Altair Monarch 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Altair Monarch

4.6

(21)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Altair Monarch

Altair Monarch is a self-service, web-based data preparation solution that helps businesses extract data from reports such as HTML, PDF and XPS. The platform can access data from customer lists, sales reports, logs, inventories, invoices, and more. Monarch allows users to connect all major databases and extract data from web pages or multi-structured sources automatically.

The platform features fuzzy matching and analysis to combine disparate data by wrangling and blending it. Monarch enables users to transform unstructured data into rows and columns leveraging click-based interface and pre-built functions. Primary features of the solution comprise unmatched report trapping, automated repeatable work, lineage and change history, BI integration, and no-scripting functionality.

Monarch lets users save parsed data in the tabular format which can later be enhanced by filters, summaries, external data sources and sorts. Data can be visualized with BI tools including Excel, Tableau, and Qlik.

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Altair Monarch Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $0.01

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$0.01

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Altair Monarch Features

Popular features found in Data Extraction
API
Data Connectors
Data Import/Export
Data Verification
Document Extraction
Email Address Extraction
Image Extraction
Multiple Data Sources
Phone Number Extraction
Reporting/Analytics
Third-Party Integrations
Web Data Extraction
More features of Altair Monarch
Audit Management
Customer Database
Data Aggregation and Publishing
Data Analysis Tools
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Discovery
Data Extraction
Data Integration
Data Migration
Data Profiling
Data Quality Control
Data Storage Management
Data Synchronization
Data Transformation
Data Visualization
IP Address Extraction
Query Builder
Real-Time Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Search/Filter
Self-service Analytics
Self Service Data Preparation
Sensitive Data Identification
Task Scheduling
Visual Analytics
Workflow Management

Altair Monarch Integrations

Oracle NoSQL Database

Microsoft SQL Server

Altair Monarch User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

62%

38%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.6

Mansi G.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

powerful and versatile data preparation and analysis tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Altair Monarch includes a wide range of features that are impactful and can help users prepare and analyze data more efficiently and effectively. Here are some of the most impactful features of Altair Monarch:data profiling, data cleansing, automation, pivot table and charts, API, Web data extraction.

Cons:

there are a few features that some users may feel are missing or could be improved.1. Altair Monarch does not currently offer built-in machine learning capabilities, which means that users may need to use other tools or libraries to perform advanced machine learning tasks.2. While Altair Monarch's pricing is generally competitive with other data preparation and analysis tools, but the pricing to be too high for budget.

Verified

Reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2019

Powerful Data Extraction Tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is extremely powerful to extract data out of PDF files. The automator product works great to automate data extraction processes

Cons:

We had a few issues with the installation and upgrade process. The installation instructions could be a little bit more detailed.

Reasons for choosing Altair Monarch

It was easier to use, more affordable, and had a better feature set

Andre E.

Mining & Metals

5001-10000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2017

Just the tool needed

its a huge time saver

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It saves SO much time on a lot of tasks that would normally take way more time to complete and does it pretty effectively.

Cons:

There is a learning curve before you can use the product efficiently. Took some of our users a few months to get proficient.

Brian J.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Monarch is integral to our day-to-day activity

I've been using Monarch for over seven years and I continue to find ways to use it to make my job easier. We use Monarch daily to quickly produce the information we need.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love the way that Monarch can flexibly capture huge amounts of data from various levels of a source file, allowing you to then present that information with formulas, filters and summaries. Monarch projects can also be seamlessly paired with Altair's Automator to produce the reports/data summaries automatically and distribute the files produced via e-mail to variable recipients. The customer service group is top notch (knowledgeable and pleasant)!

Cons:

We've had problems working with 17M record ODBC sources, but most anything would. However, that issue may be more due our outdated (7 years behind current) ODBC version than Monarch. Otherwise, my only other complaint is that I didn't start using this software earlier in life!

Reasons for choosing Altair Monarch

Monarch's software is very powerful, flexible and easy to use.

chris l.

Verified reviewer

Translation and Localization

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Great and powerful!

