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We performed a comparison between Alteryx Designer and SSIS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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"The product offers very good analytics.""Alteryx Designer is a tool that is pretty much easy to install.""The solution is easy to integrate and user-friendly.""Workflow automation, in general, is valuable.""We use Alteryx Designer for analytics. It's quite helpful because once we set it up, we don't have to manually update or process data repeatedly. It saves time, especially for financial reporting, which is typically done monthly or quarterly. Once we set it up initially, we only need to make occasional updates if necessary.""Alteryx is quite easy to use, learn, and understand as a product.""The product is very stable. The performance is reliable.""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."

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"It's already very user-friendly and has a good dashboard.""The data reader is the most valuable feature.""It's a competent product.""Data Flows are the main component we use. These can range from a simple source to sink ETL, to many source to many sink dataflows.""It is easy to set up. The deployment is also very quick.""Like most Microsoft products, SSIS is user-friendly and easy to use.""We can connect with multiple data sources easily using an external connector in SSIS.""SSIS provides you with lookup and transformation functions, and you have the flexibility to write your own custom code."

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"Alteryx Designer overall should be easier to use.""The only thing is sometimes it can be a bit slow.""The product could offer more connectors and more databases with support for the in-database function.""I would like to be able to include small snippets of code inside of the solution. The tool has only drag-and-drop features to make it easy to use, but sometimes I feel like this makes it more complicated.""Improving the key-based sign-on process and making it more user-friendly would be a benefit.""Alteryx could move faster to create a cloud equivalent of the desktop version of Designer.""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.""Alteryx Designer's pricing and support could be improved."

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"Performance could be better.""It needs more integration tools, so you can connect to different sources.""This solution needs full support for real-time processing.""There was also not enough instructions from Microsoft in regards to this application or this technology, which can easily be improved upon.""SSIS can improve in handling different data sources like Salesforce connectivity, Oracle Cloud's connectivity, etc.""The security could be improved, as it is more important in our context.""The solution should work on the GPU, graphical processing unit. There should also be piping integration available.""I would like to see better technical documentation because many times information is missing."

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  • "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."
  • "Alteryx is a little bit expensive compared to competing solutions."
  • "Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution."
  • "I rate Alteryx Designer a six out of ten for pricing."
  • "The licenses are expensive, making it difficult to consider acquiring additional licenses to the existing ones."
  • "Each license is something like $4,000."
  • "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."
  • "I rate the price of Alteryx Designer a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
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  • "This solution has provided an inexpensive tool, and it is easy to find experienced developers."
  • "My advice is to look at what your configuration will be because most companies have their own deals with Microsoft."
  • "This solution is included with the MSSQL server package."
  • "It would be beneficial if the solution had a less costly cloud offering."
  • "Based on my experience and understanding, Talend comes out to be a little bit expensive as compared to SSIS. The average cost of having Talend with Talend Management Console is around 72K per region, which is much higher than SSIS. SSIS works very well with Microsoft technologies, and if you have Microsoft technologies, it is not really expensive to have SSIS. If you have SQL Server, SSIS is free."
  • "We have an enterprise license for this solution."
  • "It comes bundled with other solutions, which makes it difficult to get the price on the specific product."
  • "All of my clients have this product included as part of their Microsoft license."
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    Technology has made it easier for businesses to organize and manipulate data to get a clearer picture of what’s going on with their business. Notably, ETL tools have made managing huge amounts of data significantly easier and faster, boosting many organizations’ business intelligence operations There are many third-party vendors offering ETL solutions, but two of the most popular are PowerCenter Informatica and Microsoft SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services). Each technology has its advantages but there are also similarities on how they carry out the extract-transform-load processes and only differ in terminologies. If you’re in the process of choosing ETL tools and PowerCenter Informatica and Microsoft SSIS made it to your shortlist, here is a short comparative discussion detailing the differences between the two, as well as their benefits. Package Configuration Most enterprise data integration projects would require the capacity to develop a solution in one platform and test and deploy it in a separate environment without having to manually change the established workflow. In order to achieve this seamless movement between two environments, your ETL technology should allow the dynamic update of the project’s properties using the content or a parameter file or configuration. Both Informatica and SSIS support this functionality using different methodologies. In Informatica, every session can have more than one source and one or more destination connections. There are… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:For my daily analytics needs, the entire Alteryx Designer platform is beneficial.
    Top Answer:I would rate the pricing of Alteryx Designer as an eight out of ten in terms of costliness. Licensing costs vary based on negotiation and increase with the number of licenses needed. There are no… more »
    Top Answer:While Alteryx Designer is a great product overall, its cost can sometimes be a drawback.
    Top Answer:SSIS PowerPack is a group of drag and drop connectors for Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services, commonly called SSIS. The collection helps organizations boost productivity with code-free… more »
    Top Answer:The product's deployment phase is easy.
    Top Answer:If you don't want to pay a lot of money, you can go for SSIS, as its open-source version is available. When it comes to licensing, SSIS can be expensive.
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    SQL Server Integration Services
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    Overview

    SSIS is a versatile tool for data integration tasks like ETL processes, data migration, and real-time data processing. Users appreciate its ease of use, data transformation tools, scheduling capabilities, and extensive connectivity options. It enhances productivity and efficiency within organizations by streamlining data-related processes and improving data quality and consistency.

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    1. Amazon.com 2. Bank of America 3. Capital One 4. Coca-Cola 5. Dell 6. E*TRADE 7. FedEx 8. Ford Motor Company 9. Google 10. Home Depot 11. IBM 12. Intel 13. JPMorgan Chase 14. Kraft Foods 15. Lockheed Martin 16. McDonald's 17. Microsoft 18. Morgan Stanley 19. Nike 20. Oracle 21. PepsiCo 22. Procter & Gamble 23. Prudential Financial 24. RBC Capital Markets 25. SAP 26. Siemens 27. Sony 28. Toyota 29. UnitedHealth Group 30. Visa 31. Walmart 32. Wells Fargo
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    Buyer's Guide
    Alteryx Designer vs. SSIS
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Alteryx Designer vs. SSIS and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    768,857 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Alteryx Designer is ranked 9th in Data Integration with 27 reviews while SSIS is ranked 2nd in Data Integration with 69 reviews. Alteryx Designer is rated 8.0, while SSIS is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Alteryx Designer writes "An easy-to-use automation solution with satisfying customer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SSIS writes "Maintaining the solution and contacting its support team is easy". Alteryx Designer is most compared with Azure Data Factory, FME, Informatica PowerCenter, Palantir Foundry and SAP Data Services, whereas SSIS is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Talend Open Studio, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and SAP Data Services. See our Alteryx Designer vs. SSIS report.

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