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Best Data Preparation Tools to Look Out for in 2020

Smriti Srivastava

Any business operation in today's age is incomplete without data and insights. And sometimes, businesses need to map data from different sources in order to get better insights. This process of mapping data is what we call data preparation. In the contemporary market, a pool of data preparation tools is available using which organizations can drive better insights and thus deliver enhanced productivity and efficiency. Moreover, these tools are extremely user friendly. Such tools have augmented the value and relevance of organizational-data gathered.

Therefore, we have brought you the top 10 Data Preparation tools to look out for in 2020.

Monarch is a market leading desktop-based self-service data preparation solution. Monarch connects to multiple data sources including structured and unstructured data, cloud-based data, and big data. Connecting to data, cleansing and manipulating data requires no coding.

Monarch can quickly convert disparate data formats into rows and columns for use in data analytics. Over 80+ pre-built data preparation functions mean data preparation tasks can be completed quickly and error free. More time is spent on generating value from data as opposed to making data usable to begin with.

Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools to analyze data and share insights. Monitor your business and get answers quickly with rich dashboards available on every device.

Power BI serves analysts today with industry leading data preparation capabilities using Power Query in Power BI Desktop. Now, With Power BI dataflows, Microsoft is bringing these self-service data preparation capabilities into the Power BI online service, and significantly expanding the capabilities in many ways.

Alteryx is a leader in the self-service data analytics movement with a platform that can discover, prep, and analyze all clients' data, then deploy and share analytics at scale for deeper insights faster than one ever thought possible.

Alteryx doesn't take a different approach to analytics. The platform is purpose-built to create new data partnerships among IT, analytic teams, and the lines of business. With Alteryx, whether you are an analyst or data scientist, you can solve even the most complex analytic business problems, with less time and effort, to drive business-changing outcomes across your organization.

Tableau Prep changes the way traditional data prep is done in an organization. Tableau Prep enables analysts and business users to quickly and easily analyze their data — thanks to the visual and direct method of combining, shaping and cleaning data.

Tableau Prep is comprised of two products: Tableau Prep Builder for building your data flows, and Tableau Prep Conductor for scheduling, monitoring and managing flows across the organization.

Paxata, a DataRobot Company, is a pioneer and leading self-service data preparation solution provider. It is a visually dynamic, intuitive solution that enables business analysts and citizen data scientists to rapidly ingest, profile, and curate multiple raw datasets into consumable information in a self-service manner, greatly accelerating development of ready data for model training and deriving actionable business insights.

The Paxata Adaptive Information Platform (AIP) unifies data integration, data quality, semantic enrichment, re-use & collaboration, and also provides comprehensive data governance and audit capabilities with self-documenting data lineage.

Trifacta has an innovative approach to self-service data preparation, which it calls "data wrangling." Trifacta's intuitive interface combines interactive exploration, or the ability to visually profile data, with predictive exploration, or suggested transformations that gain intelligence with each new click. What's more, every transformation step defined by the user in Trifacta is logged and at execution time automatically compiles down into the appropriate processing framework. With Trifacta, data preparation is accessible, intuitive and scalable across the organization.

Within TMMData's Foundation Platform, the Fix Tool enables self-service data preparation that allow data users with a variety of technical skill levels to enrich, contextualize, and explore all their data for analysis. Fix enables analysts to shape the platform's clean, integrated, raw data into actionable data sets. Prepped data can be saved into "Fixed Views" for sharing as repeatable workflows, visualization via charting and dashboarding tools, and direct connectivity to popular analytics and visualization platforms like Tableau, Qlik, Microsoft Power BI, and critical data tools like Adobe Analytics.

TIBCO software is a powerful data wrangling tool which allows you to connect, clean, combine and wrangle data from different sources, including your big data storage.TIBCO Software offers quick and easy in-line data wrangling, which allows users to make adjustments according to their requirements. It provides complete API support and enables users to add functions to develop deeper insights.

While doing data wrangling, you need not to document the changes manually. It automatically self-documents the changes made in the documents. It has a built-in recommendations engine for data structuring and relationships which give automatic suggestions to save your time. Its native connectors allow you to easily connect and blend data from different databases and sources to cloud applications.

SAP is an agile platform for data preparation that enables successful analytics, data migration and master data management (MDM) initiatives. It is a self-service data preparation tool that provides a facility of on-premise as well as on cloud deployment. It quickly transforms data into easily comprehensible and actionable information. It simplifies the way data is accessed, which makes it much more productive as well as agile.

With SAP user coordination and sharing is quick, simple and easy. It provides fast insights through single-click import of multiple datasets gathered from different sources. It also facilitates data curation with an interactive interface for better insights. It provides automatic data cleansing and duplication that delivers operational data sets.

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