The Alteryx Starter Kit for Microsoft: Spend less time in data preparation

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Let’s face it! If you’re like most analysts, then going from data preparation to visualization is an everyday occurrence for you in today’s data-driven environment. Unfortunately, you probably sit at your desk spending hours upon hours manually preparing your data. You find yourself wallowing in data drudgery instead of jumping in analytic awesomeness.

TDWI, a respected provider of data warehousing insights, recently took a survey of more than 400 data professionals to dig into the self-service data preparation space. Here are a few results from that “best practices” report titled Improving Data Preparation for Business Analytics:

• Manual data preparation continues to burden analyst resources. A majority of survey respondents said analysts spend 61% to 80% of their time manually prepping data.
• 86% of survey respondents reported that it’s “somewhat important” or “very important” to reduce the amount of time and resources spent on data prep for analytics and BI.
• Close to 50% of analysts report relying on their IT department for the first step of data prep tasks, which can take anywhere from two days to four weeks to complete. Many analysts reported that they received the data too late to have a business impact.
• Only 4% said their data preparation tasks have been entirely automated through products, while a majority say they prepare data by hand every time.

There has to be a better way to prepare data that is easier, more efficient, less costly and less time-consuming.

Luckily, Alteryx and Microsoft Power BI provide analysts with a robust, integrated solution that enables them to quickly go from preparing data to creating rich visualizations. Alteryx delivers an intuitive drag-and-drop interface for creating visual workflows that allow for transformation of large datasets. Microsoft Power BI transforms your data into rich visuals using natural language and drag-and-drop gestures so that you can find answers to your most important questions. This joint solution can be viewed in the Alteryx Starter Kit for Microsoft! Included in the kit is a series of modules that show you how to utilize pre-built analytic workflows to quickly and easily:

• Reduce the time required to blend data from multiple sources – no VLookups or scripts necessary
• Simplify data preparation, transformation, and enrichment
• Create predictive data models with no coding required
• Create audit-ready workflows that can be automated and scaled for you data needs
• Push your cleansed and prepared dataset directly from Alteryx to Microsoft Power BI
• Build visualizations, dashboards, and reports that help you generate deeper and more powerful insights

Download the Alteryx Starter Kit for Microsoft to learn more about how Alteryx and Microsoft Power BI enable and empower analysts to reduce the amount of time and resources spent on data prep for analytics and BI. Go from weeks to hours when working with your data!