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7 years ago
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Alteryx vs PowerBI

Hi PBI'ers,   My company is looking into Alteryx, an ETL-tool. i've not really found something I could do in Alteryx but not in PowerBI, doe anybode have a clue? The only benefit I see is the pro...
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    7 years ago

    Alteryx and Power Query are both capable ETL tools. Generally this conversation comes up in regards to Tableau vs. Power BI. With Tableau, you have to have a separate ETL tool like Alteryx, I don't know of a single Tableau shop of any size that doesn't.

     

    With Power BI you generally do not need a separate ETL tool because Power Query is more than capable and is being extended to the Service with Data Flows.

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7 years ago

Alteryx and Power Query are both capable ETL tools. Generally this conversation comes up in regards to Tableau vs. Power BI. With Tableau, you have to have a separate ETL tool like Alteryx, I don't know of a single Tableau shop of any size that doesn't.

 

With Power BI you generally do not need a separate ETL tool because Power Query is more than capable and is being extended to the Service with Data Flows.