Alteryx vs Excel4apps

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Score 9.1 out of 10

Based on 262 reviews and ratings

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Score 8.2 out of 10

Based on 78 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

Alteryx ranks higher in 4 feature sets: Ad-hoc Reporting, Report Output and Scheduling, Data Discovery and Visualization, Access Control and Security
Excel4apps ranks higher in 2 feature sets: BI Standard Reporting, Mobile Capabilities

BI Standard Reporting

5.4

Alteryx

54%

6.2

Excel4apps

62%

Excel4apps ranks higher in 2/3 features

Pixel Perfect reports

5.0

50%

2 Ratings

5.6

56%

3 Ratings

Customizable dashboards

6.1

61%

45 Ratings

5.4

54%

3 Ratings

Report Formatting Templates

5.0

50%

2 Ratings

7.6

76%

4 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

8.2

Alteryx

82%

7.7

Excel4apps

77%

Alteryx ranks higher in 2/4 features

Drill-down analysis

8.4

84%

60 Ratings

7.1

71%

4 Ratings

Formatting capabilities

7.6

76%

66 Ratings

9.3

93%

4 Ratings

Integration with R or other statistical packages

8.9

89%

58 Ratings

6.5

65%

2 Ratings

Report sharing and collaboration

7.6

76%

58 Ratings

7.9

79%

4 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

7.9

Alteryx

79%

6.6

Excel4apps

66%

Alteryx ranks higher in 4/5 features

Publish to Web

8.6

86%

52 Ratings

7.4

74%

3 Ratings

Publish to PDF

9.0

90%

57 Ratings

8.5

85%

2 Ratings

Report Versioning

4.0

40%

2 Ratings

5.5

55%

3 Ratings

Report Delivery Scheduling

9.0

90%

57 Ratings

6.5

65%

3 Ratings

Delivery to Remote Servers

9.0

90%

1 Rating

5.0

50%

2 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

7.4

Alteryx

74%

6.7

Excel4apps

67%

Alteryx ranks higher in 2/3 features

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

6.0

60%

2 Ratings

7.0

70%

2 Ratings

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

8.0

80%

59 Ratings

7.0

70%

2 Ratings

Predictive Analytics

8.3

83%

59 Ratings

6.0

60%

2 Ratings

Access Control and Security

8.0

Alteryx

80%

7.2

Excel4apps

72%

Alteryx ranks higher in 2/4 features

Multi-User Support (named login)

8.0

80%

2 Ratings

9.0

90%

3 Ratings

Role-Based Security Model

8.0

80%

2 Ratings

9.0

90%

2 Ratings

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

8.0

80%

2 Ratings

5.3

53%

3 Ratings

Single Sign-On (SSO)

8.0

80%

1 Rating

5.3

53%

2 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

4.0

Alteryx

40%

7.8

Excel4apps

78%

Excel4apps ranks higher in 3/3 features

Responsive Design for Web Access

4.0

40%

1 Rating

9.0

90%

1 Rating

Mobile Application

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

1 Rating

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

N/A

0 Ratings

6.0

60%

1 Rating

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

Alteryx

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

3.0

Excel4apps

30%

Excel4apps ranks higher in 6/6 features

REST API

N/A

0 Ratings

1.0

10%

1 Rating

Javascript API

N/A

0 Ratings

4.3

43%

2 Ratings

iFrames

N/A

0 Ratings

1.0

10%

1 Rating

Java API

N/A

0 Ratings

4.7

47%

2 Ratings

Themeable User Interface (UI)

N/A

0 Ratings

2.0

20%

1 Rating

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

N/A

0 Ratings

5.0

50%

1 Rating

Attribute Ratings

Alteryx is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Support Rating

Alteryx

94%

84 Ratings

8.7

Excel4apps

87%

4 Ratings

Alteryx

65%

14 Ratings

Excel4apps

N/A

0 Ratings

Alteryx

91%

40 Ratings

8.3

Excel4apps

83%

3 Ratings

Alteryx

91%

3 Ratings

Excel4apps

N/A

0 Ratings

Alteryx

91%

1 Rating

Excel4apps

N/A

0 Ratings

Alteryx

85%

41 Ratings

6.1

Excel4apps

61%

3 Ratings

Alteryx

91%

3 Ratings

Excel4apps

N/A

0 Ratings

Alteryx

91%

1 Rating

Excel4apps

N/A

0 Ratings

Pros

Pulling data from multiple disparate data sources.
Allows users to see the data at every step of the workflow to be able to cleanse, analyze, and optimize the data.
Provides an analytics platform that is easy for users of all levels to thrive in whether they are just starting out in their analytics journey or they have a master's degree in Data Science.

