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Toucan is excited to announce a new integration between Alteryx Designer and Toucan, the customer-facing analytics and data storytelling platform, following a strategic investment from Alteryx Ventures earlier this year. In this article, we explore how the connection will accelerate your time to data insights by seamlessly uploading your Alteryx-prepared data into Toucan. Your Alteryx data is just a few clicks away from powering a rich engagement experience in Toucan. Let's dive in.
Toucan was created in response to the growing trend of poor data usability over the past decade despite a significant surge in company investments in analytics. Constructing an effective data stack is a complex task involving substantial investments in data collection, transformation, storage, computation, and maintenance - no small feat. Despite these investments, many end-users haven't generally reaped the benefits.
To bridge this gap and deliver compelling data to users, Toucan prioritizes usability. Toucan’s focus is on creating an engaging data experience through customer-facing analytics and data storytelling, recognizing the need to bring real value to end-users in the final stretch.
This new connector between Alteryx and Toucan enables the seamless transfer of all data preparation performed in Alteryx into Toucan, simplifying the management of the data pipeline and ensuring that data in Toucan remains up to date. You get the best of both worlds: robust and powerful data preparation with Alteryx + industry-leading, customer-facing analytics with Toucan = a best-in-class data experience for users.
1. Create Engaging End-user Experiences with Data Anywhere
Today’s end-users have high expectations for analytics. With Toucan, you’ll get the right tools to empower your organization and drive engagement. Users gain access to an extensive array of chart variations, best-in-class user experiences, limitless filtering capabilities, pre-built vertical application templates and much more. Toucan sets the standard for robust, last-mile analytics solutions.
With an elegant design, it is compatible with any device and can be seamlessly embedded into third-party applications. A beautiful end-user experience empowers users to glean insights and extract maximum value from data like never before.
Powered by storytelling features, visualizations are understandable and contextualized out of the box. Everybody remembers a good story. Toucan takes data communication beyond just a chart.
2. Seamless Implementation
There are many other aspects within the development and deployment of visualizations that can drive implementation time and costs. That’s why Toucan focuses on facilitating deployment and maintenance, all on a secure system from authentication to multi-tenant architecture. The platform seamlessly integrates with Alteryx Designer, enabling you to focus on crafting compelling stories with your data.
Fast and secured integration:
- Toucan's new instances are deployed in cloud services and hosted in Tier III certified data centers. Once in the application, get access to an API address and create your personal opaque Token, enabling the authentication system to link to your Toucan instance without sensitive information becoming visible. In minutes, you will be ready to use the connector.
Scale and maintain with ease:
- Integration facilitates scalability with low maintenance. APIs enable the automation of critical use cases, reducing manual intervention. This helps your analytics capabilities adapt and grow alongside your business while maintaining efficiency.
3. Unlock New Opportunities
The introduction of this Alteryx connector bridges the gap between diverse skill sets, combining the expertise of data analysts, visualization knowledge of BI teams, and active engagement of end users.
It paves the way for transparent business discussions focused on action and decision-making rather than getting bogged down in the intricacies of chart accuracy or data interpretation. This collaboration across personas shifts the conversation from explaining the meaning of tables and dashboards to forward-looking discussions centered around the question, "What are our next steps?"
Get more from your data stack
- Data stacks often involve a complex value chain spread across various tools and different levels of data expertise. Together, Alteryx and Toucan close technical gaps to expedite the delivery of data insights to end users, both within and outside the organization.
Effortless data imports
- Seamlessly connect to data across your organization with Alteryx’s easy-to-use interface and send that prepared data to Toucan in one workflow. Without any additional technical expertise – get high-quality, reliable data from across your organization into Toucan.
Freeing up data expertise
- Empower a wider audience of users by breaking from more technical constraints. Alteryx handles the heavy lifting, ensuring seamless data handling for advanced tasks. This collaborative approach democratizes data usage, allowing both technical and non-technical users to contribute effectively. Together, they create a dynamic ecosystem where everyone can harness the power of data for informed decision-making.
Enhance user engagement with data:
- Data should do more than just sit at rest. With Toucan, your data investments will actively improve daily business decisions and foster greater user engagement. The main goal of the tool is to ensure that your data becomes a strategic asset in your success story.
4. Get Started with Toucan
Toucan is deployed as a software as a service (SaaS). All users benefit from cloud security standards and shouldn’t need to worry about upgrades, backup, or monitoring.
In this quick 5-minute video, we’ll walk you through the steps to get started with Alteryx and Toucan, including:
- Uploading prepared data
- Creating data stories
- And embedding them into third-party applications
In summary, the integration of Alteryx and Toucan streamlines and accelerates the journey from data to insights. The connector seamlessly links your data to Toucan, providing easy-to-understand visualizations and intuitive storytelling. The focus here is on practicality, ensuring a hassle-free implementation.
This collaboration strives to make analytics accessible to all - eliminating the need for bouncing between tools and learning new coding languages to restore efficiency and engagement to your data and analytics processes.
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