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Altair® Monarch®

Prepare, Transform, and Cleanse Data from Virtually Any Source

Altair® Monarch® is a self-service data preparation solution that connects directly to structured and semi-structured data sources, including PDFs, complex spreadsheets, SQL databases, cloud data, and big data sources. Monarch requires no coding and is designed for business users without specialized IT skills or programming experience.

Monarch makes it easy to prepare and transform data from disparate sources into rows and columns for use in reporting, analytics, machine learning, and other applications. The software includes over 80 pre-built data preparation functions that help non-technical users complete data preparation tasks quickly and without errors. Build trust in your data with Monarch’s auditable change histories and clear data lineage.

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Why Monarch?

Fifth Generation PDF Extraction Engine

Monarch’s advanced PDF extraction capabilities empower users to capture data from the most complicated PDF files, including very large reports with complex formatting, subtotals, and tables. Monarch reduces the risk of errors, runs on ordinary computer hardware, and allows people with limited IT skills to deliver clean, high-quality data to their colleagues.

Capture Data from Complex Spreadsheets

Monarch makes it easy to trap data stored in even the most intricately formatted Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheets. Monarch recognizes patterns within spreadsheets and understands which cells contain useful data, which cells are redundant, and how cells relate to each other within the file’s structure. Monarch uses these patterns to create tables where you can easily work with your data to perform cleansing, transformation, and other preparation tasks.

A data science team uses Altair Monarch to prepare and transform data as part of a major migration to a new enterprise system.

Automate Migration of Legacy Data to New Systems

Whether moving to the cloud or replacing a legacy system, enterprise system migrations are slow and resource intensive. Monarch turns what is usually a manual, drawn-out process into an automated workflow that can complete a data migration in a few hours or days.

Key Features

Report Reconciliation

Manually cleaning, joining, and transforming reports is time extensive, repetitive, and error prone. Monarch allows users to extract data from any source, including PDFs, spreadsheets, and text reports, and automate repeatable reconciliation workflows.

Faster, More Accurate Audits

Audits are laborious and time-consuming for everyone involved. Audit data often exists in PDF and text files, meaning the disparate sources must be verified against the books. Monarch automates the extraction of complex data and comparison against multiple sources. Auditors spend less time preparing information and have more confidence in their evaluations. Monarch provides full data lineage, reconciliation configuration, and change history.

Ease of Use

Gain insight without complexity. Monarch provides complete, trusted data for decisions and complex problems. Data architects, data engineers, and business analysts use Monarch’s intuitive wizard-driven interface. With 80+ prebuilt data prep functions, users can transform disorganized data into clean, usable data sets for further analytic use. Monarch exports data to many leading third-party business intelligence (BI) and analytics platforms.

Powerful, Efficient Self-Service Data Preparation

Self-service data preparation enables people to access, transform, and utilize all data resources effectively to support fully informed business and technology-related decisions. Monarch is the fastest and easiest way to extract dark data, including semi-structured PDF, Excel, and text files. Monarch also handles big data and other structured sources.

Reduce Costs, Increase Efficiencies

Self-service data preparation eliminates the need to work with IT on data extraction projects, which can be time consuming and costly. Monarch’s automated processes save time, instill trust, enable people to make informed decisions confidently, and focus on analysis instead of data preparation.

Pre-Built Apps for Critical Business Systems

Monarch App Library provides Monarch customers with access to a library of thousands of pre-built apps for core business systems, such as ADP, Dayforce, Fiserv, Mastercard, Meditech, SAP, and many more. These apps range in capabilities from connectivity and complicated data extraction to complete business processes, like reconciling multiple disparate systems. New customers become more productive and achieve immediate ROI, while experienced customers discover new ways to streamline data flows.
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