Alation vs Alteryx | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 9 reviews and ratings

Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 170 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Alation

Alteryx

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

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Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

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Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

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Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Alation

Alteryx

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

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Alteryx

Responsive Design for Web Access

Pros

Query builder
Entity relationship
Metadata
Conversations

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alteryx does a great job of allowing more beginner Analysts to automate many of their routine process but also allowing advanced Analysts to ability to leverage deep statistical modelling for predictive analytics.
Given the visual workflow nature of Alteyrx, the learning curve is not steep.
The Alteryx Gallery allows non-technical consumers to execute complex workflows by leveraging an intuitive web interface.
Alteryx allows data scientists to bring their own programming language to Altyerx, such as R or Python.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Data flow
Impact analysis
User experience

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Sometimes the desktop version of authoring tool crashes! It's been unstable in the previous versions but gets better. Even if it doesn't crash, it used to be slow or not responding.
When running several version of database drivers in local machine or server, it is tricky to set up database connections. Often you have to figure out it by googling the problem and solution. There are not many knowledge bases from Alteryx.
Alteryx project file creates .bak file automatically. It is useful to prevent for the purpose of back up, sometimes it's not necessary. But it is not changeable for some reason. By default, it always creates backups.

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Verified User

Project Manager in Research & Development

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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Alteryx 6.5

Based on 14 answers

We've developed a working partnership with Alteryx. As an enablement suite, we're continuing to innovate and deliver great products with use of Alteryx in our solutions. Alteryx use expands to our global product development teams and is in use in multiple parts of our organization. Alteryx also delivers Experian demographic content to other clients in their product offering. We're highly likely to renew, but that decision is way above my pay grade.

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Director, Technology Services

ExperianInformation Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

Alation 10.0

Based on 1 answer

It's a great tool in terms of user experience.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alteryx 9.5

Based on 4 answers

I found it very easy to use very quickly. Part of it had to do with the training I received from Alteryx and the other part was how intuitive the tool is out of the box. Highly recommended for analysts especially ones with little code experience. Helpful to build basic code skills.

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Verified User

Analyst in Customer Service

Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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Alteryx 10.0

Based on 2 answers

I use many programs and compared to others, Alteryx virtually never goes down, freezes up or gives an application error. Over a 4 year time period that I have used this program, any of these may have happened 3 times. It is an incredibly stable program that I feel completely confident in.

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Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Alation 10.0

Based on 1 answer

You get great support from Alation right from setting up the system to using them.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alteryx 9.0

Based on 6 answers

Good support, but could have used more when installing the server. Had a minor issue for a long time that took a lot of work to resolve. Other than that, there has been a lot of free training especially when brining on new designer license holders. Support is good overall.

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Verified User

Analyst in Customer Service

Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Alteryx 10.0

Based on 2 answers

There is really not much to it (the installation, that is). Once you get it installed, along with any of the add-ons (demographics, R, etc.), you are up and running almost immediately. There is really no additional setup. You can immediately begin blending data, running demographics, performing spatial queries, running predictive analysis, etc. And for many of these functions, the learning curve is quite easy.

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Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

Apache atlas, LinkedIn Datahub, Lyft Amundsen are some of the open-source tools we've explored before using Alation. Alation is way advanced over these tools and it has AI capabilities to help you write queries in an automated fashion. and learn more about the data in an easy way. It's very helpful in the data world.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Talend is primarily for data integration and has quite advanced capabilities. But the user has to be more technical. Alteryx makes the process simple and any user can make use of its features.Tableau was a good choice for data visualization. We needed beautiful charts and ways to represent data. Alteryx falls short in this aspect.

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Sanket Bharaswadkar

Process Analyst

HoneywellWarehousing, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

Single source of truth
One application to all queries about metadata
Query platform

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alteryx does an excellent job of integrating consumer and spatial data to calculate and visualize things like locations within a certain drive-time radius.
For visualization purposes I had to move the data to excel for some decent graphs.
It can become very expensive.

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Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development

Education Management Company, 11-50 employees

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Screenshots

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

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