Benefits include time savings and automating tasks. Since Monarch can read and comprehend, it makes it the ideal software for automating bills, receipts, databases or even any type of data analysis/action items you may have. Be careful setting it up, but once you get your captures just right, the program can amaze. Speedy and reliable!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use, powerful, options galore and there is a great help file! This program is excellent for automating mundane tasks and this software is able to read/understand data with precision. Program allows you to read files, excel, csv, etc and able to identify text, numbers and other characters. Want the program to look for a text specific field? No problem! Monarch lets you identify the type and length of expected lines/fields so you can automate with ease. Great for macro running!

Cons:

Program only has a few minor negatives, such as size/resources. Otherwise, the program is pretty reliable. Sometimes you have to get a bit creative with the captures of data or try a few tricks such as looking for specific text/fields, but I find overall the program does the job well. There are a lot of variables with documents/spreadsheets so this program will help but you will need some patience :)

Nicholas B.

Verified reviewer

Banking

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

The Tool That Helps Me Looking Good

As I mentioned before Monarch helps me to say "yes" to every request (almost) I receive regarding reporting. After 16 years of using it I can say that I am still learning new things by practicing and using it. My wish is that Altair/Datawatch will revisit/reorganize their training and support departments in order for us to get the services we want and deserve. Please create/provide more advance training similar to the one on July 25, 2019 in Boston.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The flexibility we have to access different files at the same time and produce a customized output.

Cons:

The support and the "following up" after selling it. I am a "champion member" an I have been using Monarch for 16 years. I honestly believe that the app does not get the proper attention from Altair/Datawatch. Sorry to say this.

Reasons for choosing Altair Monarch

This was the proper tools to work with reports.

Tracy G.

Financial Services

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2017

Monarch Complete turned a 5 year long project into a quarterly process.

See my review...

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's so versatile. I use it to normalize data exported from various sources so that I can make apples to apples comparisons for reconciliation and identification. It's a tremendous help to me. My description above is speaking to the fact that my first use of Monarch Complete was to develop a process to create a data table of custodian cost basis data concatenating data from 20 separate proprietary text files into a single table so that I could compare it to the same data from our portfolio accounting system - to reconcile cost basis or our clients' eligible investment accounts. Incorporating Monarch Complete into my process, I reduced a manual process that took over 2 hours to complete down to about 10 minutes - and then I was able to use Excel to reconcile the cost basis and determine all out of balance issues and report them for resolution - thereby concluding my cost basis project. During the development stage in Monarch, I saved workspaces related to this process, which allows me to then duplicate the process, I just have to change the source file name and it's done.

Cons:

Mistakes are not always reversible, as I have found out and I have spent countless hours learning this lesson. When you cannot recover from a mistake, you are forced to close the workspace without saving, so all changes you made since your last save are lost and you have to start over. Basically, if you are not very technically oriented, you may find it difficult to begin working with. But that's mostly a learning curve and thankfully Datawatch has a large community of users that can assist and their support staff are very knowledgeable as well.

Albert R.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2021

Monarch Review - AMR

Altair Monarch is a great product. It is feature rich and automatable. The support team is very responsive and the user base is very loyal and communicative in Altair Monarch community blog

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

1. Single PC User version as well as Server-based multi user version availability 2. Automation capabilities 3. Deep compabatability with Microsoft Excel and VBA 4. Can access and analyze many data sources

Cons:

1. Cannot Automate Data Prep Studio activities in Single PC User version 2. Rather expensive for single user version, with annual renewal subscription

Yuliya L.

Verified reviewer

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Time saver

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I use Monarch on a daily basis. This software is a huge help for those who works with lots of data information stored in different formats that needs to be cleaned and re-formatted to tables. Saves a lot of time for me. My favorite function - sort and clean all extra noise from the original files that requires formatting.

Cons:

I'm comfortable with the way it works, did not find any issues.

Janet G.

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2017

I have a product that is fun and easy to use. I can get quick answers to important questions!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I can quickly join different types of data together. I am able to reproduce the data structure I want every day. I can create it and then reproduce the results on the fly. Support for the product is awesome!

Cons:

Training is mostly eLearning through WebEx's and YouTube. Would like to have more in class training offered. Training needs to be more than one day.

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