Alteryx Analytics vs Dimensional Insight

Likelihood to Recommend

Alteryx is well suite for data integration /automation use cases as well as deeper predictive modeling. Alteryx is not a visualization tool. There are many connections and integrations to more robust visualization platforms.

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Director in Information Technology

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

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In my experience, Dimensional Insight products are excellent. They are well suited to integrate data from multiple sources and allow for dissecting information based on dimensions defined. Once you understand the logic and the powerful functions available it is easy to use, specially if you get used to using integrated visual tools. The tunnels allow for selection of a subset of data from Diver portal and the dials are great to build markers and send files in different formats to users via email.

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Odalys Corominas

Business Systems Analyst

Lee Memorial Health SystemHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Alteryx Analytics

7.6

Dimensional Insight

8.0

Pixel Perfect reports

8.0

Customizable dashboards

5.9

8.0

Report Formatting Templates

9.0

8.0

Alteryx Analytics

7.8

Dimensional Insight

8.8

Drill-down analysis

7.2

10.0

Formatting capabilities

7.3

8.0

Integration with R or other statistical packages

9.1

8.0

Report sharing and collaboration

7.6

9.0

Alteryx Analytics

8.1

Dimensional Insight

9.7

Publish to Web

8.0

10.0

Publish to PDF

7.3

10.0

Report Versioning

9.0

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Report Delivery Scheduling

8.2

9.0

Alteryx Analytics

7.8

Dimensional Insight

9.0

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

8.0

9.0

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

7.5

9.0

Predictive Analytics

8.0

9.0

Alteryx Analytics

8.3

Dimensional Insight

10.0

Multi-User Support (named login)

8.0

10.0

Role-Based Security Model

8.0

10.0

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

9.0

10.0

Alteryx Analytics

4.0

Dimensional Insight

8.0

Responsive Design for Web Access

4.0

8.0

Pros

It can independently generate required analytics instead of having to require specialists.
The ability to read and write in a multitude of formats: from Excel, Access tables, Tableau and Teradata to MapInfo, ESRI, Google Earth, etc.
Single drag and drop workflow instead of multiple tools.

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Engineer in Research & Development

Education Management Company, 11-50 employees

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The product is excellent!
Experienced DI Consultants with a broad knowledge in both, product and client data.
Customer service and technical support is always available; very professional and investigate reported issues until resolved.

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Odalys Corominas

Business Systems Analyst

Lee Memorial Health SystemHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

The visualization that Alteryx provides can be improved much more than where it stands tonight.
It doesn't seem to be able to process Big Data as efficiently as I would have liked.
There are a lot of things that you need to learn.

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Engineer in Research & Development

Education Management Company, 11-50 employees

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Technical documentation: make it easier to find examples or functions definitions.
Allow more flexibility in report design, maybe allow to combine columns.
I know with Diver 7.0 some of the missing functionality is resolved so I won't be suggesting any other improvement until we upgrade.

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Odalys Corominas

Business Systems Analyst

Lee Memorial Health SystemHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Alteryx Analytics 6.5

Based on 14 answers

I personally have moved to a different position that does not require data analysis tools. I really enjoyed working with Alteryx and think it is a great tool, but have moved to a different organization and role.

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Mika Silverman

Consultant

MarineXchange SoftwareInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Alteryx Analytics 10.0

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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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Dimensional Insight 9.0

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Navigation thru the Diver portal is simple; some users have trouble but it also depends on how the analysts build models and present the reports with quickviews selections and report layouts. I am aware of DI capability to access reports thru mobile devices but I have not experience it first hand.

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Odalys Corominas

Business Systems Analyst

Lee Memorial Health SystemHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Reliability and Availability

Alteryx Analytics 10.0

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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 Analytics 9.9

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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Dimensional Insight 9.0

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Overall support is very good. In cases where is a delay I have been notified of the status of it and what DI expert team is investigating. I might not get a fix right away depending on pending releases and when my company decides to plan for the upgrade but response time is good.

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Odalys Corominas

Business Systems Analyst

Lee Memorial Health SystemHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation

Alteryx Analytics 10.0

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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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Dan Chapman

Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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Dimensional Insight 9.0

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I don't have direct experience with the first time DI was implemented but on subsequent upgrades there have been positive experiences with support and seamless transitions to avoid users discomfort.

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Odalys Corominas

Business Systems Analyst

Lee Memorial Health SystemHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

We tested this against several COTS packages and found Alteryx to be a more cost effective solution that could be deployed to a variety of user types

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Mark Frisch

Director, Technology Services

ExperianInformation Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 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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Analyst in Other

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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