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Unlock the Power of Data

Data in all its glory, but the real challenge lies in generating value from the data. We all know that semi-structured data like PDFs and text files, or even structured sources of data is useless unless we can extract the relevant information and visualize it in an understandable way. Compaines around the world collect a huge amount of data every day. This data would be a fantastic source of information for decision making, if we could only make it understandable for us. This is where most companies loses the battle. Combine data from multiple sources is necessary for nearly every department to get accurate answers to critical questions. Manually cleaning, joining, transforming reports for reconciliation takes an enormous amount of time, is repetitive and error prone.

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Improve Efficiency and Profitability Accuracy of Mortgage Servicing Operations

Altair’s data analytics platform helps major banks and nonbank financial institutions transform the mortgage servicing process. Altair tools handle every phase of the data lifecycle, eliminate data silos, and provide decision-makers with excellent visibility into risk and profitability. Click here to explore high impact Altair Mortgage Data Solutions.

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Managing Your Cloud Data: How to Create a Unified Look at Your Cloud Utilization Across All Cloud Providers

Cloud utilization has drastically changed how organizations operate today, but understanding how it's being used within your organization is key to saving on costs and avoiding security concerns. In fact, organizations are using the cloud more than ever—and they're oftentimes using more than one provider. Find out how you can create a unified outlook of your best practices, costs, security concerns, and utilization across all cloud providers to understand your use of the cloud and address immediate concerns. Join our experts as we discuss: -How reports are generated between the various cloud providers and the challenges they pose -How we can prepare and normalize the reports in order to gain insight on how our organization is using the cloud internally -Creating outputs to send to the appropriate parties for a greater level of agility

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Data Science for Engineers Series 2: Data Collection, Preparation, and Understanding

We kick off the Data Science for Engineering series by covering the first step of data science methodology. During this 90-minute presentation and Q&A we discuss:

  • The "why" of engineering-data science convergence holds the key to unlocking the full potential of data and AI in manufacturing​.
  • The data science basics including the Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) framework​.
  • How Mabe, a leader in home appliances, is leveraging the convergence of big data, analytics, and simulation to accelerate product innovation​.
  • How you can gather, combine, structure, and organize engineering data using a self-service data preparation solution​ with a technical demonstration of Monarch.
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Automated Data Transformation for the Enterprise: Altair® Monarch® Server

Realizing the true potential of self-service data transformation requires the ability to scale, automate, and govern across the organization. Altair® Monarch® Server is a centralized data management solution that automates bulk data processing and report distribution. It allows users to securely publish, collaborate, and share data preparation models, source data, and prepared datasets. See how Monarch Server can help you automate and streamline your data transformation and reporting capabilities at the enterprise level. Contact us to schedule a demo.

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3 Simple Steps to Start Your Robotic Process Automation Journey

RPA and Automation are popular buzzwords, but what can they actually provide your organization? And, how do you get started? Data transformation tools such as Altair Monarch perfectly complement RPA processes to free up human capital, prevent lost revenue, and ultimately maximize your investment. Learn how starting small with the right approach can help demonstrate value to your organization by minimizing repetitive and time-intensive processes.  This session explores: • Getting started with RPA and implementation in your organization • Leveraging advanced data preparation to drive operational and administrative efficiencies • Eliminating siloed usage and error-prone tasks through RPA To learn more about the ABCs of RPA, fill out the form.

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Get Started with Altair® Monarch® Part 1: Overview

This video provides a high-level introduction to the Altair Monarch. Try Monarch today, for free - click here to start trial.

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Get Started with Altair® Monarch® | Part 2: Acquire Data

This video explains how to bring data from different file formats into Altair Monarch. Try Monarch today, for free - click here to start trial.

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Get Started with Altair® Monarch® | Part 3: Preview Data

The Preview interface in Altair Monarch enables users to pre-assess and review data sources before performing data preparation and transformation operations. Try Monarch today, for free - click here to start trial.

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Get Started with Altair® Monarch® | Part 4: Trap Report Data

Altair Monarch makes it easy to capture data from unstructured sources like PDFs and report documents. This video walks you through the process. Try Monarch today, for free - click here to start trial.

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Get Started with Altair® Monarch® | Part 5: Prepare Data

This video explains how to use pre-built data preparation functions in Altair Monarch Data to transform your data into clean analysis-ready information. Try Monarch today, for free - click here to start trial.

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Get Started with Altair® Monarch® | Part 6: Workspaces

Understanding the Workspaces concept in Altair Monarch is essential to efficient use of the software. This video explains how to use Workspaces to speed up your data transformation workflows. Try Monarch today, for free - click here to start trial.

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Get Started with Altair® Monarch® | Part 7: Transform Data

Transformations in Altair Monarch enable you to view and shape your data in different ways. Try Monarch today, for free - click here to start trial.

