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It has allowed me to collaborate with coworkers more easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface needs improvement. It is sometimes difficult to navigate to exactly what I want Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alation data catalog has some cons which are additional help tools, guided building, debugging etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alation could broaden the services provided on its platforms such as data visualization and analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The training emails for spam, scams and phishing are really good and important for people to understand about the importance of digital safety Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of easy access to our Hox Hunt profile to see what is our score and the other training courses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tool helps in getting the data processing fast and a great user friendly tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has data limitations capacity. Sometimes does not respond when processing large amount of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Link to database to get the most up-to-date schemas

Scan database SQL logs to get the table/column usages

Allow crowd-sourcing for metadata input so everyone can provide input (like wiki)

Provide advanced tagging to link articles, email conversations to actual tables and columns

Allow Yelp-like rating for tables and columns so other users can use the best tables and avoid obsolete and misleading ones.

Very rich and well documented API to support expansion, automation, integration with 3rd party tools. So when some features like data profiling, data quality, data lineage are not what you are looking for, you can always code in python to push custom content to Alation.

Also they have very-well run training, webinar, online forum team to help grow the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

depending on the deployment, it could become costly.

the Conversation feature could be enhanced to become a more full fledged a forum so that people can ask questions in a traditional way. Also it will be neat to be able to send out daily digests, or of user's choice on frequency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can compose SQL queries with intelligence. The site allows you to search up tables and columns and users can submit queries and common joins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can sometimes crash the chrome browser when queries are long. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-allows for huge database of data objects

-easy to use for data stewards, data admins - and end users

-continued evolution of capabilities (example: lineage) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-licensing model can be confusing

-small desktop software for search/interaction would be helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.