Alation Data Catalog vs. TIBCO EBX

Alation is well suited to helping a user find a column or even a query using a business term search. In this regard Alation is excellent because it's easy to not only associate these items with each other, but there are also many ways to link the column and/or query to that business term/concept

One of the scenarios where TIBCO EBX is best adapted is for the unification of records to form the Golden Record and equivalence management, this together with the end user's own administration according to the excellent functionality of the creation of test flows. So far I have not found a scenario where we can adapt TIBCO EBX according to the needs that have been presented to us.

Incentivized

• Ability to link objects using the @ symbol. It allows us to easily provide a way to get more information or context. So if the business concept is part of a hierarchy, we can link to the other terms in that hierarchy.
• The customization is really helpful. Most object types have robust customization options. Others are less so, but it is improving. We've created multiple custom fields to support our data governance framework.
• The search feature with filtering is helpful in narrowing down what you're looking for.

Incentivized

• Unification of records to form golden records
• Centralize master catalogs
• Excellent administration with approval and publication flows.

Incentivized

• The lineage UI is not ready for primetime. I would not recommend this feature for my users at this time because it's too complex to understand and is visually difficult to track down specific paths.
• The underlying infrastructure of the on-premise version of the software is fragile and unnecessarily complicated, using too many modules and technologies.
• The license model of the on-premise version contains too many add-ons. I would like to pay one price and get all of the features.

Incentivized

• Improve access to information through API for integrations.

Incentivized

Mostly because the search feature is case sensitive. This causes issues when users are searching for an industry standard acronym. These acronyms exist as attributes in thousands of places across our data ecosystem. Alation allows stewards to endorse attributes so that these endorsed items rise to the top of search results. The problem is no one types acronyms in caps in a search field. Alation returns results matching the case (lower-case) and in several instances the endorsed attributes don't even appear on the first page of results

From the RightStart Program to the Customer Success team to technical support, Alation has it all covered. They respond quickly and expertly to answer my questions and fix my problems.

Incentivized

Alation provided the right balance of connection with systems in use, trusted reputation and affordability. The product integrates with current ways of working and does not require reorganisation within other lines of business.

Incentivized

TIBCO EBX was our first option for implementation in our organization since we know the quality of TIBCO products and verifying their positioning in the evaluation quadrants, it was not necessary for us to evaluate any other products for these purposes in our organization. The implementation of TIBCO EBX has been a fundamental piece for the technological transformation of the organization since its benefits have been really good.

Incentivized

• Provides a place where people can go to find things
• When we first implemented, someone was concerned that people would now see what a mess our data environment was. I consider that a feature. We can't clean up if we can't see what we have.

Incentivized

• Streamline the organization's information management.
• Implementation of important business rules in the TIBCO EBX to unify the information
• Efficient information for analytical reports with cleaner information for organization.

Incentivized