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Compare Altair Monarch and Microsoft Power BI 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Enterprise (53.8% of reviews)
Enterprise (43.3% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Free 1 User
Altair Monarch
Star Rating
(92)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (53.8% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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Star Rating
(1,228)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (43.3% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Free 1 User
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Altair Monarch vs Microsoft Power BI
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Microsoft Power BI easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Microsoft Power BI overall.
- Reviewers felt that Altair Monarch meets the needs of their business better than Microsoft Power BI.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, Altair Monarch and Microsoft Power BI provide similar levels of assistance.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Microsoft Power BI over Altair Monarch.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Altair Monarch
No pricing availableMicrosoft Power BI
Power BI in Microsoft Fabric
Free
1 User
Power BI in Microsoft Fabric
- Sign Up for A Fabric Account
Free Trial
Altair Monarch
Free Trial is available
Microsoft Power BI
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
9.1
80
8.9
964
Ease of Use
8.0
82
8.4
981
Ease of Setup
7.5
31
8.7
429
Ease of Admin
8.1
31
8.4
325
Quality of Support
8.4
74
8.4
842
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.4
31
8.8
306
Product Direction (% positive)
8.7
82
9.2
937
Features by Category
Reports
Not enough data
8.9
823
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
765
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.1
826
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.9
482
Not enough data
9.1
812
|
Verified
Data Preparation
Not enough data
8.9
450
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
441
|
Verified
Data Modeling and Blending
Not enough data
8.9
463
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.1
475
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
459
|
Verified
Generative AI
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Self Service
Not enough data
8.6
685
Not enough data
8.9
693
Not enough data
8.6
774
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
661
Not enough data
8.3
749
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.2
687
|
Verified
Advanced Analytics
Not enough data
8.3
546
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.2
812
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
546
|
Verified
Building Reports
Not enough data
8.8
484
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
474
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.5
409
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.5
405
|
Verified
Data Source Access
8.8
26
Not enough data
9.0
27
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Data Interaction
9.0
23
Not enough data
8.8
18
Not enough data
8.8
24
Not enough data
9.1
25
Not enough data
9.0
22
Not enough data
9.1
27
Not enough data
9.3
18
Not enough data
8.9
17
Not enough data
Data Exporting
9.2
24
Not enough data
9.1
23
Not enough data
9.2
25
Not enough data
Generative AI
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Functionality
9.5
18
Not enough data
9.6
21
Not enough data
9.3
20
Not enough data
9.6
21
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
9.1
16
Not enough data
Diverse Extraction Points
9.5
18
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Altair Monarch and Microsoft Power BI share no categories
Unique Categories
Altair Monarch is categorized as Data Preparation and Data Extraction
Microsoft Power BI is categorized as Analytics Platforms
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Altair Monarch
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Microsoft Power BI
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Financial Services
15.4%
Hospital & Health Care
12.1%
Banking
11.0%
Information Technology and Services
7.7%
Retail
6.6%
Other
47.3%
Information Technology and Services
17.1%
Computer Software
6.6%
Financial Services
4.7%
Hospital & Health Care
3.4%
Marketing and Advertising
3.1%
Other
65.1%
Most Helpful Reviews
Altair Monarch
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Joe L.
Verified User in Financial Services
They have a range of applications, from ETL, Data Mining, Content Management, and Data Visualization. Their solutions work best for industries that still struggle with managing, extracting and analyzing semi-structured, text based content.
Most Helpful Critical Review
Verified User in Legal Services
It was not a good platform for sharing data between companies but good within a company
Microsoft Power BI
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
Visualizations. They're absolutely fantastic. Importing data is incredibly easy and it's much more powerful than excel or many SQL based visualization tools.
Most Helpful Critical Review
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
customer support is very weak,cant handle big data ...
Joe L.
Verified User in Financial Services
They have a range of applications, from ETL, Data Mining, Content Management, and Data Visualization. Their solutions work best for industries that still struggle with managing, extracting and analyzing semi-structured, text based content.
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
Visualizations. They're absolutely fantastic. Importing data is incredibly easy and it's much more powerful than excel or many SQL based visualization tools.
Verified User in Legal Services
It was not a good platform for sharing data between companies but good within a company
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
customer support is very weak,cant handle big data ...
Discussions
What is data preparation?
1 comment
Official Response from Altair Monarch
Data preparation is the process of getting data ready for analytics and/or consumption. This includes collecting data from various locations and systems...Read more
Altair Monarch has no more discussions with answers
What is Microsoft Power BI Desktop used for?
3 comments
DM
PowerBI desktop is the desktop version of PowerBI unlike the web version which you open in a web browser like Google Chrome or EDGE. The desktop version has...Read more
How I can have the free version of this application?
2 comments
DZ
Here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/Read more
Support Multiple Data Types
2 comments
LS
I'd recommend putting requests like that on ideas.powerbi.com.Read more
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