ASSURANT
ENABLEMENT HUB

Welcome to Assurant Enablement Hub! Below you will find a list of upcoming enablement sessions, resources, and useful links to help you ramp up and become your very own Alteryx expert. Our goal is to help you break data barriers and deliver game-changing insights by empowering you with the right tools and resources you need to get there. Explore Alteryx with everything you need to get started below.

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WHAT IS ALTERYX?

Revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, Alteryx empowers everyone in an organization to experience the thrill of getting to the answer faster. The modern, end-to-end Alteryx analytics platform enables analysts and data scientists alike to discover, share and prep data, perform analysis – statistical, predictive, prescriptive, and spatial – and deploy and manage analytic models. Thousands of people in enterprises all over the world rely on Alteryx daily to deliver game-changing results.

1. Get Started

Activate and install Alteryx with our easy installation guide below which includes your licensing key information and steps to get you up and running.

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Upcoming Enablement Sessions

Group A + B: Sep 7th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST

Introduction to Alteryx

Introduction to Alteryx Using the Alteryx Designer, connect to an organization’s sample salary file and find the top-earning employees across 48 different U.S. cities.

• Navigate the Alteryx Designer interface.

• Build a simple workflow that can connect, prep, blend, and analyze data.

• Produce a shareable output.

Group A: Tues, Sep 12th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Group B: Thurs, Sep 14th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST

Reading and Writing Data

Connect to your data and understand its contents. Your data lives in several different places and in different formats. How can you simplify connecting to these various sources and do it all in one place?

• Connect to data from multiple Excel sources, as well as databases and a text-delimited file

• Profile the data to better understand it from the start

• Streamline the process for outputting a workbook with a separate tab for each category

Group A: Tues, Sep 19th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Group B: Thurs, Sep 21th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST

Alteryx for Excel User

A process used to analyze customer transaction data has been created in Excel. However, it is time-consuming to replicate, error-prone, and not dynamic. How can this process be improved?

• Blend data from multiple Excel sources

• Format values, perform calculations, and aggregate data

• Output a workbook with multiple sheets for colleagues across the organization

Group A: Tues, Sep 26th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Group B: Thurs, Sep 28th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST

Data Preparation

You need to connect to your data across multiple months and blend them together. How can you simplify connecting to these various sources and automating blending them together?

• Changing data types
• Conditional expressions
• Compound expressions
• Calculation basics
• Sorting and sampling you need to connect to your data across multiple months and blend them together. How can you simplify connecting to these various sources and automating blending them together?

Group A: Tues, Oct 3rd 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Group B: Thurs, Oct 5th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST

Transforming and Parsing

There are many occasions when getting the most from a dataset requires it to take a different form.

  • Some Data can be summarized to provide an overview
  • Other data needs to be split for interpretation and analysis
  • Pivoting can make workflows more dynamic
  • Explore commonly used tools in the Transform and Parse tool palettes
Group A: Tues, Oct 10th, 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Group B: Thurs, Oct 12th, 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST

Tips & Tricks

This module introduces learners to the concept of data blending using joins and unions

  • Use the Join tool to combine multiple datasets using lookup keys
  • Use the union tool to append data on top of another
Group A: Tues, Oct 17th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Group B: Thurs, Oct 19th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST

Build Your First Macro

This module introduces learners to the concept of parsing data by using the Text To Columns and DateTime tools

  • Use the Text to Columns tool to separate delimited data
  • Use the DateTime tool to change date and time data in Designer
Group A: Tues, Oct 24th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Group B: Thurs, Oct 26th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST

Introduction to Analytical Apps

  • Introduction to Server and demo
  • Layout and Interface
  • Publishing workflows to Server
  • Scheduling, sharing, Data Connection Manager (DCM) and Data Access
Group A: Tues, Oct 31st 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST

See the Future: Time Series Modeling

This module presents the data transformation capabilities within Designer

  • Explore a variety of summary processes available in the Summarize tool
  • Perform operations on numeric and string fields
Group B: Thurs, Nov 2nd 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST

See the Future: Time Series Modeling

A hotel wants to proactively anticipate room reservations to improve pricing estimates and maximize booking efficiency.

