Alation - A Good Choice for Data Cataloguing
For data and analytics. Alation is our data
catalogue tool used primarily to collaborate and index data. Alation is being
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What is Alation?
Alation offers enterprise data intelligence solutions, including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation operates in thethe data catalog market. With its Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine…
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What is Alation?
Alation offers enterprise data intelligence solutions, including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation operates in the data catalog market. With its Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight with the goal of tackle the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management.
The vendor states that more than 450 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision-making, and realize business outcomes with Alation, including AbbVie, American Family Insurance, Autozone, Cisco, Draft Kings, Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Finnair, Munich Re, NASDAQ, Parexel, Pfizer, Salesforce, Virgin Australia, and Vistaprint.
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Alation makes it easier to power data intelligence across hybrid cloud.
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Alation Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, CentOS, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE Linux, Fedora, Amazon Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | English |
Alation Downloadables
- How Alation’s Open Data Quality Initiative supports individual analysts and enterprises alike, with in-workflow notifications of DQ issues for users, and the freedom to partner with DQ vendors.
- Alation for Self-Service Intelligence: Self-service starts with the discovery of trustworthy data. This describes how Alation can help find and identify data quickly to make timely decisions.
- The Alation Data Governance App simplifies how organizations enable secure access to data in hybrid & multi-cloud environments.
- Alation Cloud Service Solution Brief: Powering Data Intelligence
Frequently Asked Questions
Alation offers enterprise data intelligence solutions, including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation operates in thethe data catalog market. With its Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight with the goal of tackle the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management.
The most common users of Alation are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 29, 2023
A data catalog is a must
We use Alation to house our business glossaries and as a map of our data sources on prem. The use of Alation is helping our different departments use terms and metrics in a consistent manner. Alation also in invaluable as a resource to our analysts on finding out the where and what of our data elements.
- integrating with other programs (SQL Server, Tableau)
- the ability to link terms to data elements and queries
- searchability
- the ability to enforce uniqueness of term names is missing
- need more customization options on glossaries
- better home page customization options (less scripting required)
March 23, 2023
Alation Data Catalog Review
We use it as a single source of truth for our organization to find and understand data. The core use case that the tool is solving for is that single source of truth, we don't currently have a central repository for all of our different server types. Our scope is Enterprise wide.
- Organization
- Customization
- Ease of use
- The PowerBI connector could be easier to use
- Data Profiling
- Data Quality
March 20, 2023
Overall good data catalog product
Making metadata on the presentation layer datasets available to the business users, analysts and stakeholders.
- upload of data dictionary
- natural language search
- easy to use UI
- articles and tag facility
- more formats to upload data dictionary like excel, csv(without having to enclose data in rich text or html)
- email notification when someone assigns/asks questions to you using "conversation"
March 20, 2023
Great data catalogue
Alation is a tool that allows you to very easily get familiar what data is available in your database through a machine learning-based catalogue and documentation. The ability to see easily click through different tables and columns is something I have not been able to do in any another database tools so far. Additionally, the query editor and ability to easily safe and share queries with your peers is a please to work with as well.
- Browsing through database
- Quick access to SQL editor
- Sharing queries with other
- Stability of the SQL editor
- UI of the SQL editor
April 13, 2022
Alation Data Catalog - SQL made easy!
Alation Data Catalog is used as a data analytics tool within the part of the organization that I reside in. It serves as a database for all of our data, including third party data, where we can run queries that are then used in Tableau dashboards, Microsoft Excel pulls and other data analytic tools. This data analyses is then used to build presentations for the VPs and above.
- Data Analyses
- Queries
- Data export
- SQL
- additional help tools
- guided building
- debugging
September 26, 2020
Best data exploration tool
We use Alation as a data discovery tool at our company. It's highly used as a query running tool as well. It's been used across EDW systems and helps in identifying the metadata about data. It is ensuring a single source of truth and you can find all the information in one place.
- Query builder
- Entity relationship
- Metadata
- Conversations
- Data flow
- Impact analysis
- User experience