Case Study: 84.51° achieves end-to-end PowerPoint automation and saves 6,300 hours with Alteryx

84.51° - Customer Case Study

84.51° expanded an Alteryx proof-of-concept beyond its original geospatial use to tackle a time-consuming client deliverable: a 65‑slide PowerPoint assembled from many disparate sources (CSV, Excel, SQL Server, Oracle). The manual process took days and tied up client leads and analysts, so the team evaluated Alteryx to automate end-to-end production and demonstrate broader automation potential across the analytics organization.

The team built an analytic app using Alteryx tools, macros and the Run Command to call an in‑house PowerPoint framework, bringing together 22 data sources to produce a finished deck in about ten minutes. That single workflow saves roughly 450 hours annually, and broader Alteryx initiatives—training, standards, a macro library and an “A‑Team”—have driven adoption that produced or projected ~6,300 hours saved across 15 projects (≈3 FTEs), doubled the user base in six months, and set the stage to scale to hundreds of analysts.

84.51°

Michael Carrico

Senior Analyst