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The tool that we've been wanting for a long time.
What do you like best about the product?
The catalog part, although we are still slowing but steadily building on it, holds a lot of promise. It will save our team and our user base, considerable time and effort.
What do you dislike about the product?
Delays in the renewal of licenses. The application displays warnings that our license is about to expire which makes it look like we are not taking care of our bills.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaboration with user base and user base amongst themselves. Data Governance app should help but there is budgetary constraints at this time
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What do you like best about the product?
Alation's data catalog and search capabilities make it easier for users to find and access relevant data.
What do you dislike about the product?
no dislike for Alation products on my side.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alation addresses the data governance challenges by providing tools and features for establishing and enforcing data policies, standards, and best practices. This ensures data integrity and compliance with regulations and reduces the risk of data breaches. Users benefit from improved data governance and increased confidence in their data assets. So we solved our Data related issue solved.
A great data cataloging capability for data driven enterprises
What do you like best about the product?
Having a data catalogue is essential for any data driven business to succeed, in the appropriate way, and scale correctly without incurring tech debt or creating siloes. Alation allows this is an efficient way that speaks to both technical and business stakeholders.
What do you dislike about the product?
Alation in our experience has occasionally struggled to scale at the pace that we often require it. The UI can sometimes be difficult to use for more inexperienced individuals.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Contextual information is embedded alongside the data, and being able to link together business process documentation, terminology definitions and data together in one place is very useful for our stakeholders.
Alation is the go-to data catalogue for fast-to-insights governance
What do you like best about the product?
Firstly, the Alation team are very customer centric. Regular, consistently useful comms, on point, every time. The product is very easy to deploy in AWS, and connecting to our DW and reporting systems has been mostly a doddle. We've had a few issues in connecting to Kafka, but that has been because of our setup.
The product is really intuitive to use, and quickly highlights gaps in current processes around documenting data sources within a DW environment. The fact that it can pull lineage from warehouses is really useful for impact analysis.
The product is really intuitive to use, and quickly highlights gaps in current processes around documenting data sources within a DW environment. The fact that it can pull lineage from warehouses is really useful for impact analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think there is a gap within the specific Power BI connector, in that I'm sure there is more metadata behind the scenes that Alation can tap into, but doesnt. For example, where people are creating reports in Power BI, making use of calculations and functions, it'd be super handy to be able to identify these, and compare for duplications across the org. Otherwise, there isnt much to complain about!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alation is underpinning our business and technology strategies, and is enabling a more digital way of working. It helps us identify what we have, what condition its in, who's best to talk to as a SME, and federated governance across teams.
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What do you like best about the product?
Alation is one of its kind solution that helps in creating a repository of data sets used in our organization. The platform is easy to use and navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Alation could broaden the services provided on its platforms such as data visualization and analytics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Alation to create data catatlog for different projects that could be shared across teams.
Great digital safety training software
What do you like best about the product?
The training emails for spam, scams and phishing are really good and important for people to understand about the importance of digital safety
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of easy access to our Hox Hunt profile to see what is our score and the other training courses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Breach of security by humans fault. Employees are getting more aware of possible fraudulent emails and websites.
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What do you like best about the product?
Alation Data Catalog is used as a data analytics tool within the part of the organization where 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.
What do you dislike about the product?
Alation data catalog has some cons which are additional help tools, guided building, debugging etc
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was involved with the selection/purchase process and was involved with the implementation phase. I would not recommend it for anyone with zero SQL or knowledge
Great tool for analytics
What do you like best about the product?
Tool helps in getting the data processing fast and a great user friendly tool
What do you dislike about the product?
It has data limitations capacity. Sometimes does not respond when processing large amount of data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tool is similar to other data processing software but data processing is really faster as compared to other softwares
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its a great differentiated software as compared to other softwares in the market. Very good software when processing large amount of data for ML algorithms.
A very capable data catalog - and growing
What do you like best about the product?
-allows for huge database of data objects
-easy to use for data stewards, data admins - and end users
-continued evolution of capabilities (example: lineage)
-easy to use for data stewards, data admins - and end users
-continued evolution of capabilities (example: lineage)
What do you dislike about the product?
-licensing model can be confusing
-small desktop software for search/interaction would be helpful
-small desktop software for search/interaction would be helpful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
-business user understanding of what data means, its purpose, quality and utilization
-higher level of business data literacy
-better business decisions based on data
-higher level of business data literacy
-better business decisions based on data
Awesome tool to search for your company's tables and columns
What do you like best about the product?
Can compose SQL queries with intelligence. The site allows you to search up tables and columns and users can submit queries and common joins.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can sometimes crash the chrome browser when queries are long.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving relational database sql queries in Alation allowing the user the easily write sql and share results.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely try it as it connects to different connections like traditional, qubole etc
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