Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM:DWCH) today at the HR Technology Conference, announced a joint technology partnership with Sage, market leader in cloud accounting software. Through this partnership, Sage validates the Datawatch Monarch self-service data preparation platform as a solution for its accounting, HR, payroll, payments and enterprise service offerings, enabling Sage and its partners to accelerate product implementations, and end customers to simplify data preparation.

Datawatch Monarch enables analysts and business users to overcome traditional data challenges by easily and quickly accessing, manipulating, enriching and combining disparate data from virtually any source (e.g., PDF reports, text files, CSV, JSON), and then quickly preparing it for analysis and reporting - without coding, manual data entry or involvement from IT. Additionally, Datawatch Monarch streamlines and standardizes data formatting and migration for accelerated enterprise software and cloud deployments.

"With Datawatch Monarch, our customers and partners no longer need to struggle with time-intensive and error-prone manual data entry," said Jennifer Warawa, EVP of Partners, Accountants and Alliances at Sage. "Whether managing money or people, businesses now have the power to unlock data from accounting, HR/payroll and other enterprise systems, and then quickly prepare it for analysis, reconciliation, reporting and compliance purposes. This results in more informed decision-making and improved operational processes. And that, along with faster implementation times, enables us to provide a major competitive advantage and better customer experience."

"Regardless of department, every employee must now be able find, extract, analyze and share the data that is vital for them to fulfill their job responsibilities and drive the business forward," said Ken Tacelli, chief operating officer at Datawatch. "Datawatch Monarch gives even novice business users the ability to streamline their accounting and HR processes and access and create trusted datasets for analytics, while upholding data governance. At the same time, implementation service teams gain the ability to quickly and easily manipulate and combine disparate data from virtually any source and prepare it for migration. Sage understands this, and we look forward to helping its partners and customers transform the way they use data and bring value to their companies."

For more information about Datawatch Monarch, please visit: http://www.datawatch.com/our-platform/monarch/. To learn more about Sage, go to: https://www.sage.com/en-us/.