Alteryx Platform vs. Microsoft Excel

Alteryx Platform

359 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Excel

1,620 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Alteryx Platform	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	The Alteryx AI Platform gives organization automated data preparation, AI-powered analytics, and machine learning with embedded governance and security. Its self-service functionality, with self-service data prep, machine learning, and AI-generated insights, gives enterprise teams with a simplified user experience allowing everyone to create analytic solutions that improve productivity, efficiency, and the bottom line. Alteryx Designer can be used to automate every analytics step…	$14,850 per year 3 users (minimum), cloud edition
Microsoft Excel	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application available as part of Microsoft 365 (Office 365), or standalone, in cloud-based and on-premise editions.	$6.99 per month

Pricing

Alteryx Platform

Microsoft Excel

Designer Desktop: starting at $5,195
per year per user
Designer Cloud Professional Edition: Starting at $4,950
per year per user (minimum of 3 users)

Excel with Microsoft 365: $6.99
per month
Excel for 1 PC or Mac: $139.99
perpetual license

Pricing Offerings
Alteryx Platform	Microsoft Excel
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Alteryx Platform	Microsoft Excel
Considered Both Products	Alteryx David Shi Manager, Risk Data Analytics & Visualisation in Finance and Accounting at EY (Management Consulting, 10,001+ employees) Chose Alteryx Platform Alteryx serves as a complementary product, performing all the data wrangling for the likes of Tableau Desktop and Microsoft PowerBI for visualization. Microsoft Excel serves as an easier means of automation for tasks that previously would have involved a lot of manual … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alteryx Platform Alteryx is way better than Microsoft Excel. It visually lets you do things to the data, one tool at a time. And, you can just delete the tool if it did not do what you were wanting it to do. Excel is a nice app, but Alteryx expands the capability so much more, especially … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alteryx Platform I prefer Alteryx Platform to all the above products. In my opinion, the Microsoft products (Excel, Power BI) are inferior, cheaper alternatives to Alteryx Platform. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alteryx Platform The Server component of Alteryx is what our team drew to it. Having a centralized server and support team allows a lot of self service analytics Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Edwards Business Analyst II at Amazon.com (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees) Chose Alteryx Platform I still use SQL, Python, and Excel when I have to - but alteryx has largely replaced all three of these. Every operation I need to do in any of these I can do in alteryx and see what I'm doing each step of the way - so problem solving is also easier. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alteryx Platform IMHO KNIME is not user friendly as much as Alteryx. Learning curve is long. Regardless is Open Source, the GUI is awful. To do same job in Alteryx you need to add many components and the configuration is very complex. Although the application is free, the server side is not. I … Incentivized Helpful? Gottfried Mathurin Internal Audit Data Analytics in Corporate at Veolia (Renewables & Environment, 10,001+ employees) Chose Alteryx Platform Knime is open source and free. It also positions itself a little on machine learning. But the user experience and the features available are far less powerful than Alteryx. I was a former user of Lavastorm (ancestor of Infogix Data360) and got acquainted with the low-code … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alteryx Platform Alteryx has many connectors that allow it to bring data in from various systems and export it to various formats and systems (SQL Server, Oracle DB, ODBCs, etc.) There are also additional connectors available provided by third parties that can help with connecting to other … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Kyburz Global Strategic Sourcing Manager - New Product Introduction in Manufacturing at Polaris Inc. (Automotive, 10,001+ employees) Chose Alteryx Platform Alteryx is feature-rich and allows our team to blend multiple data sources and types together with ease. We are able to really speed through workflow development while strengthening the quality of the output. I would say that Alteryx is able to outdo the other products in the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alteryx Platform Alteryx is basically a packaged version of Excel, which potentially less functionality but much 1) easier to learn and 2) greater power to process larger datasets. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alteryx Platform Alteryx is much more repeatable, accurate, and reliable. It also is more efficient and loads faster than excel transformations. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alteryx Platform Alteryx was faster in processing the data and had more user-friendly tools to automate the reporting function. Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Sushant goyal Analyst in Finance and Accounting at Airtel International LLP-Airtel Africa (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel is legacy software and no one till now had matched the functionality of Excel. We can even automate daily tasks easily with help of macros. Also one can connect various data base to it and you are good to go without any other hassle. Google Sheets is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Excel We utilize Tableau and Alteryx in addition to Excel. We use Excel since we have a data dump that could be utilized in feeding for these two solutions. We select Excel for some manual work then plug the data into the other two tools for further analysis around text analytics … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Alteryx Platform	Microsoft Excel
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (137 ratings)	9.1 (58 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.9 (19 ratings)	9.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (53 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Availability	7.3 (4 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	8.6 (44 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.3 (52 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
In-Person Training	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (5 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	7.3 (2 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.4 (30 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sources	8.7 (30 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.2 (3 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.3 (3 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.2 (2 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	7.3 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)