Alteryx Designer Primary Use Case
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Christopher Peer
Senior Systems Analyst at Optum
We use the solution for our ETL process, which involves moving data between source and reporting servers.
View full review »With Alteryx, we mostly fetch data from SQL, SQL server databases, and SharePoint. Some team members were doing the task using Excel for a long time with Macros and Excel functions like VLOOKUP, and these things become quite easy when you are using Alteryx as a solution.
We have automated the processes and scheduled the workflow so that users don't have to sit in front of the system to do the same tasks every day. So, the system will trigger the workflow, and it will send the output file to the concerned team. We are mainly using this solution for data blending and preparation.
I have used Alteryx Designer to perform predictive analytics that helps in predicting the selling of products, particularly in banking and financial areas.
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We use Alteryx Designer for data manipulation.
View full review »I use it for data preparation, mainly cleaning raw data.
View full review »We use Alteryx Designer to enable business users to automate their workflows so they don't have to spend time in Excel doing things like pivot tables, VLOOKUPS, or HLOOKUPS. Instead, they can spend more time on analysis than being a spreadsheet slinger.
View full review »I use the solution to build pipelines, schedule them, and do some data transformations and data cleaning.
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Nitish Mahajan
Software Developer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We use Alteryx Designer to construct workflows, encompassing data extraction from various platforms such as SQL Server and in-database sources. Subsequently, we automate these workflows and push the filtered data to Tableau for dashboard creation. This process forms our daily routine, streamlining tasks efficiently.
View full review »The main use case is regarding the finance field, due to its ability to efficiently extract, transform, and load data from various sources into a target database. It enables quick migration of data, with added calculations and transformations, resulting in higher performance compared to other tools.
I use the tool for ETL purposes.
View full review »My use case related to Alteryx Designer begins when, in my company, we need our output data in Excel only. One of the use cases of the tool stems during times when you want to do some data manipulation or automation by connecting Alteryx Designer with APIs and by using a lot of tools to turn your raw data into finished data to get the final data in the form of structured tables in Excel. In our company, when we don't need any sort of Excel output, we use other tools like Power BI to prepare the dashboard. When in our company, we need output in Excel only, then we use Alteryx Designer.
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Vishalkumar1996
Assistant Manager at L&T Geostructure LLP
My main use for Alteryx Designer is automating routine daily tasks by creating predefined workflows that run on databases. I use it primarily for data preparation, blending, and simplifying complex tasks into streamlined processes.
I use Alteryx Designer mostly for ETL data integration.
View full review »I use Alteryx Designer as an ETL for extracting data, transforming it in my flow, cleaning it up, joining it with other data sources, and then applying it to my business logic, which envisages a Tableau dashboard.
View full review »We use the solution for file loading and occasional API integration. While I have experience working with APIs, there are specific use cases that I still need to implement. My projects have involved some data cleansing, although it hasn't been complex.
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Randy Yoder
Sr Manager - Analytics, Global Logistics at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I use Alteryx Designer for multi-data prep, aggregation, and transformation.
View full review »My company specializes in financial consulting, and we primarily use the product for finance-related processes.
View full review »We use Alteryx Designer to build data integration. Alteryx allows you to connect to multiple data sources. It also connects with some tools natively to capture metadata.
View full review »I am using Alteryx Designer mainly for machine learning and random product design.
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MohamedMohamed3
Senior Google Apps Script Engineer at App-script
We use Alteryx Designer primarily for ETL processes for dashboard creation, throughput analysis, and integration with SmartOps.
View full review »I use Alteryx Designer to create ETL and data transformation flows.
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AnshumanSingh
Vice President --Analytics & Digital Transformation at Polestar Solutions & Services India Pvt Ltd
It is used for data warehousing building.
I use Alteryx Designer to do training and project for a consultative firm.
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Franklin Nascimento
Principal Associate at Data Meaning, Inc.
We have a client who is manually processing Excel files. They want to do some integrations and calculate values in their spreadsheets, and they're working with multiple steps and complex formulas.
We migrate everything into Alteryx, which our client can use to change values, eliminating the manual steps that they were doing on Excel. That was the last job I did, but it wasn't data preparation. It was more like an ETL thing.
View full review »We have multiple clients and multiple use cases - for every type of domain, be it finance, marketing, any domain. I cannot be very specific about them, however, there are plenty of use cases for different sectors.
As a consultancy, we sell projects on Alteryx. I've done projects based on data integration, data preparation, and also we have a data science project that we are working on as well.
View full review »This product is used for reporting and designing workflow processes.
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Oriana Escobar
Director of Analytics at Computing Resources
We have a few customers who use this solution. They already have this solution in their company. They ask us to help them in creating different flows for different solutions and preparing different kinds of data. We only give support to these customers. We are using the latest version.
View full review »I mainly use Alteryx Designer for automation purposes.
View full review »I use Alteryx to transform Excel tables into XML format.
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