Data Intelligence Platform
Boost analyst productivity with the world’s
first collaborative enterprise data catalog
The Problem Alation is Solving
Organisations are struggling to keep up with an increasingly fragmented data environment. Data is siloed across many different places, making it difficult to find relevant data quickly. Even when it is discovered, it is likely not well described or classified, leading to a lack of understanding, distrust and misuse. This creates risk when using data for making business decisions. On top of that, there’s too much rework happening because people can’t find existing queries or analyses.
So how can your organisation really be data driven?
What Can Alation Do For You?
Alation is an enterprise data catalog that creates a single source of reference of your data. To populate the catalog, Alation automatically crawls and indexes 60+ data sources including onpremises or cloud databases, file systems, and BI tools. Alation then uses Query Log Ingestion to parse queries and identify the most used data and people who use it the most. This forms the basis of the catalog for people to crowdsource rich context about the data and collaborate around it.
With the data catalog setup, data analysts and data scientists can find, understand, trust, use, and reuse data — making them much more productive. Alation can also be used to govern data. Analytics Stewards can efficiently perform and manage their work to help data consumers follow policies in the right way.
Benefits of Using Alation
- Increase analyst productivity. Analysts can quickly find relevant data they need and understand its context, instead of wasting time searching for it.
- Improve data comprehension. The Business Glossary bridges important business terms with any data object to improve understanding of data and how to use it. Through machine learning, Alation automatically suggests and prioritises new business terms based on their popularity.
- Enable collaboration. Analysts and other data consumers can easily identify and communicate with data stewards and subject matter experts.
- Minimise the risk of data misuse. Data is curated by describing what it is, how to use it and classifying what it relates to. Trusted data can be certified and surfaced in SQL queries or BI reports using Alation’s TrustCheck feature.
- Remove IT bottlenecks. Users can self-serve and understand the context of data.
- More easily expose and interpret data policies. Endorsements, deprecations, and other policies are surfaced directly within the analysts’ workflow, making it more likely that these policies are adhered to.
Exploring Generative AI and Trusted Data
Four Major Applications of Alation
So data analysts, stewards, and IT can work together
Search
Quickly find the most relevant data objects with an intuitive Google-like search feature.
Compose
Create more trustworthy SQL queries with suggested data to use and color-coded data quality indicators as queries are written.
Data Governance
Activate policies, promote reliability with workflows, accelerate stewardship and measure for success with Alation Data Governance
Collaborate
Share your data knowledge with wiki-like articles and ask questions with conversations right next to the data.
Alation is enabling companies to create a data-literate workforce by transforming the way their employees find, understand, trust and use data to build their business.
The Alation Data Catalog provides comprehensive search, browse, querying and collaboration tools across a company’s entire data landscape—cloud and on-premises, spanning BI tools to data lakes and warehouses to transactional systems. Fortune 500 companies, including Dow Chemical, eBay, LinkedIn, Pepsico, and Pfizer, leverage the Alation Data Catalog to create a data culture.
For more information, visit Alation.com
Contact us for a no-obligation chat about Alation and our other data governance service offerings.
Discover. Understand. Trust your Data – with intelia & Alation.
intelia has partnered with Alation, a recognised leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions, to address critical organisational data governance and cataloguing challenges.
Alation’s thought leadership in data governance practices, and the platform’s ability to integrate with many of intelia’s other technology partners, such as GCP, Snowflake and Databricks, make them a natural fit to our partner ecosystem.
How can intelia help?
intelia has a team of Alation-certified consultants and data governance consultants, who can help you with any part of your Alation journey, no matter which stage you’re at.
Strategise
Whether you’re ready to revolutionise your data governance practices, or just thinking about the long-term picture, we’re here to help you frame your data governance strategy. intelia will assess your existing data governance landscape and give you an independent review of your data governance challenges, and a Alation solution proposal to help you face into them.
Optimise
Even best-of-breed software needs the occasional check-up. Our Alation certified consultants can give your implementation a thorough review. We’ll give you optimisation options, founded in best practice, to ensure you’re getting the most out of your Alation Data Governance Platform.
Implement
No matter where you are on your data governance journey, our team are ready to work with you to embed Alation within your organisation and accelerate your data governance capability!
Contact us for a no-obligation chat about Alation and our other data governance service offerings.