Alteryx Analytics vs SAS Visual Analytics

Alteryx Analytics

It is well suited where the user likes to write some code from time to time and also in cases where machine learning is required. Alteryx uses R for its machine learning which makes it life easier. Scenarios where maps need to be created for visualization are the examples. It lags a lot compared to other similar softwares for visualization but is very friendly for data analysis.

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Education Management Company, 11-50 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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Ian Macintosh

Manager ICT Operations

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

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Feature Rating Comparison

Alteryx Analytics

7.9

SAS Visual Analytics

8.9

Pixel Perfect reports

8.0

9.0

Customizable dashboards

6.7

9.0

Report Formatting Templates

9.0

8.7

Alteryx Analytics

8.5

SAS Visual Analytics

9.0

Drill-down analysis

8.3

9.4

Formatting capabilities

8.2

9.5

Integration with R or other statistical packages

9.5

9.0

Report sharing and collaboration

8.0

8.3

Alteryx Analytics

8.7

SAS Visual Analytics

9.1

Publish to Web

8.2

8.8

Publish to PDF

8.5

8.7

Report Versioning

9.0

9.2

Report Delivery Scheduling

8.9

9.4

Delivery to Remote Servers

—

9.4

Alteryx Analytics

7.9

SAS Visual Analytics

9.4

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

8.0

9.7

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

7.5

9.1

Predictive Analytics

8.3

9.4

Alteryx Analytics

8.3

SAS Visual Analytics

8.5

Multi-User Support (named login)

8.0

8.7

Role-Based Security Model

8.0

8.7

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

9.0

8.1

Single Sign-On (SSO)

—

8.6

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

—

9.5

Alteryx Analytics

—

SAS Visual Analytics

9.1

REST API

—

9.2

Javascript API

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9.2

iFrames

—

9.2

Java API

—

9.2

Themeable User Interface (UI)

—

8.4

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

—

9.2

Pros

Alteryx handles data imports very well and give great feedback on the import process.
Alteryx is incredibly feature rich. I never found myself unable to manipulate data in the way I had hoped.
Alteryx provides great formats for export as well.

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Mika Silverman

Consultant

MarineXchange SoftwareInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Visualization of large amount of data is faster because of the SAS engine behind it.
Features like decision trees, box plot, scatter plot, and histogram are very easy to use for exploring large data. It also has some unique features like Sankey Diagrams which can be used to show a flow of a process.
Customization options for the design of reports, making it visually more appealing.

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Analyst in Other

Marketing and Advertising Company, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Alteryx seeks feedback from the user community. We regularly provide Alteryx with detailed requirements for supporting our data processing needs and Alteryx consistently delivers required functionality in their software updates.
Alteryx is rapidly expanding support for advanced analytics and delivery of consumable analytic tools. Alteryx can call other applications if necessary, but can also run R natively. Alteryx has been working both on expanding their delivered modeling toolset as well as enhancing their software to improve the performance of R.
While parallel processing is performed, there are times that I'd like to see more of it. Alteryx makes it easy to browse data within modules, but the browse output (tabular) is not readily filterable/sortable. Improvements to the user interface would be welcomed.
Alteryx allows users to schedule individual jobs for execution, but doesn't provide advanced scheduling tools to establish workflows where jobs executions have outside dependencies.

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Mark Frisch

Director, Technology Services

ExperianInformation Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 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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Likelihood to Renew

Alteryx Analytics6.5

Based on 14 answers

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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Director, Technology Services

ExperianInformation Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

Alteryx Analytics10.0

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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

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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

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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

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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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