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dScribe Overview

What is dScribe?

dScribe is the easiest way to embed documentation directly inside all of your browser-based systems. 80+ companies are already relying on dScribe to speed up user onboarding and increase adoption & understanding of their systems. Typical use cases include reports, ERP systems, CRM and custom-built applications. Try it yourself - dScribe is free to use up to 10 users. dScribe supports popular platforms like Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics365… Using the underlying AI-powered graph database, dScribe is also ideally suited to document business definitions, automatically suggesting and adding relations. Central to dScribe is how easy it is to get started: it takes under 3 minutes to document your first definitions or pages. Visit the website to get started! Concerned about security? Learn why dScribe does not need to integrate or store your systems' data by watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw3Tfzqmjm0

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Product Description

dScribe is a low-threshold data catalog solution that breaks down data- and organisational-silos by creating a centralised, searchable inventory of data assets. This allows organisations to install top-down or bottom-up data governance as best suits there business.


Seller Details
Seller
dScribe
Year Founded
2021
HQ Location
Ghent, Belgium
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
12 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Founded in Belgium in 2021, dScribe is a SaaS company dedicated to making sure every employee feels empowered to use and interpret their applications and data effectively. The team behind the product believes their customers deserve an elegantly designed, engaging and empowering knowledge solution. Fueled by an AI-powered graph database and enabling seamless user adoption via its integrations into any browser-based application, dScribe promises increased data clarity and tool adoption from day one.


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Recent dScribe Reviews

Yannis K.
YK
Yannis K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Never had a better view on our reporting products."
Categorizing and making inventory of all reports created within our organization.
Raimundo M.
RM
Raimundo M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"This tool is amazing if you want to join Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence"
Often people are not comfortable with change and one of the things that are not having really a big update during time is knowledge management. Bu...
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Every Client needs to experience this tool!"
Intuitive, very feature complete, an easy way to access all of your model's documentation.
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Raimundo M.
RM
BI Analyst
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about dScribe?

Often people are not comfortable with change and one of the things that are not having really a big update during time is knowledge management.

But dScribe is just the solution to that! In my experience, we always try to develop the data into information, but then how you store the information? Writing and keep the information upload is way more easy with dScribe, and also the information is easy to find.

Also, I need to talk about the people that work here. They are super kind and motivated, thay had a really good customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dScribe?

As I am a worker in the BI area, for me this kind of programs are awesome. Maybe, for people that are doing a small scale work computational speaking (a lot of people only work with excel only) maybe these tools can also be included for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dScribe solving and how is that benefiting you?

How to keep the information updated and how to store information to have a better access for every worker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yannis K.
YK
Track Lead - Reporting
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about dScribe?

Categorizing and making inventory of all reports created within our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dScribe?

There is still room for improvement which is not meant negatively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dScribe solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had a huge growth of reports on a multitude of sources in the past year. Getting an overview and insight on what we created and being able to describe everything in detail was our best use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting
IC
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about dScribe?

Intuitive, very feature complete, an easy way to access all of your model's documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dScribe?

There isn't a thing I dislike about dscribe Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dScribe solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having all the documentation in one place is a must, plus it helps keeping it up-to-date very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Semiconductors
ES
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about dScribe?

The foolproof user interface is the biggest quality of dScribe, next to their so far unfallable system. Without any explanation or training, data citizens can start to use the tool as it's supposed to. This quality pairs well with the second upside of the tool: The pricing model. You only pay per connector and there is no user limitation (which is the pricing model of most data catalogs), in such that the whole company can immediately profit from the data catalog.

This combo helps to get data governance & metadata management started at the organisation, and is recommendable for any organisation that will take it's first steps in business lead data management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dScribe?

When evaluating different data catalogs, the emphasis was laid on user friendliness. This had the downside of choosing a solution that does not have all the functionalities of the established catalogs in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dScribe solving and how is that benefiting you?

