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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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Alation Review
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.
Deserve A Try
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
No Longer Stuck on an Island
What do you like best about the product?
Once upon a time, when we used to work at the office, I worked at a satellite campus with no peers. I envied the analyst groups that all sat in pods, and they constantly helped each other and trained newbies. Leaning over and asking a question feels very different than phoning or IMing colleagues multiple times a day, but the truth is when you are new, you really need tons of help. I use Alation almost every day, and it answers both simple questions, like "what does AT43 mean?" to more complex questions, "Which table do other analysts go to as "the" source of truth? How would I join that to my data?" Alation puts tons of tribal knowledge at your fingertips and saves you from wild-goose-chases and mistakes.
What do you dislike about the product?
One of the only downsides I can think of is that long-term analysts don't always have buy-in. They think they know their area and their data. Some don't see the value of adding their queries to Alation to help others. To mitigate this, I often add their queries myself (say if they emailed me something), so others can refer to them, and I can easily search for them again in the future.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I do tons of COVID reporting, and the questions never stop pouring in. Alation helps me to write code faster (because I am not having to ask multiple people for help) , so it has been instrumental in me keeping up with the demands of my job.
Best query catalog
What do you like best about the product?
Best catalog and query scheduler available
What do you dislike about the product?
Option to make specific query private or public
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Query catalog
User friendly, intuitive data catalog
What do you like best about the product?
User friendliness, very strong data curation capabilities, easy to add rich content and documentation. Business users can get started within minutes. Alation is probably the most efficient data curation tool.
On the administrative site, the server is very easy to maintain. Not much work is needed. Upgrading to new versions is very straight forward with few tasks.
Being part of the Alation Community, which is a very active one is also valuable. There are many webinars, and online discussions which means opportunities to learn from Alation itself and other customers.
Having active client success managers means an efficient channeling of all cases that might need support.
Support personnel are very friendly and helpful.
Feature requests are handled very professionally, they are eager to improve the product itself.
On the administrative site, the server is very easy to maintain. Not much work is needed. Upgrading to new versions is very straight forward with few tasks.
Being part of the Alation Community, which is a very active one is also valuable. There are many webinars, and online discussions which means opportunities to learn from Alation itself and other customers.
Having active client success managers means an efficient channeling of all cases that might need support.
Support personnel are very friendly and helpful.
Feature requests are handled very professionally, they are eager to improve the product itself.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although easy to add and manage business glossaries, the function set is not that rich. Some examples of missing functionality.
- Visualization of taxonomy, no tree view or even graph view of glossary
- Handling of synonymous missing
- Import/export for glossaries
- Mapping of business glossary terms to data fields is a manual process, no support for mapping documents
- Visualization of taxonomy, no tree view or even graph view of glossary
- Handling of synonymous missing
- Import/export for glossaries
- Mapping of business glossary terms to data fields is a manual process, no support for mapping documents
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
First and foremost it is used for data curation, search and find, and conversations. We are also using endorsements, warnings etc.
It is very well received by business users. They like the interface, and especially the top down approach for data curation. Some well informed people are no longer bottlenecks and can focus on their valuable tasks instead of answering the same questions over and over again.
It is very well received by business users. They like the interface, and especially the top down approach for data curation. Some well informed people are no longer bottlenecks and can focus on their valuable tasks instead of answering the same questions over and over again.
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