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."
"The simplicity of the solution is great. The solution also offers excellent integration."
"The most valuable feature of SSIS is that it can handle real complex transformations."
"I have found its most valuable features to be its package management capabilities and the flexibility it offers in designing workflows."
"The initial setup was easy."
"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 setup was easy. All Microsoft products are easy to set up."
"It's already very user-friendly and has a good dashboard."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"I rate Altair Monarch seven out of 10 for affordability. Recently, the pricing model changed from end-user licensing to a concurrent licensing model."
"Tuning using this solution requires extensive expertise to improve performance."
"The solution should work on the GPU, graphical processing unit. There should also be piping integration available."
"Sometimes we need to connect to AWS to get additional data sources, so we have to install some external LAN and not a regular RDBMS. We need external tools to connect. It would be great if SSIS included these tools. I'd also like some additional features for row indexing and data conversion."
"We'd like more integration capabilities."
"There is connectivity with other databases, however, this is the most significant issue that has to be addressed."
"We've had issues in terms of the amount of data that is transferred when we are scheduling."
"The interface could use improvement, as well as the administrative tools. Jobs fail from time to time for different reasons. It's not a problem with Microsoft, or SSIS itself. The problems are external, but to find the problems and analyze them it takes too much time."
"We have issues with SSIS connectors while extracting data from Excel sources."
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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