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What is Altair Monarch?

An industry leader with over 30 years of experience in data discovery and transformation, Altair Monarch offers the fastest and easiest way to extract data from any source. Simple to construct workflows that require no coding enable users to collaborate as they transform difficult data such as PDFs spreadsheets, text files, as well as from big data and other structured sources, into rows and columns. Whether data is on premises or in the cloud, Altair can automate preparation tasks for expedited results and deliver data you trust for smart business decision making. To learn more about Altair Monarch or download a free version of its enterprise software, please click the links below.

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Product Description

Altair Monarch is a market leading desktop-based no code data preparation solution. Monarch connects to multiple data sources including structured and unstructured data, cloud-based data, and big data. Monarch’s no code data preparation and analysis features enable people with different skill sets to access and transform data to discover insights, generate value and drive data-driven decisions.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

By converting data from any source into rows and columns without any need for coding, only Altair Monarch quickly generates clean and accessible reports. More than 80 pre-built functions are available, enabling laborious and error-prone manual data preparation tasks to be fully automated. Reports that previously took hours or even days to create are now completed in minutes. As a result, Monarch enables users to focus more on value added data analysis that supports better decision making.


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Altair
Year Founded
1985
HQ Location
Troy, MI
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@Altair_Inc
7,334 Twitter followers
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4,102 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ:ALTR
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$458
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Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI), empowering innovation across industries.


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"Unlimited Acceleration by Centralised Data"
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Altair Monarch Media

Altair Monarch Demo - Extract Data from Difficult, Semi-Structured Data
Monarch is the fastest and easiest way to extract data from difficult, semi-structured data like PDFs and text files, as well as, big data and other structured sources.
Altair Monarch Demo - 80+ Pre-built Functions
Easy to use. 80+ prebuilt functions that simplify data connections, data cleansing, data manipulation, and other data preparation tasks. Work done on data is logged to meet data lineage needs.
Altair Monarch Demo - Extract Data from Spreadsheets
Easily and quickly extract data from spreadsheets that use multiple tabs (worksheets), merged cells, specialized casing, rows/cells/columns that use conditional formatting (colors), and more.
Altair Monarch Demo - Extract data From Unstructured Data (PDF to Text)
Grab data from websites, unstructured data such as PDF and TXT files, structured data, and other disparate data sources. Design reports from this data for auditing, account reconciliation, regulatory requirements, or other use cases.
Altair Monarch Demo - Optimizing,Importing, and Exporting Using Monarch
Monarch can expedite the data extraction process from virtually any source, from your tabular databases to your local drives, and how to get consistent results.
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Sr. Systems Engineer, Data Operations
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Altair Monarch?

Monarch fills a niche for data extraction and data prep that has no peers in the market. You could cobble together a toolset to replace some features, but for business users, there is no substitute for Monarch when it comes to reliably extracting semi-structured data. And even at the enterprise level, anything else would be more difficult to implement and maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Altair Monarch?

The HHWU license model has some huge advantages, but it would be helpful if there was a better process for automated enterprise deployments that didn't require any interaction on the end user's part. We were able to automate this, but the process could be smoother. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Altair Monarch solving and how is that benefiting you?

First, there is what I would consider the number one differentiator, which is the capability of building models to extract semi-structured data and convert to columnar data to be used in spreadsheets, databases, etc. Then there are the workflow automation features, which can be done in the GUI or scripted from the command line. The task-level automation features are essential to many of our business processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Altair Monarch?

The ease of data preparation and data classification and profiling with Altair Monarch is the best feature of the product. Data integration from other sources and creating streamlined workflows for enriching the data sources also works great with Altair Monarch. the availability of Altair One for the administration of all Altair products at one dashboard is another advantage I found in the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Altair Monarch?

The platform and dashboards work great and the solution is very handy for the organizational need if we succeed to get the best out of the available features. There is nothing to dislike in Altair Monarch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Altair Monarch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Altair Monarch has solved the data governance and data management issues for us and it is extremely beneficial for getting the best out of your data sources and integrated setups. We used Altair Monarch for data preparation and data extraction and it works perfectly for both jobs. Metadata management and data modeling with accuracy are always great and helpful to optimizing data resources and for the matters, Altair Monarch undoubtedly does the best job in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Altair Monarch?

