Alteryx vs SAS DataFlux

Likelihood to Recommend

I wish I had found and used Alteryx Analytics years ago. Having multiple data sources with a variety of naming conventions for our businesses we spent WEEKS cleaning/reorganizing/renaming fields in our data to be able to consolidate. We did this on one set of reports for one use. Each time we wanted an update this process would need to be repeated. This took tons of useless admin time. Had we had Alteryx we could have created 1 identifier, noted all the different naming conventions or issues, selected the ones we wanted and created the workflow to use it over and over and over again on any data we wanted. Build once - use multiple times. It would have been (and now is) a HUGE time saver. Plus any new anomalies are identified by the program as errors so you can "autocorrect" them in the same workflow. Alteryx is a miracle in my opinion.

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Susan Knolla

Director People Analytics

J.D. Irving, LimitedPaper & Forest Products, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Responsive Design for Web Access

Pros

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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dfPower Studio connects to virtually any data source, and any dfPower Studio user in any department can use dfPower Studio to profile, cleanse, integrate, enrich, monitor, and otherwise improve data quality throughout the enterprise. dfPower Architect, an innovative job flow builder, enables users to build complex management workflows quickly and logically.
DataFlux Integration Server supports the ability to run batch dfPower Studio jobs in a client/server environment.
DataFlux Integration Server for SAS additionally enables allows SAS programs to invoke DataFlux batch jobs from a SAS program and allows SAS programs to call a business service that was designed in the dfPower Studio client environment.

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Robert Goodman

Director of Business Intelligence & Analytics

Georgetown UniversityInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

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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DataFlux handled all of our data integration needs. It could be considered pricey when compared to Microsoft's bundled SSIS product.

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Robert Goodman

Director of Business Intelligence & Analytics

Georgetown UniversityInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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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Mark Frisch

Director, Technology Services

ExperianInformation Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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SAS DataFlux 10.0

Based on 1 answer

We are happy with the software and its functionality. As a SAS-shop, DataFlux is a logical choice for complex data integration.

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Robert Goodman

Director of Business Intelligence & Analytics

Georgetown UniversityInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

Alteryx 10.0

Based on 3 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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No score

No answers yet

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Reliability and Availability

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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Dan Chapman

Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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No score

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Support Rating

Alteryx 9.0

Based on 5 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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No score

No answers yet

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Implementation Rating

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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Dan Chapman

Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

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

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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Complex data integration.
SAS integration.

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Robert Goodman

Director of Business Intelligence & Analytics

Georgetown UniversityInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

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SAS DataFlux

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SAS DataFlux

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SAS DataFlux

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SAS DataFlux

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SAS DataFlux

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Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Feature Rating Comparison

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Responsive Design for Web Access

Pros

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Cons

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Likelihood to Renew

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Usability

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Reliability and Availability

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Support Rating

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Implementation Rating

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Alternatives Considered

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Return on Investment

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Screenshots

Alteryx

SAS DataFlux

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Rating Summary

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