Alteryx Analytics vs SAS Visual Analytics

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Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 137 reviews and ratings

Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 41 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Alteryx Analytics

7.4

SAS Visual Analytics

9.6

Pixel Perfect reports

8.0

9.6

Customizable dashboards

5.3

9.7

Report Formatting Templates

9.0

9.5

Alteryx Analytics

7.9

SAS Visual Analytics

9.5

Drill-down analysis

7.4

9.8

Formatting capabilities

7.4

9.8

Integration with R or other statistical packages

9.1

9.2

Report sharing and collaboration

7.7

9.4

Alteryx Analytics

8.1

SAS Visual Analytics

9.6

Publish to Web

8.0

9.6

Publish to PDF

7.3

9.5

Report Versioning

9.0

9.4

Report Delivery Scheduling

8.2

9.8

Delivery to Remote Servers

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9.5

Alteryx Analytics

7.8

SAS Visual Analytics

9.8

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

8.0

9.9

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

7.4

9.7

Predictive Analytics

8.0

9.8

Alteryx Analytics

8.3

SAS Visual Analytics

9.2

Multi-User Support (named login)

8.0

9.5

Role-Based Security Model

8.0

9.0

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

9.0

9.3

Single Sign-On (SSO)

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9.2

Alteryx Analytics

4.0

SAS Visual Analytics

9.3

Responsive Design for Web Access

4.0

8.8

Dedicated iOS Application

—

9.5

Dedicated Android Application

—

9.4

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

—

9.7

Alteryx Analytics

—

SAS Visual Analytics

9.4

REST API

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9.5

Javascript API

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9.5

iFrames

—

9.5

Java API

—

9.5

Themeable User Interface (UI)

—

9.0

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

—

9.5

Pros

Cleaning datasets
Preparing data for analyzing
Customer data analytics
Transforming data from one format to other

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Sanket Bharaswadkar

Process Analyst

HoneywellWarehousing, 10,001+ employees

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Our staff are familiar with it as it is a common tool. Our training and implementation was short.
Installation was easy. Our staff was able to deploy to the receiving department relatively quickly. Though the download was a pretty good size.
Seems to crunch through large volumes of data (millions of records) pretty quickly as I've received no complaints on this front from staff.

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Mike Narumiya

Director, Data and Information Systems

North Central Texas Trauma Regional Advisory CouncilHospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees

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Cons

The visualization that Alteryx provides can be improved much more than where it stands tonight.
It doesn't seem to be able to process Big Data as efficiently as I would have liked.
There are a lot of things that you need to learn.

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Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development

Education Management Company, 11-50 employees

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Better HTML5 support.
More tutorial videos or literature on the features that are present in SAs visual analytics

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Analyst in Other

Marketing and Advertising Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Alteryx Analytics 6.5

Based on 14 answers

I personally have moved to a different position that does not require data analysis tools. I really enjoyed working with Alteryx and think it is a great tool, but have moved to a different organization and role.

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Mika Silverman

Consultant

MarineXchange SoftwareInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Alteryx Analytics 10.0

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 Analytics 10.0

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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 Analytics 9.9

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 Analytics 10.0

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 Analytics 10.0

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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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Dan Chapman

Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ 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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Engineer in Research & Development

Education Management Company, 11-50 employees

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I have used Tableau Desktop for which free access is provided for a limited time with limited features. Tableau is visually more appealing than SAS VA but SAS VA can handle data better. My use of Tableau with limited features may have effected my viewpoint.

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Analyst in Other

Marketing and Advertising Company, 51-200 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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Verified User

Analyst in Other

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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