The fourth industrial revolution has given rise to several sophisticated and powerful analytical tools. This offers organizations investing in such assets an opportunity to build a competitive advantage in the form of product leadership, a better customer experience, or exceptional mastery of their operations. Alteryx Designer is a tool allowing you to exploit such an opportunity, and with the launch of Alteryx Designer Cloud, there has never been a better time to embark your organization on the analytical adventure.

What is Alteryx Designer Cloud?

What does Alteryx Designer allow you to do?

Alteryx Designer includes several features that facilitate extracting value from your data:

Data preparation and blending: Organizations are producing more and more data, but it is not always usable in its raw state. Generally hosted in silos and structured in a non-optimal way, these mines of information must be cleaned and merged before any knowledge extraction. Alteryx allows you to consolidate these data sources and prepare them in a way that facilitates their analysis and enrichment.

Data enrichment and analysis: Once prepared, the data is ready to fulfill its ultimate destiny: to be analyzed to extract knowledge. To this end, Alteryx Designer offers a wide range of analytical tools that can be grouped into three main categories:

• Descriptive analysis tools: these tools allow you to analyze the current state of monitored variables and explain their past behavior. They include geospatial analysis, diagnostic reporting, or explainable AI.
• Predictive analysis tools: these tools allow you to build predictions on future variables and events based on the explanatory data you have. As useful for making sales forecasts as for predicting the maintenance needs of your production assets, Alteryx Designer’s Predictive Machine Learning suite meets these needs.
• Prescriptive analysis tools: Alteryx Designer’s prescriptive analysis tools provide you with recommendations for your business parameters to maximize your objectives, whether expressed in terms of profit, carbon footprint reduction, or both.

Alteryx Designer is all the more powerful because it brings a layer of automation to all its features.

What’s new with the Cloud version?

The new Alteryx Designer Cloud offers the functionality of the Desktop version while integrating the advantages of the Cloud:

Better connectivity: the Cloud version offers an uninterrupted Designer experience by allowing you not only to connect to different data sources, whether hosted locally or in the Cloud, but also to collaborate in the creation of your workflows. The Cloud version of Designer is also very well integrated with the Desktop version, offering the possibility to import and export workflows to and from it.

Smoother accessibility: The Cloud version of Designer is easily accessible from a web browser regardless of your operating system. It also offers better version management of your workflows as well as access to them.

Increased performance: Alteryx Designer Cloud brings with it interesting gains in terms of performance. Thanks to access to external servers, processing times and capacities can be considerably improved. Designer Cloud also gives access to new features that are automatically added to the platform without having to wait for an update.

How can my organization benefit from Alteryx Designer Cloud?

Better collaboration between business functions and the IT department

Organizations today experience a gap between their business functions and their IT department. This leads to frustration among business users who are unable to obtain support from IT to address their analytical issues. The IT department, for its part, whose resources are increasingly scarce, finds itself torn between its desire to serve the business and its responsibility to lead the organization’s structural projects. This non-optimal relationship results in the spread of Shadow IT as well as a considerable opportunity cost for the business. Alteryx Designer Cloud allows you to bridge this gap both by providing more autonomy to the business and by serving as a bridge linking the business and IT.

Gains in terms of added value for your activities

As mentioned in the introduction, the effective exploitation of Analytics allows for value gains that can take several forms:

Improvement of your product leadership: In certain industries, the collection and analysis of data related to a product with a view to its improvement becomes a key success factor. Coupled with IoT sensors, analytical platforms such as Alteryx Designer allow for the construction of true nervous systems for your products, enabling your teams to optimize their design and improvement processes. This was notably the case for the McLaren team, which uses the Alteryx Designer platform to improve the performance of its cars and consolidate its position as a leader.

Improvement of the customer experience: Today it is obvious that knowing your customers, their needs, and their behaviors is vital for the success of a company. Alteryx allows you to extract perspectives from your customer journeys by analyzing them, thus allowing you to maximize your customers’ satisfaction and consequently your revenue.

Improvement of operations and processes: The continuous desire to improve processes and minimize the costs generated by them is a vital activity for every company that wishes to endure. Alteryx Designer allows you to do this in two ways. Firstly, by offering you the possibility to analyze your business processes to identify the inefficiencies within them. This is what can be called process mining. Secondly, Alteryx Designer allows you to automate your analytical processes, thus allowing your teams to refocus on higher value-added tasks.

An ROI by taking advantage of the Data opportunity

Some estimates value the global volume of data at 64.2 zettabytes in 2020, with growth prospects exceeding 180 zettabytes in 2025. Faced with this data opportunity, the majority of business analysts are poorly equipped. Indeed, 81% of analysts are not satisfied with the speed at which they conduct their analyses, with 8 hours per week admitted to being lost in repetitive tasks. Alteryx Designer Cloud offers your business functions the necessary resources to extract as much value as possible from your data.

MeltOne Advisory’s D&A Data Manipulation offering

As part of its D&A Data Manipulation offering, MeltOne Advisory supports you in the adoption of Alteryx Designer Cloud to meet your specific business challenges. This support can take two forms:

Co-delivery mode: We support your business teams in getting started with the Alteryx Designer Cloud solution (organization of working sessions, co-creation of Alteryx workflows).

Outsourcing mode: We create the workflows for you based on your requests and make them available to you.

MeltOne Advisory teams support you both in scoping your challenges and in implementing the solutions that address them. To learn more, visit our offers page on our website or contact us at one of the following addresses: jsaccona@meltone.com or cmaurice@meltone.com.