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I used Metabase at my last gig (CTO @ e-commerce, 30+ users) and it was well-received and dare I say even a bit adored. It was the only self-hosted tool I'd rec
by tomnipotent 3y ago
I used Metabase at my last gig (CTO @ e-commerce, 30+ users) and it was well-received and dare I say even a bit adored. It was the only self-hosted tool I'd receive after-hours text messages about going down that someone urgently needed back up for some task due tomorrow.
Business users loved the self-serve query builder, and it wasn't uncommon to walk around the office and see Metabase up on someones screen. My CEO absolutely loved it, and used it daily including to put together data for board decks.
None of my users cared about visualizations, and lived in tabular data. This included finance, marketing, merchandising, operations, and executives (CEO/COO/CFO). The only people that lamented the limited visualization were analysts. Power users did all their day-to-day work in Excel or other tools anyway, such as managing marketing spend or inventory allocations.
Metabase was great for dashboards and self-service (ad-hoc). 10/10 would deploy again.