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Alteryx version dedicated to Mac OS X?

Idea:

An Alteryx version for Mac OS X sounded like a nice idea... Although there are options for using bootcamp with windows 7-8

or some virtualisation software as mentioned in a community post here.

 

Rationale 1 (Competitors do it):

First of all there is no need to neglect a customer segment using Mac's.

 

  • Rapidminer Studio comes with a dedicated OS X version,
  • Knime has Mac OS X support 
  • Weka has Mac OS X support as well
  • SPSS Modeler is Windows only but SPSS Stats is Mac OS X compatible.

 

Seems SAS was compatable in the last decade, but they dropped it. Now SAS is not OS X compatible but

still with the "SAS OnDemand" version Mac users can easly get a hands on experience.

 

Rationale 2:

The Mac Pro Beast has 7.2 TFlops of computing power with the help of dual ATI graphics cards.

It would be awesome to install Alteryx on one... 

 

64 Comments
MattB
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Thanks @Saarek for checking in. This is still on the roadmap and we are actively working on it. However, given the vast feature set of Designer and amount of work involved, we won't have a version for Mac OS in the near term. Please feel free to check back later in the year.

bimstr12
5 - Atom

KNIME is an excellent alteryx alternative as well as RapidMiner for OSX.

Zuba1r
5 - Atom
Totally waiting for this. Using Windows on a 13" MacBook Pro is painful. Why is it so late? I've been avoiding Alteryx as much as possible because of lack of platform support.
Xueliu
5 - Atom

Can't help pushing this again. 

 

Eagerly waiting and have one in native Mac OS and @Matt, would you bring us some new updates in the near future? ;-) 

MattB
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Hi @Xueliu,

 

Thank you for checking in. A Mac OS version is still a priority on our roadmap but unfortunately won't be delivered in the near term.

Saarek
7 - Meteor

Thanks @MattB, our team is now in the process of switching to R as it is Mac compatable. That's 6 licences being pulled, not much in the grand scheme, but we can't be the only ones.

Atabarezz
13 - Pulsar

Great point @Saarek

gabrielvilella
14 - Magnetar

I cannot stress enough how much I want Alteryx running natively on my Mac. It is so painful to use Windows. And I believe that there is many many people out there on the same situattion. We love Alteryx but hate Windows. 

cdabel-ps
5 - Atom
Well, Windows is fine for me. I just hate having to use a VM running in
parallel; it's big pain.

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Thanks,
Chris Dabel
@cdabel
veronicasimoes
9 - Comet

Yeeeesss!!!! Please!!!!