Item: Alteryx Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Dhruv Sharma

Overall Satisfaction with Alteryx

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is widely used in handling big data tables and creating automation using big data which allowed us to save $100k+ yearly and we use it to simulate supply chain finance accruals for P&L using multiple big data sets. We also use it to create data files to load in AWS Redshift & Snowflake.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Carrying out complex calculations on big data sets
Once workflow is created we can schedule the workflow that helps to completely automate the process
Go to tool to extract information from cloud DBs like Redshift and Snowflake
Allows to run python and R scripts in the model so high level integration is possible
It allows to cache the workflow so that troubleshooting becomes easy and for large data sets reduce the time to run the workflow

Cons

For simple data preparation activities it doesn't allow to create temporary variable rather we need to create a calculated column

Return on Investment

No negative impact already realize 100x savings
Would require skilled manpower but since there is huge community self-learning is very easy for eager people

Performance

So far not faced any issues in running, or troubleshooting the workflows it is simply awesome how easily big calculations are done in a small amount of time. Also the tools are reproducible like we can use output of one workflow to run macro for another so if someone has developed a workflow another team member can use it to build another report.

Alternatives Considered

UiPath Automation Platform, Tableau Desktop and Microsoft Power BI

Alteryx is by far the most powerful tool to carry out complex and customized calculations with ease and highly reproducible while the other tools often face memory issues and 10x more time to carry ou similar calculations

Key Insights

Do you think Alteryx Platform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Alteryx Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Alteryx Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Alteryx Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Alteryx Platform again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Desktop, UiPath Automation Platform

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very well suited to handling big data calculations example I have data with 250 columns and 12M+ rows and use 10-12 small medium data sets to run calculations which is very easily done. One can use it to carry out automation meaning one can set up a workflow for a repetitive task and then using a schedule the report will be automatically generated.

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Endless possibilities, most powerful tool available

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