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Alteryx vs Denodo comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.9
Alteryx quickly delivers ROI by drastically reducing data processing time, saving costs, and improving efficiency with potential market pricing adjustments.
Sentiment score
5.7
Organizations improved efficiency, achieving faster processing times, positive ROI, and enhanced KPIs due to Denodo's streamlined data management.
Alteryx helps familiarize managers with artificial intelligence-driven possibilities.
Chief Information Officer at granistr
If you don't need to write a whole ETL to make the data virtualization, you need way fewer people to write a query instead of writing an ETL pipeline.
Senior Backend Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.3
Users praise Alteryx's customer service and community resources, though some seek improved support during complex issues.
Sentiment score
7.1
Denodo support is praised for responsiveness and efficiency, though some note occasional setup challenges and bug handling issues.
I contacted customer support once or twice, and they were quick to respond.
Experience Technocrat driving IT initiatives at WISDOMBOWL
The customer service was not good because we weren't premium support users.
Senior Capacity Planner at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Customer support is good since I've had no issues and can easily contact representatives who respond promptly.
Chief Information Officer at granistr
They have a good methodology for learning how to use the tool.
Data Architecture and Engineering Specialist at coprocenva
Denodo's customer support team is very competent and responsive.
Datawarehouse & BI consultant, Owner, Mananging partner at NesCon B.V.
If we raise a ticket, it can be resolved or addressed within a reasonable time frame, so support is good.
Principal Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Alteryx is scalable and efficient for various users and datasets, though some users cite cost and complexity concerns.
Sentiment score
7.1
Denodo provides scalable data integration for medium to enterprise companies, supporting large user bases and efficient resource management.
Alteryx is scalable, and I would give it eight out of ten.
Experience Technocrat driving IT initiatives at WISDOMBOWL
For huge data requests, it cannot scale automatically; admin action is required.
Principal Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
While the solution scales well on a single machine, I have doubts about its scalability when deployed as part of a Java component cluster.
Datawarehouse & BI consultant, Owner, Mananging partner at NesCon B.V.
Its complexity in configuring and the requirement to install different connectors for different sources affects its scalability.
Technology Leader at eTCaaS
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Alteryx is praised for its stability and efficiency, handling large datasets swiftly with minimal crashes or issues.
Sentiment score
7.0
Denodo is generally stable with occasional connectivity issues, high reliability, and minor resource adjustments for optimal performance.
I didn't need to reach out to Alteryx for support because available documents usually provide enough information to resolve issues.
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I have not encountered any lagging, crashing, or instability in the system during these three months of usage.
Legal Coordinator at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
I would rate it nine out of ten because it is very reliable, always performing as expected.
Datawarehouse & BI consultant, Owner, Mananging partner at NesCon B.V.
If JVM does not function properly, it may cause Denodo to fail to connect to different sources.
Technology Leader at eTCaaS
Denodo is stable and good.
Data Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Alteryx users criticize its outdated interface, high pricing, and demand better documentation, collaboration, and data science tools.
Denodo's data catalog requires enhanced functionality, user-friendliness, connectivity, integration, scalability, and modern tools for better user experience.
The tool could include more native connectors, such as for global ERPs, instead of requiring additional fees for these connections.
Legal Coordinator at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The support structure changed; initially, we received great support, however, it later became less reliable due to licensing issues and a tiered support system.
Senior Capacity Planner at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The additional features that Alteryx needs to work on to make it more competitive include better collaboration and easier integration through API.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Ensuring data caching is up to date is critical.
Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Denodo needs better communication on how the product can be deployed for specific solutions.
Datawarehouse & BI consultant, Owner, Mananging partner at NesCon B.V.
The system has dependencies on other environments, like JVM, which can affect its performance.
Technology Leader at eTCaaS
 

Setup Cost

Alteryx offers various licensing, with a notable ROI for teams, though costly for individuals compared to competitors.
Denodo's CPU/cores-based pricing is costly for small businesses but fair for larger enterprises, including some extra fees.
Alteryx is more cost-effective compared to Informatica licenses, offering savings.
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It has a fair price when considering a larger-scale implementation.
Legal Coordinator at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Alteryx is expensive.
Experience Technocrat driving IT initiatives at WISDOMBOWL
For small companies, it's not a solution that most small companies can afford.
Senior Backend Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
Denodo is considered pricey, limiting its use to large enterprises or government organizations that can afford its comprehensive setup.
Datawarehouse & BI consultant, Owner, Mananging partner at NesCon B.V.
Denodo's pricing is not affordable for small companies and is more suitable for medium to large enterprises.
Technology Leader at eTCaaS
 