The functions are easy to use. Altair organizes the raw data in their original clustered form into neat data sets that can be exported and utilized for analytics.

Has an additional data extraction feature that I use to extract data from submitted PDF or word documents while preparing audit reports.

The self-service data preparation makes it easy for me to do most of the practices without needing assistance from the IT team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Altair Monarch?

The peer community is still small but growing. This makes it very unlikely to meet a fellow with a similar problem as yours. The learning curve for this solution is also quite steep; I had to take a long training course before I began using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Altair Monarch solving and how is that benefiting you?

As an accountant, data handling gets the best of me sometimes. However, Altair Monarch makes life easier by making data preparation and visualization fun. It has plenty of functionalities including data extraction, saving us plenty of time and bucks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Altair Monarch?

Monarch allows users to transform data that otherwise is locked and inaccessible. In other words, Monarch allows users to transform data into information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Altair Monarch?

Can't think of a downside. I am a long-time user of the product and as it has evolved over the years its software engineers have made the product easier to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Altair Monarch:

If your business needs a flexible data extraction/transformation tool that end users can master in less than a day then Altair Monarch is an ideal choice. I have worked in Fortune 500 companies with hundreds of SQL programmers as well as private companies with modest IT budgets and have found the Monarch application helpful in both large and small businesses. If your company is operating on a legacy business application and you would like to extend the life of the application (i.e. avoid the cost of upgrading / replacing your ERP) while enjoying access to the firm's data in a robust, intuative software tool then Monarch is the right choice for you. For those using modern ERPs they too will find great value in Monarch for custom analysis, forecasting, budgeting, excess / obsolete inventory analysis, and countless other uses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Altair Monarch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Altair Monarch functions are quite comprehensive and the organization is at the ready to introduce new functions as user needs warrant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Altair Monarch?

Monarch software can extract data from different data sources - PDFs, TXT files, database feeds, XML, JSON, etc and transforms it according to the business logic. I like the most that Monarch has built-in easy-to-learn technics that allow me to parse non-trivial PDF and Excel files into a relational database for subsequent analysis and reporting. After the transformation is designed, it could be deployed to the Automator - the engine that will run based on the schedule or trigger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Altair Monarch?

The new unit-based licensing model becomes costly for the jobs that run in the Automator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Altair Monarch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automating tasks that people in multiple business areas used to perform manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tyasia D.
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What do you like best about Altair Monarch?

I like how data is always on our finger tips for easy management.

It has enabled us to make meaningful decisions based on accountability, insights and data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Altair Monarch?

Performance is perfect only slowness of support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Altair Monarch solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have reduced marketing time.

We meet demand on real time.

We are able to make decisions immediately with confidence.

We are accurate with cost reduction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akshit V.
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What do you like best about Altair Monarch?

It is very easy to derive formatted data from row files like pdf, texts, big data etc. The data preparation is very much error free and fast. More time can be utilised for value addition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Altair Monarch?

The cost of the software is comparatively high. Most of the tools are available in python libraries, so it is a bit unreasonable paying this much amount for these tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Altair Monarch solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have thousands of client requirement request documents in pdfs, spreadsheets and invoices in the form of photos. I used this to centralise all the data in a common cloud based database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Altair Monarch?

With Altair Monarch, it is seamless to collect structured, unstructured and geospatial data across ETL services for real time modeling and preparation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Altair Monarch?

The fact that no modeling is required makes it easy and rapid to make informed decisions by transforming data into insights with Altair Monarch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Altair Monarch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automate data modeling and visualization.

Self-service portal allows users to move faster from insights to actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Altair Monarch?

Extract information from a wide variety of sources. Comprehensive support from its resources sources. A great tool to provide top insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Altair Monarch?

UI could improve (user experience) although it is easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Altair Monarch solving and how is that benefiting you?

Generate operation efficiencies to improve business processes and increase productivity (time, talent, money) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Altair Monarch?

This platform is helpful to me as i use it at the company I now work for. It helps me extract data from different sources and puts the data into an Excel spreadsheet which is easy to manipulate into anything i need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Altair Monarch?

Field definition needs to include more more options to retrieve data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Altair Monarch solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have reduced multiple lines of data to one.To enhance reference to be easy on one page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.