--- title: "Altair Monarch Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of Altair Monarch Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datawatch-desktop-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Data Extraction Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-extraction/) / Altair Monarch Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datawatch-desktop-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datawatch-desktop-profile/alternatives/) # Altair Monarch Review From $0.01 Free trial 1 plan Wondering if Altair Monarch is right for your organization? Our Data Extraction Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview Altair Monarch 4.6 [(21)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datawatch-desktop-profile/reviews/) 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. Wondering if Altair Monarch is right for your organization? 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Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ## 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 Configurable Workflow 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 Integration rated undefined from -1 review Microsoft SQL Server Integration rated undefined from -1 review ## Altair Monarch User Reviews ## Altair Monarch customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 21 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 13 reviews (62%) - 4 stars: 8 reviews (38%) - 3 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.3/5 - Value for money: 4.3/5 - Customer support: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.6/5 --- ### powerful and versatile data preparation and analysis tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Mansi G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Powerful Data Extraction Tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Just the tool needed - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Andre E. - Industry: Mining & Metals - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered its a huge time saver #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Monarch is integral to our day-to-day activity - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Brian J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Great and powerful! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: chris l. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Translation and Localization - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 :) --- ### The Tool That Helps Me Looking Good - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nicholas B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Monarch Complete turned a 5 year long project into a quarterly process. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tracy G. - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered See my review... #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Monarch Review - AMR - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Albert R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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 --- ### Time saver - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Yuliya L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### I have a product that is fun and easy to use. I can get quick answers to important questions! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Janet G. - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. 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