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Jorge H.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/12/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Great tool and great services"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

The main advantages that CARTO gave us, IMO are:

1. The tool is powerful, but at the same time is very easy to use even for people with no data analytics background or expertise.

2. The visualization of your data makes easier taking some business decisions, especially those related to physical localization.

3. CARTO team are available for consulting them, especially at the beginning of our relationship. That point is very important, because without their help it would be quite complicated for us to use CARTO tool at 100%.

4. Due to COVID, we have to change a little our project scope, and talked with CARTO team and they gave us all the comprehension and facilities to change with no problem. We really appreciate that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

The least hepful about CARTO, maybe are these:

1. The learning curve at the beginning is a little bit complicated, especially for people with no data analytics expertise. If you want to use your company insights you have to make an upload of your data. At the beginning is a little bit complicated, but once you get in touch with CARTO team, you are able to do it in an easy way.

2. As we are talking about physical and geo items, the results are not as immediate as digital environment is. But this is not a CARTO topic but sector topic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CARTO:

You should have a clear goal at the beginning of your collaboration, and know what variables are you willing to use -anyway CARTO team may help you with that-. Once you get that, you will need one or two FTEs -not 100% focused- to implement CARTO and start working with your data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Localization for physical items: branches, ATMs.

The main benefits for us is gaining efficiency in our investments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Florence Broderick of CARTO

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Thanks Jorge for your feedback! We really appreciate it. We're working hard on your point number 1 on the learning curve, spending plenty of time trying to improve the help and developer center experiences to provide special trainings. We'll keep you posted on this.

See how CARTO improved

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Ricardo S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/11/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Great Spatial Visualization solution for any type of user"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

The API and the out-of-the-box data solution. It's very easy to upload information and stream it into a custom solution. The solutions support team is also fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

The rendering library. It is still subpar to Mapbox GL. And the workaround with DeckGL is quite cumbersome.

Also, it's been years since a redesign to the Dashboard... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/11/2020

"CARTO @ Telefónica Ecuador"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

The perfect combination between how easy it is to create maps (Drag and drop its the way to go) and the flexibility of manipulating the code to customize the visualizations. Also the flexibility SQL tools give to the maps help a lot. The built in geographical functions provide helpful tools to create new ways to show insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

The flexibility of the calculation of the widgets should allow percentages or custom calculations since we have seen that those contribute significantly to the story telling. Besides that the simplicity in the process of map building has most of the functions needed for map building. And, if something else in needed the sql flexibility allows to build it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CARTO:

Start every project thinking of making the map updates automatic since the story telling and traceability will be richer. Also think about how the different built in tools like APIs to services, geographical functions, database connectors and other services will help you automate and deliver the storytelling and maps. Most of the viewers and interested partners in the map will love the maps and the story telling when it is told correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Showing big amounts of data in a simple way. We have realized that the more beautiful the more reliable and believable the map is. A lot of the telco data is better presented in a geographical form and also helps the decision making process to be way faster and intuitive than with the current methodologies and reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Carlos V.

Managing partner

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/4/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Great spatial repository and Back end support"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

Fast escalable spatial repo with great integration options. Their API works seamlessly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

No downside, we have had a great experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Juliana M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/3/2020

"Carto simplifies the use of interactivity, styling and external data connection"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

InfoAmazonia has been using CARTO for many years to translate geospatial analysis into maps. The user-friendly interface, which simplifies the use of interactivity and styling, is very helpful but also the possibility of combining it with the use of CartoCSS syntax language and SQL queries enables to customize and build powerful geospatial visualizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

Nothing important, but one feature I miss when I embed the maps directly from Carto's website is the ability to define coordinates and minimum and maximum zoom levels for each map. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The easy way in which CARTO allows external data connection and its synchronized update allows us to provide quality journalistic service about the Amazon region. For instance, the real-time connection with fire detection data allowed us to follow the forest fires crisis and enables us to follow up on a daily basis irregular mining processes requests made at the Brazilian national mining agency (Mined Amazon project: https://infoamazonia.org/pt/maps/amazoniaminada/).   

