Some cliches must be cliches because they are so resoundingly true. Here’s one that might resonate with small and medium-sized businesses: Time is money. The truth is, time is everything to SMB employees because margins for error tend to be so thin. Your team is small. The number of data analytics tools is expanding. The amount of manual work required is already out of control and still growing.
The good news: Alteryx knows your pain and speaks your language. We help people who work for SMBs simplify their day-to-day data tasks and save precious time. You need low-code, no-code. You need self-service. And you need automation. You want your life back – we get it. Anything manual that monopolizes your time must be vanquished at once. With that in mind, here are 5 ways SMB employees get robbed of their time and here’s how Alteryx can come to the rescue.
#1: Automating reports
Current situation: Here’s you, every Friday afternoon, trying to knock off a little early. Instead, you’re laboriously pulling reports in Excel. It’s manual, it’s painful, it’s not sustainable.
Alteryx cure: We help people like you automate data pulls, formatting and distribution. The impact? Reports and forms that used to take weeks to compile are now automatically generated – and with far greater accuracy. As one client who used to manually download and go through 5,000 records at a time told us, “Something that would have taken a couple hundred hours to do we are now able to do in less than 10.”
#2: Cleaning and combining data
Current situation: So many different data sources. So much time spent fixing messy spreadsheets or manually combining data from multiple sources. Surely there’s more to life than this.
Alteryx cure: Alteryx helps you clean and combine data faster with drag-and-drop tools that prep and blend data from multiple sources. What used to take all morning now takes only a few clicks. One of our financial services clients framed it up this way: “This powerful automation transformed what used to be hours of intricate, manual work into an efficient process. This improvement has not only unlocked invaluable time for our team but infused consistency into every aspect of our process.”
#3: Automating complex financial processes
Current situation: Your finance team wakes up every day to a growing mountain of data, a jarring rise in complexity and a myriad of ever-changing compliance requirements.
Alteryx cure: We help teams replace tedious manual entries with automated journal processes that reduce risk and increase efficiency. It simplifies, saves time and ensures accounting data remains accurate and compliant. A client at a tech company told us, “We’re probably saving 25,000 hours a year and millions in ROI. [It frees our team] to do things that can help us drive better and more accurate accounting.”
#4: Saving time spent on marketing analysis
Current situation: Is there any greater joy for a marketing team than going through the annual ritual of building campaign lists and reports from scratch? Yes. Yes there is.
Alteryx cure: Our tools help automate segmentation and campaign analysis while creating real-time dashboards. A leader at a non-profit fundraising agency told us that advanced Alteryx segmentation tools help them generate reports 20 times faster than before – and with greater insight. “With Auto Insights, we’re improving ROI by targeting the right people. It’s pointing to key segments that are over-performing and we’re able to feed into a model and improve campaign performance by 20-30%.”
#5: Cutting down on repetitive tasks
Current situation: What do they say about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? Anyone who’s found themselves re-entering the same data across multiple systems may identify with that madness. Thankfully, there is a better way.
Alteryx cure: We’ve got two words for you: reusable workflows. We help you cut down on repetitive tasks by configuring workflows that run on a schedule. One customer told us, “Alteryx gave us back a full day each week.” Another on the data science team inside a CPA firm said his team reduced data manipulation time by a factor of 288. “Instead of spending all that time trying to pull information together, they spend the time analyzing it, and making use of it, which is really what their job function is.”
When they have the right tools, small teams are capable of doing big things. If you think your SMB might benefit from some of the tools we’ve talked about here, try Alteryx and see for yourself. Sign up for a free 30-day trial today.