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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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Alation Data Catalog

10 out of 10
March 29, 2023
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Our Data Catalog team has used Alation Data Catalog to create technical and business metadata for Snowflake data. Essentially, we are …
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Product Details

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.

Alation Screenshots

Screenshot of Search: Finds data with natural language or advanced search capabilities like tags, and asset typesScreenshot of Curate: Documents data with valuable context for everyone to better understand and trust dataScreenshot of Compose: Queries multiple databases and provides guided navigation with recommended data to use

Alation Videos

Building a data-driven culture with Alation.
Alation makes it easier to power data intelligence across hybrid cloud.

Alation Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, CentOS, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE Linux, Fedora, Amazon Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish

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.

Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud, data.world, and Atlan are common alternatives for Alation.

The most common users of Alation are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 7 out of 10
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For data and analytics. Alation is our data catalogue tool used primarily to collaborate and index data. Alation is being used by the team to share and transfer knowledge, search for and understand data, and overall to improve the analyst experience and way of work.
  • Increased data collaboration and knowledge transfer among data workers
  • Improved data access and data searching capabilities
  • Data mapping can be confusing
  • Support service needs improvement
Alation Data Catalog offers effective cataloguing and surfacing/availability of various datasets for easy, self-service access by Analysts and other key data & analytics roles across the organization
  • Increased data collaboration and knowledge transfer among data workers
  • Improved data access and data searching capabilities
We are currently not using their Data Governance Application. However we use the data cataloguing as part of the data privacy initiative.
Significant effort was expended during the past year to further populate the Alation catalogue and with the current focus on extending its use for governance and to directly support more Divisional Analysts.
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