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Today Alteryx launches our “Analytics Unchained” initiative, an effort to help organizations remove the shackles of legacy analytics software from SAS Institute – and by shackles we mean an expensive array of different software products that are hard to integrate, overly complex to use, proprietary and slow. This is an effort to educate customers on their alternatives, which include Alteryx Strategic Analytics, especially as they consider how to enable more analysts and users in their organization with fast, easy and affordable analytics and evaluate the best fit for their next major analytics project.
While many organizations have made significant investments in SAS analytics products over the years, even those that have done so are finding that legacy tools and solutions like SAS simply aren’t built to deal with today’s modern business and data environment. SAS requires purchasing and integrating too many different products to address a single use case, takes too long to process and combine large data sets, requires lots of coding and thus also expensive training and talent, and attempts to lock in organizations with its proprietary platform. SAS has a product for everything, but it means purchasing hundreds of different products to “fit” the need and then burdening IT with integrating all of them. It also then means the line of business does not have the power to get its own answers at the speed required but instead must wait for IT to integrate the products and deliver answers at whatever pace possible, and then get back in the queue for additional answers or to iterate on the analysis.
Alteryx can help organizations remove those shackles by putting the power in the hands of the lines of business, enabling every business and data analyst with a fast, easy, and affordable analytics tool that makes it easy to blend, cleanse and enrich data; perform advanced analytics such as predictive, stastical and spatial analytics; and share analytic apps with users and decision makers in the organization.
Analytics Unchained is about freeing organizations from the shackles of SAS by:
- Delivering rapid answers to business questions with faster data blending
Analysts don’t have weeks or even months to wait to get the data and answers they need. In many cases they need answers in minutes not hours or days. They don’t want to rely on other departments to get the data, and another department to do the analysis. They want a single solution environment that gives them the ability to do data blending, analysis, and deliver business outputs. Alteryx customers who have experience with both products even assert differences that in some cases.... - Empowering the business with analytics designed for the analyst, not only coders
Incorporating sophisticated analytics into your business decisions shouldn’t require a PhD or advanced coding knowledge. Simplify the analytics process by delivering analytic capabilities in an easy to use drag-and-drop interface that analysts who understand the business can use. - Making analytics affordable for every analyst and decision maker
Get the analytics you need with a single platform at an affordable price and reduce your operational costs by empowering all of your business and data analysts with advanced analytics, rather than restricting this kind of work to expensive SAS resources. By empowering your line of business analysts, who know your industry and department the best, you will also ensure that you get the answers you need.
To find out how Alteryx can help your organization understand your alternatives to SAS as you evaluate your next major analytics projects, start by reading our white paper “5 Questions to Ask Before You Use SAS for Your Next Analytics Project”.
You will also find more information on our website about the value customers are getting from Alteryx – and you can try it yourself, either by running sample applications in our cloud, Alteryx Analytics Gallery, or if you are a data analyst then by downloading our free Project Edition to start blending data, using drag-and-drop analytics, and building analytic apps.
Rick Schultz
SVP of Marketing, Alteryx