Valuable Features

Alteryx streamlines data preparation and integration, offering intuitive workflows, predictive analytics, and robust support for efficient analysis.
Denodo enhances data integration through virtualization, offering performance, usability, and seamless access to diverse data sources without replication.
Alteryx not only represents data but also supports decision-making by suggesting the next steps.
Chief Information Officer at granistr
Analysts who do not have any coding experience can still work on the transformation and preparation of data, which is quite useful.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Alteryx is user-friendly and allows easy creation of workflows compared to Informatica PowerCenter.
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Denodo's ability to connect to multiple data sources and perform extract-transform-load (ETL) operations on the fly is noteworthy.
Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of Denodo is its uniformity of self-site data access types, which allows it to connect to almost any storage technology and feed it transparently.
Datawarehouse & BI consultant, Owner, Mananging partner at NesCon B.V.
Denodo supports SQL base, so if you want to join two tables or two views, you can use SQL, which is an advantage as most developers or business people know SQL.
Principal Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Alteryx
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Predictive Analytics (1st), Data Science Platforms (6th), Data Preparation Tools (1st)
Denodo
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (8th), Data Virtualization (1st), Cloud Data Integration (5th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (3rd), AI Data Analysis (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Alteryx and Denodo aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Alteryx is designed for Predictive Analytics and holds a mindshare of 8.1%, down 23.3% compared to last year.
Denodo, on the other hand, focuses on Data Virtualization, holds 21.9% mindshare, down 41.0% since last year.
Predictive Analytics Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Alteryx8.1%
Anaplan8.1%
SAP Analytics Cloud7.7%
Other76.1%
Predictive Analytics
Data Virtualization Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Denodo21.9%
TIBCO Data Virtualization17.8%
SAS Federation Server13.4%
Other46.9%
Data Virtualization
 

Featured Reviews

Theresa McLaughlin - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Capacity Planner at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Quick development enables seamless data processing despite occasional support issues
There were times when the product would fail during development without an apparent reason. The support structure changed; initially, we received great support, however, it later became less reliable due to licensing issues and a tiered support system. Licensing negotiations were problematic, affecting our product usage. For instance, our licenses were temporarily lost during negotiations when an agreement couldn't be reached.
Douglas Camargo - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Backend Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
Has simplified multi-database querying and accelerated solution delivery with minimal setup
Denodo offers a great query language, the VQL, which was very easy to understand for someone that only knows SQL. It was easy to work with, and it was easy to integrate various types of databases in general. The usability of the platform is very great. The federated queries were also a feature that I used a lot. The easy usability of Denodo helped my work and made things easier for productivity. We were able to ship code faster than if we needed to use another type of data visualization tool or even an ETL. When we have multiple databases, the standard or common approach is just to have an ETL that matches the data, and we need to write this whole ETL. With Denodo, we can simplify this whole work to a few queries or setups in the databases and just make a few queries. This was actually easier, and it was faster to deliver a solution for a client instead of building a whole ETL pipeline or simply backfilling one database in another. Denodo simplifies your work and helps you ship code or ship solutions in a faster way. I really like the UI that Denodo has on the web app version. It was very simple and actually very beautiful to see. For a complicated program, it was very easy to understand how it works, even for someone who is just approaching the data engineering career or side of the programming language.
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Answers from the Community

SO
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER - CIO - Innovation and Digital Platform Transformation - Mortgage Lending at THE COMMUNITY PRESERVATION CORPORATION
Dec 2, 2021
Dec 2, 2021
Greetings, Stefan. Alteryx is basically an ETL tool that evolved to deliver some Data Viz and ML features too. This means that its main purpose is to extract data from different sources, combine and transform them and finally load them in a different database.Denodo is a data virtualization tool, which means it does all the transformations without extracting from one place and loading to ano...
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EB
Director of Community at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Nov 16, 2021
Hi @Rushabh-Shah, @Kevin Monte De Ramos, @Avi Shvartz ​and @AmitJain. Can you please assist here and share your knowledge with the community?
DG
Managing Partner at Data Pine
Nov 18, 2021
Greetings, Stefan.   Alteryx is basically an ETL tool that evolved to deliver some Data Viz and ML features too.  This means that its main purpose is to extract data from different sources, combine and transform them and finally load them in a different database.Denodo is a data virtualization tool, which means it does all the transformations without extracting from one place and loading to another one.  It´s a cloud-based solution and it charges by the traffic.  If your company has specific General Data Protection Regulation that prohibits for instance that you extract the data located in a data center in Europe and loading them in a cluster located in the USA, you will probably need a virtualization tool like Denodo instead of an ETL like Alteryx.  Virtualization tools are usually more expensive in a long run Azure Data Factory is a platform meant to leverage the use of Azure.  Microsoft´s objective is to sell its cloud solution as a whole.  It contains a Data Studio (to manage and control your data), SPARK (which is a Hadoop in memory) and a data lake storage.As you see, those are 3 different products that do not make much sense to be used together.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Retailer
6%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
7%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise53
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise20
 

Questions from the Community

What is the Biggest Difference Between Alteryx and IBM SPSS Modeler?
One of the differences is that with Alteryx you can use it as an ETL and analytics tool. Please connect with me directly if you want to know more.
What is the Biggest Difference Between Alteryx and IBM SPSS Modeler?
Alteryx is an extremely easy and flexible data tool, flexible in terms of drag and drop toolset and also has python, R integrations if your team requires this. It can handle over 2 billion rows of...
What is the Biggest Difference Between Alteryx and IBM SPSS Modeler?
I am not familiar with IBM SPSS Modeler, therefore, I cannot compare these two products. Regarding Alteryx I can say the following: - An excellent desktop tool for Data Prep and analytics. - Featu...
Does Denodo provide useful data virtualization education? Is it useful to attend their training?
If you are a Denodo user, it makes sense to undergo their training. Different types of professionals can benefit from it, including administrators, developers, and architects. If you are keen on i...
In experience, what might Denodo be lacking or need improvement on?
I like Denodo a lot. It offers quick and easy web service deployment within minutes. There are not any flaws that I think make the product less good or effective. The only thing I can point out is...
Which industries can benefit from Denodo the most?
Denodo is suitable for pretty much all sectors that deal with: Big data Cloud solutions Data governance Logical data fabric Master data management In my opinion, organizations in different fields...
 

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