Showcasing the benefits of some basic data management aspects (metadata management, semantics and data governance): Bringing ownership tools to data owners; Overview of data assets; Input for data strategy; Identification of use cases for master & reference data management; Information source for various data analyses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about dScribe?

dScribe is a single solution for complex challenges that every mature company will eventually come across:

- The need for a central repository of all data objects in both technical and functional language

- The automation of integrated, qualitative documentation of all reports and data sources

- An easy search functionality to go through the available KPIs, reports and data

By integrating dScribe with our relevant systems, reports and data assets are crawled automatically via APIs, so the effort for the customer is minimal, while many different personas can profit from the outcome with only a short training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dScribe?

Some opportunities for improvement exist, like reducing the manual input needed, e.g., to enter calculated measures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dScribe solving and how is that benefiting you?

To have harmonized documentation on available reports and data objects that can be trusted and is accessible to both technical and non-technical people.

Thanks to the relations functionality, people can quickly stroll through the data landscape of their desired domain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Food Production
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about dScribe?

With dScribe we can catalog all our relevant data assets across multiple system. Having a single point of entry for all documentation is very useful.

Both for IT and business users maintenance is easy.

As a cloud application, access is very easy.

Content wise, the focus is on user experience, by consequence, information overload is avoided.

This is very nice as other data catalogs quickly contain too much features making it much harder to use by users.

The dScribe team is very open to feedback => you get more then a tool but also a partnership. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dScribe?

- If we realy want to promote dScribe as a single point entry for data assets stored in multiple system, so extra attention to the home page might be required.

Quick access to favourites is recommended.

- connectie dScribe to source systems can be more automated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dScribe solving and how is that benefiting you?

Currently, we have different BI tools in our organisation. dScribe helps us to centralize and document all our data assets in one location.

Next to that, it empowers our BI key users to do self service by giving them the necessary documentation of existing datasources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about dScribe?

- Easy to use for our endusers

- Easy to use for the analysts who describe the data and reports

- One place to find the reports and the documentation with a direct link towards our Power BI reports

- Ability to interact in the tool itself

- Very good support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dScribe?

There is not really something i dislike currently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dScribe solving and how is that benefiting you?

Able to properly document our reports, data definitions and KPI's and give our end users easy access to this. End users can improve their efficiency because of this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
CC
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about dScribe?

dScribe is the first data catalog tool that I have ever used that is this easy. You don't need to be an IT expert to know how to work with it. It looks good, works well and is a real improvement for any organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dScribe?

You have to think about a data governance strategy around the tool, don't start without a bigger plan or vision.

The API is not easy to use and requires technical knowledge

Some connectors still need to be developped Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dScribe solving and how is that benefiting you?

The time necessary to find the right assets in a data landscape.

Capture knowledge about your organisation in the long term.

Help business in thinking about a data governance strategy.

Be a platform where both business and IT can connect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Frank C.
FC
Teammanager DA, integration and monitoring
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about dScribe?

As a midsize company, it currently suits our business needs entirely without the need for a full fledged meta data catalog. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dScribe?

As a company we are still in an explorary phase of how a meta data catalog can help in making our reporting en data more visible. So currently is suits our requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dScribe solving and how is that benefiting you?

It answers the question of the kind of data that residing in our datalake and datawarehouse . It forms a central point in discussions about business definitions and business terms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting
CM
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about dScribe?

dScribe is an intuitive data discovery solution: it allows all data stakeholders to find the answer to their data questions in just a few clicks (e.g. whom to contact, what is the approved definition,…).

The dScribe team is eager to improve their tool based on the input of clients and partners. They really listen and tailor their roadmap based on this input.

Easy to setup and connect with data sources to start your data discovery

Focuses on business users as well and not only technical information (e.g. report catalog, dscribe plugin for power bi reports, ...) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dScribe?

dScribe is a flexible tool that can support you with implementing your data strategy and they can share lessons learned of other clients. However the strategy and implementation plan needs to be defined by the client itself: no Out of The Box plans are available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dScribe solving and how is that benefiting you?

dScribe helps enterprises to give a good overview of their data landscape, employees easier find their way to the data they need, efficiency can be gained by not asking 5 times the same question regarding a dataset to a colleague. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.