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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

    Matillion

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AMatillion is a data pipeline platform used to build and manage pipelines. Matillion empowers data teams with no-code and AI capabilities to be more productive, integrating data wherever it lives and delivering data that’s ready for AI and analytics.

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    Pricing
    Altair MonarchMatillion
    Editions & Modules
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    Developer: For Individuals
    $2.50/credit
    Pay as you go per user
    Basic
    $1000
    per month 500 prepaid credits (additional credits: $2.18/credit)
    Advanced
    $2000
    per month 750 prepaid credits (additional credits: $2.73/credit)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Altair MonarchMatillion
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Billed directly via cloud marketplace on an hourly basis, with annual subscriptions available depending on the customer's cloud data warehouse provider.
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    Features
    Altair MonarchMatillion
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Altair Monarch and Matillion
    Feature
    Altair Monarch
    -
    Ratings
    Matillion
    8.5
    131 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings8.9130 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings8.190 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Altair Monarch and Matillion
    Feature
    Altair Monarch
    -
    Ratings
    Matillion
    7.0
    132 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings7.6132 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings6.5131 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Altair Monarch and Matillion
    Feature
    Altair Monarch
    -
    Ratings
    Matillion
    8.4
    124 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.133 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings9.140 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.4116 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings7.5116 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.8117 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Altair Monarch and Matillion
    Feature
    Altair Monarch
    -
    Ratings
    Matillion
    8.2
    23 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings8.222 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings8.220 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Altair MonarchMatillion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (133 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.2
    (6 ratings)
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (132 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sources
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (126 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    Altair MonarchMatillion
    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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    Matillion
    Great: Need to query simpler APIs, or utilize well known services such as GSheets etc.? Matillion has got some of the best and easiest to use connectors out there. Not so great: Do you need have a competent CI/CD flow that you will be able to update / compare from Matillion as well as other sources at the same time? Good luck, you will need to be extra careful, as you might have to have a deeper dive into your servers Terminal each time you have a git conflict.
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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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    Matillion
    • The user interface of your data pipelines makes it easier for people who aren’t as techy as data engineers to observe what's going on.
    • Customer support is quick, not always as efficient as you would want it to be, but still.
    • Nice documentation available.
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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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    Matillion
    • Matillion is brilliant at importing data -- it would be amazing to have more ways to export data, from emailed exports to API pushes.
    • Any Python that takes more than a few lines of code requires an external server to run it. It would be great to have more integration (perhaps in a connected virtual environment) to easily integrate customized code.
    • Troubleshooting server logs requires quite a bit of technical expertise. More human readable detailed error handling would be greatly appreciated.
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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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    Matillion
    With the current experience of Matillion, we are likely to renew with the current feature option but will also look for improvement in various areas including scalability and dependability. 1. Connectors: It offers various connectors option but isn't full proof which we will be looking forward as we grow. 2. Scalability: As usage increase, we want Matillion system to be more stable.
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    Usability
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Matillion
    We are able to bring on new resources and teach them how to use Matillion without having to invest a significant amount of time. We prefer looking for resources with any type of ETL skill-set and feel that they can learn Matillion without problem. In addition, the prebuilt objects cover more than 95% of our use cases and we do not have to build much from scratch.
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    Support Rating
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Matillion
    Overall, I've found Matillion to be responsive and considerate. I feel like they value us as a customer even when I know they have customers who spend more on the product than we do. That speaks to a motive higher than money. They want to make a good product and a good experience for their customers. If I have any complaint, it's that support sometimes feels community-oriented. It isn't always immediately clear to me that my support requests are going to a support engineer and not to the community at large. Usually, though, after a bit of conversation, it's clear that Matillion is watching and responding. And responses are generally quick in coming.
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    Implementation Rating
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Matillion
    We were able to control on access and built various enviroment for implementation
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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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    Matillion
    Fivetran offers a managed service and pre-configured schemas/models for data loading, which means much less administrative work for initial setup and ongoing maintenance. But it comes at a much higher price tag. So, knowing where your sweet spot is in the build vs. buy spectrum is essential to deciding which tool fits better. For the transformation part, dbt is purely (SQL-) code-based. So, it is mainly whether your developers prefer a GUI or code-based approach.
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    Scalability
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Matillion
    We're using Matillion on EC2 instances, and we have about 20 projects for our clients in the same instance. Sometimes, we're struggling to manage schedules for all projects because thread management is not visible, and we can't see the process at the instance level.
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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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    Matillion
    • Matillion has been the backbone of my company's analytical functionalities for 10+ years, so it has a good ROI.
    • The price is ok for what our company built with it, but it starts to be less competitive if the tool is not used at its fullest.
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    Matillion Screenshots

    Screenshot of Matillion's GUI, used to orchestrate jobs with control data flow functionality, automating the ETL process.Screenshot of where structured and semi-structured data can be prepared to create clean data sets that can be used with any BI/reporting/visualization tool of choice. Matillion reads and combines data across a target warehouse external storage, such as S3 or Blob.Screenshot of Matillion's self-validating components, sample and row counts. If a job does fail, the warehouse queue services available with Matillion can be used get an alert to a connected email or Slack account.Screenshot of the SQL component used to run custom scripts from within Matillion. With hundreds of pre-built connectors out of the box, Matillion can handle complex transformation needs.