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andrewmcewen

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    Comment #29040385

    That's a great point, we think of Secoda as _both_ a search and curation tool. The search portion of the tool is accomplished through the no-code integrations. When you connect Sno…

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    Comment #29040065

    Thank you! Secoda is different from DataHub in a few ways: 1. If you're using the DataHub open source solution it requires a data engineer to get the platform up and running and ma…

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    Comment #29039870

    Secoda is different from ThoughtSpot in a few ways: 1. It is likely that you'll need to setup a 1:1 meeting with a ThoughtSpot expert to help get your company up and running on the…

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    Comment #28161484

    An example of what lineage would look like is the following: You have source tables A and B that are joined to create a model C and then C is used in dashboard D. We are able to in…

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    Comment #28161389

    Thanks for the positive message. We appreciate the support from people who understand the problem that we're trying to solve with Secoda. We haven't had someone request Google Data…

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    Comment #28161084

    You've hit the nail on the head here. Long term we want to bridge the gap between the data team and rest of the organization through a central repository of data knowledge. Using M…

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    Comment #28161001

    The catalog portion of the Secoda product is similar to Amundsen, but we also have a Data Dictionary for defining metrics, Analysis Documents for queries and charts, and Requests f…

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    Comment #28158051

    The main way that Secoda differs from a traditional reporting tool is that we offer a more complete view into the data knowledge/context of an organization. A traditional reporting…

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    Comment #28157394

    You can add tags to any data resource in Secoda (table, column, dashboard, dictionary term, etc). When you tag resources, you can search for them by tag. Our customers have found i…

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    Comment #28157298

    Thanks, we hope so too! At Secoda, we really want to make data less intimidating for anyone in the organization to explore and use. When the whole company can use data to help info…

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    Comment #28157258

    We have pre-built integrations with many popular data tools (Snowflake, dbt, Tableau, etc.) that can be setup in less than 5 minutes. If those don't fit your needs then we can defi…

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    Comment #28157242

    Hi there, I'm the CTO of Secoda so happy to answer your question. Our dbt integration works with dbt cloud, and are working on making it compatible with dbt core as well. What we'l…