Using Alteryx products as a data engineer

With our definition of data engineering and data engineers, we ask, where does Alteryx fit in for a data engineer? In Chapter 1, Getting Started with Alteryx, we described a medium-sized business to demonstrate the Alteryx platform. This section will expand the above example to see how each part of the Alteryx platform works together to solve that use case and how that process follows my definition.

As a reminder, the example use case is as follows:

A medium-sized business uses Alteryx to collect the core company information from scattered business APIs and consolidates all these business resources into the core reporting database. The company can then find those data sources after populating the data catalogs.

When we look at that use case, it fits with my definition of data engineering:

1. A data engineer is a person who takes any available tools to collect data together. In this step, you will use Designer to connect to and...