Engine Works

Under the hood of Alteryx: tips, tricks and how-tos.

Best Practices

12 min to read

360 Governance with Alteryx

This post introduces a comprehensive yet flexible reference framework for governing Alteryx.

Alteryx Designer

7 min to read

5 Ways to Improve Your Alteryx Internal Training Experience

Here are some tips and tricks to help you train new Alteryx users.

Best Practices

9 min to read

Alteryx and Privacy Laws: Complying with GDPR

We outline how Alteryx servers (on-prem) process data and our recommendations to set up an on-prem server architecture to comply with stringent new standards in terms of compliance...

Best Practices

5 min to read

Performance Tuning With Plans in Designer Cloud, Trifacta Cl...

We have assembled 3 different complex flow scenarios along with potential solutions.

Best Practices

4 min to read

Performance Tuning with Recipes in Designer Cloud, Trifacta...

We will introduce ways to reduce computational costs and redundancy in developing your data pipeline!

Best Practices

10 min to read

Tips for Building a First-Class Alteryx Center of Excellence

For an Alteryx CoE to be great, it needs to do things right. Here are five things that can help in that regard!

Best Practices

4 min to read

Breaking Down Data Buzzwords

You might be new to the data field or working in a role where you are increasingly working with data in your day-to-day. So let’s demystify some data buzzwords!

Best Practices

6 min to read

Documenting Your Alteryx Workflows

In this blog, I will discuss some key tips when documenting an Alteryx workflow, demonstrating this with a sample documented workflow I created off the back of an Alteryx challenge...

Best Practices

4 min to read

Ethics in Data Storytelling

Learn some tips for an ethical approach to data storytelling (and how Alteryx can help).

Alteryx Designer

6 min to read

Customer-Managed Telemetry: A Window into Workflow Transpare...

In this post, we discuss what customer-managed telemetry is, how to turn it on, and how to deploy it.

Alteryx Server

7 min to read

Alteryx Architectures - Alteryx Server Demo Environment

In this edition of the series, we’ll look at the architecture of the Alteryx Server Demo environment and discuss some of the key reasons we decided on this architecture.

Alteryx Designer

5 min to read

5 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Using Alteryx

I’d like to share a few things I wish I had known when I started so that if you are starting your Alteryx journey, perhaps your learning curve can be less steep.

Alteryx Designer

7 min to read

Alteryx Workflow Performance: The Network Effect

Understand the impact the network makes on your workflow performance

Best Practices

3 min to read

Alteryx Workflow Governance: What Are Your Best Practices?

As the population of Alteryx users grows, one topic becomes increasingly important: how are we ensuring that usage of Alteryx is well controlled and governed?

Best Practices

6 min to read

Alteryx + Snowflake = Mind-blown Speeds!

Are your UPSERTs into Snowflake using the Output tool taking too long? This blog shares with you all how you can utilise what Snowflake provides and what Alteryx provides to give y...

Best Practices

3 min to read

The Ins and Outs of In-Database, Starting with Snowflake

Sometimes it pays to be pushy. By “pushy” in this case I mean pushdown optimization, which is admittedly less catchy but still very cool.

Alteryx Server

4 min to read

The Secret Recipe to Organize a Server

After installing my server, I have to organize it so that it can host workflows and users. I also want it to be secure but adaptable to cross-functional projects without coming bac...

Alteryx Auto Insights

5 min to read

Embedding a Mission in Your Re-Occurring Process

Does easy and repeatable reporting feel like an impossible mission at your company? Before you say “Mission Impossible!” let me introduce you to the Missions feature of Auto Insigh...

Alteryx Designer

7 min to read

10 Alteryx Tips and Best Practices

So, I have been an Alteryx user for more than three years now, and part of my job is helping others in their Alteryx journey (which I absolutely love). So here is my list of 10 tip...

Apps and Macros

4 min to read

Fixing Macros and Analytic Apps Using Debug Mode

Building Analytic Apps and Macros within Alteryx can be very exciting, but it can also present error messages that are hard to troubleshoot. Within this article, I would like to de...

Alteryx Designer

6 min to read

Exploratory Data Analysis in Alteryx

The data is not always (almost never) perfect, so it is necessary to verify its quality. This article will cover the various tools and methods that can be used for EDA in Alteryx.

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

How to Reduce the Size of an Alteryx Data Set

This post will share two tips to reduce the size of your Alteryx output and increase the speed of data loading in BI applications.

Alteryx Tools

6 min to read

How to Generate and Format Totals and Subtotals

Overview of the main techniques for creating the different types of vertical or horizontal, totals or subtotals, and how to format them.

Alteryx Server

5 min to read

Alteryx Architectures - Workload Management

Ensure Alteryx Server environments are able to process incoming workloads efficiently.

Apps and Macros

7 min to read

Alteryx Analytic Apps Introduction and Deep Dive Series: Par...

Time to create an analytical app!

Best Practices

12 min to read

DateTime Functions Cheat Sheet

In an effort to help those drowning in datetime waters, I did my best to make a concise overview of the datetime functions that Alteryx offers and try to get you going in the world...

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

Alteryx Multi-Threaded Processing (AMP)

Created with Pablo https://pablo.buffer.com/ Learn the basics of the Alteryx Multi-Threaded Processing (AMP) Engine.

Best Practices

4 min to read

Make Your Workflow Visually Impactful - Part 3: Visual Effec...

Part 3 focuses on adding visual effects that make your workflow look more attractive.

Best Practices

9 min to read

Make Your Workflow Visually Impactful - Part 2: Your Workflo...

Part 2 focuses on preparing your workflow to make it clean, clear and easily understandable.

Best Practices

6 min to read

Make Your Workflow Visually Impactful - Part 1: Your Prepara...

A messy workflow can negatively impact your purpose and your contribution, so focus on preparing your message, your priorities and identify the value for your audience.