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Alation Product Details

Alation is the data intelligence company. Nearly 600 global enterprises — including 40% of the Fortune 100 — rely on Alation to realize value from their data and AI initiatives. Customers such as Cisco, DocuSign, Nasdaq, and Pfizer trust Alation’s platform for self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI-ready data, fostering data-driven innovation at scale.

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Seller

Alation

Discussions

Alation Community

Languages Supported

English

Product Description

Alation is a data catalog designed to empower analysts to search, query & collaborate on data to gain faster, more accurate insights.

Overview by

Anh Dang

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

6 months

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Alation Media

Search: Quickly find data with natural language or advanced search capabilities like tags, asset types, and more

Compose guides SQL writers to the right data and away from the wrong data. Queries are color-coded in real time with data quality insights and recommended tables and columns based on popularity. Improve trustworthiness of query results and ensure compliant data use.

Communicate seamlessly with others and assign tasks right in the workflow

View lineage, tags, quality, trust flags, endorsements, and comments from other users. Now you know how reliable each asset is at a glance.

ALLIE AI builds upon Alation’s machine learning (ML) core to enable organizations to save time and scale data initiatives more efficiently, democratize trusted data, and advance new AI initiatives.

Measuring the impact of your governance efforts against goals is crucial. The governance dashboard provides leaders visibility into curation progress metrics to monitor if goals are being met.

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The Catalog is the Platform for Data Intelligence

Alation's Active Data Governance Methodology

How Alation Automates Data Governance Workflows

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Girish K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/27/2023

"Alation provide one of the best Data Catalog and Data Linage platform for our customers"

5/5

What do you like best about Alation?

User friendly, seemless Integration and new features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alation?

Limited integration API for SaaS products and DQ process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Sean M.

Sales Executive at SecuPi

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/8/2023

"Great size of event"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Alation?

Knowledge about sensitive data and risks to org Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alation?

Another tool requried to be trained on and deployed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Sandeep D.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/30/2023

"The product is easy to use and collaborate"

5/5

What do you like best about Alation?

The collaboration features and the various built in connectors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alation?

Focus on cloud could limit the on premise usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ahsan S.

Senior Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/25/2023

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Better than expectation"

5/5

What do you like best about Alation?

Community collaboration and search capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alation?

Alation do what it promises but still need improvement on versioning, lineage and

Access/security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IL

Verified User in Legal Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/2/2023

"Understanding the value of a data catalog"

3/5

What do you like best about Alation?

Support for wide range of platforms to pull in our enterprise data. Ability to customize the end user portal to hide noise from actionable insights Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alation?

Mostly wonder if the effort to maintain an accurate data catalog will be worth the business value of the information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AH

Verified User in Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/26/2023

"Alation Experience"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Alation?

The data catalog and it's search capabilities are the best in the industry. The employees are great and we have had fantastic support over the years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alation?

The last of a DSA workflow request for those in our organization who would like to request data access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AA

Verified User in Apparel & Fashion

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/27/2023

"User friendly while going deep technically"

4/5

What do you like best about Alation?

Alation offers a great user interface that is intuitive to business users. Their customer support is also fantastic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alation?

Alation offers open data connector and data quality plug ins. This means you have to license vendors seperately Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jaydip B.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/10/2023

"Best Data intelligence providers"

5/5

What do you like best about Alation?

Alation's data catalog and search capabilities make it easier for users to find and access relevant data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alation?

no dislike for Alation products on my side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alation 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Michelle Cloutier of Alation

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Hi Jaydip - thank you for your positive review of Alation. We're very glad it's meeting your needs, particularly in the area of data governance!

EG

Verified User in Government Administration

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/23/2023

"Powerful and simple to use Metadata Catalog Tool"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Alation?

Ease of Use. Caters for a customised user requirement implementation. Good product support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alation?

Not historically focused on UK Public Sector and unawareness of the culture challenges coupled with disparate source system landscape to implementing a Metadata Catalog Tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.