Alteryx Designer Cloud Features
Data Source Access (3)
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Breadth of Data Sources
Provides a wide range of possible data connections, including cloud applications, on-premise databases, and big data distributions, among others
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Ease of Data Connectivity
Allows businesses to easily connect to any data source
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API Connectivity
Offers API connections for cloud-based applications and data sources
Data Interaction (8)
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Profiling and Classification
Permits profiling of data sets for increased organization, both by users and machine learning
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Metadata Management
Indexes metadata descriptions for easier searching and enhanced insights
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Data Modeling
Tools to (re)structure data in a manner that enables quick and accurate insight extraction
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Data Joining
Allows self-service joining of tables
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Data Blending
Provides the ability to combine data sources into one data set
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Data Quality and Cleansing
Allows users and administrators to easily clean data to maintain quality and integrity
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Data Sharing
Offers collaborative functionality for sharing queries and data sets
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Data Governance
Ensures user access management, data lineage, and data encryption
Data Exporting (3)
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Breadth of Integrations
Provides a wide range of possible integrations, including analytics, data integration, master data management, and data science tools
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Ease of Integrations
Allows businesses to easily integrate with analytics, data integration, master data management, and data science tools
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Data Workflows
Operationalizes data workflows to easily scale repeatable preparation needs
Management (7)
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Reporting
View ETL process data via reports and visualizations like charts and graphs.
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Auditing
Record ETL historical data for auditing and potential data correction needs.
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Reporting
Provide follow-up information after data cleanings through a visual dashboard or reports.
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Automation
Automatically run data identification, correction, and normalization on data sources.
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Quality Audits
Schedule automated audits to identify data anomalies over time based on set business rules.
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Dashboard
Gives a view of the entire data quality management ecosystem.
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Governance
Allows user role-based access and actions to authorization for specific tasks.
Functionality (10)
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Extraction
Extract data from the designated source(s) like relational databases, JSON files, and XML files.
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Transformation
Cleanse and re-format extracted data to the needed target format.
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Loading
Load reformatted data into target database, data warehouse, or other storage location.
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Automation
Arrange ETL processes to occur automatically on needed time schedule (e.g., daily, weekly, monthly).
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Scalability
Capable of scaling processing power up or down based on ETL volume.
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Identification
Correctly identify inaccurate, incomplete, or duplicated data from a data source.
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Correction
Utilize deletion, modification, appending, merging, or other methods to correct bad data.
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Normalization
Standardize data formatting for uniformity and easier data usage.
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Preventative Cleaning
Clean data as it enters the data source to prevent mixing bad data with cleaned data.
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Data Matching
Finds duplicates using the fuzzy logic technology or an advance search feature.
Development (7)
Real-Time Integration
Supports event or transaction based integrations that react to changes in real-time
API Designer
Provides a web-based interface for designing, documenting, and testing APIs.
Flow Designer
Allows for integration development through the visual development of integration logic flows with the help od a drag and drop user interface.
Pre-Built Connectors
Facilitiates API development and integrations with prebuilt connectors, templates, and examples.
Custom Connectors
Provides the ability to create connectors from existing services and APIs in catalog.
Reusable connectors
Provides prebuilt, reusable connectors and workflows for all user integration requirements.
Multi - tenant architecture
Enables multiple tenants (customers) to securely share physical computing resources.
Management (5)
Monitoring & Notification
Console for monitoring resource utilization, system health, ability to start and stop processes, etc.
Routing And Orchestration
Enables data routing on configuration basis and management of complex workflows through an orchestration engine.
Data Mapping
Facilitates to and fro data map according to the data model between applications/web services.
Data Transformation
Provides standard tools and functions to convert data values from the data format of a source system into the data format of a destination system.
API Management
Supports and oversees the management of API products across their full lifecycle
Security (3)
Data Encryption
Employs data encryption both at rest and in transit.
Security Standards
Comply to key industry standards like SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA etc to protect and safeguard data.
Communication Protocol
Supports secure communication protocols like FTPS, SFTP etc
Integration Options (4)
Data Virtualization
Integrates data from disparate sources, without physical data movement
Managed File Transfers
Provides one or more methods to securely transfer data from one location to another through a network
Big Data Processing
Provides integration to BigData sources such as Hadoop and other NoSQL sources (MongoDB, Cassandra and HBase)
EDI
Provides Integrations to EDI service providers.
Deployment (2)
Hybrid
Supports deployment of integration apps both on-premisis and cloud environments/
Cloud to Cloud
Supports deployment of integration apps to a managed cloud environment
Generative AI (3)
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.




