An Analytics App is one of the most undervalued functionalities in Alteryx! It gives you the opportunity to make Alteryx even more user friendly and to scale the use of it exponentially in your company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chained Analytic Apps are a more complex type of analytic app that allows you to create Apps the are dynamic and responsive to your data. This blog-post primarily focus on Chained Analytic Apps. If you never heard of an Analytic App, this post can also be a good place to start. This post won\u2019t go into detail of the fundamentals of \u201csimple\u201d Analytic Apps but instead focus on the slightly more complex Chained Analytic Apps. You are more than welcome to reach out if you would like a more in-depth introduction to normal Analytic Apps and how they can create value for your company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An Analytic App is essentially just a regular Alteryx workflow in which the creator his limited the interface (or page in non-technical terms) to accustom the needs of the end user. In other words, the creator can make sure the end user only goes through the bare minimum to get the data they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s imagine that your company has a SQL database or an Excel sheet containing every transaction your company has ever completed. Instead of regularly supplying your Business Analysts with multiple SQL extracts containing specific transactions from January, 2015 or October, 2018, you can create an Alteryx Analytic App that can automatically slice the data in every conceivable manner \u2013 and thus save you a ton of time pulling SQL extracts and give your Analysts freer access to the data they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s elaborate on the use case from above. Below is an image from Alteryx showing a simple data set with four variables: Transaction ID, Product Category, Sales, Profit and a Date (month and year).<\/p>\n\n\n\n