Alteryx Overview

We use Alteryx to streamline the data usage amongst our internal clients by providing streamlined automation and applications to bring complex data questions into easy to interpret outcomes. With Alteryx's issue ticketing, KPIs, system statuses, and more are easily managed, automated, and curated with speed and efficiency.
Excellent data discovery tool, quickly understand new or unknown data in system. Automation of repetitive tasks and reports. Self-Service reporting and exploration.

My team has been running Tableau reports for clinicians, researchers, and leadership in our organization. As we have developed more reports we had strong needs of managing data pipelines in a systematic way. In many cases, ETL processes were managed individually by data developers and analysts and there were issues of report ownership, data consistency, and management issues. We adopted Alteryx and automated two types of processes: ETL processes and Tableau data extract creation. Alteryx provided values in terms of systemized pipeline management and query performance.
Sometimes the desktop version of authoring tool crashes! It's been unstable in the previous versions but gets better. Even if it doesn't crash, it used to be slow or not responding. When running several version of database drivers in local machine or server, it is tricky to set up database connections. Often you have to figure out it by googling the problem and solution. There are not many knowledge bases from Alteryx. Alteryx project file creates .bak file automatically. It is useful to prevent for the purpose of back up, sometimes it's not necessary. But it is not changeable for some reason. By default, it always creates backups.