Item: Alteryx Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Alteryx Designer Cloud

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Alteryx Designer Cloud to do any file formatting, combining data, sending out large batch emails, and reading and summarizing large data sets. File formatting includes changing data types, rearranging data, and other similar formatting. Large batch emails is being done for things like customer invoices. Summarizing large data sets is on sets of 1,000 all the way to 200,000 lines of data. Combining data is done on both like and unlikr datasets.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Combining large data sets - these can be compressed into database files to make for faster runs.
Formatting data - this can take 45 min of formatting an excel sheet and run it in 7 seconds.
Sending large batch emails - some workflows we have send out 50+ emails to customers in just minutes.

Cons

Need a 1 to 1 match tool. The join tool allows for lines to be matched multiple times and we need something to allow it to only match a line once from each input.
Test server - it could be specific to us but our test server has never been quick to use. It seems to take multiple access attempts to get in to test something.

Return on Investment

Time savings - incredibly positive affect! We have tried to estimate numbers but it just continues to grow!
Governance - our auditors have had a hard time getting comfortable with us using Alteryx Designer Cloud so this has required a super beefed up governance process that makes building workflows take more time for us.
A more accurate close - the automation provided time savings mentioned above but this also had a cascading effect. The additional time freed our accountants up to find needed entries before close meaning fewer late entries and with less human manipulation, fewer mistakes were made.

Usability

I feel like the usability works for every level of computer user. There are very simple tools that can accomplish a huge amount of time savings, and there are very complex tools that can give you even more. We mainly use just the simple tools in our company and have gained an incredible amount of time savings.

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Alteryx Platform again?

Yes

Other Software Used

BlackLine

Likelihood to Recommend

Alteryx Designer Cloud is wonderful on running through large data sets and comes in handy for any repetitive monthly process. 1 place where we noticed it is not so handy is performing a reconciliation because there's no 1 to 1 match tool available. It allows duplication of lines which works really well when trying to map a file by joining a data file and mapping file but not well at all when it duplicates lines of a GL and allows them to match multiple times.

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