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    Altair Monarch

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAltair Monarch (formerly Datawatch Monarch, acquired by Altair in December, 2018) works with both relational and multi-structured data including support for a wide range of formats including PDF, XML, HTML, text, spool and ASCII files. The product can access data from invoices, sales reports, balance sheets, customer lists, inventory, logs and more. According to the vendor, the system is easy to use, allowing users to quickly select any data source and automatically convert it into…N/A

    Fivetran

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AFivetran replicates applications, databases, events and files into a high-performance data warehouse, after a five minute setup. The vendor says their standardized cloud pipelines are fully managed and zero-maintenance. The vendor says Fivetran began with a realization: For modern companies using cloud-based software and storage, traditional ETL tools badly underperformed, and the complicated configurations they required often led to project failures. To streamline and accelerate…

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    Pricing
    Altair MonarchFivetran
    Editions & Modules
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    Starter
    $0.01
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    Standard
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    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Altair MonarchFivetran
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Altair MonarchFivetran
    Considered Both Products
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    Altair MonarchFivetran
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Altair Monarch and Fivetran
    Feature
    Altair Monarch
    -
    Ratings
    Fivetran
    10.0
    8 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Altair Monarch and Fivetran
    Feature
    Altair Monarch
    -
    Ratings
    Fivetran
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings7.67 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Altair Monarch and Fivetran
    Feature
    Altair Monarch
    -
    Ratings
    Fivetran
    6.2
    8 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings2.06 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings4.04 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Altair Monarch and Fivetran
    Feature
    Altair Monarch
    -
    Ratings
    Fivetran
    8.3
    7 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Altair MonarchFivetran
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.2
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    -
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Data Sources
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Altair MonarchFivetran
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    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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    Fivetran
    Fivetran's business model justifies the use-case where we require data from a single source basically a lot of data but if the requirement is not on the heavier side, Fivetran comes to costly operation when compared to its peers. Otherwise, I'll recommend Fivetran for stability and update and seamless service provider.
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    Pros
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • 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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    Fivetran
    • Easily connects to source data using delivered connectors
    • Transforms data into standard models and schemas
    • Has very good documentation to help quickly setup connectors
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    Cons
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • 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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    Fivetran
    • Very difficult to get connectors enhanced if a specific needed object is not supported by them
    • Depending on the edition needed and the data volumes, can get quite expensive
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    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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    Fivetran
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Fivetran
    Very easy and intuitive to setup and maintain as there usually are not that many options. Very well documented (e.g. how to setup each connector, how the schema looks like, any specific features of this connector etc.). Also the operation is intuitive, e.g. you have status pages, log pages, configuration pages etc. for each connector.
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    Performance
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Fivetran
    It runs pretty well and gets our data from point A to point cluster quickly enough. Honestly, it's not something I think about unless it breaks and that's pretty rare.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    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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    Fivetran
    We never seriously considered using anything else. Our data engineers had used Fivetran extensively in previous roles so when it came time to make a decision, there wasn't much of a process. They gladly signed the contract with Fivetran pretty quickly.
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    Return on Investment
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • 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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    Fivetran
    • It has been very positive in serving BI team with new source requests
    • It has been OK at scaling to match as data volumes as source data size grows
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