Metaphor - The Social Platform for Data

Metaphor The Social Platform for Data

What is Metaphor?

Metaphor is a modern data catalog designed to enhance data literacy across entire organizations. Powered by AI and fueled by collaboration, it provides tools for data discovery, lineage, documentation, and governance.

The platform integrates with existing data stacks, ensuring seamless connectivity and a comprehensive view of all data assets. Metaphor’s AI-driven features automate documentation, improve metadata quality, and streamline the process of finding and understanding data, making it accessible even to non-technical users.

Features

AI-Fueled Collaboration: Connects all teams, surfaces relevant insights, and streamlines knowledge sharing within an intuitive social platform.
Column-Level Lineage: Delivers precise column-level lineage, allowing users to trace data transformations and dependencies at a granular level.
AI-Accelerated Data Discovery: Leverages AI to streamline data discovery and automatically surfaces trusted, high-quality metadata.
AI-Powered Data Products: Makes data mesh implementation easy, automating governance and delivering real-time insights.
Automated Documentation: Automates documentation through AI, ensuring accurate, up-to-date metadata.
Governance Tags: Enable top-down or bottom-up data governance schemes at the table and column level.
Social Hashtags: Organic discovery of data with social hashtags.
Data-Aware Live Wiki: Rich text wiki with live listings of assets in your data stack.
Built into Slack & Teams: Meet users where they are and help them talk about data.

Use Cases

Streamlining data discovery across an organization.
Tracing data lineage at a granular, column-level.
Automating data documentation to ensure accuracy and currency.
Facilitating collaboration between data producers and consumers.
Implementing data governance policies.
Supporting data-driven decision-making.
Integrating with existing data stacks for a unified view.
Building a culture of data literacy within a company.

FAQs

Why Data Teams Love Metaphor?

Data teams love Metaphor because it simplifies data complexity, offers an intuitive user interface, and provides a 360° view of data, enabling efficient data discovery and usage.