SAS Enterprise Guide vs. Cube

SAS Enterprise Guide is a Windows-based client application that provides a user-friendly, point-and-click interface to the powerful analytics capabilities of SAS software. Designed to cater to both novice and experienced users, it facilitates data access, management, analysis, and reporting without the need for extensive programming knowledge. By integrating a wide array of analytical tasks with an intuitive graphical interface, SAS Enterprise Guide empowers users to efficiently conduct complex analyses and share results across their organization.

Cube is the agentic analytics platform — built on a semantic layer. Cube is the AI-native generation of business intelligence. It's one platform for two use cases: internal BI, where data teams and business users analyze their own company's data, and embedded analytics, where software companies ship analytics inside their own products. The same governed semantic layer powers both. What makes AI answers trustworthy in production is the semantic layer underneath them. Cube was built around the semantic layer from day one rather than retrofitting one onto a dashboard- or notebook-first tool.