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Data Intelligence Platform for data search & discovery, data & AI governance, data products, data stewardship, analytics, cloud migrations, and modernization.
Overview
At Alation, we are passionate about helping enterprises realize value from their data & AI initiatives. The Alation Data Intelligence Platform centralizes metadata from disparate sources, delivering a unified and automated platform for organizations to discover, describe, govern, and manage their data assets, including data, BI reports, and AI models so that individuals can easily find, understand, trust, and use them to accelerate the delivery and business value realization of data initiatives while scalably fostering and strengthening a data culture.
The Alation Data Intelligence Platform supports organizations with self-service analytics, data & AI governance, data product marketplaces, cloud migrations, and data modernization.
Alation is proven and trusted by nearly 600 organizations across industries - from the worlds largest banks to retailers and government agencies - to provide search, governance, and analytics across tens of millions of data assets.
Thanks to our open and extensible architecture, powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, intuitive and seamless user experience, collaboration capabilities, and rigorous security and performance standards, Alation not only delivers on business outcomes but also builds lasting partnerships focused on client success.
Alation gives customers a choice. Manage the Alation Data Intelligence Platform on your own, anywhere. Or have it done for you, in the cloud. Alation Cloud Service is available on AWS.
For custom pricing, EULA, or a private contract, please contact Marketplace@alation.com .
Highlights
- Data Culture. Data-driven decision making. Alation is built for every user to be able to find, understand, trust, and use data.
- AI Governance. Trusted AI starts with trusted data. Alation's AI governance framework ensures data quality, transparency, and compliance. Document insights, track lineage, and collaborate across teams for ethical, compliant AI.
- Data Modernization. Make your cloud transition seamless. With Alation, craft a winning data modernization plan that breaks down legacy silos. Prioritize what matters and migrate with confidence, while safeguarding quality and governance.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
|---|---|---|
Alation Data Catalog | Subscription to Alation Data Catalog starting at | $60,000.00 |
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Vendor support
Email support provided. Guaranteed 24-hour response time for tickets filed. Email: support@alation.com Phone: +1.650.779.4440
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Metadata Management
Centralizes metadata from disparate sources to provide a unified and automated platform for discovering, describing, governing, and managing data assets, including data, BI reports, and AI models.
Self-Service Analytics
Enables self-service analytics capabilities to help individuals easily find, understand, trust, and use data to accelerate the delivery and business value realization of data initiatives.
Data Governance
Provides a data and AI governance framework to ensure data quality, transparency, and compliance, including documenting insights, tracking lineage, and collaborating across teams for ethical, compliant AI.
Cloud Migration
Supports seamless cloud transitions by helping craft a winning data modernization plan that breaks down legacy silos, prioritizes what matters, and migrates with confidence while safeguarding quality and governance.
Behavioral Analysis Engine
Utilizes a powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine to deliver an intuitive and seamless user experience, collaboration capabilities, and rigorous security and performance standards.
AI Governance
Collibra powers organizations that need the highest-quality data for the highest-quality AI, with active metadata at its core to serve as the foundation for AI strategy, and govern AI with proper rules, processes and responsibilities to drive maximum value, mitigate risk, adhere to legal requirements, and protect privacy.
Data Governance
Automate and operationalize data, simplifying collaboration between data stewards, data owners and subject matter experts to streamline sharing, protection and improvement of data assets.
Data Catalog
Empower all users to quickly discover and understand data assets across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with full business context, including where it came from, who owns it and who uses it, enabling meaningful analysis, extended collaboration and faster access to insights.
Data Lineage
Provide automated end-to-end lineage for complete transparency into how data transforms and flows from system to system and source to report, including both summary-level business lineage and detailed technical lineage.
Data Privacy
Centralize, automate and guide workflows to encourage collaboration, operationalize privacy and address global regulatory requirements.
Data Catalog and Discovery
Make all data assets from tables, views, BI dashboards, SQL snippets, pipelines, business metrics instantly discoverable. Powerful search algorithms combined with easy browsing experience, make finding the right asset a breeze.
