We performed a comparison between Altair Monarch and SSIS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Alteryx, SAS, Quest Software and others in Data Preparation Tools."Monarch lets you quickly extract in your preferred format."
"Data Flows are the main component we use. These can range from a simple source to sink ETL, to many source to many sink dataflows."
"The script component is very powerful, things that you cannot normally do, is feasible through C#."
"SSIS is an easy way to do data integration from various data sources. It doesn't matter whether it's a database, flat files, XML, or Web API. It can talk to the and join them all together."
"The main value of any Microsoft product is the ease of use. You can achieve more with less time. That's what's beneficial for me. With many competitors, you might need to spend more time coming up with a solution because you have to focus on taking care of the product."
"SSIS is easy to use."
"The setup was easy. All Microsoft products are easy to set up."
"The solution is stable."
"The reporting on the solution is perfect. I didn't expect to see reporting features, but they are great."
"I rate Altair Monarch seven out of 10 for affordability. Recently, the pricing model changed from end-user licensing to a concurrent licensing model."
"Performance could be better."
"SSIS is stable, but extensive ETL data processing can have some performance issues."
"SSIS sometimes hangs, and there are some problems with servers going down after they've been patched."
"We have a stability problem because when something works, it works one time. The next time, it doesn't work."
"In terms of its performance, it could be better. That could be something that would be easy and welcomed as an upgrade."
"SSIS can improve by the minimum code requirements in stored procedures and exporting data is difficult. They could make it easier, it should be as easy as it is to import data."
"We have issues with SSIS connectors while extracting data from Excel sources."
"The high prices attached to the product can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
Altair Monarch is ranked 4th in Data Preparation Tools with 1 review while SSIS is ranked 2nd in Data Integration with 69 reviews. Altair Monarch is rated 9.0, while SSIS is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Altair Monarch writes "In 10 minutes, I can do work that would take me two or three hours in another solution. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SSIS writes "Maintaining the solution and contacting its support team is easy". Altair Monarch is most compared with Alteryx, SAS Enterprise Guide and ETL Solutions Transformation Manager, whereas SSIS is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Talend Open Studio, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and AWS Glue.
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