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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

    ZAP Data Hub

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AZAP provides data management & analytics software, with optimized solutions for Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, SAP, and PowerBI. ZAP Data Hub is an ELT data warehouse automation software that helps to deliver accurate, trusted financial and operational reporting in BI tools.N/A
    Pricing
    Altair MonarchZAP Data Hub
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    Altair MonarchZAP Data Hub
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Features
    Altair MonarchZAP Data Hub
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Altair Monarch and ZAP Data Hub
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    Altair Monarch
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    Ratings
    ZAP Data Hub
    8.3
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    Datameer
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    User Ratings
    Altair MonarchZAP Data Hub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.2
    (6 ratings)
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    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sources
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Altair MonarchZAP Data Hub
    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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    ZAP
    ZAP is an incredible tool for those IT Organizations that need to stay lean. Within days, I was able to implement the ZAP solution instead of hiring Developers and ETL developers to tie into multiple Data infrastructures.
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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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    ZAP
    • Extremely Robust Interface
    • Implementation and Connection to Data Stores extremely fast. I was able to implement BI reporting within days.
    • Fantastic Support
    • Cost Effective Tool for any IT organization. Reduction in FTE, Data Reporting Deployment, and Cube Creation.
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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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    ZAP
    • I would love to see a strong integration with Google Analytics. ZAP works great with CRM platforms but would be interested to get the metrics on how marketing campaigns are tied to organic traffic and PPC.
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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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    ZAP
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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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    ZAP
    ZAP has a better interface and user-friendly.
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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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    ZAP
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