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What I love about Castor
What do you like best about the product?
Castor is an amazing solution for sharing information about data, relationships, and business logic with my whole team and beyond. It provides clarity and insights into a lot of our different data processes and keeps them all in one place.
What do you dislike about the product?
A current struggle we're facing with Castor is that it is almost entirely self-contained, so we don't have a good way to sync information out to other places where we store documentation. This leads to some level of fragmentation of information sharing across teams.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Castor primarily as a tool for documenting information about our data, its lineage, and then sharing that out to the company. Castor provides that last-mile visibility that we otherwise wouldn't have.
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Castor is a great data cataloging tool for the modern data tech stack. esp for SMBs
What do you like best about the product?
Easy integration with the tools I use like Snowflake, Sigma Computing and DBT. Simple and clean user interface
What do you dislike about the product?
Many of the integrations are still in their early stages, like Sigma Computing, so there is limited functionality right now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've built a modern data tech stack from scratch at Strategus over the last 8 months and Castor is an awesome tool to capture knowledge about that tech stack.
Perfect tool for data lineage
What do you like best about the product?
- Being able to identify the table and column lineage, from the staging tables all the way to the BI tools such as Looker and Power BI
- The popularity index, which allows to identify the most used tables and most viewed dashboards. It has been helping with our deprecation plan.
- The search bar is very powerful because it allows you to filter by table and column names, as well as dashboards.
- The platform is being constantly updated with new features.
- The support team and very responsive and takes into consideration our feedbacks.
- The popularity index, which allows to identify the most used tables and most viewed dashboards. It has been helping with our deprecation plan.
- The search bar is very powerful because it allows you to filter by table and column names, as well as dashboards.
- The platform is being constantly updated with new features.
- The support team and very responsive and takes into consideration our feedbacks.
What do you dislike about the product?
- The column lineage can be helpful to identify if the column is being used downstream. However, if the column is only being used downstream to create new columns, the lineage doesn't idenfity this dependency. This makes it hard to identify any column dependencies if we want to deprecate a staging table.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping us with our deprecation plan, by allowing us to identify which tables and columns are no longer being used in an easy way. It also helps with us with data discovery, because the tool allows us to quickly find the columns that we need to for certain data operations.
Great tool, great team
What do you like best about the product?
Castor has all the essential features to make your data discoverable, self describing and trustworthy.
The navigation through Castor is simple and intuitive, which makes it usable and useful for the whole company (and not only for data people)
The product roadmap is very rich and brings new features to the users every month.
The team is very nice, reactive, helpful and customer-oriented.
The navigation through Castor is simple and intuitive, which makes it usable and useful for the whole company (and not only for data people)
The product roadmap is very rich and brings new features to the users every month.
The team is very nice, reactive, helpful and customer-oriented.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd like to have more detailed statistics on the usage of the data catalog to organise the knowledge sections for the best. But I believe that this feature is coming soon...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Castor helps:
- data governance to promote the official sources of truth among all the data stored in our datawarehouse
- data users to understand where the data comes from, what it means and to use it
- data users to contact data owners
- all the employees to discover the different business entities of their company and get to know the relating key data assets
- data governance to promote the official sources of truth among all the data stored in our datawarehouse
- data users to understand where the data comes from, what it means and to use it
- data users to contact data owners
- all the employees to discover the different business entities of their company and get to know the relating key data assets
Lovely Data Catalog
What do you like best about the product?
Castor is a visual appealing "buy" solution for Data Caralog. It comes with vital features like lineage, column level document and also owners etc. these are critical for self service analytics
What do you dislike about the product?
A bit pricy now haha, would also be great if Castor incorporate the elements of data quality and data profiling, which are valuable
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automatically update the schema of tables, ownership, documentation etc
Intuitive data catalog that enables data discovery in an efficient way
What do you like best about the product?
Simple UI that is very easy for everyone to use
What do you dislike about the product?
Still improving some product features but the roadmap is there
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data discovery and management
Great features and customer service
What do you like best about the product?
We have had a great onboarding experience, both technically and in terms of prioritizing focus areas. The tool is very user-friendly and gets new features frequently.
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn't show the entity relationship diagram of our databases, but it seems to be in Castor's development pipeline.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Document terminology for our applications. Seeing data lineage. Assigning data stewards.
Unlocking access to data for Business Users
What do you like best about the product?
- Easy and simple navigation throughout the whole data stack
- Very efficient search to find the most relevant assets immediately
- Great ways to leverage the data team's expertise autonomously
- Very efficient search to find the most relevant assets immediately
- Great ways to leverage the data team's expertise autonomously
What do you dislike about the product?
Access to metadata only, so the SQL queries need to be run from outside of Castor.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fostering a self-service approach for more data-driven decisions by business stakeholders with a faster time-to-insight.
This impacts our top line directly thanks to decisions made by Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Finance.
This impacts our top line directly thanks to decisions made by Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Finance.
Fast and easy onboarding for a great documentation tool
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity! It is a time saver to have all my documentation in one place.
The "people" tab is very insightful. Having an overview of all the documentation created by one team is so helpful and inspiring for other teams/regions.
The "people" tab is very insightful. Having an overview of all the documentation created by one team is so helpful and inspiring for other teams/regions.
What do you dislike about the product?
No complaints yet. Everything went smoothly. I look forward to diving deeper into this fantastic tool to bring my team and knowledge to the next level. I'm sure I'll get all the support needed from Castor if needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is very convenient to have access to all documentation from my company across the regions. I can reuse what other teams already create and align more with the global strategy. Starting from scratch is always a pain, and Castor is a reliable tool to avoid move forward faster.
Fantastic tool to visualise data assets, definitions and lineage
What do you like best about the product?
Castor is helping us enormously in our migration efforts from our old data infrastructure to the new. It is helping us fast-track our delivery in many ways:
1. Identifying assets that are frequently used in the old and prioritising those for migration
2. Identifying unused or minimum used assets for retirement and deprecation
3. Identifying who are the frequent users to assign owners of data assets
4. Identifying impact of changes we intend to make on downstream assets/dependencies
We now have the potential to unify our data definitions across our data assets and avoid duplicating or contradicting definitions.
1. Identifying assets that are frequently used in the old and prioritising those for migration
2. Identifying unused or minimum used assets for retirement and deprecation
3. Identifying who are the frequent users to assign owners of data assets
4. Identifying impact of changes we intend to make on downstream assets/dependencies
We now have the potential to unify our data definitions across our data assets and avoid duplicating or contradicting definitions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Product is constantly changing, so sometimes challenging to keep up with the pace. Alongside this change, we have seen some bugs creep in, but Castor has been super efficient in resolving issues that arise.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problems we are trying to solve include:
1. simplification of our data pipelines as we transition from the old (complex and convoluted) data platform to the new
2. consistency and visibility of definitions across all areas of business
3. establishing ownership and governance of data assets
1. simplification of our data pipelines as we transition from the old (complex and convoluted) data platform to the new
2. consistency and visibility of definitions across all areas of business
3. establishing ownership and governance of data assets
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