Alteryx Designer Desktop
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Alteryx Turned Me From Data Janitor to Data Strategist
What do you like best about the product?
The drag-and-drop workflow is intuitive and powerful. I love how it bridges the gap between technical and non-technical users. I’ve trained non-coders in my team to automate complex ETL jobs within a few weeks. The ability to integrate with R and Python is a bonus when I need to go beyond built-in tool
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Licensing Cost
Alteryx is powerful—but expensive. The Designer license alone is costly, and scaling to server or enterprise deployment can get prohibitive for smaller teams or startups. If your company isn’t all-in on automation, ROI might be hard to justify.
2. Performance Bottlenecks on Large Data Sets
While it’s great for mid-sized data, performance suffers when processing large datasets (especially joins and sorts). Unlike SQL engines or Spark-based tools, Alteryx loads most data into memory, so it can choke without enough RAM.
3. Clunky Version Control
No native Git integration or real versioning capabilities. Workflow collaboration feels old-school—like emailing .yxmd files back and forth. In an era of agile and CI/CD, this is a big gap.
4.Workflow Sprawl and Visual Clutter
Complex workflows can quickly become visually messy. Without discipline in using containers, color coding, and annotations, it’s easy to create a “spaghetti flow” that’s hard to debug or maintain.
5. Limited Data Visualization
Alteryx is not a visualization tool. Its built-in charting tools are minimal and not meant for dashboards. You still need to pass data to Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms for rich visualization.
6.Steep Learning Curve for Advanced Features
The basics are easy, but building macros, using the SDK, or working with spatial and predictive tools has a significant learning curve. Documentation is decent, but sometimes not detailed enough for advanced use.
Alteryx is powerful—but expensive. The Designer license alone is costly, and scaling to server or enterprise deployment can get prohibitive for smaller teams or startups. If your company isn’t all-in on automation, ROI might be hard to justify.
2. Performance Bottlenecks on Large Data Sets
While it’s great for mid-sized data, performance suffers when processing large datasets (especially joins and sorts). Unlike SQL engines or Spark-based tools, Alteryx loads most data into memory, so it can choke without enough RAM.
3. Clunky Version Control
No native Git integration or real versioning capabilities. Workflow collaboration feels old-school—like emailing .yxmd files back and forth. In an era of agile and CI/CD, this is a big gap.
4.Workflow Sprawl and Visual Clutter
Complex workflows can quickly become visually messy. Without discipline in using containers, color coding, and annotations, it’s easy to create a “spaghetti flow” that’s hard to debug or maintain.
5. Limited Data Visualization
Alteryx is not a visualization tool. Its built-in charting tools are minimal and not meant for dashboards. You still need to pass data to Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms for rich visualization.
6.Steep Learning Curve for Advanced Features
The basics are easy, but building macros, using the SDK, or working with spatial and predictive tools has a significant learning curve. Documentation is decent, but sometimes not detailed enough for advanced use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used to spend hours cleaning, merging, and transforming raw data every week—usually in Excel or writing custom SQL scripts.
With Alteryx, I’ve automated these repetitive tasks using reusable workflows. What used to take hours now runs in minutes with one click or on a schedule
With Alteryx, I’ve automated these repetitive tasks using reusable workflows. What used to take hours now runs in minutes with one click or on a schedule
New age automation made easy
What do you like best about the product?
The tools on alteryx are very simple and straightforward. The names and the designs are very user friendly. The UI can be navigated very easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
Workflows can take longer time to run in case of larger files. Alteryx does not support notepad and word files as input files so you'll have to change the file format.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alteryx has helped me automate all my morning and EOD reports. The huge data can be consolidated and used to represent analytical information. Moreover, alteryx has been helpful in replacing Excel macros in a very efficient way.
Very powerful automation tool
What do you like best about the product?
It is very powerful in automation, and most importantly, I don’t need to type any code.
What do you dislike about the product?
can't connect to SharePoint very well when extracting and loading data on SharePoint
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to automatically build workflows through artificial intelligence
Efficient Data Workflow Automation Using Alteryx
What do you like best about the product?
What I appreciate most about Alteryx is its ability to simplify complex data processes through a no-code, drag-and-drop interface. It allows me to quickly blend, clean, and analyse data from multiple sources without relying heavily on scripting.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Alteryx is powerful and user-friendly, one drawback is its high licensing cost, which can be a barrier for smaller teams or organizations. Additionally, as workflows grow in complexity, performance can sometimes lag—especially with large datasets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alteryx is solving the problem of time-consuming and manual data preparation by enabling fast, automated workflows. It eliminates the need for complex coding when performing data cleansing, blending, and transformation tasks.
Alteryx changed the way I do analysis
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and very versatile analysis tool
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes can be difficult to trouble shoot some of the errors in workflow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alteryx makes it much more efficient for me to do my repeating tasks and we were able to save one head count in the team.
Facilitates decision-making through data-driven insights and cognitive analysis
What is our primary use case?
I use Alteryx for smart analytics because it provides insights into what is happening with the data and determines possible reasons for changes.
What is most valuable?
A standout feature is its management approach for logistics and supply chain. Alteryx not only represents data but also supports decision-making by suggesting the next steps. Additionally, Alteryx offers a cognitive approach to better understand data and purposes.
What needs improvement?
Alteryx needs to focus on the supply chain aspect since detecting financial figures and data anomalies is currently insufficient.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Alteryx for six months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of Alteryx is satisfactory as I have not encountered any stability issues so far.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Alteryx is scalable and can be easily deployed across all departments or other companies.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support is good since I've had no issues and can easily contact representatives who respond promptly.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used Microsoft solutions, including Power BI. I have just transitioned to Alteryx.
How was the initial setup?
The setup is easy. I only needed to install the gateway, connect my datasets, and it automatically takes and converts data without the need for additional consultancy.
What was our ROI?
Alteryx helps familiarize managers with artificial intelligence-driven possibilities.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Alteryx is affordable.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
What other advice do I have?
My overall experience with Alteryx is rated nine. It is driven by AI, understanding data and causes of changes, and suggesting what actions should be taken.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Alteryx - Excellent for EDA purposes
What do you like best about the product?
It is one of the most user-friendly tool where you don't need to write complex queries and the drag and drop options can be used to explore and manipulate the data. Also, it is very easy to connect this to different databases, spreadsheets and cloud systems - This makes the overall process implementation easy
What do you dislike about the product?
The tool is costly for small enterprise needs which makes it difficult to get access to. Also, the tool has limited visualization features and the customer support team is not super responsive with the queries
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were being provided by couple of raw data by the clients which contained HCP level sales information for different drugs along with their account affiliations. The tool was used to merge and rollup data at account level and helped in top accounts identification
One of the Best and User friendly Data Visualisation Tool
What do you like best about the product?
I have used Alteryx tool on multiple occasions in my day to day life. Their are some specific clients out there who prefer Alteryx to be used for their Data Analysis and Visualisation and trust me at some point it is superior then Power BI, Tableau in Some cases and real life scenarios
What do you dislike about the product?
To be honest it's a good product. It offer different and unique type of interface but that's not a point to be dislike. I loved the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have analysed multiple business data from the tool and also used it for financial analysis too for some big big fulfilment companies out there.
Best in class
What do you like best about the product?
Alteryx is best when comes to transparency and being friendly to the users.
What do you dislike about the product?
They could improve when it comes to the engagement with the users
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solved my problem in developing my sales of my product in e-commerce
Very excellent
What do you like best about the product?
Its best for the data cleaning and data transformation
What do you dislike about the product?
Its taking too much time for predictive analysis
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data analysis
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