Altair Engineering, Inc.

Altair Monarch

Composite Score

8.0 /10

CX Score

8.3 /10

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What is Altair Monarch?

Monarch is a market leading desktop-based self-service data preparation solution. Monarch connects to multiple data sources including structured and unstructured data, cloud-based data, and big data. Connecting to data, cleansing and manipulating data requires no coding.

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Awards & Recognition

Altair Monarch won the following awards in the Data Preparation for Analytics category

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7 Top Rated Capabilities

13 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2026

9 Top Rated Capabilities

15 Top Rated Features

2025

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

10 Top Rated Capabilities

8 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2023

Altair Monarch Ratings

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88 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Altair Monarch?

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100% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Inspires Innovation

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Data Preparation Workflow

Lineage & Basic Auditing

Record Deduplication

Data Integration

Data Mining

Data Modelling Tools

Data Discovery and Search

Data Enrichment

Data Packaging

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

Cataloging

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Altair Monarch Reviews

Govind R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Mar 2025

best for handling tasks related to getting data.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Altair Monarch from other similar products?

Monarch lets us automate the whole process of getting data ready.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We made tools and templates so that daily reports can be run without having to do anything by hand. It saves hours a week and cuts down on mistakes when compared to cleaning data by hand.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Setting up routines for the first time takes some practice, but it's worth it in the long run.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's great that monarch has automation tools for people who do the same data prep jobs over and over again.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Efficient Service

Suman K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2026

Made Data Preparation Much Easier

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Altair Monarch from other similar products?

Before using Monarch, I did spend a lot of time cleaning exported reports, before I could analyse them. I liked here the fact that I created an extraction model once, and then used it again for similar reports without having to recreate the model every time. This was a significant improvement when working with repeating business reports, in my daily work.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

What I like the most about it is the amount of manual work that it saves. I primarily used it to format data prior to analysis, and the repetitive formatting was better than having to do it all in Excel. I didn't have to struggle with it daily, it was able to do its work.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The only thing that was slightly outdated was the user interface. There was some trial and error in my learning of where some options were located, and I believe the overall design could be updated. At first it wasn't much of a problem, but I wish it would have been better on the first impression.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I'd definitely recommend trying Monarch if you are preparing and cleaning reports regularly in your job. One day is not enough to learn everything, but after making an investment of some time in making reusable models you will realize how much time you can save compared to performing the same tasks manually.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Efficient Service
Effective Service
Acts with Integrity

Amir H.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2025

good for people who have to write reports every

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Altair Monarch from other similar products?

f your job is to read, clean, or analyze records, monarch is truly your best friend.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It takes ugly static files and turns them into clean, cleaned data that can be exported. Now that we've used it for months, we still find new ways to save time.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It takes some time to learn at first, but it's well worth it.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you have to write reports first thing in the morning, you should have Altair Monarch on hand.

Pros

Appreciates Incumbent Status
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable

Cons

Less Productive

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

Altair Monarch Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Altair Monarch?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Preparation Workflow Visual, repeatable pipelines to clean, transform, join, and enrich data from multiple sources, preparing trusted datasets for analysis and reporting.

Lineage & Basic Auditing Tracks transformation steps, column dependencies, and change history to ensure data transparency, traceability, and reproducibility in analytics workflows.

Record Deduplication Identity resolution is the process of linking various records and is the main engine for record deduplication, which can enable some aspects of data cleansing.

Data Integration Includes integration of data from multiple sources, merging systems, transforming data and capture data to form a unified view of a company's data assets

Data Mining Explorative automated analysis of data to discover patterns and trends

Data Modelling Tools Includes ability to model complex relationships between internal application sources and other parties.

Data Discovery and Search Data exploration and search capabilities enabling business users to perform their own analyses and build insights.

Data Enrichment Includes the enhancement of the value of internally held data by appending related attributes from external sources.

Data Packaging Creating technology-specific data repository design optimized for a consumption use case, e.g.: time-series database, muti-dimensional cube, graph database, etc

Data Connectors and Data Mashup Connect to, merge and clean data from multiple diverse data sources.

Cataloging Interactive graphical exploratory data analysis through immersive interfaces.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Altair Monarch Reviews

Govind R.

best for handling tasks related to getting data.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Suman K.

Made Data Preparation Much Easier

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Amir H.

good for people who have to write reports every

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Feature Ratings

Data Preparation Workflow

Lineage & Basic Auditing

Record Deduplication

Data Integration

Data Mining

Data Modelling Tools

Data Discovery and Search

Data Enrichment

Data Packaging

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

Cataloging

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization