Altair Monarch vs. Tableau CRM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Altair Monarch
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Altair 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
Tableau CRM
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Tableau CRM (formerly Einstein Analytics) from Salesforce is a cloud-based business intelligence solutions and analytics software. It provides users with automated data discovery, CRM-connected analytics, top-down views of data, augmented analytics, predictive insights, and customizable data visualization tools.
$125
per month
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Altair MonarchTableau CRM
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Features
Altair MonarchTableau CRM
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Altair Monarch
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Ratings
Tableau CRM
8.5
46 Ratings
4% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.639 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings7.646 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.244 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Altair Monarch
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Ratings
Tableau CRM
8.0
47 Ratings
1% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.746 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.446 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.835 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.044 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Altair Monarch
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Ratings
Tableau CRM
8.5
45 Ratings
2% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings9.335 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.942 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.541 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.038 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.732 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Altair Monarch
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Ratings
Tableau CRM
8.4
43 Ratings
4% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.640 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.938 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.540 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Altair Monarch
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Ratings
Tableau CRM
8.4
46 Ratings
2% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.744 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.144 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.140 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.639 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Altair Monarch
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Ratings
Tableau CRM
6.6
43 Ratings
19% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.341 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings6.032 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.237 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Altair Monarch
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Ratings
Tableau CRM
7.3
31 Ratings
8% below category average
REST API00 Ratings7.329 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings7.927 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings6.923 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings7.926 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.526 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.125 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(6 ratings)
7.0
(47 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.2
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(6 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Altair MonarchTableau CRM
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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Salesforce
If the person/ department does not have any knowledge in open source tools such as R, and Python. [Salesforce Einstein Analytics (formerly Wave Analytics)] could be a good option with no coding background required. However, if they have such human resource or can acquire these people, I would recommend open source tech and suggest not to use this tool.
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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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Salesforce
  • Interactive Dashboards, it [consists] of wide variety of charts
  • Data from different sources can be easily integrated with it
  • Security, it provides easy way to secure and share the information with the users
  • Support actions like opening hyperlink etc
  • Almost everything can be done from configuration
  • Data can easily be managed from dataflow.
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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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Salesforce
  • Implementation takes time and resources. It is a heavy lift to implement and at first, it can take a little bit of time to understand what you are looking at. But once it's implemented it's easy to get started.
  • Without any BI expertise or resources available to your organization, the implementation of this is difficult. If you aren't used to BI tools and don't have an expert in house, the terminology can be difficult to understand at first.
  • Their support is not on hand to help you if you encounter any issues, at least not on all the plans or the basic plans. Real-time support service is an add-on, so you'll need to be patient if you require help or pay extra money.
  • More functionality for the tool is needed to compete with other heavyweights in the arena like Tableau, Qlik, and Microstrategy. Still lacks the robustness, functionality, and flexibility other competing products possess.
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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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Salesforce
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Usability
Altair Engineering, Inc.
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Salesforce
Overall usability is absolutely worth the price. It help me to save tons of time working on raw data in Excel file. It also minimize the discrepancy in data format when there are multiple user inputting the data. Every data inputted in Salesforce is standardized, therefore it is very easy to keep track / generating performance report even though you are having more than 20 projects recorded in Salesforce Einstein Analytics.
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Support Rating
Altair Engineering, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
I have not come across any bad experiences with the support provided. Also, I observed regular updates have been implemented without breaking the tool. But in my opinion, Now Tableau CRM has huge market challenges with tools like Power BI and its spread
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Implementation Rating
Altair Engineering, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
An implementation partner would certainly result in greater output in a more efficient amount of time. However, I have found implementation partners to be extremely expensive for the output received (at least working for a non-profit company they are frequently unaffordable). Internal implementation does help with usable output though since internal knowledge would better know the data architecture and business processes
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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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Salesforce
Tableau is the absolute top of the class when it comes to business intelligence, but it doesn't make sense for every business case. In our case, we needed a simple data visualization platform for our CRM platform and sales pipeline. Salesforce Analytics, while nowhere near as robust, did the job we needed it to do perfectly in a significantly more cost-effective manner.
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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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Salesforce
  • Absolutely a must-have tool if you are working on saving project
  • Create a centralized database to track project target across region
  • Easily create chart to showcase data / performance
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