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What Is Data Preparation?













What Is Data Preparation?

Data preparation is the process of collecting, cleaning, and consolidating data into one file or data table, primarily for use in analysis

The Key Steps to Data Preparation

Access Data

Access data from any source – no matter the origin, format or narrative. Dataception excels at intelligently and automatically extracting data from complex unstructured and semi-structured sources, like PDFs. Increased access to data means less manual work, faster insights and faster time to value realized by your organization.

Cleaning Data and Improving Data Quality

Manual data prep is error-prone, time-consuming and costly. Business decisions rely on analytics. But, if the data is inaccurate or incomplete, your analytics inform wrong businesses decisions. Bad analytics means poor business decisions. Dataception is programmed with over 80 pre-built data preparation functions to speed up arduous data cleansing projects.

Blending and Reconciling Data

Multiple, disconnected systems house your organization’s accounting data, customer and sales activity, employee information, and more. Likely your Marketing team alone probably has at least 6 systems they are trying to reconcile data from. Trying to blend data at this scale in Excel requires advanced knowledge of macros, functions and/or VLOOKUPS. Plus, it’s not very repeatable. Leveraging automation to blend data is a game-changer for saving time, effort and errors. Dataception’s click-to-join capabilities to enhance your data, tell a compelling story about the business and use that story for actionable reporting and analytics

Transforming and Instantly Re-Formatting Data

Being able to quickly change the way data is summarized and presented enables business analysts and executives to quickly consider different perspectives and views of data. Dataception make it easy to package your clean and blended data for insightful reporting you can confidently share with the rest of your organization.

Exporting and Using Your Data

Once data is all cleaned up, blended and enriched for analytics, it needs to be sent somewhere. Being able to export to any common platform makes it easy to maximize investments you’ve made in other BI tools and drive insight through your entire organization. Dataception allows you to leverage pre-defined exports to specific file formats, databases or visualization tools from the Dataception interface.

Expanding Your Connectivity

Every company has a unique technology stack. Enabling you to be flexible with your data connections simplifies your ability to create valuable analytics, based on all of your organization’s data. Dataception comes equipped pre-configured data connections for data sources such as Excel, CSV, PDF, relational databases, and more. It is also equipped with ODBC and OLE DB drivers, connectors to Big Data sources such as Hadoop, and other data connectors and drivers.

Repeating Tasks with HyperAutomation

Most reports are generated from the same systems on a monthly or quarterly basis. Without automation, business analysts are performing the same data preparation steps, exporting the finalized reports to the same format and sending them to the same group of people. Monarch can automatically perform this in seconds, rather than hours or days. Rather than spending time tediously re-formatting data and repeatedly generating reports, analysts are free to explore their data and find brand new insights to create value for their organization.


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