Hex.tech vs. Metabase

Hex.tech is an excellent tool for a product intelligence or product analytics team that wants to enable widespread use of available data for decision-making. It requires some SQL experience in many cases but makes it possible to go far without complex querying skills.

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Metabase is an easy tool to use if you are interested in collecting and aggregating data from multiple platforms. It is also easy to set up and start receiving the data results as a report. It is also easy to integrate with other tools that generate visual reports and take the necessary actions based on the data details.

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• Powerful interactive notebook environment
• Balances the need of code and non-code users
• Provides free and easy sharing to viewers of analyses across the company
• Responds promptly to support requests and needs
• High quality native charting capabilities

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• We're currently using it to fetch reports for our products, such as daily sales, pipeline, visits, and attendance reports.
• Data representation from database directly.

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• Limited support for R notebooks
• Limited sharing outside of the app (e.g., no slack integration)
• Some Python knowledge needed for highest levels of aggregations

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• Report Types
• Updates
• Colour/Branding

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Its generally quite easy to use but some SQL is definitely important

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Hex.tech is the easiest to use, most enjoyable experience, most powerful environment, and most cost scalable of all the above.

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It does not stack up against Metabase, they complete each other.

Incentivized

• Increased visibility into analyses with free membership tier across company
• Increased capacity for self-service analytics among R&D stakeholders (e.g., product managers)
• Improved productivity of data science team with ease of use

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• It is serving us whatever we're looking for, and we've recommended many organizations to implement it if they want better data analytics as it provides better functionality than we will build.
• As a negative it gets difficult to get control over data to be fetch initially.

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