Focus on Your Analysis, Not Your SQL Code

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Focus on Your Analysis, Not Your SQL CodeBeth Narrish, Senior Product Marketing Manager

Dan Hilton, Solutions Architect

Mar 7, 2017

Agenda

• SQL and SQL Challenges

• Who is Alteryx

• Benefits of Workflow

• Demo

• Q&A

The legacy approach to analytics is often challenging for organizations

Data BlendingPredictive &

Spatial AnalyticsProduction &

Output CreationData Access Prep

& Cleansing

Data integration tool Analytic coding App creationData quality tool

Slow, long process Multiple tools and process steps

Expensive software and labor

IT Staff Data Scientists Line-of-Business

And while many organizations are relying on spreadsheets for data analysis, they are also using low-level SQL queries

Harvard Business Review: Data Blending: A Powerful Method For Faster, Easier Decisions

• SQL is the standard language for relational database management systems and has been for 40 years

• Source: American National Standards Institute

• While NoSQL has gained popularity with Hadoop, MongoDB and other sources, SQL is still king

• Impala and Spark can utilize SQL

Why SQL?

But SQL can pose challenges for analysts and their colleagues

• Colleagues often cannot pick up SQL code and understand how data was pulled

• Documenting steps is needed to repeat the process when data changes

• Troubleshooting each step in a complex query can be tedious

A Leading Platform for Self-Service Data Analytics

Prep, blend, and analyze all your data using a repeatable workflow

Deliver deeper insights in hours, not weeks

Deploy and share analytics at scale

A Leading Platform for Self-Service Data Analytics

Enrich

Prep & Blend Analyze

Input All Relevant Data

Output All Popular Formats

How Alteryx Helps SQL Coders

Why Workflows?

TransparencySee data flow through the process, and the actions performed at every step

Why Workflows?

Seamless TransformationsExtract, transform and load data without writing any code

Efficiency In Debugging, Testing and PrototypingStop spending time writing code only to get a null data set; understand exactly what is happening at each stage of your analytic process

Why Workflows?

AccessibilityAccess structured, unstructured or semi-structured data from virtually any environment: SQL Server, NoSQL databases, desktop, cloud, Big Data environments, and more

FlexibilityLeverage existing SQL statements, and develop new procedures

Demonstration

Conclusion

See what Alteryx can do for you!http://www.alteryx.com/alteryx-for-sql

http://www.alteryx.com/product-training

Focus on Your Analysis, Not Your SQL Code

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