
The market is full of data-centric tools, so how is MetaKarta different, and why do the world's largest organizations depend on it?
Vendor-neutral management of metadata assets
Customer Profile
We are engineers, not marketers. We find it's easier to simply explain the characteristics that are the best fit for MetaKarta so that neither of us wastes time.
Key Characteristics
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An enterprise with a highly complex organization structure, architectural landscape, and wide array of data stores and applications.
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An organization that understands the need for vendor-agnostic data management tooling and capabilities.​
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​Enterprises who must invest in maintaining an accurate record of its data assets and lineage.
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​An organization that values data management processes and discipline.
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An organization that has already experienced the pitfalls of in-house developed and lightweight vendor catalog tools.
Typical Scenarios
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Replace one or more incumbent vendors: The customer wants to replace one or more stand-alone tools like Alation/Collibra or capabilities that are part of a larger application stack, such as the Talend catalog or Informatica data catalog.
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Co-exist with one or more incumbent vendors: Customers want to implement a meta-meta store 'above' existing technologies as a compliment or to limit their future expansion.
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Replace one or more in-house developed tools and processes
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Replace or augment consultant-developed tools and processes: Customers will often have tools that third-party consultants developed. They want to transition to a vendor-supported solution to gain capabilities and avoid the risks and expense of code maintenance.
Ideal Timing
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Application implementation planning: Implementing a new enterprise-class application always involves transitioning from the old to the new. Now is an ideal time to start using MetaKarta for inventorying, mapping, lineage, and communication.
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Strategic Data Replatforming: Organizations often decide to introduce new data platforms from large providers such as Snowflake, Azure, AWS, and Google. This requires a complex multi-year transition of assets with many dependencies. Now is an ideal time to introduce MetaKarta to plan, map, and execute the shift.
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Recent leadership change: New leaders have an ideal opportunity to improve the effectiveness of data management by making MetaKarta one of their new strategic initiatives.
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Post-compliance/audit review: MetaKarta can be introduced to resolve the "plan of actions" resulting from data management audits.
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Pre-compliance/audit review: MetaKarta can be introduced before data management audits to shore up practices and procedures.
Working with Consultants
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It's very common for our customers to be using teams of consultants to help them with projects and programs.
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We pride ourselves on being very consultant-friendly, easy to work with, and supportive of helping consulting teams use MetaKarta on the customer's behalf.
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We have already established relationships with many consultant organizations but are always happy to work with new ones.
