Alation vs Varonis Data Security Platform

Likelihood to Recommend

Alation is best suited for data analysts and data scientists to understand the business using the metadata that it curates. It provides a platform for users to be able to run queries and share them with other users, which creates a collaborative environment. It is a single source of truth to learn more about the data you work with daily.

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Data Governance is well suited to areas where there is a requirement to control user access and privileges to unorganised data, if an organisation is taking on the challenge of a data classification project then this is a great tool for finding out what data is out in the organisation. Some additional modules allow information owners and approvers to authorise user access through a web portal cutting down on a manual process and lets profile administration be auditable.

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Philip Clarke

IT Systems/Security Manager

R&QInsurance, 201-500 employees

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Pros

Query builder
Entity relationship
Metadata
Conversations

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Monitors and reports file and folder access and usage.
Provides for assigned folder owners who can receive reports and manage access themselves.

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Rodney Barnhardt

Server Administrator

Charlotte Pipe and FoundryBuilding Materials, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Data flow
Impact analysis
User experience

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Implementation could have been a little smoother with more help from the Varonis sales team, but we managed
Tying it into some 3rd party systems could be more intuitive
Navigating the built in rules and patterns was a little clunky, but we worked through them

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Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

Alation 10.0

Based on 1 answer

It's a great tool in terms of user experience.

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Varonis Data Security Platform 8.0

Based on 1 answer

I wish the cost was a little bit lower and increase functionality and features would give it 10/10.

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Gus Awad

Senior Systems Engineer

BELLA + CANVASRetail, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Alation 10.0

Based on 1 answer

You get great support from Alation right from setting up the system to using them.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Varonis Data Security Platform 9.4

Based on 6 answers

Support has always been very responsive and addressed any issues we may have had in the past. Some local engineers are willing to come onsite or work over a web session to discuss creating a new rule set or look at some issues. Getting issues address has never been a problem. There was one feature we had trouble getting to function correctly, but support and local engineers were willing to work with us as much as needed to get it working correctly for our organization.

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Rodney Barnhardt

Server Administrator

Charlotte Pipe and FoundryBuilding Materials, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Apache atlas, LinkedIn Datahub, Lyft Amundsen are some of the open-source tools we've explored before using Alation. Alation is way advanced over these tools and it has AI capabilities to help you write queries in an automated fashion. and learn more about the data in an easy way. It's very helpful in the data world.

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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At the time of our purchase Stealth Bits did not have the same functionality that we initially wanted, so Varonis was the better option and across the available modules again Varonis could cover more future use areas. As of now Stealth Bits has really caught up and as they do not operate an agent logic of data capture can be a lot easier and quicker to install.

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Philip Clarke

IT Systems/Security Manager

R&QInsurance, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Single source of truth
One application to all queries about metadata
Query platform

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Put our organization within compliance with regulations, which saves us possible fines
Put our organization in a better position to handle audits and save on audit fees, since audit reports are quick and easy to run

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Verified User

Executive in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Alation vs Varonis Data Security Platform

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Free Trial

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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