#1 most frequent
United States of America
38.2%1,554 installations of 4,071
What is Metabase?
Metabase aims to bring data tools with the simplicity of consumer products to the crufty world of enterprise business intelligence. Their open source analytics and business intelligence applications connect to most commonly used databases to let anyone in a company ask questions, and create dashboards or nightly emails without knowing SQL. Metabase Enterprise enables the user to embed branded analytics into customer applications.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
Category average: 8
Role-Based Security Model
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
Category average: 8.4
Mobile Application
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
Category average: 7.4
Areas for Improvement
Formatting capabilities
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
Category average: 8.1
Themeable User Interface (UI)
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
Category average: 7.7
Report Formatting Templates
Category average: 8.1
Who Buys & Uses Metabase
#2 most frequent
Brazil
9.4%384 installations of 4,071
#3 most frequent
France
7.4%300 installations of 4,071
Metabase easy to use
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Metabase is intuitive and easy to use. It connects with the different CRMs we are using at the company, helping us have the right visibility with our data. This data can be shared with the different teams in order for us to take the right actions and improve our business.
Pros
- Accurate data automatically refreshed
- Easy to build tables and connect different data points
- easy to connect via API with different CRMs
Cons
- The layout could be more modern
- Would be great to have a drag and drop option to build dashboards
Return on Investment
- Reduces significantly the wait time to get data results
- Increase the data visibility as it is easy to share
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Tableau CRM
Next Level Open Source BI Tool.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Currently, we're using Metabase to pull reports from the database for our teams for day-to-day meetings and discussions. For us, it was taking a lot of time to pull these reports using Django, and the system was showing limitations. With Metabase, data fetching becomes relatively fast as it interacts with the database directly. Apart from this, the system was quite easy to integrate without the system using APIs and authentication provided by it. We're integrating to show data in a beatified manner now, like using graphs and figures.
Pros
- We're currently using it to fetch reports for our products, such as daily sales, pipeline, visits, and attendance reports.
- Data representation from database directly.
Cons
- Currently, they don't provide page size, i.e., the number of records to be shown at a time in questions, and it isn't very easy. Some filters can implant this.
- Just like above point there must be option for counting total pages by page size.
- Query based filters must be provided.
Return on Investment
- It is serving us whatever we're looking for, and we've recommended many organizations to implement it if they want better data analytics as it provides better functionality than we will build.
- As a negative it gets difficult to get control over data to be fetch initially.
Usability
Other Software Used
Amazon Transcribe
Metabase: The perfect reporting solution
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it for all of our internal reporting, across each department, and are the centralised data team for creating reports and managing data and access. Metabase is the perfect tool, as it is scalable, and the levels of granular permissions mean that it is easy to give access to the data colleagues need to do their jobs most effectively.
Pros
- Visualisation
- Simplicity
- Permissions
Cons
- Report Types
- Updates
- Colour/Branding
Return on Investment
- Departmental Reporting - allows each department to measure and track KPIs
- Visibility - everyone has access to the data they need and context on the rest of the business' goals
- Churn - Helps to predict churn from our partners given their sales and forecasts
Alternatives Considered
Looker
Other Software Used
Notion, Google BigQuery, Todoist: To-Do List & Task Manager
Great BI and Data Tool
Pros
- Store Data
- Make Querying easy
- Quickly ingest data from many sources
Cons
- Natural language querying could be a little easier
- easier to edit queries
- easier joins
Return on Investment
- We can make great reports for our customers quickly
- We can store customer data dynamically
- we can create customer specific metrics
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Power BI, Python IDLE and Mode Analytics
Other Software Used
Carta (formerly eShares), Pilot.com, Airtable