Alteryx Analytics vs Jitterbit

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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Jitterbit

Small to medium sized companies are great prospects for this product. It's pretty easy to set up, learn and maintain. You can scale it too, so start with an easy integration, learn the ropes and expand your usage. If you have fairly simply needs for a handful of fields and just one or two external systems to feed into Salesforce, this is the go-to product.If you're a larger company needing more complex integrations where extremely high reliability is needed and any downtime means revenue loss, you probably already have a different product in mind. Then again, you probably have an entire team that handles integrations and a data warehouse to support it!

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Verified User

Manager in Professional Services

Management Consulting Company, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Alteryx Analytics

7.9

Jitterbit

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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

Jitterbit

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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

Jitterbit

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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

Jitterbit

—

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

Jitterbit

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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

Jitterbit

—

Responsive Design for Web Access

4.0

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Alteryx Analytics

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Jitterbit

7.8

Pre-built connectors

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7.8

Connector modification

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7.4

Support for real-time and batch integration

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8.5

Data quality services

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8.5

Data security features

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7.8

Monitoring console

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7.0

Pros

Excellent support for the tools through training/white papers and online support.
Ease of use - high common sense factor makes the program easy to learn and apply.
Compatibility with everything but specifically with commonly used key programs like Tableau.

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Susan Knolla

Director People Analytics

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

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UI is super easy to understand with a low learning curve so admins can figure it out and maintain it without breaking anything.
It's FREE! There's a paid version too but I like that you can use most of the features for free and they're not pushy with buying.
There's a great user community that you can google and ask any questions. Most problems I've encountered have been posted and answered already.

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Verified User

Manager in Professional Services

Management Consulting Company, 51-200 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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It was difficult to figure out how to export file sources
We have to pay per integration site so that can be costly if we are using it for multiple sources
Some of the icons are difficult to determine their functionality

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Wendy Hamstra-Smith

Associate Dean of Admission

Saint Louis UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Alteryx Analytics6.5

Based on 14 answers

Alteryx has become integral to my job and to the expectation of upper management. They have now become accustomed to the lightening quick turnaround that Alteryx can provide. Not renewing Alteryx would take our department, and me, back to what would seem like the dark ages. Additionally, Alteryx (the company) is very aggressive in improving and upgrading Alteryx (the program) on a continual basis. It is very clear that they are in constant search for new features, capabilities and improvements. They do not rest on their laurels.

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Dan Chapman

Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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Jitterbit8.0

Based on 9 answers

I have been evaluating other tools as a continuous improvement practice. I would like something that would be easier to use for a non-technical user. I work for a small organization and have no back-up for Jitterbit if something happens to me. We don't have the technically savvy employees to understand it.

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Crystal Steinbach, MBA

Digital Communications Professional

Morris Graduate School of Management, Chicago, ILManagement Consulting, 51-200 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

Based on 1 answer

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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Jitterbit10.0

Based on 1 answer

They have some of the best support of any software vendor that we use. They always get our issues resolved quickly

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Travis Terry

Performance Testing Engineer / Front End Developer /System Analyst

BudcoMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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Implementation

Alteryx Analytics10.0

Based on 1 answer

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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Alternatives Considered

I have used Tableau Desktop. We selected Alteryx because of the better pricing options they had for our firm. Although Tableau has amazing features like data blending, story designing dashboards, parameters switches, geo coding, etc. Alteryx provides decent solutions in most of these areas as well.Tableau Servers and licenses are very expensive on a per-user basis, and here Alteryx wins hands down.

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Kunal Sonalkar

Data Research Analyst

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

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The Jitterbit data loader is a dramatic improvement over the standard Salesforce Apex Data Loader. Both applications are free or included with Salesforce but I would only recommend Jitterbit for users who need to run data jobs against Salesforce.

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Scott Boetig

Salesforce Solution Architect

PerficientInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Surely faster than some of the other softwares that are available in the market.
Great for people who like to write some code from time to time.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 11-50 employees

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Customer service is really good
While providing the support, the whole R&D is done in our environement, instead once the ticket has been logged on a particular issue, and after understading the issue, i think it has be developed, tested end to end and then provide the update to the customer

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Pharmaceuticals Company, 10,001+ employees

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