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Alteryx: a pocket BI solution
Updated September 16, 2019

Alteryx: a pocket BI solution

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Alteryx Analytics

Alteryx is the primary ETL/analytics tool being used by our BI users. Alteryx is particularly popular because of its ability to create a Tableau data extract and thus provides a meaningful alternative to Tableau's missing data blending capabilities. Alteryx offers a range of tools that can be used to clean/prepare your data for analytics along with ETL capabilities. Alteryx has some amazing analytics capabilities including but not limited to spatial, behavioral, predictive etc.
  • The ability to create a TDE(Tableau data extract)
  • The ability to use geo spatial data for spatial analysis
  • The range of tools that can be used to clean/prepare your data
  • Alteryx lacks good visualization capabilities
  • Alteryx does not run on Mac(IOS)
  • Alteryx is not as stable as some of the enterprise-grade tools like DataStage
  • Alteryx is your own pocket BI tool, that means it's easy to implement and easy to learn
  • You can avoid several trips to your IT department if you start using Alteryx
  • Alteryx is a time-tested application and has a big community of users to support your queries
  • Alteryx connects to most big data platforms
  • Alteryx supports connectivity to a whole range of RDBMS applications, stand-alone files, and big data solutions
  • It's easy to create an ODBC connection and connect to almost anything available in the market
  • Alteryx has partnered with a range of third-party firms to build macros and customized connectors to products like SAP
  • Alteryx offers a range of data preparation tools like select, filter, join, union etc., that makes data preparation easy for the end users
  • One can invest in an Alteryx server which makes publishing "Alteryx analytics apps" easy and thus facilitates sharing of data solutions across teams, it also offers access control so the right users have access to the right stuff
  • Alteryx also offers a feature using which one can receive an email with the results of a workflow attached after its successful completion
  • Alteryx analytics is particularly well suited for situations where a BI user needs to quickly prepare the data for analysis
  • Alteryx sells tom-tom maps and these maps are extremely useful for spatial analysis and help real estate or SCM teams plot routes and spatial charts
  • Alteryx makes predictive modeling easy
  • Alteryx lacks the capability to produce good visualization hence one should never try to achieve an end to end BI solution using only Alteryx.
  • If you prefer using a MacBook then you need to use a Windows VM to run alt Alteryx

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