Alteryx

Alteryx is primarily famous as the world's most powerful data preparation and blending tool. Historically, if an accountant needed to combine a massive Excel file from the London office with a massive CSV file from the Tokyo office, they would spend days writing complex VLOOKUPs that frequently crashed their computer. Alteryx automates this data blending process perfectly through a visual workflow. In recent years, they have aggressively expanded into the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning space. They offer "Alteryx Machine Learning," which is specifically designed to bring predictive analytics to the business analyst rather than the data scientist. Because the analyst has already used Alteryx to clean and blend their massive datasets perfectly, they can simply drag an "Predictive Model" tool onto their visual canvas. The software will automatically analyze the clean data and predict future outcomes—such as forecasting next quarter's retail sales across 500 different store locations—without the analyst needing to know any Python or statistical programming syntax.