We performed a comparison between Alteryx and MicroStrategy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Predictive Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Geo features have made spatial mapping large retail universes possible."
"The design portion of this tool is easy to use without code, which his something that something we can appreciate."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its performance. It is a powerful solution."
"The drag-and-drop features are useful for data scientists who do not like to code because it is already in the system."
"The scheduling within the solution is excellent."
"I like the solution's velocity, the speed with which it processes data, and its ease of use."
"Alteryx's connectivity is essential. We like the ability to connect the solution to multiple sources. It's easier than other data modeling and extraction solutions. It's built on a self-service concept, so it's easy for anyone to open the tool and directly import or export data from it."
"Alteryx is a simple and easy-to-use solution."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"It helps all the store managers and supply chain people to obtain a view of the data and plan the next week, the next month, quarters, and so on."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"We leverage it, not only for reporting but for analytics and also for geospatial reporting."
"We are embedding multimedia content in our apps... You can embed streaming video from websites, or you can host the video files on your internal media servers. The video is clear, absolutely."
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"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."
"It seems to me that it is not always user friendly."
"The data integration component could most likely be improved to increase enterprise scalability."
"Alteryx could be improved in the area of analytics and central governance."
"Sometimes workflows tend to queue up, and they tend to get canceled for some reason that we don't know sometimes."
"In the database, it should be more functional and connect to more big data, especially using IPI."
"I mostly used it for flat files, but I have many colleagues who reported that to tune a query, in case they want to directly connect to the database, there is no option to optimize the performance of the query, as we have in Informatica."
"From a commercial standpoint, more options should be available for pricing. The licensing model needs to be specific."
"You can now do data blending at the document level and data blending allows you to show results from different data sets in one grid, so to speak. I want to be able to create a data set that can receive data from multiple cubes, have it in one data set, and then bring it to the document, because then I can reuse it for other documents. Now, I have to do it in a document and then it's less reusable, because if I want to share that functionality, I have to copy the document, strip a lot of things, and then work on that basic element that I've built in that document."
"With Cube partition (v10.1 and above) scalability has not been an issue, but the Cube publish time, and temporary space consumption while the Cube is being published, has almost doubled during implementation of Cube partition."
"The interface you can design in MicroStrategy is great, but I feel it needs to be refreshed, add a bit more functionality. I would like to see more capabilities on the mobile side, to bring it on par with apps that you see in the App Store."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"They need to supply the support system that's just not there right now. They don't have Enterprise Manager classes. You need in-depth classes to understand what those metrics are doing, to understand the table associations from one to the other. You can't just go and pick it up and understand that DT_DAY connects to all of these tables, without going into Architect, looking at the source tables. I, as a analyst, a slightly technical user, I don't have the expertise to do that. Business users definitely don't have the expertise to do that."
"It crashes multiple times for even small changes that I make on the fly in the dashboard. After doing all the necessary changes, the MicroStrategy desktop or even the web version kicks the users out, and all the changes are lost. This functionality is buggy in MicroStrategy. It is hard to keep track of all the changes that I have done before. I don't want to make copies of each change that I have made because I would end up creating a hundred dashboards. It is not feasible in a real environment. I haven't worked on integrating MicroStrategy with the cloud. I am not sure how it behaves in the cloud, but I have heard from a few of my friends that there are some hiccups when you kind of sync to the cloud through MicroStrategy."
"I would like to see more Writeback capabilities that would allow our IT department not to be worried about the wild, Wild West of Writeback."
"From a stability standpoint, from MicroStrategy, I would say it's fairly consistent. I would give it a "B" because there are times where we have issues that are just inexplicable. They go away and then we have no resolution. To me, that's not acceptable. There are just times where our users can't access things and we're not sure why, and that's a problem to me."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and Microsoft Power BI, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Essbase. See our Alteryx vs. MicroStrategy report.
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