Agile Analytics: Walmart Way

Alteryx Roadshow9/22/2015

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About Walmart…

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About Category & Modular Development…

• Mission:

“Deliver Walmart’s ‘Save Money. Live Better’ promise by executing the merchant strategy through customer specific modular development.”

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About Me…

• 11 year WM associate• 6 year Alteryx user• Intermediate user of Excel and Access• Novice SQL and VB scripting experience• Interested in technology and analytics• Passionate about talent development• Curious about anything unknown...

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Alteryx Value

Data Excel Alteryx

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How Alteryx Serves Us?

Ad-Hoc

Projects

Automation

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Alteryx Benefits

Speed & Flexibility• Complex Simple• Data and technology agnostic

Learning Curve• Easy to follow visual workflow• Faster to learn than SQL or VB

Variety of Usage• Multipurpose tool with versatility• Anything related to synthesizing data

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What is the Future?

Build Up Internal Talent

Explore Alteryx Server

On-Demand Analytic

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Recognition

• Sr. Manager II – Strategic Analytics & Business Intelligence at Walmart

John Colgan

• Team Lead – Client Services Representative at Alteryx

Margarita Wilshire

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Questions