Alation - A Good Choice for Data Cataloguing
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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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November 15, 2023
Alation - A Good Choice for Data Cataloguing
March 31, 2023
Alation makes the data catalog easier
Alation's implementation seemed easier, and their team seemed more responsive and willing to work with our needs. The product and Alation as a company met more of our needs than the others.
March 29, 2023
Release your data catalog from it's spreadsheet shackles and let it breathe the sweet air of Alation
Alation is much easier to use than Ataccama ONE. Specific technical training and skills are necessary to use Ataccama whereas Alation is easy to use right out of the box.
March 29, 2023
Alation Data Catalog
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Additionally GCP data catalog (not on the listed selection options)
Alation had a far more feature rich product, that connected well to our data architecture. None of the other tools at the time supported a connection to Kafka which is fundamental to our data processing.
Alation had a far more feature rich product, that connected well to our data architecture. None of the other tools at the time supported a connection to Kafka which is fundamental to our data processing.
March 29, 2023
Early days, all on track.
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.
March 28, 2023
Alation is built for Startup Governance Programs
Alation has the best user interface, easiest ability to implement, and sufficient opportunities to customize the platform to specific needs. Their customer and sales support is best in class and supportive throughout evaluation, implementation, and customer care. It solves the MVP for startup data governance environments without the necessity to rely on significant technical resources.
March 23, 2023
Alation Data Catalog Review
Alation Data Catalog is so far above and beyond the functionality we had in Talend. The flexibility between user pages/groups stands out as the first major improvement. We have the connectors available to us for the different types of software we use. The ability to query Alation Analytics is far above any functionality we ever had in Talend. The customer service has also been terrific, Talend's customer service didn't seem like it even existed most of the time. Unfortunately, the uptime is also something that is heads and shoulders above Talend. We were down in production with them for about 8 months. The ability to query across our entire enterprise is also one of the reasons we switched to Alation Data Catalog.
March 20, 2023
Alation is a solid choice for cataloging and data governance. They stand by their product.
We tried a home grown catalog, Informatica and Collibra in the past and none of these solutions were successful, in part because the company was not ready and also because they were not the right tools for the job. For each, the price point was also much higher.
March 20, 2023
Overall good data catalog product
leader in industry and adopted by our organisation.
March 20, 2023
First experience with cataloging
1.Alation is cheaper.
2.Manta meets the needs only in discovering lineage.
3.AWS Glue is more technical data catalog and it doesn`t allow to describe source or table in detailed way.
4.Alation Data Catalog is a solution that is used by other banks of our whole financial group, so it is easily to manage and work with one tool.
2.Manta meets the needs only in discovering lineage.
3.AWS Glue is more technical data catalog and it doesn`t allow to describe source or table in detailed way.
4.Alation Data Catalog is a solution that is used by other banks of our whole financial group, so it is easily to manage and work with one tool.
March 20, 2023
Alation is a fantastic data governance and catalogue!
Alation had such good connectivity to third party platforms that we wanted to go with them. In particular they are tied very well to snowflake and tableau which are our two most critical systems.
Additionally, Alation is so well received in the industry that it is easy to connect with people and find solutions to things we are troubleshooting.
April 13, 2022
Alation Data Catalog - SQL made easy!
Alation Data Catalog allows for more powerful data analysis, queries and export of said queries to build data models and reports that lead to internal presentations. It's more user-friendly than Azure SQL, and more powerful than Microsoft Excel VBA, though I still prefer to use Microsoft Excel for most of the work that I do.
September 26, 2020
Best data exploration tool
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.