![]() These alternatives offer all accessible, effective Metabase features that you may have come to love, along with a whole lot more. Now that we’ve covered the basics, let’s take a look at some of the best Metabase alternatives. Some of the main things that you should look with Metabase alternatives are: Know what that means? You guessed it: more reliance on experts! Limited granularity and ad-hoc options - Metabase’s query builder is really basic, meaning you’ll need to know some SQL to get the answers you need.You can only work, for example, directly with your database tables. But, with Metabase, simplicity comes at a price. Metabase is designed for simplicity! Wait, are you wondering why that’s a bad thing? It’s not (at least in principle).Limited connectors - plug-and-play connectors are only available for some data sources.If you need data from multiple sources, you’re out of luck. No data-joining - Metabase only works well with a single data source.Reliance on experts for things like custom reports and even basic set-up (which requires technical proficiency).Common Metabase Pain Pointsīefore we dive into the alternatives, let’s quickly cover some of the most common pain points that Metabase users face: We wrote this article because we believe in option 2 (hint: it’s called Guided Analytics). This article covers some of the best alternatives to Metabase to help you become more data-driven. Make analytics easier for business people.Make every business user a data expert so they can use complex tools like Metabase.We’re then faced with one of two choices: So complex that only experts can make full use of the analytics (as is often the case with Metabase). This isn’t surprising…in our attempt, as a society, to make analytics fast, powerful, all-seeing, and all-knowing, many tools have also become incredibly hard to use. ![]() The developer(s) takes time to come back with an answer, and by the time that “insight” comes back, it’s already outdated or queued behind dozens of other questions. Let us know if this sounds familiar: a business user finds Metabase’s “ask a question” function too limiting for anything complex, so they have to send a data request to their dev team (assuming they have a dev team). Some business intelligence tools( *cough cough* like Metabase *cough cough*), often take a team of dedicated experts (data scientists, engineers, you name it) to do… much of anything.
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