The pros and cons of Alteryx
Updated February 04, 2015
The pros and cons of Alteryx

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
8.6
Overall Satisfaction with Alteryx
Alteryx is currently used for geospatial data processing an analysis by a team of five within the company. Alteryx allows us to easily address drive time analysis, demographic analysis, and our analyses with geospatial components.
- The drag and drop interface is very intuitive allowing users to hit the ground running on this product.
- Alteryx allows input and output of various data types (.csv, .tab, .shp, .png, .xlsx, .yxdb, etc.)
- The user is able to "browse' the data along the way unlike some data processing programs.
- The map visualization is terrible. If you're planning on outputting presentation worthy maps, Alteryx is not the software for it!
- The program has glitches - sometimes everything will be created perfectly (data joining as it should, appropriate fields selected, etc), but the program will fail to read in or "update" the workstream and cause errors
- Though Alteryx is touted as "Big Data" friendly, we have seen those limits reached (billions of records) and been disappointed with run times.
Alteryx is in a world of its own compared to other products I've used or tested. Previous to this software, I mainly used MapInfo Pro or ArcMap, but they are quite different. Obviously MapInfo and ArcMap have the upper hand when it comes to visualiztaion while Alteryx wins out in terms of ease-of-use and quick data analysis.