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Datawatch Accelerates, Improves Data Prep with Updated Monarch Solution

Monarch 13.3 combines functionality with simplicity, empowering ordinary business users to prep less and analyze more.

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Datawatch Corporation announced the availability of Datawatch Monarch 13.3, the latest edition of the company’s self-service data prep solution. The new product release delivers better and faster data access and data prep through advanced functionality, simplicity, and enhanced information governance. [http://www.datawatch.com/]

Datawatch Monarch enables both data analysts and novice business users to reduce their data prep time by quickly and easily acquiring and preparing data locked away in previously inaccessible multistructured, semistructured, and unstructured sources, such as text reports, Web pages, PDFs, JSON, and log files.

Key new features of Monarch 13.3 include:

  • Fuzzy matching: Fuzzy join logic matches non-identical, but similar, values and inconsistent data across sources

  • Load plan visualization: Visual representation of load plan operations and data lineage to boost information governance and compliance

  • Smart append operations: Easy-to-use wizard allows the consolidating of data from similar sources

  • Advanced calculations: A robust set of advanced calculations, including if-then-else logic, optimized calculations for data cleansing and built-in fiscal period logic, underscored by point-and-click simplicity

  • Prep filters: Comprehensive filtering reduces large data sets to required subsets for ease-of-use

Monarch 13.3 also includes a new Angoss Software export, improved JSON/XML connectivity, custom report format options and localization support to personalize data sets from multiple geographies.

To learn more about Datawatch Monarch 13.3, visit: http://www.datawatch.com/our-platform/monarch/.

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