We performed a comparison between Alteryx Designer and FME 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."When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis."
"Alteryx Designer offers a drag-and-drop interface, making it highly user-friendly. Unlike Python and Apache Airflow, which require coding, Alteryx allows users to accomplish tasks without any programming knowledge. Its simplicity makes it accessible to anyone, even those without coding experience, and this ease of use is one of Alteryx's key advantages."
"It helps them to create customized workflows, transform data, perform calculations, and consolidate multiple data sources into a target database."
"Alteryx Designer is a tool that is pretty much easy to install."
"The product is intuitive and easy to use."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Alteryx Designer's user interface is great, as it is very user-friendly."
"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."
"It has standard plug-ins available for different data sources."
"We make minor subtle changes to the workbenches to improve it. We can share the workbenches. We don't have to use GitHub or anything else."
"All spatial features are unrivaled, and the possibility to execute them based on a scheduled trigger, manual, e-mail, Websocket, tweet, file/directory change or virtually any trigger is most valuable."
"It has a very friendly user interface. You don't need to use a lot of code. For us that's the most important aspect about it. Also, it has a lot of connectors and few forms. It has a strong facial aspect. It can do a lot of facial analysis."
"The most valuable feature of FME is the graphical user interface. There is nothing better. It is very easy to debug because you can see all steps where there are failures. Overall the software is easy to optimize a process."
"Alteryx Designer's cost should be improved."
"An improvement for Alteryx Designer would be faster bug fixes and updates."
"The product could offer more connectors and more databases with support for the in-database function."
"Improving the key-based sign-on process and making it more user-friendly would be a benefit."
"It would be simpler if they provided a component where you could simply enter some parameters and see the results."
"The conditional join feature should be improved."
"Optimizing processing times is one area I would like to see improved in Alteryx Designer. Sometimes, the workflows take an extremely long time to run. There are days when I have had to wait two to three hours for a single process to complete. There needs to be a functionality to split the processes."
"Alteryx could move faster to create a cloud equivalent of the desktop version of Designer."
"FME's price needs improvement for the African market."
"FME can improve the geographical transformation. I've had some problems with the geographical transformations, but it's probably mostly because I'm not the most skilled geographer in-house. The solution requires some in-depth knowledge to perform some functions."
"To get a higher rating, it would have to improve the price and the associated scalability. These are the main issues."
"The one thing that always appears in the community is the ability to make really easy loops to loop through data efficiently. That needs to be added at some point."
"Improvements could be made to mapping presentations."
Alteryx Designer is ranked 9th in Data Integration with 28 reviews while FME is ranked 24th in Data Integration with 5 reviews. Alteryx Designer is rated 8.0, while FME is rated 8.6. 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 FME writes "Great for handling large volumes of data, but it is priced a bit high". Alteryx Designer is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Data Services and Palantir Foundry, whereas FME is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter and Matillion ETL. See our Alteryx Designer vs. FME report.
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