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    Financial Services

A very good data catalog for our daily life data management

  • May 17, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
Castor help me a lot on several administrative task on tables and dash.
It help me to maintain my database as clean as possible, identify dash that are used not accurate data and communicate accross my company regarding documentation.
In addition, they have a very good support and always open to any feedbacks.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to have more control on data user can see.
Sometime I feel that some process are still very manual, but things are improving a lot.
Also, we're using a lot of markdown in our description. Sometime, the way it is displayed is not that clear.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Castor help me a lot to identify
- unused models
- models that are not fed anymore but still queried
- lineage with Looker

It helps me to win a lot of time for those "administrative" task.


    Madeleine J.

A great data catalog

  • May 16, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It's really easy to use Castor for data documentation or find informations about our data.
I like the Lineage feature, which allows us to easily see where the data in the dashboards comes from.
What do you dislike about the product?
In the past we have had some synchronization problme but the support is always very reactive to fix it. Sometime we need to contact them to perform some actions that are not yet developed in the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Castor allows us to have a single source of truth about our data. Employees of teams other than the data team can become more autonomous in understanding and using the data.


    Insurance

Our team loves Castor!

  • May 16, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Castor has a very smooth UX and the team is always coming out with great new features like sync back and AI. The company also has a really responsive customer success team as well which has been a huge help!
What do you dislike about the product?
We didn't start with all the integrations we needed, but the team has been adding these quickly - very pleased with how they've addressed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our organization uses a lot of data and much of it is decentralized. Castor helps us centralize our documentation and improve our data discovery. It has reduced a lot of manual work on our team.


    Brian A.

Great experience working with Castor software and team

  • May 15, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The entire team at Castor has been very collaborative while we worked through the process of starting data governance at our organization. I have felt a high level of communication with timely responses to any of the users' questions our team could come up with. The features promised by Castor include our Data Catalog, Lineage, Governance and Knowledge base are all top-of-the-line tools for our team.

In addition to the things listed above, the Castor team has always been willing to work with our engineers to evaluate new integrations and features that we quickly released in the software. If something is not available today, it will be soon.
What do you dislike about the product?
Data governance is a challenging conversation to have in any organization. Castor makes this conversation easier once we have information flowing into the software. Many of us could use a playbook to motivate our organization so we can use the tools sooner.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are reducing the time our lean data engineering team spends documenting new objects in our data warehouse. Castor also enables us to use this integrated environment to onboard new analysts. The main benefit is time saved on both data delivery and consumption ends.


    Computer Software

The ultimate data catalog

  • May 15, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Castor is my go-to tool when I have any doubts about the definition of a field, where to find it or the dependencies it may have.
It's very user friendly and they are adding more and more functionalities that adapt to our needs.
Having this connected with our visualisation tool is an amazing improvement. We can see the most viewed dashboards as well as the data sources they use and a direct link to the dashboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
The option to export all downstream nodes of a column or field is not as detailed as it could be (e.g. link to dashboard)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Where to find the data I need and the definition of it. The lineage is a lifesaver when we want to change any of our core tables.


    Venture Capital & Private Equity

Best tool for data democratization

  • May 10, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Since getting Castor, we've been able to streamline and standardize our data documentation, resulting in improved data discovery and usage. We've also seen a significant reduction in data-related inquiries, which I would estimate at 50% decrease over the past year. This has freed up so much time for our data team!
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing that I dislike about Castor
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As we scaled, we were dealing with greater data volumes, and a lot of people could not find their way in the data anymore.The tables were not documented enough, resulting in many recurring questions to the data team. castor completely solved this data discovery problem.


    Financial Services

Business users love castor

  • May 09, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The UI is very smooth and friendly. We thought that we would have trouble with adoption, but everyone keeps coming back to castor because it is very simple and intuitive. They have already incorporated Ai in the product which makes it much better for business users to understand SQL queries
What do you dislike about the product?
At first, Castor did not have all the integrations that we were looking for, but they have built these incredibly quickly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- misalignment around metrics and KPIs
- Having all our documentation in one centralized place instead of it being scattered across different tools
- Productivity of the data team who receives much less requests since we have incorporated Castor


    Michał P.

Fantastic tool for data discovery and documentation

  • March 02, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
The easy to use interface and the speed of finding the relevant assets that you're looking for in your database.
I also really enjoy the score given to each table, lets you prioritize the results of your queries by how often ceratain data is used.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration with Snowflake was pretty quick, but we had some issues with syncing our data for a while.
The support was pretty quick and everything works, but sometimes it still shows that the company is new and they have to iron out some details.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's primarily a data exploration tool for people writing SQL in the company - where to find data and which tables to use + a unique feature of Castor: some query inspiration from other users.


    Levon G.

Solid data discovery & catalog tool

  • February 27, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The tool provided us a single source of truth for our metrics and created a culture of documentation in our team. On top of that, we get an holistic overview of the dependencies between the tables/dashboards and know how each change could impact downstream/upstream models.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing so far. The only thing I could mention is that we don't have visibility on our data quality processes. The number of tests that failed/succeded over time for example?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Giving visbility on our data model, what our metrics mean, what dependencies do we have in our dashboards, what are the upstream/downstream data models in our DAG


    Frank R.

Finally have visibility into data

  • February 27, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
Castor connects all of our meta data which previously lived in awhole bunch of different tools - I really like that no matter where documentation lives , anyone is able to view when they log in. We especially love Lineage
What do you dislike about the product?
WE're waiting on a couple of integrations, but overall the team has been super responsive and clear about what is on the road map - no real complaints from our end
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Castor solves our data discovery and data cataloguing issues