Alteryx Analytics vs Paxata

Alteryx Analytics

Alteryx can do so much more than I use it for, so I believe the only case where Alteryx wouldn't be needed is when a department/team had a full development team to prep data pre-analysis or already has a central data store fully stood up and standardized. Alteryx works extremely well with a multitude of BI and database solutions and would be a great fit for any team trying to speed up the typical daily grind of data prep and ETL so their analytics and data team can be more agile, accurate, and automated.

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Joe Root

Marketing Technology & Intelligence Program Manager

Cradlepoint, Inc.Computer Networking, 501-1000 employees

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Paxata

Paxata can be highly useful to someone who doesn't like/have any experience with writing codes to treat data before using it as input into BI dashboards. Paxata can accelerate data cleaning in environments where a large amount of unclean data is generated and business decisions on the go are required. It performs really well while dealing with natural language.

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Ipsit Pradhan

Experienced Associate

PwCManagement Consulting, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Alteryx Analytics

7.9

Paxata

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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

Paxata

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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

Paxata

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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

Paxata

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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

Paxata

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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

Paxata

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Responsive Design for Web Access

4.0

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Pros

Data ingestion: Alteryx is capable of connecting with a multitude of data sources from SQL databases to cloud-hosted solutions like Salesforce, Tableau, or Google Analytics. Also supports OleDB & ODBC connections.
Dynamic data munging: Alteryx has a great variety of processing tools to clean and prep data including: dedupe, formulas, joins, union, sort... Performing these functions really quickly on even moderately equipped laptops or desktops. It's dynamic in that it can easily handle changes in data by allowing extra columns to flow through.
Macros: have a process that you are consistently running in separate workflows? Build a macro, be it a batch or iterative, Alteryx can do it. I've built 40-50 macros and use at least 4+ in every workflow I design so data is handled the same way in every workflow for consistency and cutting down on copy/pastes.

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Joe Root

Marketing Technology & Intelligence Program Manager

Cradlepoint, Inc.Computer Networking, 501-1000 employees

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Visualize distributions in large data sets effectively which enable the user to quickly spot outliers and treat them appropriately
Provides recommendation to merge datasets based on matching column values
The cluster and edit feature in my opinion is its most powerful feature and reduces cardinality in column with text

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Ipsit Pradhan

Experienced Associate

PwCManagement Consulting, 10,001+ 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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Doesn't provide recommendation on how to impute values
There is a lag quite often
We can say whether a column has errors or quality issues in the first look

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Ipsit Pradhan

Experienced Associate

PwCManagement Consulting, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Alteryx Analytics6.5

Based on 14 answers

I would love to renew, but Alteryx is not available for Mac computers.

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Verified User

Analyst in Marketing

Telecommunications Company, 201-500 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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Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

I had used RapidMiner before and Alteryx is way ahead of it in every aspect. I also have used IBM Watson to some extent and preferred Alteryx because of its blending capabilities, ease of use for everyone on the team and the ability to easily use R with it (as R was the second most popular language we used). I have heard IBM SPSS has some features better than Alteryx but haven't had a chance to use it as yet. At this point though we do not think we are moving anywhere away from Alteryx.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Paxata is a much better tool when it comes to handling natural language but Talend provides recommendations on how to impute missing values and outliers. Paxata provides recommendations on dataset tie-ups and joins but Talend doesn't provide any such recommendations. In paxata you can visualize distribution of data in a column and filter them by dragging and selecting the section you'd like to retain

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Ipsit Pradhan

Experienced Associate

PwCManagement Consulting, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

It gets the job done fast.
It lends itself well for people with a less-technical aptitude to understand the data process.
It empower the user to come up with any possible solution to a problem.

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Nick Lensing

Data Engineer

Virtual DBSMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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