Analytics Excellence Award Winners and Customer Keynote at Inspire 2016

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Awarding customers is always fun, especially when that award also includes giving back to the community. Yesterday at Inspire 2016, I was privileged to announce the winners of our first Alteryx Analytics Excellence Awards. These awards are part of our Alteryx for Good program that was announced earlier this year by my fellow co-founder and our CEO, Dean Stoecker.

The Alteryx Analytics Excellence Awards were created to recognize and celebrate our customers’ best Alteryx success stories while allowing us to give back to deserving charitable organizations. The below winners will select from an amazing list of charities to split $100,000 equally.

Congratulations to this year’s winners:

• Best ‘Alteryx for Good’ Story - Awarded to the customer using Alteryx for positive social impact. Congratulations to this year’s winner, Andy Kriebel, Head Coach at The Information Lab for his submission on Connect2Help 211.
• Best Business ROI - Awarded to the customer with the most significant business impact, based on quantified results and driven by insight gained applying Alteryx. Congratulations to Omid Madadi, Developer at Southwest Airlines Co.
• Best Use of Alteryx Server – Awarded to the customer with the most powerful use of Alteryx server. This year’s winner is the Actuarial team at MedPro Group.
• Most Unexpected Insight – Awarded to the customer with the most unexpected insight using Alteryx to discover something new in their data and empowering the company to operate differently because of that insight. Congratulations to the Workforce Intelligence & Processes team at BAE Systems
• Wildcard – Name your category! Wildcard is awarded to the submitter who is excelling in a category not already mentioned, and is selected by the judges from this wildcard category or any contest entry. The 2016 award goes to the Western European eCommerce Analytics team of Adidas International Trading B.V.
• Best Use of Alteryx for Spatial Analytics– Awarded to the customer with the most interesting use of Alteryx spatial analytics. The 2016 award goes to Andy Moncla, Chief Operating Officer & Alteryx ACE at B.I. Spatial
• Most Time Saved – Awarded to the customer with the most significant time savings, and the resulting action and business impact of that time saved. The 2016 Alteryx Analytics Excellence Award goes to Kiran Ramakrishnan

We also announced our partner awards, congratulations to:

• Partner of the Year – EMEA – Information Lab
• Partner of the Year – Americas – Slalom
• Partner of the Year – Asia Pacific – MIP
• Alliance Partner of the Year – Tableau
• Emerging Partner of the Year – Microsoft

This week at Inspire, we have celebrated the analysts who integrate Alteryx into their daily work, driving powerful new insights for their organizations. You are the Alteryx Community. You have shared your ideas, answered ‘how to’ questions for each other, brainstormed new product features, networked, and more. As this year’s conference wraps up, I urge you, do not leave your Alteryx Community behind in San Diego. Please leverage the Community during the rest of the year:

• Share with other users on the Idea Center
• Meet your local Alteryx User Group
• Post a blog
• Present your use case on Alteryx Community, or consider sharing at Inspire next year

Thank you for joining us at Inspire 2016! We still have a half-day left of content today, from my fellow co-founder, Ned Harding’s session on the Alteryx Engine, to our exciting new Alteryx ACE panel. Thank you for your contributions to the Alteryx community, and remember - don’t hesitate to engage yourself with the community after Inspire!