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Alation Data Catalog Review
March 23, 2023

Alation Data Catalog Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Alation Data Catalog

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
  • Compose
  • Alation Analytics
  • Different types of connectors
  • I really
  • can't answer this yet
  • because we aren't fully implemented
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.

Do you think Alation Data Catalog delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Alation Data Catalog's feature set?

Yes

Did Alation Data Catalog live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Alation Data Catalog go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Alation Data Catalog again?

Yes

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Alteryx, Microsoft Excel
We are still in the set up phase but the sheer ease-of-use has led to a pretty smooth implementation so far. We are receiving outstanding customer service from the Alation team and feel confident we will have a working, customized, robust implementation for our data. We would have like to see some data quality present inside the tool, we have had to find different solutions to help our teams with those checks.