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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Efficient and user-friendly, CastorDoc offers excellent document management and strong security features. The customer support is notably responsive and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For users with specific needs, the addition of more advanced customization options would enhance CastorDoc's versatility. Also, optimizing performance during peak hours could further streamline the user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Being able to identify the table and column lineage, from the staging tables all the way to the BI tools such as Looker and Power BI

- The popularity index, which allows to identify the most used tables and most viewed dashboards. It has been helping with our deprecation plan.

- The search bar is very powerful because it allows you to filter by table and column names, as well as dashboards.

- The platform is being constantly updated with new features.

- The support team and very responsive and takes into consideration our feedbacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The column lineage can be helpful to identify if the column is being used downstream. However, if the column is only being used downstream to create new columns, the lineage doesn't identify this dependency. This makes it hard to identify any column dependencies if we want to deprecate a staging table. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Castor is my go-to tool when I have any doubts about the definition of a field, where to find it or the dependencies it may have. It's very user friendly and they are adding more and more functionalities that adapt to our needs. Having this connected with our visualisation tool is an amazing improvement. We can see the most viewed dashboards as well as the data sources they use and a direct link to the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The option to export all downstream nodes of a column or field is not as detailed as it could be (e.g. link to dashboard) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The easy to use interface and the speed of finding the relevant assets that you're looking for in your database.

I also really enjoy the score given to each table, lets you prioritize the results of your queries by how often certain data is used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integration with Snowflake was pretty quick, but we had some issues with syncing our data for a while.

The support was pretty quick and everything works, but sometimes it still shows that the company is new and they have to iron out some details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Castor is saving me a lot of time and money. It's like adding another team to your company that is responsible for one of the most important task when growing your database: documentation. This is a life saver, especially for team with a high turnover, its very easy to pick up the database knowledge for new joiners and person not familiar with what another team is doing. It increase a lot the efficiency of going over data. I recommend and the Castor team is amazing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing! Castor is really working great so I dont have a negative comment so far. I hope they continue to deliver the same way! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Young company with a lot of spirit

People stand behind the product

Good lineage, promising approaches in the area of documentation

Very easy to use

Fast support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some areas not yet 100% ready

Problems with very very large queries to display them completely.

Looker lineage if all new Looker features (project import

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Castor is an amazing solution for sharing information about data, relationships, and business logic with my whole team and beyond. It provides clarity and insights into a lot of our different data processes and keeps them all in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A current struggle we're facing with Castor is that it is almost entirely self-contained, so we don't have a good way to sync information out to other places where we store documentation. This leads to some level of fragmentation of information sharing across teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.