Item: Alteryx
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Alteryx

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a data consulting firm, Alteryx is at the heart of the business. It's one of the softwares that we specialise in. The product addresses a multitude of business problems. The flexibility, creativity, and low barrier to entry really help the technical staff have conversations with non-technical staff without "losing" them in the details. The workflows you can produce are visual, logical to follow, and allow you to step through the entire process. The visual workflows are an amazing feature in terms of debugging, helpfulness when sharing the workflow, and the readability of your work.The best part of Alteryx for me is the automation. Like many ETL tools: connecting to any data source, combining disparate files however you like, transforming the data, and then having the ability to output the information in a variety of data formats is one thing. But then being able to automate this is a complete step up. i.e., automatically selecting the most recent files in folder dumps (based on metadata), bringing those into the workflow, and running those new files on the original workflow you built (without having the repoint data sources). Game changer. And the list goes on in terms of its uses.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Low barrier to entry
Connecting to ANY data source
Fantastic Learning platform and community
Free, recognised certifications
automation

Cons

To expand and shrink windows inside of Designer can be quite painful if you're not steady with your mouse!
Cost if you wanted it for personal use

Return on Investment

Not applicable for me as a Junior Consultant

Performance

Previously I've worked with Excel, SQL, and then Python.

Alteryx is really speedy! Of course, there can be times where it isn't. But it really comes down to how you've strung your tools together, or how you developed your macros that can often be the limiting factors for speed/time.

I.e. you load 400k of rows in excel, you get the "not responding" classic window of death. 400k records in Alteryx is light work. GBs of data runs just fine.

The efficiency and errors are down to the user. If it's built bad, it will run bad.

Key Insights

Do you think Alteryx delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Alteryx's feature set?

Yes

Did Alteryx live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Alteryx go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Alteryx again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Alteryx is perfect if you find yourself repeatedly doing tasks. Alteryx can be used to automate these, and you don't need to understand a coding language like Python, the low barrier to entry really helps with this.

If you ever find that the tools in Alteryx do ALMOST what you need but you need them to be more dynamic for automation, you've got a whole toolset in Alteryx to help with this. Macros in Alteryx, and the interface tools, allow users to drill deeper into Alteryx to add the extra customisability when needed.

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