Altair Monarch vs. EazyBI Cloud

The product is especially useful when you have real-time and/or time series data to analyze. If you have more mundane, simpler requirements, other products might do the job you need for less money (there are even some decent open source visualization tools you can find.) I know the product is very widely used in capital markets applications to monitor and analyze risk and price and volume changes; if you're working in that area, I don't think there's a better tool to use.

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EazyBI is a great tool to create custom reports based on team performance where measures like Hours Spent are used. It's not as easy as measuring capacity, since that still must be done externally and saved in user-defined formulas

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• Creating a basic model to extract data from a report is very easy.
• Advanced features like Calculated Fields and External Lookups allow you to augment the raw data.
• You can create a "project" to automate the data extraction. Combined with Datapump (a separate DW app), you can fully automate the process once the raw report is generated.

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• Gauges make it easy to understand how teams are performing against targets.
• Customizable formulas make it possible to measure what matters most to your team and company.
• This tool eliminated the need for ad-hoc analysis, and managers could repurpose the time saved into other qualitative measures instead.

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• Recently, we had some major sticker-shock when we wanted to upgrade Data Pump. It is an exceptional product, but when the price jumped from $6,000 to over $60,000, it was impossible to get the funds approved internally for the upgrade.
• We also paid for yearly maintenance contracts which included Professional Services, but rarely found those services beneficial. However, we did receive all software upgrades for Datapump as part of the contract which we found to be very beneficial. However, with the new pricing, that is not longer the case.

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• Documentation by use case instead of key word matches.
• SME webinars on at smaller intervals of time.
• Built-in assistance tools for formula debugging

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Even though we do not utilize it on a daily basis, I do hope my current company renews it's license. If not, I intend to purchase myself.

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Datawatch is very good value of money compared to QlikView; QlikView is really more of a BI tool and has a lot of functions that I didn't need. Datawatch is very strong in the real-time area where Tableau, Panorama, and Qlik don't do very well. If you need to set up a visual monitoring dashboard, Datawatch is the best product I've seen for that. if you want to do a lot of in depth statistical analysis of large databases, Tableau is probably a good option.

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EazyBI is the only tool that allows for dynamic reporting. I'd highly recommend investing the time to learn how to create user-defined formulas since the return on value will increase as time passes

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• Data Pump reduces complexity of report solutions by offering a standardized approach for organizing and scheduling
• 97% service level for past 5 years for all of our jobs going through Data Pump

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• Since EazyBI can be configured for team quantitative measures, collaboration time now focuses on brainstorming and discussion around projects.
• Since user-defined formulas are reused across reports, there's less deviation in reporting from different people.
• There's less time spent debating the reporting setup since reports are configured once and kept current through the fiscal quarter.

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