The first version of Monarch was released in 1990 for

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with 'Monarch for Windows' released in 1994. The latest release is version 15. Monarch was originally developed by Math Strategies for Personics Corporation. The software is published by

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, which was acquired by

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in 2018. Over 500,000 copies of Monarch have been licensed,Datawatch, New York Times.
/ref> and the software is in use in over 40,000 organizations. Monarch allows users to re-use information from existing computer reports, such as text, PDF and HTML files. Monarch can also import data from OLE DB/

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data sources,

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s and desktop databases. Users define models that describe the layout of data in the report file, and the software parses the data into a tabular format. The parsed data can be further enhanced with links to external data sources, filters, sorts, calculated fields and summaries. The data can be

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to a variety of formats, primarily spreadsheets.

References

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External links

Datawatch: Monarch homepage

Monarch User Forums

Report Mining
Data analysis software