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Employee in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Easy to install and maintain. After the initial installation, there is little involvement by the technical administrators.
Cloning production to a test environment does not require any additional setups unlike Oracle EBS which does.
Loading data and reporting on this data is handled via EXCEL spreadsheets which is the "language" of our financial users.

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Professional in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

A larger library of data sources being leveraged/licensed through Alteryx directly similar to the Experian and Dun & Bradstreet data that is available now would be ideal for additional data enrichment.
The ability to take R and Python-based data insights/model outputs/forecasts/etc. and pull directly into downstream tools and reporting is a bit lacking and could use improvement.

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Cory Hubbard

VP of Strategic Analytics

Gregory Welteroth AdvertisingMarketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees

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It is possible but difficult to retrieve data or set criteria from different module into a single report or retrieve. If it is more user friendly instead of having to create a complex formula to retrieve the data, this function will be utilized more often.
It will be nice to have visual (graphs, etc.) report template available
It is helpful if we can retrieve data for a range of date, instead of just YTD, PTD etc. and multi-year data all at once for comparison too.

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Analyst in Other

Aviation & Aerospace Company, 201-500 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?

Starting Price

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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?

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Starting Price

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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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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Usability

Alteryx 9.1

Based on 40 answers

There's really not a problem involving data I've come across that I couldn't figure out how to use Alteryx to solve. Their community and help features are very useful, even though the drag and drop functionality combined with a curiosity related to the thrill of solving will get you there 95% of the time.

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Casey Koopmans

Principle Data Scientist

AmwayConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Excel4apps 8.3

Based on 3 answers

I am not a power user of Excel. So I find Exel4apps a friendlier version of the things that I could do on Excel and making it easier with a magic wand.

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Maha Alam

Program Manager

MicrosoftComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Reliability and Availability

Alteryx 9.1

Based on 3 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

No answers yet

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Performance

Alteryx 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Alteryx processes data very fast, regardless of the volume.

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Alberto Guisande

Director

Decision ScienceInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Support Rating

Alteryx 8.5

Based on 41 answers

The User Community provides the first line of support where thousands of users are willing to share their experiences and assist. In the rare cases where they are not able to help then Alteryx is always willing to jump in and help solve the issue.

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Brian Clawson

Executive Director - Global Head of Innovation

JPMorgan Chase & Co.Financial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Excel4apps 6.1

Based on 3 answers

I have not needed support yet

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Randi Yeaman

Inside Sales & Lab Manager

Prime Solution Inc.Machinery, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

Alteryx 9.1

Based on 3 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 answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

Alteryx is feature-rich and allows our team to blend multiple data sources and types together with ease. We are able to really speed through workflow development while strengthening the quality of the output. I would say that Alteryx is able to outdo the other products in the areas of speed of development, quality of output, and ease of scale. The continued releases of additional add-on products to Alteryx Designer allows us to continue into new areas (essentially no ceiling to our growth).

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Josh Kyburz

Global Strategic Sourcing Manager - New Product Introduction

Polaris Inc.Automotive, 10,001+ employees

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Excel4apps is more user friendly and can retrieve data much easier and in a nicer format than Jaspersoft.Qlik Sense is useful and have more visual reporting and dashboard. However, it is usually used for higher level of analyses and review.Yardi is used for specific purpose, which is different than Excel4apps. Excel4apps can pull all the financial data from Oracle, including billing and collections.

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Analyst in Other

Aviation & Aerospace Company, 201-500 employees

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Scalability

Alteryx 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Alteryx can scale horizontally or vertically (or both) if you need

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Alberto Guisande

Director

Decision ScienceInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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No answers yet

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Return on Investment

On average, we see the time to deploy to be around 10% of what it would take a SQL team.
One major client reported a task deemed impossible by a team of around 20 IT employees using SQL over the course of 9 months was done by one consultant using Alteryx in just over 12 days.
The impact is huge. Every user can now do what every coder can do in a fraction of the time—no need to learn to code.

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Chris McEleavey

Founding Partner, Technical Lead

BulienComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Increase team transparency
Increased reporting

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Maha Alam

Program Manager

MicrosoftComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Screenshots

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Alteryx

Excel4apps

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Alteryx

Excel4apps

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Responsive Design for Web Access

Mobile Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Alteryx

Excel4apps

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Likelihood to Recommend

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Pros

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Cons

Alteryx

Excel4apps

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services