solve thorny scenarios. The other primary issue I face when searching for solutions is that it's difficult to search for a a particular version. Sometimes I find an answer (found by searching the SAS documentation on their website) and then realize the solution provided only applies to a particular version and not the version of SAS I'm currently using. But it's not immediately evident how to limit searches to the version I want. If there's a way to do that, it's not obvious to me and so I haven't employed it in my searches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.