Alteryx Designer Reviews

I am using Alteryx Designer mainly for machine learning and random product design.

Alteryx Designer is easier to use for machine learning models. However, I am not very good at Python scripts which you will need to make the machine learning scripts.

There are many valuable features, such as machine learning, textual analytics

Alteryx Designer overall should be easier to use.

I have been using Alteryx Designer for approximately one year.

I have not tested the scalability of Alteryx Designer very much. However, Celonis is more scalable than Alteryx Designer.

We have many departments using this solution. However, it is limited because of the high cost of the solution.

I have not used the Alteryx Designer technical support very much because I am not at that level of maturity to fully use or harness the capacities of Alteryx Designer. In my previous company, the exposure or the proof of concepts was not that involved, even though I tried two or three. I didn't have much proof of concepts or sponsors to sponsor proof of concepts. 

It needs a significant amount of time and my previous company was not that keen on new novice learners who would try to extract something out of the data. They were very reluctant in giving access to explore the data and find out something meaningful. I believe in that respect, Amazon was much better because they used to give you it by default, they used to take risks. Risk-taking is in their DNA, but my previous company being a liquor company, they were very reluctant to take the risk. In one and a half years, since I have started Alteryx Designer, I didn't have sponsors who would appreciate or like to explore and go deep into it. They have their own machine language, machine learning people from top-ranking universities, and they would not like to explore anything outside of their own thought process. There's no democratization of these tools. You need to explore, and then only will you be able to learn what the potential of it is because use cases can come from anywhere.

I have used other solutions, such as Celonis and MuleSoft. 

Alteryx Designer has some features Celonis does not have, such as machine learning and textual analytics.

Alteryx Designer's main purpose is not for process mining. It can cater to the needs of process mining, analytics, and automation, everything in one solution. They call it an analytics automation solution. The audiences of Celonis and the audiences of Alteryx Designer are different. So the audience of Alteryx Designer is mostly data science graduates, on the other hand, Celonis is mostly used by people who want to migrate from processes to process excellence. The technical abilities are a little lesser compared to Alteryx Designer.

The initial setup of Alteryx Designer was somewhat straightforward. You need to know what exactly you want to do, and you need to know exactly what is the outcome that you want out of one exercise or one activity that you are going to do in Alteryx Designer. 

I have used the analytics of one process, which I use mostly in the SOD of my previous company. The problem was it was not allowing us to recognize the data, which is there in the ServiceNow, and the data that goes into SAP. We used Alteryx Designer pixel analytics to compare both and find out what exactly was missing. That was very fast, we were able to finish in approximately a week. The data was used was for approximately six months, which was approximately one TB, it was done very fast.

I would rate the complexity of Alteryx Designer a five out of ten and I would rate the complexity of Celonis a three out of ten. Celonis is easier to do the implementation.

Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution. 

I am using the educational version of the solution.

Alteryx Designer has so many functionalities packed into one package that you get a lot of things that you wouldn't have expected. For example, textual analytics. You can use it for self orchestrating workflows, it's wonderful. Additionally, you receive the educational license for three months whereby they can learn. Only the Alteryx Designer advance or Alteryx Designer expert level examination do you need to pay. You can receive certifications, which is great.

I rate Alteryx Designer a nine out of ten.

I use Alteryx Designer to create ETL and data transformation flows.

The most valuable feature of the solution is its drag-and-drop functionality, so it is a codeless process, which is something I love. I can create container flows, which are very easily maintained and updated when needed.

I have been thinking a lot lately about the standalone nature of Designer since it only provides a desktop version of Alteryx, because of which there is no collaboration or automation possible with Designer. I would like to see more collaboration and automation features in the product. Collaboration and automation features are available at ten times the price of the standard Alteryx Designer, making it a very expensive tool. The price of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required.

I have been using Alteryx Designer for three years. I use the solution's latest version.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight to nine out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a five out of ten since it is a product that only one user can use at a time.

In my company, there are only three uses of Alteryx Designer, but I deal with our company's clients, which goes up to around 50 users.

The solution's technical support is responsive, but there are some delays at times. I rate the technical support a six or seven out of ten.

Neutral

I have experience with IBM SPSS Modeler and the management tools in SQL from Microsoft.

I have experience with IBM SPSS Modeler and the management tools in SQL from Microsoft. The codeless approach in developing solutions offered by Alteryx Designer is the reason why my company chose it over IBM SPSS Modeler and Microsoft.

Alteryx Designer is a tool that is pretty much easy to install. With Alteryx Designer, the only complexities are related to the security policies of our company's customers. What makes the installation phase of Alteryx Designer is the security policies of our company's customers and the product's installation part alone.

Alteryx Designer's installation part can be completed in a few hours.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

Alteryx Designer is an affordable solution to purchase, but it gets expensive if you try to scale up or collaborate with other solutions. There are no additional costs apart from the standard licensing fees of the solution since, to create a solution, you need to buy more than one license from Designer. It is easy to buy one license from Designer, but then you need to buy more, which makes it quite expensive.

I rate the price of Alteryx Designer as a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is a highly cheap product.

Microsoft Azure is one of the competitors of Alteryx Designer. Microsoft Azure ML or Databricks were the options we evaluated in our company against Alteryx Designer.

I take care of Alteryx Designer's maintenance part for my company's clients, along with four data engineers.

I recommend Alteryx Designer to those who plan to use it.

I rate the overall product a seven to eight out of ten.

It is used for data warehousing building.

It has great UI. It can be delivered quickly, so the division journey from designing to implementation is great.

We need more documentation. We have some POCs available, but they can partner with Alteryx to create some more. In addition, they should release a cloud version of the product.

