Compare Alteryx vs. IBM SPSS Modeler
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"The most valuable feature of this solution is data preparation." "Alteryx is so advanced. It's just drag and drop." "The solution offers excellent predicting power. The accuracy and confidence have been great." "This is a drag-and-drop tool which is easy-to-use and yet can be customized by creating your own components." "The ease-of-use allows non-technical business users to directly create their own solutions without the use of additional development resources." "Alteryx has made us more agile and increased the speed and effectiveness of decision making." "The product is very stable and super fast, five-star. It's significantly more stable than it's nearest competitor." "The design portion of this tool is easy to use without code, which his something that something we can appreciate." | "Very good data aggregation." "It is a great product for running statistical analysis." "Automation is great and this product is very organized." "You take two quarters and compare them and this tool is ideal because it gives you a lot of visibility on the before and after." |
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"The event handling, such that the file system watcher, is in need of improvement." "It would be great if Alteryx could take third party tools and incorporate them." "The solution could work on the BI side of the tool to make it a bit better." "The GUI interface functions but it could stand to be updated to a more modern look and feel." "There is currently no cloud solution and this would be valuable for many clients." "The server is too expensive for what you get and it really a designer desktop on a server." "The only area where the product lags is documentation and videos on the analytical app and the batch macro." "There are no ready models to use in analytics." | "Requires more development." "It would be good if IBM added help resources to the interface." "Dimension reduction should be classified separately." "When you are not using the product, such as during the pandemic where we had worldwide lockdowns, you still have to pay for the licensing." |
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"The pricing is $5000 per year per production license." "We have a yearly cost that we pay for the licensing. We do not pay any costs in addition to the licensing fees." "There are some implementation services and internal effort costs at the beginning but there is nothing else." "The price for Alteryx Designer is reasonable but the price for Alteryx Server for universal collaborations is too expensive." "Opt for the three year subscription. It is 20% less than the yearly one." "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." "It is $4,000 a year, so it is cheap versus other solutions. It also accomplishes three times the volume on the job in the same time (as the other solutions)." "I don't know much about the licensing, but there are some additional costs for certain features." | "$5,000 annually." "This tool, being an IBM product, is pretty expensive." |
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Top Answer: 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. Top Answer: 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… more » Top Answer: 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.
-… more » | Top Answer: There are some important differences between both products. So probably, the first question I'll ask you is "for what use case are you evaluating these products?"
Of course, there are some general… more » Top Answer: SAS type free facility to .edu email - free training by IBM skill training. Currently IBM charge USD 2,400. | ||
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Overview | |||
Alteryx is a self-service data analytics solution, that provides a platform that can prep, blend, and analyze all of your data, then deploy and share analytics in hours. It can automate time-consuming and manual data tasks while performing predictive, statistical, and spatial analytics in the same workflow. It uses a drag and drop tool with an intuitive user interface with no coding and programming required. Alteryx licenses are subscription-based and include all product updates and support to their customers. | IBM SPSS Modeler is an extensive predictive analytics platform that is designed to bring predictive intelligence to decisions made by individuals, groups, systems and the enterprise. By providing a range of advanced algorithms and techniques that include text analytics, entity analytics, decision management and optimization, SPSS Modeler can help you consistently make the right decisions from the desktop or within operational systems. Buy | ||
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| AnalyticsIq Inc., belk, BloominBrands Inc., Cardinalhealth, Cineplex, Dairy Queen | Reisebªro Idealtours GmbH, MedeAnalytics, Afni, Israel Electric Corporation, Nedbank Ltd., DigitalGlobe, Vodafone Hungary, Aegon Hungary, Bureau Veritas, Brammer Group, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, InSites Consulting, Fortis Turkey | ||
Top Industries | |||
Manufacturing Company20% Computer Software Company15% Healthcare Company10% Non Tech Company10% Computer Software Company30% Comms Service Provider11% Financial Services Firm9% Manufacturing Company5% | University20% Financial Services Firm16% Manufacturing Company12% Government12% Computer Software Company22% Comms Service Provider19% Educational Organization8% Financial Services Firm7% | ||
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Small Business44% Midsize Enterprise15% Large Enterprise41% Small Business46% Midsize Enterprise6% Large Enterprise48% | Small Business24% Midsize Enterprise6% Large Enterprise70% | ||
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Alteryx is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 19 reviews while IBM SPSS Modeler is ranked 9th in Data Science Platforms with 5 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while IBM SPSS Modeler is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Does a good job of end-to-end integration as well as accessing data from multiple sources or email modes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SPSS Modeler writes "User-friendly, and it gives you a lot of visibility through features like comparing fiscal quarters". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft BI, Databricks and DataRobot, whereas IBM SPSS Modeler is most compared with KNIME, IBM SPSS Statistics, IBM Watson Studio, RapidMiner and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio. See our Alteryx vs. IBM SPSS Modeler report.
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There are some important differences between both products. So probably, the first question I'll ask you is "for what use case are you evaluating these products?"
Of course, there are some general differences, starting with the T.C.O. and functionalities.
Alteryx is a code-free and code-friendly platform that allows you to tackle the whole cycle of your data, starting on the consumption from any source, through a drag and drop interface, very suitable for any user (I really don't see many HHRR's people using SPSS).
Both tackle the predictive modeling very well, while Alteryx allows you to feed several additional AI&ML platforms, like H2O, DataRobot, Thoughspot, MS, Google, Amazon, and even Watson). I'm not sure if SPSS allows you to build and publish models on so many platforms.
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.
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 data in its in-memory engine on a notebook without requiring a server, thus it's cheaper. It has a much better community than IBM that you can get your answers pretty clear and fast if you need it.
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.
- Feature-rich and convenient user interface.
- However, it is implemented in C#, therefore works in MS Windows environment only. Mac or Linux users can’t use it. Interface with Apache Spark implemented via special plugin (do not remember details), which results in 2-hop data transfer. It may negatively affect performance.
I am unfamiliar with the IBM SPSS Modeler but use KNIME and Alteryx for different projects. Alteryx is an excellent, very easy to get started with and get to results data cleansing, ETL, analytics, geospatial modeling, predictive analytics. I build reusable macros in Alteryx, use flexible inputs for what-if modeling, feed information to Power BI or Tableau. It seems price competitive against SPSS.