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• Integrate Metabase with your SAML-based SSO of choice to automatically handle user signups and group permissions. Open up data access, safely. Data sandboxes give you row- and column-based data access control based on user attributes passed down by your SSO, that automatically filter dashboards and charts. See who saw what, and when.
• Metabase Enterprise Edition also ships with all the improvements included with the Open Source Edition, 0.39. Customize filter values for each dashboard subscription. In Metabase Enterprise Edition, when setting up a dashboard subscription you can now specify different values for each filter in the dashboard.
• First, verify that the Metabase Compatibility component of IIS is installed on the machine. This component is not installed by default. On Windows Server® 2008 and above builds, you can use the Server Manager tool (Start-Administrative Tools-Server Manager), and check the 'IIS 6.0 Management Compatibility' component to install it.
• Metabase is an open-source business intelligence solution that helps businesses of all sizes allow employees to analyze data and ask questions on a unified interface. The white-label platform enables administrators to schedule reports and set up alerts for the target audience.

Metabase 0.39 will be the last release to support Internet Explorer 11. Starting with 0.40, we’ll drop support for Internet Explorer. Starting with 0.40, we’ll drop support for Internet Explorer. IE11 will probably still work with Metabase, but you might get some unexpected behavior, so you might want to move to a different browser.

What is Metabase?

Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool. It lets you ask questions about your data, and displays answers in formats that make sense, whether that’s a bar graph or a detailed table.

Your questions can be saved for later, making it easy to come back to them, or you can group questions into great looking dashboards. Metabase also makes it easy to share questions and dashboards with the rest of your team.

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Finding your way around

So, you’ve gotten Metabase up and running and connected it to your data. It’s time to give you the lay of the land.

The home page

Fresh out of the box, Metabase will show you a few things on the home page:

• Some automatic explorations of your tables that you can look at and save as a dashboard if you like any of them. (Administrators can permanently hide this section by clicking the X that appears on hover.)
• An area where things you or your teammates create will show up, along with a link to see all the dashboards, questions, and pulses you have.
• A list of the databases you’ve connected to Metabase. (As with x-rays, administrators can permanently hide this section by clicking the X that appears on hover. You can always click on “Browse Data” from the main nav bar to see your databases and tables.)

Once you’ve created some dashboards, any of them that you pin in the main “Our analytics” collection will show up on the homepage for all of your teammates, so that when they log in to Metabase they’ll know right where to go.

Browse your data

If you connected your database to Metabase during setup, you’ll see it listed at the bottom of the homepage along with the sample dataset that Metabase comes with. Click on a database to see its contents. You can click on a table to see its rows, or you can also click on the bolt icon to x-ray a table and see an automatic exploration of it, or click on the book icon to go to the data reference view for that table to learn more about it.

Explore your analytics

As you and your team create dashboards and collections, they’ll start to show up on the homepage. Click on a collection in the “Our analytics” section to see its contents, or click “browse all items” to see everything you and your team have made. More about exploring

Ask a question or write a query

Click the Ask a question button in the top-right of Metabase to start a new simple exploration of one of your tables, ask a more detailed custom question using the notebook editor, or write a new SQL query if you want to really dig in.

Make a new dashboard or pulse

In Metabase, dashboards are made up of saved questions that you can arrange and resize as you please. They’re a great way to track important metrics and stats that you care about. Pulses are what regularly scheduled reports are called in Metabase. They can be sent out either via email, Slack, or both.

To make a dashboard or pulse, click the plus (+) icon in the top-right of the main navigation bar. Really sun driver download.

Use search to quickly find things

The search bar at the top of the screen helps you find tables, dashboards, collections, saved questions, metrics, segments, and pulses in an instant.

A primer on databases

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To fully understand how to use Metabase, it’s useful to have at least a high-level understanding of databases, so we’ll discuss the basics of databases next.

1. Starter

   The user-friendly Cloud BI suite in a box.

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   • Unlimited dashboards
   • Connect to 20+ database types
   • Use 15+ visualizations
   • Schedule updates via email or Slack
   • Fully managed cloud
   • Automated upgrades and backups
   • Out-of-the-box SMTP setup
   • Migrate from open source

   Support

   3-day email

   Deployment

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   Incl. 5 users, then $5/user/month

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   • Single sign-on via SAML, JWT, or advanced LDAP
   • Soon: choose your cloud region

   Support

   3-day email

   Deployment

   Metabase Cloud

   $749/month

   Incl. 10 users, then $15/user/month

3. Enterprise

   Everything from Growth, plus:

   • Auditing and compliance tools
   • Row-level permissions
   • Embedded analytics
   • Customize logo, colors, and more
   • Source modification license

   Support

   Priority support

   Deployment

   Metabase Cloud or self-hosted

   Starts at $15k/year

   Per-user varies · annual billing

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1. Open Source

   The user-friendly BI suite in a box.

   • Unlimited charts
   • Unlimited dashboards
   • Connect to 20+ database types
   • Use 15+ visualizations
   • Schedule updates via email or Slack

   Support

   Our friendly forum

   Deployment

   Self-hosted

2. Enterprise

   Everything from Growth, plus:

   • Single sign on (SAML, JWT, advanced LDAP)
   • Auditing and compliance tools
   • Row-level permissions
   • Embedded analytics
   • Customize logo, colors, and more
   • Source modification license

   Support

   Priority support

   Deployment

   Metabase Cloud or self-hosted

   Starts at $15k/year

   Per-user varies · annual billing