We have been using this solution for six months, and it is deployed on-premises.

It is a stable solution.

Scalability is not required because the servers can handle the data. The design is also good. We have about seven users using the solution.

We may increase our usage depending on the client. So if we increase the project, there are built-in assignments that will also increase the number of users. The sales and data engineering teams work together to increase the number of customers and team members.

We needed just one or two staff for deployment.

We use various integration tools from Informatica, SSIS Microsoft products, Amazon and Microsoft Azure.

The initial setup is medium complexity. For the setup, you need to install it, and it depends on the desktop license. Individual users can use the desktop licenses and can design those solutions. They can publish it with the servers, and the deployment takes about three days. A consultant is required for deployment.

I rate this solution a seven out of ten, and I would recommend it to others.

I use Alteryx to transform Excel tables into XML format.

The solution is easy to integrate and user-friendly.

The conditional join feature should be improved. 

I have been using Alteryx Designer for five years.

It is not very stable all the time and there can be bugs. I rate the stability an eight out of ten. 

It is a scalable solution.

I have previously used Power BI Query. 

The initial setup is straightforward. Once you follow through with the documentation provided by Outlook. It's pretty simple to set up. 

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. 

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. 

I like Alteryx's browser tool because you can view how your data is handled live. There are many other valuable tools like transpose and the crosstab. You can quickly pivot your data, and there are connections throughout the database. It's so easy to create a connection. If you connect to sign apps or a more complex database, the tool contains all the tools you need.

Alteryx needs to improve its web governance. The gallery you use to filter the data is something else that could use some work. For instance, if you have a report connected to a database and want to filter a specific user, you should be able to suggest a specific region or a particular year. I know that the Alteryx isn't designed for data governance, but that would be great to think about.

I've been working with Alteryx for about 10 years. 

I rate Alteryx Designer nine out of 10. 

I use Alteryx Designer to do training and project for a consultative firm.

Alteryx Designer's best features are that it's easy to use and performs well.

Alteryx could move faster to create a cloud equivalent of the desktop version of Designer. They could also make their new releases more stable as they always seem to have bugs. In the next release, Alteryx Designer should include more integrations with Qlik Sense and Qlik Sales.

I've been using Alteryx Designer for seven years.

Alteryx Designer is easy to scale up.

Alteryx Designer's technical support tend to avoid questions related to integrations.

Neutral

The initial setup was easy.

I would rate Alteryx Designer eight out of ten.

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.

I really like most of the transformation functionality.

The solution offers very good investigation functions and predictive analysis.

It's fairly easy to use and easy to implement and deploy, and also makes it very easy to fetch data.

The solution scales well.

The product is very stable. The performance is reliable. 

I have been working mostly on the designer aspect of the solution and I have found that the product and needs to improve its reporting tool.

The actual usage part of it needs to be explained more. It's too vague right now. For example, the solution needs more specific use case information. I need to know how we can deal with the BI tools on the market and the reporting tools standards. I want insights into these types of comparisons.

I've been using the solution for about a year and have been providing the solution to customers for about six or so months. Maybe even more.

The solution is very stable. The performance is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It is reliable. 

The product scales quite well. If a company needs to expand it, it can.

We do have a lot of customers on the solution currently, however, I cannot share exact numbers.

The implementation process is very easy. It's not overly difficult or complex. A company should have no issues with the implementation process.

I cannot recall the exact amount of time deployment took.

We are consultants. We can help our customers set up the solution.

The licensing renews on a yearly basis.

I was a consultant and now I am in pre-sales.

I'm using the latest version of the solution. I cannot speak to the exact version number.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. We've mostly been very happy with the product.

I would recommend this product to other users and organizations.

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.

The functionality of drag and drop is the most valuable. It is a very user-friendly tool that can be understood easily. My teams also work with other solutions, such as Integration Services, and these solutions are very difficult for people who don't have technical knowledge. 

Its price can be improved. It is too expensive for our country. Because of its high price, we can't sell Alteryx Designer in this region. We used to be their reseller partner.

There is also an additional cost for automating the data and running the flows, which makes it even more expensive. It will be very good if they can let users automate the data for free. Other solutions like Tableau provide this feature for free.

I have been using Alteryx Designer for five years. 

It is really stable. It is a very good product.

It is expensive, which is the main problem. If you want to have the enterprise version, you have to pay for the server, which costs a lot of money. Our customers are big enterprises.

We never needed technical support.

The initial setup is totally easy. It doesn't take a lot of time. It is easy to implement for us. We have a lot of experience in data modeling and architecture. We have different consultants who have knowledge of integration, architecture, modeling, and data. 

It is too expensive for our country. We are a small country, so it is too difficult to sell this solution. With Alteryx Designer, if you want to automate the data and run the flows, you have to pay more money. We were trying to automate the flows, and we found out that people have to pay 600 more for this feature, which makes it even more expensive. 

We are a partner for Tableau, and we are working with Tableau Prep, which is like a mini Alteryx. In Tableau Prep, you can drag and drop and make new connections with the different data sources. You can make all the connections. You can also publish a source. You don't have to pay more money with Tableau. You pay like $5 per user per month to access it.

It is a very nice solution. We love it. It is the best solution among similar kinds of solutions. It, however, is too expensive, and people can't buy it. It doesn't matter how good a solution is if people can't buy it. As an ex-reseller partner of Alteryx, we always talk about the good quality and functionalities that Alteryx has. 

You can make very good and efficient flows in this solution, but you have to do the research for this kind of product and follow the best practices. You need to clean and prepare the data.

I would rate Alteryx Designer an eight out of ten.