Alteryx vs. IBM SPSS Modeler

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alteryx
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Alteryx aims to be the launchpad for automation breakthroughs. Be it for personal growth, achieving transformative digital outcomes, or rapid innovation, Alteryx converges analytics, data science and process automation to enable users across organizations to make business-altering breakthroughs. Alteryx Designer can be used to automate every analytics step — from data prep to data science. Access any data source or type, then blend via drag-and-drop interface.…N/A
IBM SPSS Modeler
Score 7.8 out of 10
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IBM SPSS Modeler is a visual data science and machine learning (ML) solution designed to help enterprises accelerate time to value by speeding up operational tasks for data scientists. Organizations can use it for data preparation and discovery, predictive analytics, model management and deployment, and ML to monetize data assets.
$499
per month
Pricing
AlteryxIBM SPSS Modeler
Editions & Modules
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IBM SPSS Modeler Personal
4,670
per year
IBM SPSS Modeler Professional
7,000
per year
IBM SPSS Modeler Premium
11,600
per year
IBM SPSS Modeler Gold
contact IBM
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AlteryxIBM SPSS Modeler
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsIBM SPSS Modeler Personal enables users to design and build predictive models right from the desktop. IBM SPSS Modeler Professional extends SPSS Modeler Personal with enterprise-scale in-database mining, SQL pushback, collaboration and deployment, champion/challenger, A/B testing, and more. IBM SPSS Modeler Premium extends SPSS Modeler Professional by including unstructured data analysis with integrated, natural language text and entity and social network analytics. IBM SPSS Modeler Gold extends SPSS Modeler Premium with the ability to build and deploy predictive models directly into the business process to aid in decision making. This is achieved with Decision Management which combines predictive analytics with rules, scoring, and optimization to deliver recommended actions at the point of impact.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Alteryx
Chose Alteryx
IBM is old school, deployment capabilites and automation capabilities lack compared to many market players... Also opensource integrations were limited. Alteryx is good on both deployment and opensource integrations. New versions, IBM WatsonX, is expected to be better the but …
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Ease of use, Ease of deployment, completeness of reach, scalability, Total Cost of Ownership, Speed and flexibility
IBM SPSS Modeler

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Alteryx
Alteryx
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
AlteryxIBM SPSS Modeler
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(125 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(19 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(52 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Availability
8.1
(4 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
9.2
(36 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.3
(52 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.6
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(5 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.5
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.4
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.7
(3 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
8.3
(2 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
7.3
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
AlteryxIBM SPSS Modeler
Likelihood to Recommend
Alteryx
We're trying right now to get more people using it at our company so we can send management documented cases for how we can expand and purchase Alteryx Server which will extend the capabilities even more and across more departments. It's been well suited for pretty much everything we do on a repeating schedule. It's worth the time to set up the workflows. When Treasury sends me the bank download now - I save it to a folder and run our workflows and send back 2 journal entries in .9 seconds. (yes - in less than a second it's finished running)
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IBM
Fast NLP analytics are very easy in SPSS Modeler because there is a built-in interface for classifying concepts and themes and several pre-built models to match the incoming text source. The visualizations all match and help present NLP information without substantial coding, typically required for word clouds and such. SPSS Modeler is good at attaining results faster in general, and the visual nature of the code makes a good tool to have in the data science team's repository. For younger data scientists, and those just interested, it is a good tool to allow for exploring data science techniques.
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Pros
Alteryx
  • 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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IBM
  • Combine text and data
  • Provide facilities for all phases of the data mining process.
  • Use a node and stream paradigm to easily and quickly create models.
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Cons
Alteryx
  • Alteryx is great for processes that is has already "thought through". It's more difficult to get Alteryx to deal with some customization.
  • The data visualizations with Alteryx are generally good, although I don't think the color schemes are the best.
  • I think the data science capabilities are awesome with Alteryx, although not as well used as products built with Python or R.
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IBM
  • Has very old style graphs, with lots of limitations.
  • Some advanced statistical functions cannot be done through the menu.
  • The data connectivity is not that extensive.
  • It's an expensive tool.
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Likelihood to Renew
Alteryx
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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IBM
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Usability
Alteryx
I've found that while some things might take a little longer to create, the flexibility of Alteryx allows you to perform any function needed. I haven't found a use that was not available in Alteryx yet. APIs and XMLs can be created to perform certain functions. In addition, CMD line commands can be sent using Alteryx to perform certain functions as well.
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IBM
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Reliability and Availability
Alteryx
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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IBM
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Performance
Alteryx
Alteryx is an extremely reliable platform. If there is an error in my workflow, I feel pretty strongly it was probably my fault. The platform also handles large amounts of data very quickly and can join/match, sort, filter, calculate on that data quickly as well. One of my favorite things to build into a workflow are the messages based on data/metadata and error messages based on errors I have come across before.
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IBM
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Support Rating
Alteryx
Stellar, bar-none. Some of the best support folks of any vendor. The Alteryx Community is the most responsive and supportive. On the rare occasion of a release issue or bug, we've been able to get quick help to solve the core problem. Alteryx does not play the blame game. They genuinely help the users solve their issues or respond to questions
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IBM
The online support board is helpful and the free add ons are incredibly appreciated.
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In-Person Training
Alteryx
1st level of trainings which I've attended in Paris was easy and I was already knowing %90, that learning could have been an e-learning instead of in-person
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IBM
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Online Training
Alteryx
Very good, detailed online trainings which you can take at your own pace, and strong certifications exists, certifications are extremely detailed and hard...
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IBM
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Implementation Rating
Alteryx
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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IBM
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Alternatives Considered
Alteryx
Alteryx is MUCH more user friendly. both provide the ability to code within them, but Alteryx has much nicer interface. The formula tools have a more simple language that is easier to learn than formulae in SSIS. Alteryx is easy to read with multi colored tools identifying what each one does. It also allows for macros. You can build your own tool to process records of data or batch records together.
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IBM
When it comes to investigation and descriptive we have found SPSS Statistics to be the tool of choice, but when it comes to projects with large and several datasets SPSS Modeler has been picked from our customers.
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Scalability
Alteryx
Individual analysts can quickly generate results using their own copy of Alteryx Designer. But using the Server and developing macros for more complex needs can be time consuming.
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IBM
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Return on Investment
Alteryx
  • Error handling - allows controls to be built into workflows easily and allows them to be isolated and spat into control reports that can be easily reviewed and audited, thanks to the ability to create multiple outputs in one go.
  • Time-saving - saved huge amounts of time, especially when moving Excel processes into Alteryx.
  • Product development - allowed my firm to create products that we have been able to market and sell to clients.
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IBM
  • Positive - Ease of decision making and reduction in product life cycle time.
  • Positive - Gives entirely new perspective with the help of right team. Helps expanding the portfolio.
  • Negative - Needs to have good understanding about mathematical modelling, of which talent is rare and expensive. Hence, increase the costs for R&D and manpower.
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Alteryx Screenshots

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IBM SPSS Modeler Screenshots

Screenshot of Use a single run to test multiple modeling methods, compare results and select which model to deploy. Quickly choose the best performing algorithm based on model performance.Screenshot of Explore geographic data, such as latitude and longitude, postal codes and addresses. Combine it with current and historical data for better insights and predictive accuracy.Screenshot of Capture key concepts, themes, sentiments and trends by analyzing unstructured text data. Uncover insights in web activity, blog content, customer feedback, emails and social media comments.Screenshot of Use R, Python, Spark, Hadoop and other open source technologies to amplify the power of your analytics. Extend and complement these technologies for more advanced analytics while you keep control.