# Move Out of the Alteryx Black Box Move from Alteryx to Prophecy to build open, AI-powered visual workflows backed by SQL and Spark, versioned in Git, and designed to scale on your data platform. [Plan Your Safe Migration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akbA3BHpWRI) [Request a Demo](https://www.prophecy.ai/request-a-demo) Click for sound Trusted by the largest enterprises Trusted by leading global enterprises including HSBC, JP Morgan, Microsoft, Amgen, ClearWater, SAP, Ralph Lauren, Deutsche Telekom, Marks & Spencer, and Toyota. ## You didn’t choose Alteryx by accident Alteryx helped your team move fast and deliver value more quickly by empowering analysts with a visual canvas. However most organizations eventually hit the same friction points as they grow: - Trustability, without a single source of truth - Governance gaps working with data platforms - Workflows that are hard to operationalize - Rising per-seat costs - Limited portability across your data platforms - Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery integration Growing tension between analyst needs and limited engineering resources. No one’s fault. Just a signal that your enterprise data needs have matured. ## So what do you get when you migrate to Prophecy? ### Before **Alteryx** Desktop visual data workflows trapped in proprietary black box - no scale, no version control, limited governance, no integration with data platform and its processes. Moving to production or changing data platforms requires rewriting proprietary logic. ### After AI agents generate visual data workflows from business prompts that users validate, for tremendous productivity. Visual workflows are backed up by code on Git - for any SQL/Spark platform - delivering governance, versioning, collaboration, tests, CI/CD for production. ## Business Impact ## How Amgen accelerated financial insights by migrating from Alteryx to Prophecy Amgen–one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies–partnered with Prophecy and Databricks to migrate 200+ Alteryx workflows into a unified, cloud-native Spark environment. Here’s what that meant for their business: ### Reduced Cost Amgen retired expensive legacy Alteryx infrastructure, consolidating onto Databricks + Prophecy. ### 2× Faster KPI Refresh Cycles Complex, mission-critical workflows were successfully replicated and improved in a scalable Spark environment. ### Migrated 200+ Workflows Modernized pipelines now deliver key performance indicators at double the previous speed—enabling stronger operational oversight. ### Served 1,500+ Users The rebuilt ecosystem delivers up-to-date financial insights to thousands of internal users and stakeholders. ### Improved Collaboration & Maintainability Prophecy’s visual interface enabled faster onboarding and allowed business and technical teams to speak a common language. Switching to Prophecy enabled Amgen’s data team to deliver faster access to financial data, retire legacy systems, and support a growing user base. ## What users say after switching to Prophecy With Prophecy and Databricks we were able to fully leverage data cloud platform processing speeds, speed pipeline development, and improve collaboration. Drew Davis Data & Analytics Manager, Amgen Prophecy removes the engineering barriers that were blocking our ability to help our clients drive investment value with data. Now anyone on our team can go from data to insights much faster. Shehzad Nabi Chief Technology Officer, Waterfall Asset Management We stopped rebuilding workflows downstream. ### Data Analysts Do more with data without relying on engineers Develop workflows faster, while staying aligned with engineering standards. - Deliver better results, faster - AI agents generate workflows and insights, working with you to bring a step-change in productivity. - Get enabled and empowered - Work with large datasets and build production-grade workflows directly on data platforms, without relying on engineers. _Prophecy hides all cumbersome boilerplate code and provides a data flow model… helps becoming 10X productive._ **Analytics & BI Leaders** Ship insights faster without waiting on engineering Reduce pipeline bottlenecks and keep analytics moving for data-driven decision-making across the business as data complexity grows. - Faster delivery with powerful AI agents that accelerate and automate tasks - Work with scale on data platforms without manually writing SQL or Python - Less dependency on a small group of specialists - Clear handoffs from analytics to engineering when needed **Data Engineering & Platform Teams** Visual speed. Real code. No black boxes. Accelerate workflow development based on Spark/SQL on Git, with CI/CD, and code review. - Visual development that generates readable Spark/SQL code - Designed for scale, testing, governance, and long-term maintainability - Automates workflows where the business logic runs at scale on Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery **CIOs / Data & Analytics Leaders** Move faster without locking yourself in Accelerate data prep & analysis with AI, improve governance and trust, modernize with confidence - We deliver faster time to market and higher productivity - with AI agents specialized from Claude Code to generate visual data workflows and analyses - Visual workflows are code underneath for governance and scale on your data platform, with no lock-in risk. ## How to Migrate Multiple Fortune 500 companies have replaced the Alteryx desktop product with Prophecy running on Databricks, Snowflake or BigQuery 1. **Move Users** Current Alteryx users start with a familiar visual interface made even easier by agents helping develop workflows. 2. **Move Assets** Built in “Import” functionality moves workloads with up to 90% accuracy. Use Prophecy Studio to modify, test, and complete the migration. 3. **Get Results** Our expert team will ensure the first success with you in 90 days, and enable your users to become self-sufficient. Alteryx **SUCCESS STORIES** ## Waterfall Asset Management’s transformation **Shehzad Nabi** Chief Technology Officer Waterfall Asset Management Achievements 14x improvement in data team productivity 4x faster time-to-insight for trade desk analysts ## Amgen’s transformation **Drew Davis** Data & Analytics Manager, Amgen Achievements 2X Faster KPI refreshes - empowering 1,500+ business users 2x Faster processing to deliver critical financial data 200+ Workflows migrated from Alteryx ## FAQ ### What are the main reasons people end up migrating from Alteryx to Prophecy? For most, native integration with their data platform - Databricks, Snowflake or BigQuery - is highly appealing, it simplifies governance & removes a second system. ### If we leave Alteryx, will we lose the visual development features our low-code analysts need to create their own workflows? Absolutely not. Your analysts won’t have to give up any visual development capabilities when you leave Alteryx. Prophecy has an equally robust visual canvas with rich data preparation operators to support low-code users. ### How can truly non-technical users–even with the help of AI–possibly create legitimately useful, complex workflows? Prophecy provides Claude Code specialized for data, capable of generating million-line codebases and handling the most complex data workflows. There are two key elements to producing trusted results. ### How can we migrate all our workflows to a new system without risking significant downtime? Most teams migrate incrementally in phases to control risk and keep business impact to a minimum. ### What does the Alteryx Migration Tool (Transpiler) do? The Transpiler imports existing Alteryx workflows, tests them in the Prophecy environment, fixes errors and data mismatches using AI and finally delivers a modernized visual workflow that looks similar to the original workflow. ### How would moving to Prophecy reduce our costs? Companies typically switch to Prophecy to: - Reduce per-seat licensing costs - Avoid the cost of managing a second execution system, instead aligning with your data platform - Avoid the cost of rewrites for moving workflows to production ### Can Prophecy help keep us compliant with data privacy rules? Yes, Prophecy lets you save specific data handling logic as reusable functions. These can be called within the visual canvas as needed, for consistent application of rules like data privacy or calculations. ### How does Prophecy provide data governance and lineage? Prophecy pushes compute to Databricks, tracking query history and inheriting Unity Catalog's role-based access controls, thereby providing full data lineage in a cloud-based environment. ### How do we know we aren’t just moving from one vendor lock-in to another when we migrate? Code ownership and Git integration for your business logic are foundational to the Prophecy approach. Users retain full ownership of their generated SQL code, which can run inside and outside of Prophecy.