Technical specifications

A consolidated list of Alteryx Technical Specifications by functional category.

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(* includes support for vendor-specific spatial functionality)

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Alteryx technology configurations

Alteryx engine edition comparison

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The Alteryx APIs are now a standard component of the standard Alteryx install. Component APIs of the Alteryx engine server offering are also available for individual licensing, as listed below:

• Alteryx engine - Alteryx functionality, including all of the components listed below
• Drivetime - Drivetime calculation engine and supporting spatial data
• Allocate - Organizes and retrieves data using spatial objects
• Calgary - Creates high-performance indexing and searchable lists of data
• Profiler - Using standard segmentation products, profile your customers for any level of geography from household to neighborhood to custom trade areas and drivetimes

The Alteryx Software Development Kit (SDK) allows developers to easily add their own C and C++ programs to the Alteryx toolbox.

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Alteryx web capabilities are designed to improve the scalability and accessibility of sharing best practice initiatives across a team, a department, and an organization. The web offering, delivered as an embedded part of the Alteryx engine (server license) beginning with version 6.2, enables the loading of Alteryx wizards into an on-premise web wizard website, accessible using a simple browser. Wizards installed on a web wizard site have instant access to all of the data and processing resources used to create them within Alteryx. Each web wizard also performs and looks identical to the wizard as it performs within Alteryx.

The benefit resulting from the use of the Alteryx engine web platform, is that an organization’s most critical and sensitive data can remain secure behind a firewall, while the analytics and reporting power of Alteryx is put into the hands of business decision-makers across the enterprise. The Alteryx web platform delivers the means—with the click of a button and the speed of the cloud—to quickly ask and receive answers to your business’s most pressing, real-time performance questions.

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Data options

Spatial option

The spatial option is available for the Alteryx engine, desktop, and server offerings, and includes:

• Geocoder (quarterly updates)
• CASS (released 6 times annually - Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec)
• ZIP+4 Coder (quarterly updates)
• Drivetimes (biannual updates)
• Allocate Census Data Bundle (1990 and 2000 U.S. Census
  • Boundary files include census, postal (ZIPs), marketing (DMAs), metro/micro CBSAs geographies, congressional districts
• Map layers (biannual updates) producing atlas-quality map displays
• Satellite imagery (requires an Internet connection to retrieve images)
  • Includes street overlay coverage of U.S. (Canada is also available) or worldwide coverage without street overlay

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• Household-level consumer lists for direct mail marketing and consumer analytics
• Business lists for direct mail marketing and B2B analytics
• Traffic counts
• Current Year (CY) and Five Year (5Y) bundles of demographic data projections, updated throughout the year
• Industry-packaged data for Retail, Restaurants, Communications, Media, Commercial Real Estate, and Fast Moving Consumer Goods
• International packages for 29 countries, including China and India

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