Alteryx Reviews

I primarily use Alteryx to build process prototypes, exploring potential business benefits before scaling up and automating. It helps me handle various data sources, apply transformations based on business rules, and push outputs to the cloud. In the past, relying solely on documentation didn't capture the essence, so I used the solution through various approaches. Now, I use it as a live provider and send it to the IT team.

My primary focus is creating numerous data pulls, and Alteryx Server handles the automation well. It's a significant time-saver because I don't have to juggle maintenance for dozens of SQL queries or remember the logic for each one. Everything is neatly organized on our server. Monthly runs are automated, updating Tableau, data services, Excel files, or other necessary components. This level of automation for tasks saves valuable time for me and my team, especially when dealing with emails and other routine processes.

Its most valuable feature lies in its functionality, offering an ETL process similar to a large enterprise with a dedicated IT team. The power of the solution is that it condenses these complex processes into a desktop tool, allowing a single user to handle extensive data extraction, transformation, and loading, even incorporating machine learning. It empowers individuals to execute tasks that typically require an entire IT division, putting this capability at your fingertips.

In terms of improvement, the transition from the desktop to the cloud can be challenging. While the desktop piece works seamlessly within the company's security architecture, when you load workflows onto the cloud, the same connections don't translate due to firewall issues. It would be beneficial if this transition could be made more seamless and straightforward for users.

The solution is already feature-rich and doesn't require any improvements. Their current versions are ahead of the curve. Their machine learning and predictive modeling features place them at the forefront. Some advanced features are more than what's needed for our regular business purposes.

I have been using the solution for over five years. I’m currently using the 2022.1 version of the solution.

I rate the stability a five out of ten. While the desktop features are excellent, the transition from desktop to cloud and the usability of their cloud-based automation could be improved.

The tool is scalable. I rate it an eight out of ten.

We've encountered challenges with their support. Alteryx Support could offer more hands-on assistance, allowing us to walk through the installation process and demonstrate how to connect to data securely. While acknowledging the importance of security considerations, simplifying the process with fewer navigation and layers would greatly improve the overall experience.

Neutral

Installing the Alteryx server and navigating their environment can be complex.

I have been using the solution in my current role for less than a year, and while I have yet to see a return on investment, I did observe ROI in my previous role. However, I see a clear path towards achieving a strong ROI in the current setting.

It was Tableau Prep. It is a competitor to Alteryx, and initially, I considered going with Tableau Prep. However, the decision to choose Alteryx was made by higher-ups in my company. Upon further understanding, I found that Tableau Prep currently does not catch up to Alteryx in terms of features.

To someone evaluating whether to go for Alteryx, I would say it's more simplistic, and you don't need a computer science engineering degree to use it. However, analysts should have a basic understanding of databases and SQL. If your analysts possess these skills, they can quickly grasp the solution. Additionally, staying closely connected with your IT teams during implementation is important to ensure that all components are installed for optimal results. Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I use the platform for a variety of tasks. For example, I extract data from our Salesforce system and prepare it for analysis. It allows customized monitoring of the pipeline. I often prepare data to be imported into Power BI for further analysis. I also use it for personal data tracking and extracting data from our internal time-logging tool to monitor project progress with customers. It helps me stay updated without manually logging in and reviewing reports that may not contain the precise information I need.

The product's most valuable aspect is its ease of use. It allows me, even as a field person, to create workflows and perform data preparation tasks quickly. Its speed and ability to connect to various data sources in real-time are also significant benefits.

The product's pricing needs improvement. 

We have been using Alteryx daily for approximately four years. We consistently update to ensure we run the latest version with all the latest updates.

The product stability is fine.

The platform is scalable. 

The technical support team is good; responses are usually received within a day. 

Positive

The initial setup was very straightforward. The community support, information on their website, training, and resources are excellent. Anyone can learn the basics in minutes and set it up easily.

It took less than an hour to deploy Alteryx. I handle maintenance on my own. There is no significant need for resources. When updates are required, I download and install them, which takes about 15 minutes.

The platform saves me several hours weekly in data preparation, which would require additional personnel. Although I have not calculated the exact figures, it breaks even for me. The return on investment can be substantial for customers, depending on their usage. 

The product pricing is a concern. I use Alteryx because my company provides it, but it would be too expensive if I had to pay for it myself. Many customers also feel it is too costly, especially in regions like Brazil. While it offers extensive features, including predictive analytics, for those who mainly use it for data preparation and blending, the cost can be prohibitive.

Alteryx significantly reduces the time spent searching for specific information. It handles all my analytics tasks efficiently. Once the workflows are set up, it processes the data and outputs it for further analysis in Power BI. Without Alteryx, these tasks would take much longer.

The cloud version could be improved, as it is less capable than the desktop version. Overall, however, it is an excellent tool.

I rate it a nine. 

Alteryx is primarily used for data transformation and ETL processes within our environment. We also utilize its machine-learning capabilities for regression and classification tasks. Our team leverages it for back-end calculations to enhance visualization performance.

