# Altair Reviews **Vendor:** SS&C Blue Prism **Category:** [Investment Accounting Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/investment-accounting) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 21 ## About Altair Altair is a portfolio management, investment accounting and reporting software for investment managers, pension funds, insurance companies, private client brokers, banks and trust agencies in the Benelux market. Altair allows you to track complex securities and sophisticated, multi-currency investment strategies around the globe. ## Altair Reviews ### 1. User Friendly Software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** User Friendliness for using software also we are getting knowledge of basics while using software **What do you dislike about Altair?** Old GUI are used in Altair Hypermesh, This needs to improve. Also Some Sort of automation possible while preprocessing. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** Meshing And Solver deck preparation for FEA Analysis. Good Quality Meshing with reduced element count. ### 2. Just about does the job **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elenos P. | Application Support Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Altair?** It has all the functionality that is needed from this kind of platform, but it doesn't go much more than that. All in all it is just a very average platform and meets all the basic requirments. **What do you dislike about Altair?** Its lay out and wording is for users with a finance background, general users struggle. Also, the UX is very poor, with multiple buttons that do the same job. This just confuses users. **Recommendations to others considering Altair:** If you are looking for an average and fair-priced platform it does the job, if you want to pay a bit more you can go to a slightly more expenses competitor. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well, it helps with the ERP side of things, especially in the financial realm. Yet again it just about meets this, it doesnt go over and above in this department like some of the other alternatives. ### 3. Altair has the best CAE tools as per my experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ruchik t. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** Best customer support and very easy and interactive GUI **What do you dislike about Altair?** Optistrut solver can be upgraded like abaqus for non-linearity **Recommendations to others considering Altair:** Very easy to use, their ttutorials to learn the software are very good and easy to understand **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** Linear and non-linear simulations. Hypermesh for prer-processing ### 4. Altair Support and Forum are Awesome! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jerome T. | Research Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** There are already a lot of the general questions that have been asked in the forums which will be very helpful if you just started. However, if you need more profound insight, you can post a new question, I usually get the reply from experts within 1-2 days. Also, you can create a case to request technical support, I got helped with all the experts worldwide, so it is a good software company I would say. **What do you dislike about Altair?** Nothing much I can dislike. One thing, since some of the software, for example Altair Flux is commercial software, it is not too easy to customize. I have some trouble when I want to introduce a new physics equation to include and compatible with the solver and computational process. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Flux as a process simulation tool for induction welding, especially for thermoplastic welding. However, traditionally it is for conventional materials. Although we did not get to the point that we want yet, but so far the comparative results been really helpful to understand the insight. ### 5. Review on Altair products like Hypermesh/ optistrtuct etc **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit M. | Assistant Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** User-friendly tools provided by Altair are very effective and anyone can use this easily. Altair product has a wide range of applications irrespective of domain like mechanical / electrical / electronics etc . Also, Altair provides all the support learning material, student's edition license copy free of cost which enables everyone to learn effectively. Also once you understood the process you can apply this to any type of problem. Also, Altair has very good or we can say strong help portal where you can search for anything and you will get all kinds of help from there. **What do you dislike about Altair?** The file size is very large but this we can see in all kinds of products n the market. and this is not a major issue that can be manageable. But all other things are perfect. **Recommendations to others considering Altair:** You can use this for any kind of work education, research, or actual practical components. If you are a research scholar then you can request the research copy from Altair and they provide it to you. So if you are a students / research scholar or professional all kinds of personals cam use this for their domain. And you can learn this software from Altair university website. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Altair tools, one can solve any kind of problem with Altair starting from mechanical, civil, computer, electrical etc. I normally do static analysis, modal analysis, thermal, dynamic like stress analysis of mechanical components, modal analysis of bridges to calculate natural frequencies, CFD analysis of batteries, etc we can do with it. ### 6. Good for meshing complex parts **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashika I. | Senior Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** Exclusively used for modelling in simulation driven design industry. Hypermesh, one of the best product that can easily integrate with other softwares. Well qualified products, easy documentation facilities, easy installation process, suitable for modelling complex automotive components, options for checking mesh quality **What do you dislike about Altair?** Not user friendly at initial stages. Auto mesh can not use for all the parts. **Recommendations to others considering Altair:** For meshing, I would recommend hypermesh alone so far **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's package seems huge. Very limited options can be used often. Minimalised product might be a better version ### 7. Very strong Technical & Product based company **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jayant m. | Engineering Operations Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** Product Suite are very niche & unique in the market. Very strong portfolios of products in CAE & Grid Computing **What do you dislike about Altair?** Management needs to understand the current trends **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAE side - Mainly simulation ### 8. User friendly with sufficient sources to access all domain products by using single license setup **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** Each software having individual domain variables with suitable tutorials as well as graphical interface is very much impressive to solve higher-level simulations, especially for CFD solvers called UltraFluidX and NanoFluidX. 1D simulation and other supported software are all very advanced and easy to learn. **What do you dislike about Altair?** There are very few downsides that are not highly impacting to your works. It is a usual bug facing in other software too. So there is nothing much about negative point to say over here. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** While running a heavy models system usually take a lot of time, but sometimes the software gets automatically shut off. Later it got solved by the Altair organization. ### 9. User friendly software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** The way each tabs are placed, gives immediate sense of solving a problem manually. **What do you dislike about Altair?** The tabs are some what hidden and the analysis run window is smaller. **Recommendations to others considering Altair:** It's a good software if you have your fea basics in place. