Altair SLC vs. Azure Data Lake Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Altair SLC
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Altair SLC (formerly the WPS industrial analytics platform, acquired by Altair in late 2021) is designed for data science and heavyweight data processing with the languages of SAS and R. Best known for its SAS language compiler, the software includes advanced graphical user interfaces, robust, high-performance data processing and production-ready application frameworks.N/A
Azure Data Lake Analytics
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Data Lake Analytics is a BI service for processing big data jobs without consideration for infrastructure.N/A
Pricing
Altair SLCAzure Data Lake Analytics
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Altair SLCAzure Data Lake Analytics
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Altair SLCAzure Data Lake Analytics
Considered Both Products
Altair SLC
Chose Altair SLC
To better understand the data I work with, I extensively use the data discovery and visualization tools available on my workstations, and I always go for the best. Unfortunately, some other tools does not offer any tutorials for the features, making it difficult and …
Chose Altair SLC
Although we didn't implement datapine, we evaluated it but it was way too expensive compared to WPS Analytics.
Chose Altair SLC
Unfortunately, Tableau Desktop does not offer tutorials for the features making it hectic and complicated to analyze data, mainly after implementation. WPS Analytics offers detailed tutorials in form of videos and articles for all features.
Chose Altair SLC
I use a lot of data discovery and visualization tools at workstations to help me gain deep insights into data. WPS Analytics doesn't vary much from all the DVD tools that I have listed, I always go for the best.
Azure Data Lake Analytics
Chose Azure Data Lake Analytics
Azure Data Lake simplifies extensive data analysis. It runs Hadoop, HDInsight, and Data Lakes, and even complex queries run smoothly and quickly. We write queries to transform data and extract insights instead of configuring hardware. It can handle any size job by adjusting the …
Chose Azure Data Lake Analytics
Compared to Databricks which we have fully implemented and all teams use, Azure Data Lake Analytics was first pushed on our engineering team from the Data Science group pretty much from familiarity. Once we did a proof of technology, we found it to natively have the better …
Chose Azure Data Lake Analytics
We did some research about Alibaba Cloud Data Lake Analytics and even being cheaper than Azure Data Lake Analytics, we decided to go for the second one once we noticed they have more features and better documentation. Another thing we considered during this process was the fact …
Chose Azure Data Lake Analytics
ADL Analytics supports big data such as Hadoop, HDInsight, Data lakes. Usually, a traditional data warehouse stores data from various data sources, transform data into a single format and analyze for decision making. Developers use complex queries that might take longer hours …
Chose Azure Data Lake Analytics
Both of the products selected are very good at what they do, but data lake analytics is able to bundle everything else within our preexisting data lake, which is a very big [deciding] factor.
Features
Altair SLCAzure Data Lake Analytics
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Altair SLC
8.6
Ratings
2% above category average
Azure Data Lake Analytics
-
Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Altair SLC
8.6
Ratings
8% above category average
Azure Data Lake Analytics
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Altair SLC
8.8
Ratings
4% above category average
Azure Data Lake Analytics
-
Ratings
Publish to Web8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Altair SLC
9.0
Ratings
10% above category average
Azure Data Lake Analytics
-
Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Altair SLCAzure Data Lake Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
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User Testimonials
Altair SLCAzure Data Lake Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
For now coders, I would emphasize them to use drag and drop functionality. Otherwise, WPS Analytics is a robust tool for app development and data visualization that offers multiple languages such as SAS, SQL, R, and Python.
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For us we have an enterprise of SQL users at all skill levels, and this product is very SQL friendly and extremely fast in creation of data aggregates and analysis. If you are an Azure storage user, considering using Lake Analytics over top of your blob or any other storage just adds complementary services and functions native to your existing architecture.
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Pros
  • Data preparation and advanced analytics help us to gain insights on company data.
  • Data sharing and distributing securely.
  • Visualization of data with WPS Analytics saves time when making business decisions.
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  • It combines big data.
  • Monitors and alerts are helpful.
  • Report visualization relies on analytics.
  • It is compatible with Power BI services for report generation.
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Cons
  • SAS functionality has to lack.
  • There's no online guideline, making it hard to solve problems.
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  • There's a bit of bias towards cloud with ADL Analytics. Depending upon a company's infra strategy and investment plans, there are some challenges with migration and integeration.
  • Not worth the time/effort/money if the organization doesn't have "Volume" of data. Cost effective only when daily loads exceed around 1million.
  • While training materials are available online, Adoption rate - Yet to pick up.
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Alternatives Considered
To better understand the data I work with, I extensively use the data discovery and visualization tools available on my workstations, and I always go for the best. Unfortunately, some other tools does not offer any tutorials for the features, making it difficult and time-consuming to analyze data, mainly after it has been implemented. In addition to videos and articles, WPS Analytics provides comprehensive tutorials for each feature.
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Azure Data Lake simplifies extensive data analysis. It runs Hadoop, HDInsight, and Data Lakes, and even complex queries run smoothly and quickly. We write queries to transform data and extract insights instead of configuring hardware. It can handle any size job by adjusting the power. Azure's servers, networking, and data entry are fantastic. It provides security and assured data access.
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Return on Investment
  • Reduction in operational costs since no data scientists are involved.
  • Time and effort have been reduced when analyzing data by using machine learning capabilities and natural language.
  • We have reduced time to value by bridging data processing to taking actions gap.
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  • Since we have implemented this solution, we have been more able to follow what is going on in our process and sells.
  • We are also sparing some money by comparing the costs now against the costs we had on-premise.
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