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CastorDoc Reviews

User Rating

4.9/5 (Based on 60 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

  • Excellent

    86.7%
  • Very Good

    13.3%
  • Average

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  • Poor

    0%
  • Terrible

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User Sentiments

Automated Data Lineage, User-Friendly Interface, Improved Data Discovery, Comprehensive Data Documentation

Limited Functionality for Some Integrations, Occasional Bugs and Downtime, Lack of Data Quality Integration, Limited Metadata Export Functionality

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Review Summary

Castor Doc is praised for its user-friendly interface, data cataloging abilities, and intuitive lineage mapping features. Users particularly like its automated data cataloging and the AI query explainer. While some find certain integrations cumbersome, overall, users appreciate the platform's effectiveness in streamlining data discovery and governance. While Castor Doc is still under development, users acknowledge its rapid evolution and responsive support team, highlighting its potential to become a comprehensive data solution.

Pros

  • Automated data catalog simplifies data discovery for business users.
  • Robust table and field lineage features enable easy data change impact evaluation.
  • Provides a centralized repository for data documentation and knowledge sharing.
  • Users praise the intuitive UI and userfriendly search functionality.

Cons

  • Some integrations are cumbersome, but ultimately function as expected.
  • Metadata access is limited, requiring external SQL queries for comprehensive analysis.
  • Rapid product development leads to challenges keeping up with updates.
  • Lack of detailed downstream node export options limits data exploration.

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Reviews
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Anonymous User

May 25, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Fantastic Data Catalog Solution"
What do you like best about CastorDoc?

Would highly recommend for

1 - automated cross-tool column-level lineage; after a detailed benchmark, best solution on the market

2- documentation automation and push back to the data ecosystem

What do you dislike about CastorDoc?

Product is changing so fast it's hard to catch-up with updates; although they strived to communicate more on updates

What problems is CastorDoc solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data catalogue / data governance / data lineage / data discovery / data democratization

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Anonymous User

May 19, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Intuitive data catalog that enables data discovery in an efficient way"
What do you like best about CastorDoc?

Simple UI that is very easy for everyone to use

What do you dislike about CastorDoc?

Still improving some product features but the roadmap is there

What problems is CastorDoc solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data discovery and management

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Anonymous User

May 19, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Great features and customer service"
What do you like best about CastorDoc?

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 CastorDoc?

It doesn't show the entity relationship diagram of our databases, but it seems to be in Castor's development pipeline.

What problems is CastorDoc solving and how is that benefiting you?

Document terminology for our applications. Seeing data lineage. Assigning data stewards.

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Anonymous User

May 19, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Gives us confidence in data pipeline changes"
What do you like best about CastorDoc?

Castor has been a game-changer for my team's effectiveness. When our source data changes, we can easily determine which dashboards are affected and which ETL code needs to change.

Castor's velocity in releasing new and improved functionality is impressive; we delight in seeing the new feature announcements.

What do you dislike about CastorDoc?

This isn't a dislike, more of a feature request. I would like to be able to download the lineage diagrams in a diagram format so I can include them in documents (instead of a screenshot).

What problems is CastorDoc solving and how is that benefiting you?

Complete visibility into data usage patterns and dependencies - this allows us to focus on the most crucial work with confidence.

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Anonymous User

May 18, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Unlocking access to data for Business Users"
What do you like best about CastorDoc?

- 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

What do you dislike about CastorDoc?

Access to metadata only, so the SQL queries need to be run from outside of Castor.

What problems is CastorDoc 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.

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Mustafa R

May 17, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Fantastic tool to visualise data assets, definitions and lineage"
What do you like best about CastorDoc?

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.

What do you dislike about CastorDoc?

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 CastorDoc 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

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Delphine S

May 17, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Fast and easy onboarding for a great documentation tool"
What do you like best about CastorDoc?

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.

What do you dislike about CastorDoc?

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 CastorDoc 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.

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Madeleine J

May 16, 2023 Source: G2.com
"A great data catalog"
What do you like best about CastorDoc?

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 CastorDoc?

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 CastorDoc 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.

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Brian A

May 15, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Great experience working with Castor software and team"
What do you like best about CastorDoc?

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 CastorDoc?

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 CastorDoc 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.

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Anonymous User

May 15, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Our team loves Castor!"
What do you like best about CastorDoc?

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 CastorDoc?

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 CastorDoc 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.

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