Data Lineage and Governance
Atlan takes the pain away from governing and managing the data ecosystem. Atlan bots parse through SQL query history to auto construct data lineage and auto-detect PII data, allowing creation of dynamic access policies and best-in-class governance.
Data Quality and Profiling
Atlan auto-generates data quality profiles which make detecting bad data easy. Automatic variable type detection, frequency distribution, missing values, and outlier detection are provided.
Data Exploration
Atlan acts as a collaborative workspace for data teams and brings context back into the tools where data teams live.
Integrations
Atlan has deep integrations with popular tools like Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, Looker, Power BI and more, creating a single source of truth.
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Customer reviews
Zach M.
Alation is Best in Class
Reviewed on Feb 09, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Alation is extremely flexible and able to fit small to large organizations. They tread the perfect line between analytics and governance. Their vision perfectly aligns with our organization's data management vision of universally understood and trusted data available across the company.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is definitely some room for growth with lineage capabilities. Alation has been upfront with their plans to rapidly enhance lineage functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have plenty of data tribal knowledge in our organization. Alation is helping us document and set up processes that capture tribal knowledge and share it along with best practices to key individuals.
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Retail
Loving Alation
Reviewed on Jan 25, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate Alation's user-friendly interface, which simplifies the process of finding and accessing data. Its intuitive design enhances productivity and efficiency in navigating through various datasets and reports. Additionally, the platform's robust search capabilities empower users to quickly locate relevant information, supporting informed decision-making. The collaborative features within Alation foster effective communication and knowledge sharing among team members, contributing to a more collaborative and cohesive working environment, which we'd love to take advantage of soon.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Alation offers many valuable features, there are a few areas where improvements could be made. One aspect that I find challenging is the complexity of setting up and configuring certain functionalities, such as customizing data governance policies or integrating with external tools. Streamlining these processes and providing clearer guidance would enhance the user experience and reduce the learning curve for new users. Additionally, although the platform offers extensive documentation and support resources, navigating through them can sometimes be overwhelming, leading to difficulties in finding specific information or troubleshooting issues. Simplifying the documentation structure and improving search functionality would greatly benefit users in efficiently accessing the help they need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alation addresses several critical challenges in data management, ultimately benefiting our organization in various ways. One key problem it solves is the lack of centralized and accessible data documentation. By providing a unified platform for cataloging and organizing data assets, Alation ensures that stakeholders can easily discover and understand available data resources, fostering collaboration and informed decision-making across teams. Additionally, Alation helps to promote data governance and compliance by enabling the implementation of standardized policies and procedures for data usage, lineage tracking, and access control. This not only enhances data quality and security but also mitigates risks associated with regulatory non-compliance or data breaches. Alation's automated data profiling and analysis capabilities also streamline the process of data discovery and validation, saving time and effort for data professionals. Overall, Alation's comprehensive suite of features empowers our organization to effectively manage and leverage its data assets, driving efficiency, productivity, and data-driven insights.
Retail
Amazing experience
Reviewed on Dec 27, 2023
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Governance across the company is critical and we're slowly getting there. It's simple as a google search.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not as user friendly on the backend. Some things require research.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nothing yet as we're still soft launching but long term, we want to solve for data trust and ease of finding things.
Divyaraj R.
Product recommendation of Alation
Reviewed on Dec 09, 2023
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Alation strives for the best industrial business solultions and offers wide range of collections in their ecosystems be it across different categories like Finance, healthcare, etc., Alation delivers the best product which is ease of use and provide number of features across their deliverables.
What do you dislike about the product?
Alation has great examples of showcasing business usecases to the clients by addressing and fostering their problems that they want to leverage. Highly recommended platform and there's no dislike takeaway since they provide ease of integration and ease of implementation in their own catalog.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being a passionate machine learning developer, Alation provide their easy to implement ML and unity catalog to seamlessly integrate with hosted platforms on Databricks since most of my use-cases or projects is to solve real-time examples in healthcare and finance sector which benefits me to connect with Alation applications.
Non-Profit Organization Management
Informative
Reviewed on Nov 25, 2023
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
One stop shop for information on organizations data assets.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unable to give lineage with synonyms with oracle
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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