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Cloud Execution
for Desktop
Create on desktop. Manage and execute with cloud.

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Cloud Execution for Desktop
Cloud Execution for Desktop allows workflows built in Alteryx Designer
Desktop to be saved to the Alteryx Analytics Cloud Platform forscheduling and execution.
When faced with whether to use on-premises or• Deliver new collaboration experiences

cloud analytics, the most common response acrossacross teams and the entire Alteryx productorganizations is they require both on-premises

suite, which includes on-prem and cloud-and cloud analytics. A hybrid approach offers

native applications.

several advantages, including the opportunity to:• Optimize storage and asset management• Extend existing investments and IP while

for analytics.

minimizing the effort to rebuild them forthe cloud.

Figure 1. Cloud Execution for Desktop in Practice

LINK DESKTOPTO-CLOUD

CREATE & EDIT

PUBLISH & STOREORCHESTRATE & RUN

Using Cloud Execution for Desktop lets you create

executed from on-prem Alteryx Server today.

a link that leads from your desktop instanceIn fact, Alteryx Server customers will alreadyof Alteryx Designer to your Alteryx Analytics

be familiar with much of the functionality

Cloud Platform environment, and then save theand features planned for Cloud Execution for

workflows you built on-prem to your cloud library,

Desktop — the process of creating a connection,

which belongs to your cloud workspace. Oncepublishing a workflow, and running it from asaved to the library, you’ll be able to navigate toServer-like environment. Execution will take

Alteryx Analytics Cloud Platform and schedule

place in the customer’s Private Data Plane, soand run those workflows.

you must first set up your Private Data Plane

The execution will then take place in the cloud,similar to the way a workflow can be saved andbefore you can execute a workflow from theAlteryx Analytics Cloud Platform.

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Data processing

Command & control

Data runtime

Design timeWork data

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AYX-managed

With Cloud Execution for Desktop, Alteryx

Execution for Desktop allows you to build part ofDesigner operates as part of the Alteryx Analytics

the solution in your desktop instance of Designer

Cloud Platform to deliver a unified, cohesiveand save that workflow to your cloud workspace.

experience for all data personas and stakeholders

Once executed with the cloud platform, thewho need to make data-driven decisions.

output can then become the input to a workflow

One immediate benefit of Cloud Execution for
Desktop is the ability to offload runtime to thecloud to free up desktop resources. We also
expect to see use cases where customers keep
their existing Alteryx Server environment while
they migrate workflows to the Alteryx Analytics
Cloud Platform over time as limitations are
addressed and functionality is added.
Cloud Execution for Desktop also means thelife- and value-generating potential of existing
workflows can be extended into the cloud without
having to be rebuilt.

in Designer Cloud or used in a cloud-native app
like Alteryx Auto Insights or Alteryx Machine
Learning. In the future, you will be able to link
workflows built in Alteryx Designer (desktop) toworkflows built in Alteryx Designer Cloud and theother cloud-native applications using the Plans
feature in the Alteryx Analytics Cloud Platform.
More broadly, Cloud Execution for Desktop
provides a path to the cloud for our existing
on-premises customers. Whether that’s a
steppingstone to fully migrating all of yourprocesses to the cloud or just a way to takeadvantage of new cloud functionalities to extend

Cloud Execution for Desktop can also provide

existing on-prem processes, Cloud Execution fora way to fill in the gaps in cloud functionality

Desktop is a powerful, cloud-connected solutionthat does not yet exist. For example, if you needfor organizations looking to get the most out ofa certain data connection and that connection

their on-premises and cloud analytics.

isn’t yet supported in our cloud products, Cloud