Alteryx Designer vs Workato comparison

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We performed a comparison between Alteryx Designer and Workato based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Alteryx Designer vs. Workato Report (Updated: May 2023).

Alteryx Designer vs. Workato

May 2023

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Categories and Ranking

Alteryx Designer

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (11th)

Workato

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (9th)

Mindshare comparison

Alteryx Designer and Workato aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Alteryx Designer is designed for Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 3.3%, down 4.3% compared to last year.
Workato, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 4.0% mindshare, down 5.0% since last year.

Data Integration

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Featured Reviews

Ajay Nayak

Senior Data Engineer at Baxter International Inc.

Dec 28, 2023

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

With Alteryx, we mostly fetch data from SQL, SQL server databases, and SharePoint. Some team members were doing the task using Excel for a long time with Macros and Excel functions like VLOOKUP, and these things become quite easy when you are using Alteryx as a solution. We have automated the…

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Rohit Sircar

Integration Solutions Lead | Digital Core Transformation Service Line at Hexaware Technologies Limited

Nov 7, 2022

Great automation and strong workflows useful for integration

The initial setup is quite straightforward. When connecting Workato with your on-premises system, you have to install the Workato agent on your network. It was not complex but a long process to configure and settle. Workato has not gone live for us yet, so only the developers are currently using it. But in terms of users, we will have close to 250 and maybe 30 additional direct users. We are seeing a lot of different use cases where we can add new recipes because we started small, and there are many different areas where we can implement Workato for automation.

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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

"For my daily analytics needs, the entire Alteryx Designer platform is beneficial."

"Alteryx Designer is easier to use for machine learning models. However, I am not very good at Python scripts which you will need to make the machine learning scripts."

"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."

"Alteryx Designer is stable."

"It has great UI."

"Alteryx Designer's best features are that it's easy to use and performs well."

"Workflow automation, in general, is valuable."

"The product offers very good analytics."

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"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"It's easy to understand, makes flows and is efficient."

"It is very easy to use. It takes complex workloads away, and it provides very smooth integration. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box connectors. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box APIs, which makes it really easy to integrate with applications for different use cases, whether it is in finance, HR, or customer operations. It is by far our favorite integration product."

"It is easier to use than other technical open-source technologies."

"Their automation and workflows are very strong, and you can build the workflows very easily and quickly."

"The most valuable features are easy integration, quick tab to develop, quick tab to market, and interactive integration platform."

"Workato is low code, intuitive, and easy to use."

Cons

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

"Alteryx Designer's cost should be improved."

"The conditional join feature should be improved."

"The only thing is sometimes it can be a bit slow."

"If the price were reduced then it would be more competitive."

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

"We need more documentation."

"Alteryx needs to improve its web governance. The gallery you use to filter the data is something else that could use some work. For instance, if you have a report connected to a database and want to filter a specific user, you should be able to suggest a specific region or a particular year. I know that the Alteryx isn't designed for data governance, but that would be great to think about."

More Alteryx Designer cons

"The management dashboard in the solution is an area with shortcomings that needs improvement."

"A limitation is that their cloud presence is only in North America and Europe."

"It is tedious to make a tailor-fit function."

"I would like to see the dashboarding and reporting processes improved."

"Workato's Extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and transform (ELT) are not very strong and could be improved for very complex transformations."

"The only minor drawback would be if there was a UI at the front of it, for apps and for a portal as well, it would make it really easy. It would be really useful if there were more apps capabilities."

"From the deployment point of view, our customers encounter platform downtime where it does not serve the actual request on the systems."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"I rate the product's pricing a two to three out of ten."

"I rate the price of Alteryx Designer a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

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

"I rate Alteryx Designer a six out of ten for pricing."

"Alteryx Designer is a very expensive solution."

"The pricing is bit expensive."

More Alteryx Designer pricing and cost advice

"Speaking about price, I would say that it's market-related. Also, there are costs in addition to the standard license fees since different add-ons depend on what you require."

"Workato is an expensive solution."

"On a scale of one to ten, the pricing is around a six. We have a consumption model and the pricing is higher. If you are using any kind of ML-based approach, machine learning, or some advanced analytics, you may have to pay more."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

23%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Educational Organization

41%

Computer Software Company

10%

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Manufacturing Company

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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.

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

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

What needs improvement with Alteryx Designer?

Alteryx Designer is not as fast as SSIS and is not good for large datasets. It also needs to improve database procedures. Though it is easy to use, it is limited in terms of technical aspects.

What do you like most about Workato?

Workato is low code, intuitive, and easy to use.

What needs improvement with Workato?

Workato's Extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and transform (ELT) are not very strong and could be improved for very complex transformations. Workato's licensing model is a bit co...

What is your primary use case for Workato?

We use Workato for iPaaS, which is like a middleware enterprise service bus. We use it for transformation, quick data migrations from one platform to another, and building connectivity. It's got ov...

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Named a Leader in iPaaS for Dynamic Integrations by Forrester, Workato is a modern automation and integration platform. With its enterprise-grade capabilities, you can seamlessly integrate and orchestrate workflow automation across cloud and on-premise applications, files and databases without coding.

The Workato team comes from a deep background in building integration products and will continue to expand and change the automation and integration space.

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Panera Bread, Berkshire Hathaway, Salesforce, Box, Splunk, ComScore, IBM, Complex Media, Microsoft, Home Depot, Cisco, News Corp, Braille Institute