All Altair Monarch Reviews
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Anonymous
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
September 2019
Powerful Data Extraction Tool
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
Brian
Company size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Hospital & Health Care
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
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.
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 However, that issue may be more due our outdated (7 years behind current) ODBC version than Monarch.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.
Andre
Company size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Industry: Mining & Metals
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
July 2017
Just the tool needed
its a huge time saver
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.
Tracy
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Financial Services
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
July 2017
Monarch Complete turned a 5 year long project into a quarterly process.
See my review...
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.
chris
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Translation and Localization
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
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!
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
Company size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Banking
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
5
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.
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.
Albert
Company size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
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
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
Company size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
September 2018
Time saver
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
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
December 2017
I have a product that is fun and easy to use. I can get quick answers to important questions!
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.
Dirk
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Financial Services
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
July 2017
Powerful, Easy to Learn and Use
Increased efficiencies and greater flexibility with data.
Pros
The ability to easily extract data and it also has many spreadsheet and database functionalities. Works very well with Excel and Access. Fantastic at extracting data from PDF files.
Cons
Expensive, some processes could be streamlined or be made more user friendly, some performance issues.
Leonid
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Financial Services
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
February 2021
Altair Monarch
Pros
The ability to process complex documents (PDF, Mainframe reports, Excel, XML, JSON) without writing code. The key is to understand few concepts, the rest is practice.
Cons
No built-in change management for the Automator part of the software. You have to export jobs to save versions.
Melissa
Company size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Banking
Time used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
August 2017
Monarch has been invaluable with extracting data from our mortgage servicing reports
easy data extraction into excel, text, and pdf formats
Pros
Ease of use. When I first started, I was able to teach myself how Monarch worked and easily able to get answers for my one off questions through their discussion boards.
Cons
More knowledge around the mortgage industry reporting and how the data is presented and needs to be extracted. I had to find another user in our industry to get a lot of help with the reports.
Edward
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Banking
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
September 2019
Altair Monarch - Game changing data preparation software
Pros
The ease of use of Monarch is amazing. Drag and drop data sets right into the software and you're off. Even if you've never used the product before, basic usage is very intuitive.
Cons
As with any software product, there is always room for improvement. Occasionally you will run into limitations with formatting or presentations. However, they do an excellent job of listening to the needs of their customers and each update often answers many of issues you struggle with.
Nathan
Company size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Banking
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
August 2019
Good Value
We were able to recoup our expenses from purchasing the system with the very first use case that we found. We took unstructured text from a .txt file and converted it to Excel, with quite a bit of manipulation being done from that point. Saved a ton of time, with great customer support helping out along the way.
Pros
Reasonably priced for the variety of capabilities that you get with the software.
Cons
Has a learning curve, but great training and support to make that easier.
Anonymous
Company size: 11-50 employees
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: CapterraÂ
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
September 2019
Monarch is powerful and is the best value for our needs
We primarily use it for extracting data from PDF's so we can import it into SQL.
Pros
It is the only product we have found in this price range that meets our need for PDF extraction. I am learning the REG EXP functions and they are very powerful.
Cons
No real drawbacks, but PDF's can be a real problem and on rare occasions I have to do extra paring in SQL.
Reasons for choosing Altair Monarch
Even though Monarch was above our original budget we felt like the features were worth the extra expense.
David
Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Time used: Less than 12 months
EASE OF USE
2.5
FUNCTIONALITY