From Scattered Data to Confident Action: How Alteryx Connected Its People Insights

The Challenge

Big change, bigger questions  

Beginning in 2024, Alteryx underwent significant change across the business—a new leadership team, a new strategy, and new mission, vision, and values. That change surfaced urgent questions from their CEO and the executive team:

• Do employees understand our new strategic direction?

• Are employees bought into where we’re headed?

• What's slowing us down, and where is momentum stalling? 

Alteryx could not afford to wait months to understand how employees were responding to change. Leaders needed timely, reliable data to see where the new direction was taking hold and where they needed to adjust. 

Employee feedback in too many places   

Prior to implementing Quantum Workplace, Alteryx collected employee feedback through its previous survey platform, Microsoft Forms, Excel spreadsheets, and formal and informal focus groups. Bringing together feedback and preparing results for leaders often took months, making it difficult to identify opportunities and respond quickly. 

The Solution: Choosing Quantum Workplace 

2025 marked Alteryx's first full employee engagement survey run through Quantum Workplace. Alteryx saw an impressive 85.8% response rate -- well above the benchmark for organizations of similar size. Rather than wait a full year to check progress, Alteryx sent a mid-year pulse survey built specifically around the themes surfaced in the full engagement survey—a direct test of whether the resulting actions were actually landing.  

Alongside having an engagement survey tool, they also needed a single, reliable home for their people insights that leaders would use. Partnering with Quantum Workplace gave the talent management team one connected platform where all their people insights live together, accessible in real time instead of buried in decks or scattered across multiple systems. 

That foundation of trust and usability made everything downstream possible. When Alteryx's leadership team began asking harder questions—about leader buy-in, about what was slowing teams down—the talent management team could point to real, connected data instead of anecdotes, and act on it quickly. 

“We've been able to bring much more actionable insights to our CEO and executive team because we're able to see clearly where the gaps are, where the challenges are, where the opportunities are.”

Lindsay Desai, Senior Program Manager, Talent Management, Alteryx

So, when the Quantum Workplace product team introduced the concept behind Insights Hub—an AI-powered way to connect signals across the entire employee lifecycle and surface what matters most — Alteryx's team recognized it immediately as the missing link in their journey and signed on as one of the first organizations to help pilot it.

The Results

A year into the partnership with Quantum Workplace, Alteryx has gone from siloed data and passive guesswork to a connected story that leaders trust and act on—with Insights Hub now extending even more clarity through AI.

From scattered signals to a connected story 

Many companies view engagement, onboarding, and exit data as separate, disconnected inputs. Alteryx brings them together to explain what's really driving employee sentiment. When survey data showed strong emotional connection to Alteryx's new values but lingering confusion around strategy, the team used that insight to introduce targeted strategy sessions and reshape how leaders communicated—closing the gap between belief and understanding. 

AI that makes thousands of comments usable  

Alongside its pilot of Insights Hub, Alteryx uses Quantum Workplace’s built-in AI to analyze open-ended survey responses. Although Alteryx’s CEO reads every engagement survey comment and expects people leaders to read their teams’ comments, identifying themes and opportunities for action across thousands of responses can still be difficult. The AI chatbot helps leaders spot those themes more quickly and decide where to focus their efforts.

“There's a great AI tool built into the engagement survey reporting where we can ask the AI chatbot, ‘Here's something we're seeing in the data—can you pull the top three themes as to why that might be happening?’... And literally within about 7 seconds, it will populate really great insights.”

Lindsay Desai, Senior Program Manager, Talent Management, Alteryx

Trust in Alteryx leadership grew by 5.5%  

Trust in the Executive Leadership Team's ability to lead the company into the future rose 5.5 percentage points in the latest pulse survey. Belief in the company's future climbed right alongside it, up 5.3 points. People wanted direction and clarity, and the pulse data shows they're starting to get it—understanding of Alteryx's strategic direction rose 4.5 points.

Those gains are already translating into outcomes that matter to the business: advocacy for Alteryx as a great place to work rose 5.4 points, and retention intent ("it would take a lot to get me to leave") rose 3.8 points. When asked why they stay, 86% cited recognition, 85% cited strong values alignment, and 79% equally cited opportunity to grow and workplace culture.

Manager touchpoints move the needle 

87% of employees said they have weekly 1-on-1s with their manager, and 90% have quarterly performance check-ins — a strong foundation already in place. The real insight is what happened when those touchpoints truly delivered value. 

Employees who found their weekly 1-on-1s valuable were 14 points more confident they'd be recognized for their contributions and had 17 points greater clarity on how they fit into Alteryx's future plans.  

That continued investment is paying off. The Support Center's engagement index climbed to 84% — up more than 10 points year-over-year — with trust in leadership and belief in the company's future both showing meaningful improvement across the organization. 

From months to days: a faster feedback loop 

Perhaps the most concrete shift for Alteryx has been speed. Before partnering with Quantum Workplace, the gap between closing a survey and getting results in front of leaders was measured in months—time during which the organization kept moving, and their people data grew increasingly out of date.

“In the past, we would go probably 3 months in between actually completing an engagement or pulse survey and being able to deliver those results and that feedback to our leaders. We've now gotten that down to about a week, sometimes less.”

Lindsay Desai, Senior Program Manager, Talent Management, Alteryx

That turnaround—from roughly three months down to about a week or less—changed what leaders can actually do with the data. Insights arrived while still accurate, rather than months later.

Single source of truth

Because the Quantum Workplace platform is easy to navigate, Alteryx's leaders can log in directly rather than waiting on prepared reports. Alteryx’s CEO even goes so far as to​ ​ block out full days to read every single engagement survey comment—a level of firsthand engagement Lindsay's team says has been core to building trust and credibility for their people strategy.

Taking action with Insights Hub  

With retention now top of mind in a tight tech talent market, Alteryx' is taking every step to ensure its leaders can easily get the insights they need quickly enough to act. That's exactly where Lindsay's team sees Insights Hub taking them next: more time spent on the decisions that keep Alteryx's people, and its business, moving forward.

“With Insights Hub, we're going to have an automated, clear understanding of what's happening, where we should be focusing, and how to respond quickly.”

Lindsay Desai, Senior Program Manager, Talent Management, Alteryx