Data Preparation Software Resources
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Data Preparation Software Articles
Data Manipulation Explained: 5 Best Practices for Quality Data
While working with disparate data, you need to organize, clean, and transform it to use it in your decision-making process.
by Sagar Joshi
What Is Database Normalization? Types and Examples
Without adequate data collection and analysis, decision-making in any organization often goes haywire.
by Sagar Joshi
What Is Data Wrangling? How It Enables Faster Analysis
Businesses managing massive data volume face complexities in making sense of it.
by Sagar Joshi
A Brief History of Data and the Birth of Analytics Platforms
The story of the first business computer could not be more British if it tried.
by Tom Pringle
Data Preparation Software Glossary Terms
Data Preparation Software Discussions
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Question on: Alteryx Designer Cloud
How to speed up the loading time? Can we have an option to use Google Sheet as the input dataset?The loading time is so long & it make me feel frustrated everytime I use Dataprep. Also we have a lot of data on Google Sheet so it would be a pleased to have to option to use Google Sheet as the input dataset.
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We hear you and we agree. The Google Sheet's integration is now available. Let us know if you're still seeing loading time issues. This should all be sorted. if it's not, please DM me at awilson@trifacta.com and we'll follow-up with you directly.
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Question on: Alteryx Designer Cloud
Why working with views sometimes jobs start failing?I have jobs reading from big query views, a trick to performs custom queries over big query tables, that recently start failing because they can t find the source view. It seems that is not stable or strongly dependent on gcloud environment.
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Hi Paolo, Did you confirm that the view contains tables that Dataprep can access within the same project? Additionally, if you visit our community at https://community.trifacta.com/s/ you can connect directly with our support staff to assistance.
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Question on: Alteryx
What's the one thing that Alteryx brings to the play which other platforms lack?A very vibrant and helpful community.
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It's code-free drag and drop and incredibly comprehensive. For example, you can buy platforms that do code-free spatial analytics, then buy one which does code-free auto ml for predictive analytics, but to get the best out of these you buy another platform to do your connectivity and ETL/ELT. Alteryx does all of these things.
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Alteryx has its AMP engine, which utilizes parallel processing capability. If we design the pipeline efficiently, the data processing can easily be optimized.
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Data Preparation Software Reports
Mid-Market Grid® Report for Data Preparation
Spring 2026
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Grid® Report for Data Preparation
Spring 2026
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Enterprise Grid® Report for Data Preparation
Spring 2026
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Momentum Grid® Report for Data Preparation
Spring 2026
G2 Report: Momentum Grid® Report
Small-Business Grid® Report for Data Preparation
Spring 2026
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Enterprise Grid® Report for Data Preparation
Winter 2026
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Small-Business Grid® Report for Data Preparation
Winter 2026
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Mid-Market Grid® Report for Data Preparation
Winter 2026
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Grid® Report for Data Preparation
Winter 2026
G2 Report: Grid® Report
Momentum Grid® Report for Data Preparation
Winter 2026
G2 Report: Momentum Grid® Report






