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Castor has been a game-changer for our team!
What do you like best about the product?
Castor has been instrumental in our migration, deprecation and documentation efforts. The data lineage feature is beloved by our data scientists, analysts and data engineers, and is used practically every day. We love being able to choose common definitions to define fields and assign owners to tables.
What do you dislike about the product?
There have been a few bugs and some downtime with the software, but they are also really fast to fix! You should expect a few growing pains, but it means the software is improving quickly!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our data team was having a really hard time finding tables, understanding their purpose and what fields meant within those tables. It made onboarding slow and we had an exceptional amount of institutional knowledge. Castor allows us to showcase definitions to new employees quickly, and also aids them in understanding how our data is modeled and connected together. Additionally, we have been doing a lot of deprecation work and Castor helps us bad dependencies or deprecate concepts.
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Castor Has Been A Game Changer!
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use platform that facilitates self-service for our organization and helps us on our documentation journey. The integrations to our data stack and Data Viz layer have been fantastic. The lineage even assisted in a data recovery effort. Very happy with the solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
We have worked with Castor on a few items that can be improved, and their product team has been receptive and responsive. Their releases are more timely and frequent than most. Any dislikes turn into 'likes' quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Documentation for our technical analysts and also bridging over to our business functions for self-service. We have a long journey to get there, but Castor will be along for the ride!
Great data catalog
What do you like best about the product?
Castor is a great platform to expose data assets to our teams. The data lineage and the ability to tag knowledge to a specific table/column are very helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
The product is recent, and some features are still in development/testing. Hopefully, the castor team is reactive to our requests.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Catalog our data and reporting coming from multiple providers and expose the lineage between them.
Centralize our data knowledge.
Centralize our data knowledge.
Documenting Data Made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
Castor takes much of the manual work out of data documentation, from automatically generating data lineage to intelligently cascading field definitions to downstream objects. This automated approach allowed us to quickly get value out of the tool and it continues to stay up to date as we grow.
What do you dislike about the product?
After seeing the power and benefit of using Castor on our core data stack we quickly wanted to expand the Castor to other areas and across other tools, so excited for more integrations down the line.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Castor is our central repository for understanding: what data we have, what it means and where it's used. We capture information on everything from our raw source data to executive dashboard and what happens along the way.
Awesome data dictionary tool
What do you like best about the product?
Castor is super easy to use! We love that it auto-populates definitions for commonly used tables (zendesk, salesforce, etc.). We also love that it tells us which tables are most popular - super helpful when we were just starting to populate our data dictionary, and that it syncs with tools like dbt and looker. Our #1 most favorite part is the lineage tool - it has been incredibly timesaving for us when making logic updates and changes to understand the downstream impact of said changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
It took us a little longer than anticipated to get our database synced with castor and automatically refreshing daily. Other than that, no complaints!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowed us to create and easily maintain a robust data dictionary with table and field level descriptions, lineage, etc. This allows new analyst to onboard more easily and helps existing analysts and data minded folks answer their own questions without having to slack the SME.
Great easy to use data catalog
What do you like best about the product?
Castor is a great way to quickly and easily stand up a data catalog that exposes data assets to your team. Setup was quick and easy and they have some great tools for taking some of the headaches out of documentation.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a newer product on the market and still building out some features, but they're releasing new things quickly and are super responsive to feedback.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Castor helps us give our business users clarity in the data we have available for them to use.
Great data catalog tool
What do you like best about the product?
The tool is very straightforward to use.
The connection to our databases was simple to establish with the help and support of Castor's team, which is excellent and very reactive!
The lineage feature helps the data team daily, and all the other documentation features are helpful to other data users as well.
The connection to our databases was simple to establish with the help and support of Castor's team, which is excellent and very reactive!
The lineage feature helps the data team daily, and all the other documentation features are helpful to other data users as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
No downsides. We're just looking forward to new features that'll help us on our daily tasks as a data team and that will help us to spread the data culture in our company :)
Some features are missing, like selecting databases we want to display on the tool, but the support team is accommodating.
Some features are missing, like selecting databases we want to display on the tool, but the support team is accommodating.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Centralize our multiple data sources documentation in one place with standardized information.
Quickly understand the origin of each data table thanks to the lineage.
Identify easily the data owners.
Quickly understand the origin of each data table thanks to the lineage.
Identify easily the data owners.
user friendly Application to maintain Patients data
What do you like best about the product?
Capture and integrate data from any source
Monitor study health and progress through
real-time reporting
Gain efficiency, visibility and data quality across the trial lifecycle
Monitor study health and progress through
real-time reporting
Gain efficiency, visibility and data quality across the trial lifecycle
What do you dislike about the product?
Very less number of users who uses this application , so that very less data to perform reporting in a high scale
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Castor ranks among the top 5% of EDC’s for shortest build time, with more than 90% of our studies being deployed within the first 4 weeks.
Does exactly what I need without issues.
What do you like best about the product?
Castor does what I need it to do: it allows me to always have access to the database.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not anything major that I dislike about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows multiple users to make edits to a database while providing insight into changes
An amazing time saving tool
What do you like best about the product?
Castor is an excellent source for schema/table/column definitions to live and is a necessary tool for any company looking to have self-service data for those outside the data team. It saves constant pings to Sr Data members about columns since users can understand the data on their own.
What do you dislike about the product?
Castor is still young and working on integrations with business intelligence tools. This has delayed us in documentation around some important dashboards. That being said, they are actively working on this, and I expect great things
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before castor, people would make assumptions about columns (awful), or Sr Data members would receive nonstop pings/questions about data. This would sometime lead to just pulling the data for user vs. self-service happening.
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