Data Products Have Piqued Your Interest—But Legacy Tools Still Leave You Hanging?
Turning raw data into insights and driving decisions is huge. Legacy tools fall short. See how Metaphor’s platform makes it happen.
Kirit Basu
September 17, 2024
Turning raw data into insights and driving decisions is huge. Legacy tools fall short. See how Metaphor’s platform makes it happen.
You’re excited by the promise of data products. Who wouldn’t be? The potential to turn raw data into actionable insights, monetize information streams, and drive business decisions with precision is too good to ignore. You’ve talked to a few legacy catalog vendors, but you’re not seeing how their tools will actually get you to that data product bliss.
Don’t worry, you’re not alone—and you’re certainly not stuck.
Let’s dive into how our customers are using Metaphor’s platform to cut through the noise and build real, impactful data products.
Legacy catalog vendors like Collibra and Alation love to dazzle you with promises of a well-organized, accessible data environment. But when it comes to delivering actual data products, the shine often wears off. Why? Because these tools are retrofitted to solve yesterday’s problems—ones that data warehouses and traditional BI tools have been trying (and sometimes failing) to solve for decades.
Data products, however, demand an approach that emphasizes collaboration, flexibility, and actionable insights—a trifecta that legacy tools struggle to deliver.
Our customers are taking the leap from data potential to data product reality:
We make your data discoverable, understandable, and usable for anyone in your organization. With advanced search capabilities and AI-driven insights, our customers are cutting down the time spent looking for data and spending more time building with it.
We’ve taken data governance from a siloed, bureaucratic process to a collaborative effort that spans your entire organization. Our customers love how easy it is to set up governance policies that not only protect their data but also make it more usable across teams, regardless of technical expertise. No more “data lockdown”—just secure, compliant, and accessible information.
It’s time to respectfully lay rigid, monolithic architectures to rest (in peace). Our platform is built with data mesh principles in mind, enabling our customers to create decentralized, domain-oriented data products that scale with their business.
Understanding where your data comes from, how it’s transformed, and where it’s going is required. Our end-to-end data lineage features give our customers the transparency they need to maintain trust and quality in their data products, ensuring that every insight is backed by a clear, traceable path. Better still lineage is created automatically, no manual work required.
That feeling when the glitz of a shiny new tool wears off, and you begin the excruciating process of a months-long deployment and steep learning curve (that you then have to relay to less technical teams and expect quick adoption). Did that sentence give you hives? Metaphor customers hit the ground running on day 1. Our platform’s seamless integration with existing modern data stacks means you can start building and delivering data products in days, not months. Speed is NOT a luxury!
Lets face it, no one wants to use ancient looking software, and not everyone cares to get trained on the catalog and keep coming back to it everyday. Metaphor has an extremely user-friendly user interface that’s designed for every user persona no matter their skill level, it unlocks deeper levels of technical capability as they use the tool. Better still, a whole class of users can get value from the catalog within their daily workflow (In Slack/Teams or their BI environment) without needing to be trained on the catalog or going to the app.
If you suspect legacy catalog vendors are overpromising (and gearing up to underdeliver), it’s time to explore what’s possible with Metaphor.
Ready to see the difference for yourself? Let’s connect and start building the data products of tomorrow, today.
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The Metaphor Metadata Platform represents the next evolution of the Data Catalog - it combines best in class Technical Metadata (learnt from building DataHub at LinkedIn) with Behavioral and Social Metadata. It supercharges an organization’s ability to democratize data with state of the art capabilities for Data Governance, Data Literacy and Data Enablement, and provides an extremely intuitive user interface that turns even the most non-technical user into a fan of the catalog. See Metaphor in action today!
