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What are the differences between SAS Studio and SAS Enterprise Guide?
Both SAS Studio and SAS Enterprise Guide provide a point-and-click interface to SAS that enables you to create reports, graphs, and charts; access SAS servers and data; and analyze data. Both products also include ready-to-use tasks for analysis and reporting, a color-coded SAS language editor, and access to some of the most common features of Git.The primary difference between SAS Studio and SAS Enterprise Guide is that SAS Studio is a tool that you can use to write and run SAS code through your web browser. SAS Enterprise Guide is a Microsoft Windows client application that you install on your machine.
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Last updated: March 19, 2024
| General Feature Comparison between SAS® Studio and SAS® Enterprise Guide® |
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| SAS client version | 7.1x | 8.1-8.4 | 8.4 | 3.8 | SAS® Analytics Pro (SAS Studio 5.2) |
5.2 | 2022.x and later |
| SAS server | SAS® 9 | SAS® Viya® | SAS® 9 | SAS® Viya® | |||
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| Support for all SAS/ACCESS interfaces 1 | |
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| SAS code editor | |
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| Ability to use SAS programs in flows | |
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| Ability to use PROC PYTHON in SAS programs | |
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| Ability to use SAS programs with PROC PYTHON in flows | |
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| Ability to use Python programs in flows | |
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| Interactive SAS programming 2 | |
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| DATA Step debugger | |
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| Insert code from another program | |
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| Ability to create a flow from a SAS program | |
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| Code optimization | |
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| Mix of SAS 9 and SAS Viya servers in same flow | |
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| Steps for executing decision flows from SAS Intelligent Decisioning on SAS Viya | |
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| Steps for registering models in SAS Model Manager on SAS Viya | |
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| Steps for advanced machine learning and analysis | |
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| Ability to hide and show steps in Steps menu | |
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| Type-ahead filter | |
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| Custom steps and tasks | |
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| Ability to open a custom step as standalone | |
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| Visual designer for custom step UI 5 | |
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| Coding logic of a custom step | C# or VB.NET | C# or VB.NET | C# or VB.NET | SAS | SAS | SAS | SAS, Python |
| UI definition of a custom step | C# or VB.NET | C# or VB.NET | C# or VB.NET | XML | XML | XML | JSON |
| Public GitHub repository of community-built steps 6 | |
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| Hide and show | |
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| Organize snippets | |
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| Centralized scheduling | |
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| Ability to deploy and redeploy a flow or program as a job | |
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| REST API for code generation and execution of a program or flow | |
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| Workload Manager / Grid integration | |
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| Autoscaling of compute sessions | |
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| SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) engine for fast in-memory calculations | |
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| Submit SAS code when server is connected (client-side autoexec) | |
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| Ability to show list of open items | |
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| Automation 7 | |
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| Keyboard management | |
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| Stored process functionality 8 | |
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| Ability to freeze column in table viewer | |
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| Maximum number of rows per page in table viewer | 500 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | |||
| Ability to change tab layout | |
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| Information Map support | |
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| OLAP cube support | |
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| Ability to import and migrate SAS Enterprise Guide projects 10 | |
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1 All SAS/ACCESS products are delivered on SAS Viya, except SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB.
2 SAS Studio - improved interactive experience in 5.1 and later.
3 Prompt types with metadata dependency are not supported (Data Source, Data Source Item, Library, Prompt using a Dynamic List of Values).
4 Some steps are available with a particular SAS Studio license, such as SAS Studio Analyst or SAS Studio Engineer. For more information, see About SAS Studio Licenses.
5 Available in SAS Studio Analyst and SAS Studio Engineer. For more information, see About SAS Studio Licenses.
6 GitHub repository: https://github.com/sassoftware/sas-studio-custom-steps/.
7 For more information, see About the Command Line Interface in SAS Studio: User's Guide or Automating Projects in SAS Enterprise Guide: User's Guide.
8 The functionality of SAS Stored Processes in SAS 9 is available in SAS Viya in the Job Execution Service (job definition objects).
9 Available when a connection to SAS Metadata Server is active in SAS Enterprise Guide.
10 SAS Enterprise Guide projects can be imported by an administrator via SAS Environment Manager or a command-line interface. For more information about supported steps and features, see Migrating from SAS 9.4.
Last updated: March 19, 2024
| Comparison of Program Editor Options between SAS® Studio and SAS® Enterprise Guide® |
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| SAS client version | 7.1x | 8.1-8.4 | 8.4 | 3.8 | 5.2 | 2022.x and later |
| SAS server | SAS® 9 | SAS® Viya® | SAS® 9 | SAS® Viya® | ||
| Show autocomplete list | |
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| Enable hint when hovering over keywords | |
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| Code folding | |
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| Syntax highlighting (color coding) | |
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| Column editing | |
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| Auto-indent | |
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| Wrap text | |
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| Use overtype mode | |
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| Auto-pair quotation marks | |
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| Highlight matching brackets | |
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| Show indent guides | |
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| Show invisible characters | |
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| Enable line highlighting | |
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| Show line numbers | |
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| Print line numbers | |
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| Set tab width spaces | |
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| Substitute spaces for tabs | |
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| Change editor theme | |
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| Set background color | |
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| Change font | |
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| Change font size | |
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| Change element styles | |
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| Allow cursor movement past end of line | |
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| Drag and drop text editing | |
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| Strip CTRL+Z characters | |
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| Enable smart highlighting | |
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| For find/replace search | |
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| Case-sensitive smart highlighting | |
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| Put "THEN/ELSE DO" or "%THEN/%ELSE%DO" on a single line | |
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| Capitalize first letter of every procedure name | |
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| Add a blank line before statements and definitions | |
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Last updated: September 23, 2025
| Comparison of Git Features - SAS® Studio and SAS® Enterprise Guide® |
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| SAS client version | 8.1-8.4 | 8.4 | 3.8 | 5.2 | 2022.x and later |
| SAS server | SAS® 9 | SAS® Viya® | SAS® 9 | SAS® Viya® | |
| Support working repositories through the SAS server | 1 |
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| Support working repositories through the local file system | |
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| Clone repository using HTTPS authentication 2 | |
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| Clone repository using SSH authentication | |
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| Initialize repository | |
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| Profiles | |
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| Reset | |
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| History log and graph | |
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| Commit (Stage and Unstage changes) | |
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1 The Git Integration feature in SAS Enterprise Guide is designed for the typical Git repository workflow in which you clone a remote repository to your local machine, make changes in your local repository, commit changes in your local repository, and then push your changes back to the remote repository.
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2 This feature has security implications in SAS Studio and is hidden by default, but can be enabled via a config option.
3 Diff: SAS Enterprise Guide allows users to set their own diff tool
4 Merge: SAS Enterprise Guide allows users to set their own merge tool