The platform's user-friendliness, particularly for non-technical users, has allowed for more efficient data processing and the integration of machine learning within our workflows. It has streamlined our data transformation processes, ultimately improving the performance of our visualizations.

The product's most valuable features include its ease of use for non-technical users and machine learning capabilities. The flexibility to integrate custom code is also an important aspect of the platform for our use case.

The product could benefit from improved integration with visualization tools or even the inclusion of built-in visualization features. It would reduce the need to use multiple tools and pay for additional licenses.

I rate the solution's stability a seven out of ten. 

I rate the solution's scalability a seven out of ten.

Alteryx is generally more suited for medium—to large companies due to its potentially high licensing costs.

I rate Alteryx a seven out of ten. 

In our team, we use Excel for a lot of calculations and automation workflows. We retrieve data from the database, perform calculations, and then distribute the results to various departments or customers.

Alteryx helps me do a lot of automation. The best thing about Alteryx is that you don't have to repeat the workflow over and over again. Unlike Excel, where you need to write formulas for each new file, Alteryx follows a consistent process. You can schedule and automate the workflow, even if the files change.

I think sometimes the solution doesn't load properly or takes so much time for the workflows. Though the workflow runs and completes the file in Excel, if you use the same formula, it's a bit slow. Also, the image processing is not so good because I tried to do some image processing and they were like, sometimes they put two to eight. In the document, it was two, but the OCR predicted it as eight.

I have been using the product for two years. 

The tool is stable. 

My company has more than 100 users. 

I haven't contacted the technical support. 

The tool's installation and setup are not difficult; you just need to install it.

You can use this tool if you want to do a lot of automation. It is easy for users to learn and use it. The drag-and-drop interface works fine for us. I rate it a seven out of ten.  

The biggest use case for the solution is that it allows you to it allows me to combine data from different sources and different formats to create a unified data set to answer business questions. I can take data from my general ledger and combine it with my expense report data or with external data or with different parties or different questions, and it could all be in a different format. For example, one source can be from a database, one can be an Excel file, one can be a PDF, or a CSV file. Alteryx lets me very easily put them all together and create one database. 

The biggest thing I like is that you need zero coding experience. I'm not a coder. I'm an accountant by trade, and I've been able to pick up the tool fairly quicker, basically.

The tool is very drag-and-drop. The tool has very good documentation to help you understand the features.

The community is very active and helpful.

I like that I can merge data from different sources into one place. 

With this solution, we can do reporting in about five minutes as opposed to day.

Once we've vetted the data, we can get the solution to run during off-peak hours so we can out data very easily. 

There's a lot less maintenance required.

We like that we can make notes right on their Canvas, so it's easy to pass workflows over to other users.

The visibility is very clear. We can show what data is being used and how it is being transformed.

My true data is able to stay intact even though I can easily manipulate it. 

I'd like it to be easier to work with PDF. When you want it to read PDFs, it can be a bit difficult. That may be a PDF issue, however. 

Maybe if I was doing more spatial or geographical tasks, I might need a bit more; however, for my purposes, I have all the features we need. 

I've been using the solution since 2017 or 2018. I've used it for five to six years on a daily basis. 

I find that the Designer is stable since it's on my machine. Sometimes the server environment is not the most stable. I'm not sure if that's due to the fact that we don't have enough cores or whatever that might be; however, that's something that's probably a little less stable, the server at the bottom. Again, the servers will be used to run flows, not to create the flows.

The Designer is where you create the process and your logic, and you can use a Server to run the processes at different times throughout the day.

The scalability is fine. That said, the pricing model is not the cheapest. You have to be careful who will be using it. The pricing is the only hindrance to scaling. 

We have around 300 to 500 licenses. It's pretty mature in our organization. 

We have a great relationship with technical support. They are helpful and responsive, and they have a great community.

I'm not sure if the company used something previously.

In order to deploy it, you need to have Alteryx Designer. You have to have that installed on your machine. We have a yearly license and you just basically renew your license with Alteryx to keep it active. 

In order to maintain our flows, there is very little maintenance needed. 

We have witnessed excellent ROI. The fact that we can schedule flows and reduce time and entry to market has been extremely positive for the company. 

The pricing is reasonable; however, if you need a lot of licenses, it will get expensive. 

I am not using the latest version of the solution. We're always one or two versions behind the latest, as we only do updates once or twice a year. 

The great thing about the solution is that if you know Excel well, it translates very well into Alteryx. It's important to have an open mind; however, I'd recommend everyone give it a try. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

We mainly use Alteryx for large files. 

It's incredibly fast for loading and filtering the data. We use it to read clients' information and general entries. We have files of about 20 gigs with perhaps millions of records, and we use macros in order to filter the information.

The filtering is fast, and it provides a search tool that is great. Macros are useful and fast for reading a lot of files and then creating just one file.

Its price is not great for small companies.

The export of the final TXT is hard. It's slower. We have a local deployment, and it could be because of the hard drive. SSD would perhaps improve the speed.

I'd like to see more artificial intelligence business tools or features in Alteryx. 

I've used Alteryx for about three years.