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Get Started with Altair® Monarch® | Part 8: Combine Data

In this video, we look at how tables in Altair Monarch may be combined using a Join or Append function. Try Monarch today, for free - click here to start trial.

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Get Started with Altair® Monarch® | Part 9: Analyze Data

This video shows you how to analyze your data and uncover insights by creating summaries, filters, and sorts in Altair Monarch. Try Monarch today, for free - click here to start trial.

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Get Started with Altair® Monarch® | Part 10: Export Data

This video shows you how to export your work to different formats for reporting and visualization after you have prepped, blended, and transformed your data using Altair Monarch. Try Monarch today, for free - click here to start trial.

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Access, Prep, and Transform Data from Snowflake with Altair® Monarch®

Altair® Monarch® makes it easy to extract directly from Snowflake data warehouses. You can then perform a variety of data preparation functions on the data, combine it with data from other sources, and export it in different formats to other systems. Try Monarch today, for free - click here to start trial. This video was produced using Monarch 2021.0.

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Altair Data Analytics System Health Check

Examining your analytics system at regular intervals to get optimum performance is vital for your growing business. In order to ensure you get the most out of our technology and tools, Altair Data Analytics Services offers a technical health check. It covers full examination of the Altair Data Analytics product environment, related hardware and software configurations, the operating and networking environment, data backup and security, as well as can extend to any other bespoke criteria that you may want covered.

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HR Analytics: Overcoming Challenges & Unlocking Opportunities

Is data a challenge or an asset for your HR department? Discover how to minimize the time spent on reporting while maximizing insights from your available data sources. The HR department’s monthly, weekly, and even daily reports have a wide range of complexity and importance. From the “no-fail” tasks of payroll reporting to the in-depth look at the overall health of an organization through talent acquisition and talent retention, the role of HR and the data it needs for the job are inseparable. Our analytics expert will reveal how you can: - Manage data from payroll systems - Track diversity hire information YoY - Assess the health of your organization - And more! Visit our HR Analytics page for additional resources

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Innovation in Revenue Cycle: Achieving End-to-End Automation with AmdoSoft RPA & Monarch Advanced Data Prep

On a daily basis, today's providers deal with an abundance of documents, policy processes, and administrative tasks that can detract from high-value patient care. Robotic processing automation (RPA) allows health organizations to easily configure software robots that automate repetitive and time intensive processes across any on-site or cloud-based application. In this presentation, learn how to achieve interoperability through Altair Monarch in partnership with AmdoSoft RPA to process documents and hand clean data directly to the RPA bot for an end-to-end automation solution.

Conference Presentations

AI-Supported Material Test Automation

Altair’s artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) software helps materials scientists understand how to best fill gaps in their material databases, even when it’s impossible to test all possible variants. These advanced tools also optimize testing programs, improve efficiency, and reduce the time required to complete materials testing.

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Altair Data Analytics for Banking, Financial Services & Insurance

Altair works with over 3,000 banks & credit unions, buy & sell-side trading organizations, security exchanges and insurance companies. Delivering best of breed applications from automated data preparation, and predictive analytics, to real-time data visualization. We provide you with technical resources from trusted subject matter experts in the field who understand your business, making your user experience seamless in transition. Altair offers a unique licensing model with cost-effective options to gain the competitive advantage in your market.

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Automatically Capture Data from Tables in PDF Documents with Altair® Monarch®

Monarch’s table extraction function is designed for ordinary people who wish to do extraordinary things with PDF files. It enables business users to identify tables in text-heavy PDF files, select them, modify them as needed, and export the data to Monarch Data Prep Studio for further data transformation. This short video shows you how to use the PDF Table Extractor in Monarch Data Prep Studio.

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Manually Capture Data from Tables in PDF Documents using Altair® Monarch®

Monarch’s Create Table from Selection function makes it easy to capture data from just one section of a table within a PDF document. You can create a new table using only the highlighted rows and columns in an existing table and append data to an existing table. This short video shows you how to use the Create Table from Selection and Append functions in Monarch Data Prep Studio.

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Create Ad-hoc Tables from PDF Documents in Altair® Monarch®

Monarch lets you define ad-hoc tables using data in PDF documents that is not presented in tabular forms. This video shows you how to use the Create New Ad-hoc Table function of the PDF Table Extractor in Monarch Data Prep Studio.

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Modify Tables Extracted from PDF Documents with Altair® Monarch®

PDF Table Extractor allows you to modify and tweak a table definition as needed. You can define new tables, create new columns, delete columns, define table titles, modify headers, and more. This video shows you how to modify tables in Monarch Data Prep Studio’s PDF Table Extractor.

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Import Tables from PDF Table Extractor into Altair® Monarch ® Data Prep Studio

After you have defined a set of tables for a PDF document with Monarch’s PDF Table Extractor, you can load the tables into Monarch Data Prep Studio for blending, transformation, and analysis. This video shows you how to import tables from PDF Table Extractor into Monarch Data Prep Studio.