Now, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the platform once again helps us to provide an important service to the audience: an automated map and dashboard updated daily with confirmed cases and deaths by Covid in the Brazilian Amazon region. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Guillaume F.

Geospatial Expert

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/12/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"CARTO Builder: WebMapping for dummies"

4/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

- Ease of use

- Fast Engine

- Great interoperability with Alteryx via CARTO connector

- Basemap from almost all sources can be added Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

- Limitation of CARTO Builder in terms of number of layers, styling, legend

- CARTO db require great coding skills

- Analysis tool require lot of in-memory and often broke your map Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CARTO:

You need to know the limitations of the software (CARTO Builder) or to have high coding skills if you want to move forward with CARTO Engine. I am recommending this product cause of the ease of use and their powerful engine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

You can can display/publish large dataset within minutes in CARTO Builder and provide Geospatial Data Visualization to your end-user really fast. Unlimited viewers/sharing is also a big differentiator with other vendors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Commercial Real Estate

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/26/2020

"Avison Young user review"

4/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

User friendly capacity and overall look and feel. The ability to share it with multiple colleagues using the link/password protect function which allows them to interact (without concern over their ability to edit). An excellent visual tool but limited in its complexity using the builder model.

The ability to change the base map quickly and easily is great. As is the ease of use in changing the colour/size of the dots on the screen.

I do also like the widget tool that allows you to filter the map by a certain criteria. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

I think an option to share the raw data with the map viewers could be helpful, although probably in a limited capacity. The option to create a summary table or something within builder mode - e.g. number of total dots on the map, number in London, Manchester etc.

Also - would be really useful to have the ability to be able to somehow reupload the file that is already uploaded (without having to connect to Box), rather than having to upload a new file each time and deleting the old one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CARTO:

Useful as a visual/presentation tool but hard to carry out detailed analytics with the tool using the builder model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Not so much solving problems - but creating useful visual tools for business development. Our main use case is a map of all of the valuations the valuation team have carried out internally which is used to understand previous instructions and helps speed up the process of data gathering when it comes to doing similar valuations in similar locations/sectors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Luis Manuel F.

VP of Sales

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/2/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"The best way to visualize Geographic data with the power of GCP"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

So far, the best we have seen in the use of Carto is its ability to process large volumes of data in a few seconds and all the additional functionalities to be able to perform analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

So far nothing, I think it always meets our expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/11/2020

"Great customer service and great product"

4/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

- The flexibility with the layers I upload and display

- Being able to customize my popover over map points

- Ability to share it with people outside of my account access/organization (like to clients)

- Ability to customize what the shared view will look like with other people

- The different types of layers are quite intuitive within its layer management system

- Ability to access older datasets

- The different base map options I can select (e.g. if i want to make my map look more like a google map, there is a base map layer that can meet that need) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

- I wish there were more online examples

- I wish I knew CARTO could increase the number of layers for my account if I had just asked sooner (make this more intuitive option)

- The KML files don't always work and I have to go through a series of back and forth to figure it out (so maybe just smarter KML parsing here)

- The option to change the base map is really hidden and it took me over 5 sessions with a rep to even realize that it's an available option Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CARTO:

Just take it slow and use one data set at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm using CARTO to visualize where my target audience is traveling and the visualizations that the platform provides is really helpful in building out a map I can present. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mike L.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/11/2020

"Easy platform, killer technology"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

For a layman, I feel Carto is extremely easy to use. They've always been so helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

There's a bit of a learning curve but once you get over the initial hump it's fairly user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CARTO:

Do it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We're a small subsidiary of a local real estate association that offers marketing tools for real estate agents. One of those tools is a water rights program that identifies boundary lines, ownership data, well logs, and many other details about a property. The company that built our previous system was not very helpful, and the system was extremely difficult to learn/use. Carto simplified the process and built us a new platform. The members love it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.