The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Cloud Platforms, AI, and the Future of Business Analytics with Andy MacMillan of Alteryx

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

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Welcome to the Data Stack show prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guests and hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. All right. We are here with Andy McMillan from Alterix. Andy, so excited to have you on this show today. How's it going? It's going well. It's going to be a lot of fun today. You guys run a great show.

Awesome. Well, thank you for the kind words. And Andy, before we get started here, will you just give us a quick background? Tell us how you got started, what you've done and what you're doing today. Yeah, I'm the relatively new CEO at Alterix. I've been here only about six months, but my background's quite technical. I started off as a developer building websites for General Motors and worked my way up through product management rules at Oracle and Salesforce, and this is now my third CEO job. Awesome. Andy, so really excited to have you here. One of the topics I'm really excited about talking about is this analyst citizen developer,

somebody that's embedded in the business but has some technical skills. And I think Alteryx has done a really good job over years now of serving that customer. So I want to talk about how that role might be changing with AI and then what are some topics that you want to make sure we cover? Yeah, I think that's a great topic and I'll sort of jump off that topic I think there is sort of a new chasm emerging between these new big cloud data platforms and empowering people in the business to use all Those capabilities people spending a lot of money to invest in these platforms And I agree with your point of that How do I use those investments to reimagine my business with AI and so looking forward to talking about that with you guys?

Awesome. Yeah some topics. I am very excited to dig into as well. So let's do it. Awesome, let's do it. All right, that's a wrap for the prequel. The full-length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don't miss it.