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using optistruct to mesh the fluid volume in heat exchanger. The easy of meshing for rough estimate is commendable and also the analysis time. ### 10. It is best software for meshing also quick and easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samrat A. | CAE Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** HyperXtrude module is very easy and helphup for quick analysis of extrusion process. The meshing control options are very powerful to optimize the mesh. **What do you dislike about Altair?** Some analysis options like die stress analysis and automatic bearing length optimization is little problematic. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used the HyperXtrude molule for extrusion process simulation and die design optimization. ### 11. I have used couple of Altair Products mainly like Hypermesh, Hyperview and EDEM. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manoj K. | Project Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** Very user friendly, has each and every option for quick work. Mainly one can learn altair products with or minimal external support **What do you dislike about Altair?** Quite expensive, and Altair's reach to university students is bot less compared to peers **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** MESHING WORK, RESULTA REVIEW, PARTICLE SIMULATIONS ### 12. Altair is very impressive software for rendering and analysis. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** Analysis and the graphic used in software **What do you dislike about Altair?** Need to improve in commands area in 3D, including drafting. **Recommendations to others considering Altair:** Yes, i suggest to use Altair. It one of the good software, but need to improve in certain areas. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using Altair for strength analysis. One of the main benifit is , we can import files from any format. ### 13. Good place to explore all tools **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lokesh K. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** We can work on multiple domains and explore great softwares **What do you dislike about Altair?** We are not allowed to become subject matter expert **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** Within we solved OEM problems and found solutions for them ### 14. Best FEA tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** Altair is promt about support and help. Tool is user friendly and supports all the required inputs from industry **What do you dislike about Altair?** There's nothing to dislike about but it's very vast to learn and it keeps improving in upcoming versions **Recommendations to others considering Altair:** Go for it as it's the best leading FEA tool available in the industry **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using Altair for pre processing , processing and post processing. Linear -Non Linear analysis, Static analysis & Fatigue analysis ### 15. Connected and usage of solvers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** Altair has huge community. I like the way they presents their content on website. Altair free certification and elearning is the best part for learning. **What do you dislike about Altair?** I thing altair should extent limit for student licence for perticular email id. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used altair products for my mtech dissertation and I participated in Altair optimization contest 2020and 2021. So usage of maximum product which are radioss, optistruct, inspire, inspire studion, monarch, flux etc. ### 16. Altair at its best **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** Altair is very user friendly tool and helps in high performance computing and designing. **What do you dislike about Altair?** Difficult for calculating drag forces on a blunt rear face body? Example: aeroplane with a not so sharp rear. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analysis of various parameters. Eg The Maxiumum stress in the front side of a vehicle after the crash ### 17. Awesome experience since 4 years **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** The GUI, Multiple profile support, Good auto mesh algorithm, Even good development in geometric defeaturing. **What do you dislike about Altair?** The Hexamesh Algorithm needs a bit of tweaking. I haven't tried the latest version yet. CAD integration to the software absent. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** Heavy Engineering, Defense, and Automotive. Mesh control is best compared to any other software. ### 18. Great Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** Altair has an unparalleled product portfolio AND customer support. They leave no reasons to go anywhere else. **What do you dislike about Altair?** Products are not the most popular in the industry, this may lead to brand loyalty staying elsewhere. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** FEA, simulations, flow results, and optimization are easy-to-use tools that make pragmatic CAE a breeze. ### 19. Great at automated design and simulation but difficult for collaboration with other CAD software **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** Simulation and computer automated design features **What do you dislike about Altair?** Difficult to import back into auto desk or SolidWorks. To integrate designed parts into our teams complex assemblies or to send to colleagues for manufacturing. **Recommendations to others considering Altair:** Great at its strengths, but difficult compatibility **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helped save a ton of weight by using simulations for plate designs ### 20. Good engineering placement, IT & service provider for engineers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Altair?** Communication, highly organized engineering service **What do you dislike about Altair?** Website, locations, unclarity with advertisements **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** Engineering design analysis simulation and consulting ### 21. Great simulation software company **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Altair?** Altair makes one of the best set of electric and mechanic simulation tools for CAE **What do you dislike about Altair?** Some tools developed by Altair are not well documented, gladfully support is usually pretty good. **What problems is Altair solving and how is that benefiting you?** We perform a lot of computer aided engineering design at my current role, we do everything from design for implementation to warranty investigation using their software ## Altair Discussions - [What does Altair software do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-altair-software-do) - 1 comment - [View Altair pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/altair/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+09%3A34%3A13+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e86c8370-f3a6-4e33-aeb8-5bbac5da3c8b&secure%5Btoken%5D=3e1cb8de92da2d6166e8f7bb1d0d48250ee0de671063f93d4cb6339b6d51a8b4&format=llm_user) ## Altair Features **Functionality** - Customizable Reporting - Market Analytics - Client Portal - Investment Accounting - Real time - Compliance - Customizable Reporting **Platform Additional Functionality** - Cloud - On-Premise - Multi-Currency - Global-Asset - Integrated General Ledger **Integration** - Data aggregation - Accounting Integration - Risk Management **Platform Content** - Automation **Platform Data** - Dashboard **Agentic AI - Investment Portfolio Management** - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance **Platform Interoperability** - Pre-Built Connectors **Platform Performance** - Reporting ## Top Altair Alternatives - [Morningstar Direct](https://www.g2.com/products/morningstar-direct/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (407 reviews) - [Betterment at Work](https://www.g2.com/products/betterment-at-work/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (545 reviews) - [Morningstar Direct Advisory Suite (formerly Advisor Workstation)](https://www.g2.com/products/morningstar-direct-advisory-suite-formerly-advisor-workstation/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (274 reviews)