I'd rate it an eight out of ten in terms of stability. Sometimes, the app crashes when there are large files or when there is a huge amount of filtering data.

I'd rate it an eight out of ten in terms of scalability.

I haven't used their support, but the documentation is good enough.

I used IDEA, but it was too slow. It was on x86 support, whereas Alteryx supports x64. So, we moved to Alteryx.

We have seen an ROI, but we don't have many licenses because of the price.

It's very expensive. I'd rate it a four out of ten in terms of the price. It's great for big companies but not for small companies.

If you are trying to read more than 100 million records, I'd recommend Alteryx, but if not, you can use another tool that is cheaper.

I'd rate it a nine out of ten.

We used the solution to design our models and databases, and then we used it to automate it through Excel.

The fact that it can turn up all the functions that Excel takes hours to do in a faster way is a very valuable feature. Inputting from various sources is easy. The fact that it can filter or do other kinds of inputs is very useful for Alteryx. Also, the thing with Excel, as opposed to Alteryx, is that Excel can only take up to a number of rows, and after that, it freezes. In my previous work experience, I had to deal with 10,000 or even more rows. Excel was not feasible at all as opposed to Alteryx, which just automated tasks and gave us the results in a few minutes. The reliability was much better.

The initial setup is easy.

I have not yet been exposed to Alteryx as much to comment on negative experiences. I'm taking a class this semester that has to do with Alteryx. I'm pretty sure that once I'm learning the projects and utilizing Alteryx more, then I can give back more feedback.

The usability could use some improvements. There are icons that you choose in terms of inputting the tool or even for filtering and then running different functions, there are different ways of designing your input tools and output tools, and that could get confusing.

I would suggest that if there's any way of simplifying it so that instead of tools or instead of understanding how it works, we could focus more on its usability and the output of it. For me, it was a bit challenging to figure out how to work with Alteryx. If there is any way to make the learning curve less steep, that would be ideal. 

I've used the solution for a year and a half. 

The stability is good, and, unlike Excel, it can handle large amounts of data and not freeze. 

There have been actually hiccups and issues with Alteryx, however, to deal with that, what we did was we went back and saw what the issue was, and mainly the issue was due to Excel. Maybe the value, function time, or strength value was not supporting it. We had to edit many functions and strengths to rerun it through Alteryx. That's one thing that's good in Alteryx: if we run and it's not working, it gives us an output and tells us where we are going wrong so that we can go back and troubleshoot on the problematic areas.

I haven't had a chance to deal with the tech support due to the fact that mostly whenever things went wrong with Alteryx, we were able to fix it by ourselves or with the engineering team. Engineering was able to troubleshoot it and fix it by looking at the output given by Alteryx in the email. It tells you where things are going wrong. For that reason, we did not have the opportunity to go and ask for advice from support.

I have had experience in automating projects in Excel and Alteryx, among others.

I have more experience in Alteryx itself than in Designer. A lot of databases were modeled, and we went and changed or updated the models, attributes, and entities. Then, what we did is we created them in Excel and we just auto-run it whenever we needed to.

It's not complex, and it's also not straightforward. It depends on which database and how many functions you are using or how much you are designing through Alteryx. If there are a lot of structures and if there are a lot of values that you're doing through Alteryx, then it would be hard. That said, from my experience, it's actually not that tough.

I don't deal with licensing. I can't speak to the exact cost of the solution. 

At first, you need to know the capabilities of Alteryx. It's a good idea to attend a lot of webinars or do a project. That would be really helpful to understand how powerful Alteryx is. Alteryx is used a lot in financial industries, according to what I have seen. It becomes really taxing to do everything in Excel or spreadsheets. Something that would take an hour or two hours to do it manually can take five to 10 minutes for Alteryx. Therefore, try a small project or understand the intricacies of Alteryx and that will get you started.

I'd rate it seven out of ten.

We utilize Alteryx for the purpose of transforming data to generate a report for data analysis that predicts the number of customers who will upgrade or downgrade within a specified time frame. After creating the workflow and building a dashboard on it, we set it up on a client-server to run live. When new product data is introduced, we fetch it directly from the database. This process is based on Microsoft SharePoint, and we have specific nodes for this purpose. With the appropriate access, the node will extract the data from Microsoft SharePoint and transform it into the desired format, which we then use to build KPIs and dashboards.

The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its stand-alone version that we do not have to download dependencies for loads. Additionally, the scan is useful for beginners.

Handling a set of data sets for building, cleaning, and preparing is a straightforward process.

The price of the solution could improve by being lower.

I have been using Alteryx for approximately two years.

Alteryx is a stable solution.

I have used Knime previously.

We use the free version of the solution. There are enterprise licenses available. It cost approximately $5,000 annually. It is an expensive solution and there are additional features that cost more money.

In today's world, where every field deals with data, it is essential to have tools that enable us to manipulate, clean, transform, and build dashboards from data. Traditionally, Python and other programming languages were used for data preparation, but now with Alteryx Online, even individuals without coding experience can enter the field and provide valuable solutions to clients. This makes it a useful tool for anyone who needs to work with data.

I rate Alteryx a nine out of ten.