🔷 Replacement Program

Origin and Original Intent Matter.

 

When comparing legacy catalogs to MetaKarta, it's essential to understand what they were originally intended for.  Most were built for governance, while MetaKarta was constructed as a metadata management platform.  The difference is profound.

 

​Legacy catalog companies were founded at a time when the scope of data governance seemed larger than it ultimately turned out to be.  Governance and crowd-sourced curation appeared to be the next big thing, but it has simply turned out to be a specialized need with a narrow audience — hence the failure of catalogs to achieve broad enterprise adoption.  Additionally, as with most specialized tools, their price tag reflects its specialization.

 

MetaKarta was created as a metadata management platform used by enterprise data management for many use cases, including governance, data architecture, modeling, mapping, data engineering, process modeling, and lineage.  

 

It manages all metadata for the enterprise by integrating with all BI, DI, and ETL tools, including both legacy and modern systems.  Its place is at the heart of IT and Data Management, serving as a central collection and dissemination point for knowledge about data throughout the enterprise.​​

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Business Decisions Matter.

 

Pricing and deployment options are choices that vendors make.  Legacy catalog vendors and Meta Integration have gone in different directions.

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Licensing Models

Legacy vendors have stuck with a premium-priced per-user model.  They promised that the expensive seats would be offset by the massive hordes of users who would adopt and participate.  As adoption has never materialized, the actual value delivered has consistently fallen short of the steep price.

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Meta Integration sees the world through a different lens and offers concurrent user pricing.  This means that an enterprise can maximize the use of a MetaKarta license by many, many users.  It also means that a customer is only paying for the value received.  It's the fairest and most equitable approach, fundamentally changing the cost curve for budget holders.

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Deployment Choices

Most legacy catalogs where 'born' in the era of on-premise tools and had to pivot to offering a cloud and SaaS option as that deployment pattern was accepted.  But the dirty little secret is that these vendors don't provide like-for-like functionality across deployment environments and leave their original on-premise customers in the difficult position not getting all the new functionality and also not favoring on-premise for new prospects who often require security and control.  Its a painful 'Solomon's choice' where the only one who wins is the vendor.​

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Meta Integration understands the critical nature of enterprise metadata and that the risk profile of many large enterprises prohibits them from using a cloud deployment.  That is why MetaKarta has been and will always be offered with the choice to deploy on-premises, in a virtual private cloud, or as a fully SaaS solution.  There is no functionality difference.  One release to all deployment types.  No playing favorites for the benefit of venture investors and valuation multiples.

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Fill in the [Blank] Comparison at a Glance.

This table shows the capabilities that our customer value highly.  How about you and your vendor?  How do rank each them and compare us against your legacy tools? We be happy to sit down, listen to your requirements, and share very detailed and technical input so you can draw your own conclusions.  When you are ready, please feel free to request a meeting so we can dig in.  Also, don't forget to review the Zero Cost 1-Month Trial, which includes the automated migration of your legacy data catalog, including customizations, to MetaKarta.