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Alteryx vs SAP Predictive Analytics comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Alteryx
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Predictive Analytics (1st), Data Preparation Tools (1st)
SAP Predictive Analytics
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
27th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Data Science Platforms category, the mindshare of Alteryx is 5.9%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Predictive Analytics is 0.4%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Theresa McLaughlin - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Gary Cook - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables us to forecast and pull trends and has an easy installation
My rating for SAP Predictive Analytics would be an eight out of ten. If I have to be bold, I'll probably say that we're building away hours, and we are actually putting a lot of the actual predicting stuff back into the warehouse. So running it very bi-directionally. So I'm not sure what its integration features are at the moment, but that's an area we're going to look into in the next month or so.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The modeling features are very good."
"There are a lot of good customization capabilities."
"Alteryx speeds up the time to obtain business answers/insights on data."
"I think the most valuable feature for Alteryx in a health facility is that it permits cleaning, organizing, and merging of databases such as Excel and Access."
"It saves time on a lot projects. ​"
"Alteryx offers a cognitive approach to better understand data and purposes."
"I found Alteryx's ability to modify data on the fly, using in-memory processing, very useful."
"One-stop shop for data preparation, blending, prediction, and optimization in a single workflow."
"I think the features of the actual ability to forecast and pull trends and correlations has been really good."
"The most valuable features are the analytics and reporting."
 

Cons

"There are a few imputation techniques which they really need to include."
"The event handling, such that the file system watcher, is in need of improvement."
"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."
"The learning curve is long, and there is lack of e-learning; the tool is not user-friendly to a non-technical user."
"There are a few hiccups with specific data sets and languages or formats that the data comes in. That may be a minor problem, but we can work through it. We had some issues looking at XML format in added data, but it wasn't significant."
"It is a little bit pricey."
"The server is too expensive for what you get and it really a designer desktop on a server."
"The principal problem is the pricing. They're expensive products."
"This solution works for acquired data but not live, real-time data."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the tool's pricing a two out of ten."
"Its price should be lower. The key thing that we see is that talking about ROI is an important element at the time of purchase. Cost becomes a factor in every discussion. Justifying the ROI for these kinds of workflows is always a challenge, and the only way to counter the challenge is by addressing the pricing."
"Alteryx is an expensive solution."
"The solution has a more costly license than other tools in the market."
"ROI is huge. There are some secondary benefits, like analysts getting their post 5 PM time back or the ability to shorten all closing processes to a half or less."
"If one is a high price, and ten is a low price, I rate the tool's price as a one. The tool is expensive."
"A designer and scheduler for $13K/year in total is pretty much earning you the money back in time and in other resources."
"The cost of the solution could be reduced."
"The pricing is reasonable"
"A free trial version is available for testing out this solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
5%
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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...
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Also Known As

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SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics, BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics, BOPA
 

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Sample Customers

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