Alteryx Analytics vs SAS Visual Analytics

Alteryx Analytics

Well suited: if an organization already has a lot of running ETLs or pipelines but need to systemize them, Alteryx is a good choice. It would be good to figure out how well Alteryx would be harmonized with the existing components, but in a general sense, it may be well harmonized. Less appropriate: Alteryx is good for "automation", but some data developers and analysts may prefer to remain and keep using SQL tools. One should be careful of not just adding "one more layer or tool" into the existing pipeline and make it more complicated to manage.

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Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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SAS Visual Analytics

It is particularly well suited to big data collections that have good structure. It is not really designed for unstructured datasets (documents, etc). Its strength is the processing speed (particularly when implemented on Hadoop). It is not cheap but it is worth it!

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Manager ICT Operations

Australian Institute of Health and WelfareGovernment Administration, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Alteryx Analytics

7.7

SAS Visual Analytics

8.7

Pixel Perfect reports

8.0

8.9

Customizable dashboards

6.2

8.8

Report Formatting Templates

9.0

8.5

Alteryx Analytics

8.4

SAS Visual Analytics

8.9

Drill-down analysis

8.1

9.3

Formatting capabilities

8.1

9.4

Integration with R or other statistical packages

9.5

8.9

Report sharing and collaboration

7.8

7.9

Alteryx Analytics

8.5

SAS Visual Analytics

9.0

Publish to Web

8.0

8.6

Publish to PDF

8.4

8.5

Report Versioning

9.0

9.1

Report Delivery Scheduling

8.8

9.3

Delivery to Remote Servers

—

9.4

Alteryx Analytics

8.1

SAS Visual Analytics

9.4

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

8.0

9.7

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

7.7

9.1

Predictive Analytics

8.6

9.4

Alteryx Analytics

8.3

SAS Visual Analytics

8.4

Multi-User Support (named login)

8.0

8.5

Role-Based Security Model

8.0

8.7

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

9.0

7.8

Single Sign-On (SSO)

—

8.5

Alteryx Analytics

4.0

SAS Visual Analytics

9.1

Responsive Design for Web Access

4.0

8.5

Dedicated iOS Application

—

9.2

Dedicated Android Application

—

9.2

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

—

9.4

Alteryx Analytics

—

SAS Visual Analytics

9.1

REST API

—

9.2

Javascript API

—

9.2

iFrames

—

9.2

Java API

—

9.2

Themeable User Interface (UI)

—

8.3

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

—

9.2

Pros

User-friendly interface - the tool structure and general workspace are very easy to pick up on. Short learning curve from "no experience" to "beginner user".
Standardization - modules/wizards allow a single tool to generate results for multiple clients, all through the use of a few actions/inputs.
Analytics - wide range of statistical analytics tools makes it easy for a user to look at data and provide simple summary statistics, while also having the ability to build advanced regression models.

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Cameron Tubbs

Senior Predictive Analyst

BuxtonMarket Research, 51-200 employees

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Present data across a range of axis in a meaningful way
bring out correlations that could lead to some interesting research
it's FAST!

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Manager ICT Operations

Australian Institute of Health and WelfareGovernment Administration, 201-500 employees

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Cons

Poor documentation
Costly
Overkill for simple tasks
Not many options for data visualization

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Sanket Bharaswadkar

Process Analyst

HoneywellWarehousing, 10,001+ employees

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Securing individual records or fields from view
additional view types

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Australian Institute of Health and WelfareGovernment Administration, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Alteryx Analytics6.5

Based on 14 answers

The product fulfills business needs and it is a pleasure to work with the provider.

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Data Engineer

Virtual DBSMarketing and Advertising, 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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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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SAS Visual Analytics10.0

Based on 1 answer

Excellent and fast support

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suva sahu

Project Lead

Tech MahindraInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ 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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Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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Breadth of Deployment

Our company kept it contained in the marketing department. Other departments may not understand it.

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Telecommunications Company, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Alteryx was surely a better option compared to RapidMiner but when compared against IBM SPSS it is behind for advanced analytical techniques and model scoring, visualization capabilities and neural networks functionalities. SPSS also has a diverse range of analytical techniques and models compared to Alteryx. RapidMiner provides a Studio component for design, a Server component, a Hadoop connector called Radoop and a component for stream processing.

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Education Management Company, 11-50 employees

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SAS Visual Analytics stuck against IBM SPSS Modeler and Tableau in the sense that, it is far more accurate and reliable in the aspect of data and statistical analyses than others. Also, it is not just globally recognized as the leader in the field of statistical and data analysis, but also the most used statistical software worldwide. In addition, it combines the functionality of both IBM SPSS Modeler and Tableau which implies, it is comprehensive and has the widest coverage.

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Insurance Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alteryx Analytics7.2

Based on 17 answers

There are some formats that need to be worked on in Alteryx for example using "%" in reporting as you have to go through few extra steps to build such special characters and it makes it a little annoying. It also needs a small fix on when you share data in emails to make it better visualized.

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Rishi Bavishi, CSSGB, CAPM

Manager, Customer Excellence - Process Improvement

HiltonHospitality, 10,001+ employees

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SAS Visual Analytics8.0

Based on 7 answers

In our case, I was working on the data alone. Sharing the workbook wasn't really a problem since it was meant only for viewing for the rest. No time was wasted in waiting to share the access and allow to view. We were able to work side by side. It was efficient.

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Banbhalang Kharpuri

Area Manager

EYInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Data Integration

Alteryx Analytics8.8

Based on 17 answers

Unless there's totally different kinds of datasets, it works with any flat file sheets and is very easy to play with data. If you have files in shared folders the run time depends on the size and speed of accessibility as well, but for most part it works really smooth.

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Rishi Bavishi, CSSGB, CAPM

Manager, Customer Excellence - Process Improvement

HiltonHospitality, 10,001+ employees

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SAS Visual Analytics8.9

Based on 7 answers

Data source connectivity for me isnt a really a problem since I work mostly with Excel data, however other data source like entries saved in notepad cannot be added in SAS. It is easy to migrated notepad entries in excel after giving conditions. I would recommend SAS to provide this option as well

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Banbhalang Kharpuri

Area Manager

EYInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 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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Expensive in dollars (but worth it)
Significant establishment effort but once set up easy to manage
good user feedback

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Ian Macintosh

Manager ICT Operations

Australian Institute of Health and WelfareGovernment Administration, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

Alteryx Analytics

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Alteryx Analytics Editions & Modules

Alteryx Analytics

On-premise Edition

Alteryx Designer

$3,9951

Alteryx Designer with Spatial

$12,9951

Alteryx Designer with Data

$29,9951

Alteryx Server

$45,0002

1. per user, per year

2. per server, per year

SaaS Edition

Alteryx Analytics Gallery

$1,5001

1. per user, per year

Additional Pricing Details

The above prices are in USD for Alteryx products and are per-year subscription prices based on a 3-year contract, with annual payment.

SAS Visual Analytics

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

SAS Visual Analytics Editions & Modules

SAS Visual Analytics

Edition

SAS Visual Analytics for SAS Cloud

1

1. Annual By Users: 5, 10, 20

Additional Pricing Details

SAS Visual Statistics and SAS Office Analytics are also available as add-ons.

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Feature Rating Comparison

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Cons

Likelihood to Renew

Usability

Reliability and Availability

Support

Implementation

Breadth of Deployment

Alternatives Considered

Collaboration and Sharing

Data Integration

Return on Investment

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Pricing Details

Alteryx Analytics

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Alteryx Analytics Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

SaaS Edition

Additional Pricing Details

SAS Visual Analytics

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

SAS Visual Analytics Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

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