Alteryx Designer vs SAS Access comparison

Alteryx and SAS are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Alteryx is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.6, while SAS is ranked #57. Alteryx holds a 2.6% mindshare in DI, compared to SAS’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Alteryx users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SAS users who would recommend it.

Alteryx Designer

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89% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

SAS Access and Alteryx Designer are products in data analysis, competing in features, deployment, and pricing. Users prefer Alteryx Designer due to its user-friendly interface and automation capabilities.

Features: SAS Access provides direct, secure data access, robust integration options, and high-speed data management. Alteryx Designer offers a visual workflow interface for seamless data extraction, transformation, and analysis. It also allows easy automation of manual processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAS Access requires extensive environment-specific configurations for deployment. Alteryx Designer offers straightforward deployment with user-friendly tools, cloud integration, and comprehensive support.

Pricing and ROI: SAS Access has higher initial setup costs due to licensing and infrastructure needs. Alteryx Designer offers lower setup costs and significant ROI through streamlined operations and reduced labor overhead.

To learn more, read our detailed Alteryx Designer vs. SAS Access Report (Updated: April 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Alteryx Designer

Ranking in Data Integration

11th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SAS Access

Ranking in Data Integration

57th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Alteryx Designer is 2.6%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAS Access is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ajay Nayak

Senior Data Engineer at Baxter International Inc.

An easy-to-use automation solution with satisfying customer support

Sometimes, while getting data from a third-party product, like data sources that are not present in your system, Alteryx works a bit slowly. Even if you have a good configuration and you are pulling data from an SQL server like SAP, then the solution also has a slow work process. It shouldn't be that much slow if you are pulling ten thousand records, it should not take thirty minutes.

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Robert Heck

Co Owner at Hecht und Heck GmbH

The solution is stable, scalable, and flexible

I rate the solution eight out of ten. The number of people required to maintain the solution is dependent on the other applications running. The solution in itself does not require a lot of maintenance. The solution is flexible and I recommend it when you have more complex applications with special requirements.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The main valuable aspect is the simplicity of use across all features."

"Alteryx Designer offers a drag-and-drop interface, making it highly user-friendly. Unlike Python and Apache Airflow, which require coding, Alteryx allows users to accomplish tasks without any programming knowledge. Its simplicity makes it accessible to anyone, even those without coding experience, and this ease of use is one of Alteryx's key advantages."

"When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis."

"We use Alteryx Designer for analytics. It's quite helpful because once we set it up, we don't have to manually update or process data repeatedly. It saves time, especially for financial reporting, which is typically done monthly or quarterly. Once we set it up initially, we only need to make occasional updates if necessary."

"The product is intuitive and easy to use."

"The solution is easy to integrate and user-friendly."

"It has an easy setup process."

"Alteryx is quite easy to use, learn, and understand as a product."

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"The most valuable feature is you have native access to the external databases."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the ease of access to the data in those databases."

"The most valuable part of SAS/ACCESS is what it is made for: connecting to remote systems that are not part of your physical SAS environment."

Cons

"Sometimes, while getting data from a third-party product, the solution works slowly."

"For smaller clients with ten to 15 employees, Alteryx can be expensive. The server capabilities are costly too. The technical support could also improve by being quicker in response times."

"An improvement for Alteryx Designer would be faster bug fixes and updates."

"For smaller clients with ten to 15 employees, Alteryx can be expensive."

"Alteryx could move faster to create a cloud equivalent of the desktop version of Designer."

"I would like to be able to include small snippets of code inside of the solution. The tool has only drag-and-drop features to make it easy to use, but sometimes I feel like this makes it more complicated."

"It would be simpler if they provided a component where you could simply enter some parameters and see the results."

"The product could offer more connectors and more databases with support for the in-database function."

More Alteryx Designer cons

"I can't really recall any missing feature or general improvement that is needed. We don't really add too many new kinds of databases and therefore our needs are already met."

"The pricing model needs to be reconsidered and adjusted."

"The solution can provide access to the newer databases that come out sooner."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive. It has license fees, which are renewable every year."

"The pricing is bit expensive."

"The licenses are expensive, making it difficult to consider acquiring additional licenses to the existing ones."

"Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution."

"Alteryx Designer is a very expensive solution."

"Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution."

"It is too expensive for our country. We are a small country, so it is too difficult to sell this solution. With Alteryx Designer, if you want to automate the data and run the flows, you have to pay more money. We were trying to automate the flows, and we found out that people have to pay 600 more for this feature, which makes it even more expensive. We are a partner for Tableau, and we are working with Tableau Prep, which is like a mini Alteryx. In Tableau Prep, you can drag and drop and make new connections with the different data sources. You can make all the connections. You can also publish a source. You don't have to pay more money with Tableau. You pay like $5 per user per month to access it."

"I rate the price of Alteryx Designer as a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is a highly cheap product."

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"The pricing model is complex and is based on modular packages as well as the size of the applicable environment."

"The solution's pricing and licensing are expensive."

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Educational Organization

24%

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16%

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Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alteryx Designer?

When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alteryx Designer?

It's cheaper than Palantir, but even Alteryx is too much for small clients. It is expensive, considering the server capabilities.

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What needs improvement with Alteryx Designer?

For smaller clients with ten to 15 employees, Alteryx can be expensive. The server capabilities are costly too. The technical support could also improve by being quicker in response times.

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SAS/Access

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Alteryx

SAS/ACCESS is an out-of-the-box solution for integrating SAS and third-party databases. You can read, write and update data regardless of the database or platform. Because the data appears native to SAS, there is no need to learn Structured Query Language (SQL) or any other database-specific query languages.

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Los Angeles County, West Midlands Police, Credit Guarantee Corporation, Canada Post, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty

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