Metaphor

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About Metaphor

Metaphor is a data management solution that streamlines the data journey by providing full compatibility with the modern stack. With Metaphor, users can experience enhanced agility and scalability in their data operations. The software integrates with various collaboration platforms like Slack and MS Teams, facilitating communication and teamwork among team members.

Metaphor offers a tailored user experience, designed to accommodate diverse user personas. The platform also offers a setup process, ensuring that users can start utilizing its capabilities immediately. With agile data governance practices and AI-augmented search capabilities, Metaphor enables organizations to manage their data and make informed decisions.


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Metaphor Software - Drive faster and better informed decisions with higher quality data.
Metaphor Software - Google-like search for everyone. Search for data assets, like datasets and dashboards, and business or technical terms across your entire data landscape.
Metaphor Software - One place to collaborate on data–Empower teams to share knowledge to unlock your data’s full potential.
Metaphor Software - Deep search your data. Chain specially crafted search operators to pinpoint and answer very specific questions about your data.
Metaphor Software - Plug Metaphor’s insights into where your data team works Metaphor has made it easy for all users to search, share, and quickly access details about their data on Slack and MS Teams, through the Metaphor extension, and directly with the data catalog.
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Metaphor Software - Drive faster and better informed decisions with higher quality data.
Metaphor Software - Google-like search for everyone. Search for data assets, like datasets and dashboards, and business or technical terms across your entire data landscape.
Metaphor Software - One place to collaborate on data–Empower teams to share knowledge to unlock your data’s full potential.
Metaphor Software - Deep search your data. Chain specially crafted search operators to pinpoint and answer very specific questions about your data.
Metaphor Software - Plug Metaphor’s insights into where your data team works Metaphor has made it easy for all users to search, share, and quickly access details about their data on Slack and MS Teams, through the Metaphor extension, and directly with the data catalog.

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5 /5
(3)
Value for Money
4.7/5
Features
4.3/5
Ease of Use
5/5
Customer Support
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David
David
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  • Industry: Human Resources
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Metaphor is a great tool

Reviewed on 2024/02/19

Pros

Certainly! Here's a rephrased version:

- User-friendly interface
- Offers a wide range of functionalities
- Facilitates the establishment of a well-structured data team

Cons

I believe the Metaphor team is quickly evolving to meet customer needs, and as a result, all my requests were addressed effectively.

Response from Metaphor

Thank you, David! We're thrilled to hear you're enjoying Metaphor, and that your needs are being met. We look forward to a great continued partnership!

Sunny
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  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

360 view of the company's data assets

Reviewed on 2024/02/20

Over all super happy and excited to see how they evolve in next 1-3 years in this space.

Over all super happy and excited to see how they evolve in next 1-3 years in this space.

Pros

Integratioins with most of the Modern data stack
Love the aspect of Socializing with the tools instead of taking the discussion outside.
Love Data lineage and Data discovery.

Cons

I have been using the tools for almost over 1 and a half year, and i cannot find what i dont like. But over the last 1 year we did put lots of feature requests and they took our requests and were able to deliver with in no time.

Alternatives Considered

Select Star

Reasons for Switching to Metaphor

Metaphor had better roadmap and features. Metaphor was focussed more on enabling users and being a social platform for data sets compared to others are focussed on how many integrations and how many connections. Also pricing contributed into this as metaphor was more leaned towards natural growth compared to charging based on number of tables.

Response from Metaphor

Hi Sunny, we're thrilled you're enjoying Metaphor, and grateful to have you as a customer! We look forward to a long partnership with you.

- Pardhu Gunnam
Co-Founder & CEO
Metaphor

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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

More than a Data Catalog

Reviewed on 2025/01/06

Overall experience with the team has been great. Future plans for the product are ambitious and fit...

Overall experience with the team has been great. Future plans for the product are ambitious and fit our vision of the future of data catalogs and data discovery.

Pros

Focus on good UX/UI, usable, team and communication focused tooling instead of just being an inventory list.

Cons

Communication on product roadmap, new feature releases, support ticket updates. Not as consistent or frequent as we would hope.

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Select Star

Reasons for Choosing Metaphor

At the time, Collibra was far more expensive, far more complicated to setup and administer, and our most important integrations and lineage needs were not on the product roadmap anytime soon.

Switched From

Collibra

Reasons for Switching to Metaphor

At the time of purchase, CastorDoc had limitations when it came to the amount of data we could pull into the product, we were running up against those limitations in our pilot testing. At the time, Select Star was considered by some internal users to be less friendly in the UX/UI and more for technical users than business users.

Metaphor FAQs

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Metaphor has the following typical customers:

2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Metaphor supports the following languages:

English

Metaphor supports the following devices:

Metaphor integrates with the following applications:

AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Azure Active Directory, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics, Chromium, Confluent Platform, Dagster, DataHub, Fivetran, Google Chrome, Google Cloud BigQuery, LDAP Manager, Lightup, Looker, Metabase, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Teams, MongoDB, Monte Carlo, MySQL, Okta, Oracle Linux, PostgreSQL, Presto, Safari, SharePoint Azure AD Connect, Slack, Starburst Enterprise, Tableau, dbt, flink

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