Alteryx Analytics vs Datawatch Monarch

Alteryx Analytics

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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Datawatch Monarch

The product is especially useful when you have real-time and/or time series data to analyze. If you have more mundane, simpler requirements, other products might do the job you need for less money (there are even some decent open source visualization tools you can find.) I know the product is very widely used in capital markets applications to monitor and analyze risk and price and volume changes; if you're working in that area, I don't think there's a better tool to use.

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Verified User

Executive in Marketing

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Alteryx Analytics

7.9

Datawatch Monarch

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Pixel Perfect reports

8.0

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Customizable dashboards

6.7

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Report Formatting Templates

9.0

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Alteryx Analytics

8.5

Datawatch Monarch

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Drill-down analysis

8.3

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Formatting capabilities

8.2

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Integration with R or other statistical packages

9.5

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Report sharing and collaboration

8.0

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Alteryx Analytics

8.7

Datawatch Monarch

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Publish to Web

8.2

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Publish to PDF

8.5

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Report Versioning

9.0

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Report Delivery Scheduling

8.9

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Alteryx Analytics

7.9

Datawatch Monarch

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

8.0

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Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

7.5

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Predictive Analytics

8.3

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Alteryx Analytics

8.3

Datawatch Monarch

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Multi-User Support (named login)

8.0

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Role-Based Security Model

8.0

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Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

9.0

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Alteryx Analytics

4.0

Datawatch Monarch

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Responsive Design for Web Access

4.0

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Pros

Designing dashboards is very easy and intuitive in Alteryx. Although some form of analytical aptitude is needed, most of it is very user friendly.
Embedding R or Python Code is fairly straightforward in Alteryx. This makes it very sophisticated for data analysis and predictive data modelling.
Effective mathematical calculations-- which are difficult to code in SQL-- are very easy to write in Alteryx.

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Kunal Sonalkar

Data Research Analyst

Southwest Florida Water Management DistrictHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Ability to access and visualize real-time streams of data coming in from message buses, real-time Excel, or CEP engines
Ability to visualize true time series data stored in column-oriented, in-memory databases
Ability to support SAP HANA databases

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Verified User

Executive in Marketing

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Improved Maps/ GeoCoding system for geographical analysis should be there.
Running data extracts can be made more efficient. Tableau does it much better.
Cross-Database joins should be allowed and the data extraction should be much simpler.

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Kunal Sonalkar

Data Research Analyst

Southwest Florida Water Management DistrictHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Recently, we had some major sticker-shock when we wanted to upgrade Data Pump. It is an exceptional product, but when the price jumped from $6,000 to over $60,000, it was impossible to get the funds approved internally for the upgrade.
We also paid for yearly maintenance contracts which included Professional Services, but rarely found those services beneficial. However, we did receive all software upgrades for Datapump as part of the contract which we found to be very beneficial. However, with the new pricing, that is not longer the case.

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Kim Shada

IT - Business Systems Analyst II

SUPERVALU, Inc.Wholesale, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Alteryx Analytics6.5

Based on 14 answers

I will likely continue to use Alteryx because it allows quick, customizable data analysis. Often, I will be given a business question, which I might not know how to answer, but after getting into Alteryx, dragging and dropping some tools, I can formulate the answer. At the same time, this is definitely a niche software (not something that would ever be adopted by my entire company), which makes it a bit less appealing to some.

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Verified User

Analyst in Other

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Datawatch Monarch7.2

Based on 6 answers

It was useful but expensive.

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Javier Icaza

Remote Services Engineer

Optimal Networks, Inc.Government Relations, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Alteryx Analytics10.0

Based on 2 answers

Through a graphical UI one can perform engineering and development, other vendors do not have such a code-less interface.

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Nick Lensing

Data Engineer

Virtual DBSMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Alteryx Analytics10.0

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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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Support

Alteryx Analytics9.9

Based on 2 answers

Overall pretty good. Depending on the quality of the question posed the CS team will get back as they are available

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Nick Lensing

Data Engineer

Virtual DBSMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Implementation

Alteryx Analytics10.0

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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

It does about as good as a code-free analytics platform such a Tableau, but does not offer as well refined insights through data visualization.

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Verified User

Analyst in Other

Management Consulting Company, 51-200 employees

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Datawatch is very good value of money compared to QlikView; QlikView is really more of a BI tool and has a lot of functions that I didn't need. Datawatch is very strong in the real-time area where Tableau, Panorama, and Qlik don't do very well. If you need to set up a visual monitoring dashboard, Datawatch is the best product I've seen for that. if you want to do a lot of in depth statistical analysis of large databases, Tableau is probably a good option.

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Verified User

Executive in Marketing

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Definitely, an increase in employee efficiency. With the right tools and hardware, Alteryx can reduce the processing time significantly.
Automation and/or automatic report scheduling frees up a lot of time that can be used elsewhere.
Licensing updates are somewhat not handled easily and quite often create issues with modules to run slowly and/or not being active.

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Verified User

Analyst in Other

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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