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Named Filters in Altair® Monarch®

Monarch Data Prep Studio makes it easy to create formula-based, value-based, or compound filters that you can apply to defined tables on the fly. You can also export data with filters applied to facilitate downstream analysis of selected subsets of data. This video shows you how to build, name, and manage filters in Monarch Data Prep Studio.

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Create Custom Data Cleansing Macros in Altair® Monarch®

Monarch Data Prep Studio allows you to create macros that combine a series of data prep functions into a single step and then apply all the functions in the macro to multiple columns and tables and across workspaces. This video shows you how to build, manage, and share macros in Monarch Data Prep Studio.

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Alleviate Chronic Spreadsheet Pain with Altair Monarch

Altair helps you get more out of your spreadsheets with less effort. Joining and blending disparate data sources using spreadsheet tools alone leads to too many errors, and troubleshooting problems is time-consuming. Altair Monarch lets your team build trusted, highly accurate data sets quickly. It delivers data peace of mind, and lets you shift efforts from data collection and organization to driving better business insight.

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Data Modernization: From Gathering Dust to Gleaning Insight

As part of the Altair Data Analytics Spotlight Series, we discuss modernizing your organization's data management so that you can unlock the full value of analytics and AI. If you're interested in developing a trusted data architecture that is accessible, centralized, and strategically designed to enable scalability and smarter decision making, then this webinar is perfect for you. During this webinar, we discuss how you can: - Centralize the storage of your siloed data - Improve data integrity with data normalization platforms - Analyze all of your data for deeper predictive insights

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Gain Future Insight with Your Human Resources Data

Human resources (HR) is tasked with recruiting the best talent and keeping culture at the forefront while staying on top of payroll, performance, and many other responsibilities. What if you could save time getting these tasks done while your human capital is ahead of the curve to meet your organization’s business goals?

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The Demand for AI in the Public Sector

As you consider options of pursuing AI business requirements in the public sector, being cognizant of some key factors will provide a framework for success. Essential considerations should be applied in the development of solutions able to be effectively integrated into operational environments of specific governmental structures. Employing expertise with an in-depth understanding of the respective organizational operations, combined with strategic partners — to offer comprehensive tools, technology, and/or services — increases your value offering. Samuel Massenberg Jr, Chief Growth Strategist at BreakForth Solutions discusses some key nodes along a path of successfully exploring AI pursuits in the public sector. This industry presentation aired at Future.AI in June 2021, and is over 20 minutes long. Explore Altair Data Analytics for Government View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

Future.AI 2021

Process Automation & Predictive Analytics for Mortgage Portfolios

Explore how mortgage lending, operations, and servicing groups leverage data analytics solutions to automate processes, apply predictive and prescriptive analytics, and monitor assets visually. Join us to see demonstrations on data extraction, content management, predicting credit defaults, and visual analytics. The presentation, by Senior Solutions Specialist Alyson Kelley, and Subject Matter Expert Joe Lovati from Altair, aired at Future.AI in June 2021, and is almost 44 minutes long. Ready to explore predictive analytics and process automation? Contact us! View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

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Improve Patient Experience and Operational Efficiency with Monarch and Advanced Data Transformation Tools

With the increasing adoption of telehealth and retailers expanding into healthcare delivery, patient demands for access and convenience continue to grow. Many organizations still rely on spreadsheets for key reporting and data management functions, but the manual processes required to manage healthcare data using spreadsheets are cumbersome and prone to error. Turning data into insight quickly is no longer optional and healthcare providers must respond with more efficient data handling workflows. In this session, we will explain how healthcare organizations can optimize their operations, improve patient experience, and reduce their costs using Monarch and advanced data transformation software in conjunction with spreadsheets. The presentation by Solutions Specialist John Strazdins, and Director of Healthcare Vertical at Altair Paige Jankowski, aired at Future.AI in June 2021, and is over 28 minutes long. Explore Altair Data Analytics for Healthcare View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

Future.AI 2021

Fireside Chat: Data Transformation - The Key to Efficient Month-End Close Processes

Explore how data transformation plays a vital role in executing month-end business processes. Marty Menz, CFO of Meyers Constructors, shares insights into how he’s utilized Altair Monarch throughout his career to improving a range of month-end tasks including inventory cost roles, evaluation, slow-moving and excess count, general ledger analysis, trial balance, and income statements, 401K deductions and payroll deductions, and more. Marty also explains how he is leveraging Monarch now and in the future to streamline his processes through automation. Marty's fireside chat with Rebecca Cronin, Customer Success Manager at Altair aired at Future.AI in June 2021, and is about 33 minutes long. Experience no-code, automated data transformation: Try Altair Monarch today, for free. View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