  • Create a time-based model to predict the number of reservations
  • Forecast the demand for room reservations for the next 12 months
Group A: Tues, Nov 7th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Group B: Thurs, Nov 9th 2023 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST

The Art and Science of Fuzzy Matching

Learn to prepare data and determine common records between two files using non-exact matching techniques and cascading levels of certainty.

  • Identify duplicates
  • Identify matches that are not exactly the same
  • Set the thresholds for acceptance levels of differences between records

Meet Your Dedicated Team

Lead Data Engineer

Jordan Eckersley

Lead Analytics Architect

Muhammad Yahya

Analytics Solution Specialist

Jesse McNulty

Strategic Account Executive

Robin Dodd

Solutions Engineer

Nancy Duan

Get Live 1:1 Help

Brand new to Alteryx and don’t know where to start? Need help with a workflow or idea?

Get live 1:1 help with our team and we will get you back to solving!

On-Demand Videos

Introduction to Alteryx

Modern Analytics Architecture: A Modern Blueprint for Data & Analytics
Insurance Analytics with Alteryx & Snowflake
Alteryx + Tableau: Office of Finance
Alteryx + Marketing Analytics

On-Demand Training

One Tool at a Time

Documentation

Sample Workflows

One Tool Examples are sample workflows that demonstrate different configuration options for one tool at a time. These examples are designed to help you understand how a specific tool is used as part of a workflow.

On-Demand Videos

38 Tool Videos

Alteryx One Tool at a Time video series is designed to demonstrate the various tools in Alteryx.

Documentation

Tools

Learn to drag a tool from the Tool Palette onto the workflow canvas to begin building a workflow.

Beginner Roadmap

Interactive Lesson

From Excel to Alteryx

Dive into new analytics techniques with lessons that incorporate videos, hands-on activities and quizzes to assess your knowledge.

Prep Guide

Core Certification Learning

Check out the Alteryx Core certification learnings.

Advanced Roadmap

Prep Guide

Advanced Certification

Check out the Alteryx Advanced certification learnings.

Community Resources

ALTERYX BLUEPRINTS

ESG Blueprint

Aside from compliance, transforming ESG data through automation can hold significant benefits. Take the lead in ESG reporting to reduce risk, improve investor confidence and increase resilience.

Human Resources Blueprint

Optimize your organizational growth by using ready analytic templates and workflows to attract and retain talent, design competitive compensation packages, and effectively engage employees.

Marketing Blueprint

Perform sophisticated analytics to deepen customer insight and calculate the ROI of marketing programs. Segment and profile your customers to target prospects with the most potential and improve your campaign performance.

Office of Finance Blueprint

Reduce time and effort spent manually wrangling and reconciling data with legacy tools and processes. Innovate and modernize financial processes with automated self-service analytics.

Supply Chain Blueprint

Supply Chain Intelligence is the fastest path to unlocking higher quality and more timely supply chain insights. Some of the most successful supply chains use Alteryx to improve forecasting, assortment and inventory decisions, and the uptime of in- service equipment and machines.

Upcoming Events

November 9th, 2023, Online

Alter.Next Virtual Summit: The Path To Becoming an Analytics Champion

In this upcoming live webinar learn how you can become an analytics champion by optimizing your technology, people, and processes to propel your business forward.

Upcoming Alteryx Training

$7001 Day

Alteryx Designer – Advanced Concepts

This course teaches students advanced preparation, blending and parsing techniques in Alteryx. ...

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$7001 Day

Alteryx Designer - Predictive Concepts

This course is designed to teach students how to utilize Alteryx to perform predictive analytics.

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$1,4002 Days

Alteryx Intermediate Concepts with Tableau

This course prepares students to undergo sophisticated data analytics in Alteryx Designer and data visualization in Tableau. Students will learn advanced data preparation, cleansing, and transformation tools in Alteryx Designer.

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REVOLUTIONIZING BUSINESS THROUGH DATA SCIENCE

We partnered with Alteryx because we know you’d rather have deeper insights in hours than weeks. Alteryx helps organizations revolutionize their data processes by making it possible to connect, profile, prep, and blend data, wherever it’s stored. With repeatable workflows and an intuitive user interface, Alteryx offers data prep capabilities that are up to 100X faster than traditional approaches.