Future.AI 2021

Panel: Enhancing Your RPA Investment with Data Preparation

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is an emerging technology that replicates business processes to improve accuracy and/or relieve human involvement. Automation frees teams to focus on strategic projects reducing workload and time in laborious business processes. Join industry experts Paul Nerger, VP of Blue Prism Digital Exchange, David Griffith, Managing Director at AmdoSoft, and Baba Majekodunmi Sr. Manager DA Customer Support, Altair, as they discuss the general RPA landscape, how to help organizations see the value and realize the full potential of your data and investment. The recording of this panel discussion aired at Future.AI in June 2021, and is about 28 minutes long. Experience no-code, automated data transformation: Try Altair Monarch today, for free. View all Future.AI 2021 Presentations

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Staffing Services Save Cost and Time

Streamlining data preparation with Altair Monarch enables Client Engineering Services to speed up accounts receivable process by 90% while improving accuracy.

Customer Stories

Sporting Goods Chain Fuels Results with Data

In order to compete in the fast-paced retail industry, a chain of more than 100 sporting goods stores operating across the United States needed a more efficient and accurate method for preparing and analyzing data to enable management teams to quickly make strategic operational decisions.

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Altair Monarch: Enterprise-Class Data Transformation

Altair® Monarch® is a comprehensive, self-service data transformation and process automation solution. It connects directly to a wide range of structured and semi-structured data sources, including PDFs, text, complex spreadsheets, JSON, XML, big data sources, relational databases, and many others. Business users and analysts can extract, cleanse, and transform data into consistent, governed, and secure rows and columns without specialized knowledge or training, and without writing any code. The platform includes more than 80 pre-built data preparation functions which makes it easy to build new error-free workflows in minutes. Experience no-code, automated data transformation: Try Altair Monarch today, for free.

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Monarch Product Overview

Monarch is an enterprise-class self-service data preparation solution. It connects to multiple data sources including PDFs, spreadsheets, cloud-based data, big data, and other structured and semi-structured sources. Monarch converts disparate data formats into clean rows and columns in seconds and includes more than 80 pre-built data transformation functions to help make the process fast and easy. Spend more time generating value from your data with the Monarch no-code data transformation solution.

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Monarch Burster Nodes Automatically Unbundle Reports and Flag Errors

Altair Monarch’s burster node enables you to unbundle files and distribute the segmented results into separate files and locations. For example, a file containing multiple reports can be unbundled and then placed in a location that can be used for monitoring of other processes or ingestion into Content Server. Monarch’s burster node also detects errors and automatically moves faulty files to a special location where they can be corrected before further use. Monarch’s burster node is easy to set up and business users can implement a workflow incorporating burster functions in just a few minutes.

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Data Transformation and RPA: How to Streamline Your Data Process

Discover how data transformation tools perfectly compliment RPA processes to free up human capital, prevent lost revenue, and ultimately maximize your investment. If you work with a large amount of data and are interested in learning more about RPA, or you currently have a RPA process in place, then this webinar is perfect for you. In partnership with AmdoSoft Systems, we demonstrated: - How data prep and RPA can be combined to increase productivity and agility - How to clean and format your data for maximized bots consumption - How our solutions eliminate siloed usage and error-prone manual tasks

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Automated Data Preparation for Payroll

Discover how Altair Monarch automates the transformation of payroll data into usable, structured datasets to streamline reconciliation, reporting and analysis.

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11 Reasons You Still Need Data Prep for Electronic Medical Records System

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Electronic Health Records (EHR) have greatly improved data access, but efficient Revenue Cycle Management still requires significant data preparation to meet operational demands and health IT standards. This can be time-consuming and delay revenue collection. Altair’s market leading data preparation tool Monarch enables healthcare professionals to save time, limit clerical errors, easily automate recurring processes in Revenue Cycle Management and collect revenue faster.

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Engineers will make AI work

Anthony Mc Loughlin VP Sales Data Analytics, EMEA presents how to empower engineering to make data & AI work.

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The Value of Data Analytics in the Smart Factory

Marco Fliesser Technical Director Data Analytics EMEA presents "The Value of Data Analytics in the Smart Factory ".

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The Deep Dive: Practical AI and Data Science for Engineering

Engineers in manufacturing industries can spend as much as 50% of their time acquiring and synthesizing the data required to perform their day-to-day roles. We are convinced that engineers skilled in the use of AI toolsets hold the key to reducing the barrier to successfully capitalize on datasets across a wide range of complex manufacturing problems - from product design and new development to ongoing maintenance. These skills not only enable rapid, data-driven decisions and significantly improve productivity, but also empower engineers to meet the rising demand for an AI-skilled workforce. Take the next step in unlocking immediate opportunities for your manufacturing operations. Watch our in-depth session, The Deep Dive: Practical AI and Data Science for Engineers.

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