The Data Intelligence Platform
Connect to everything. Get engagement and adoption from everyone. Drive a data culture.
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Data Intelligence on Snowflake
Does your organization have data intelligence? Can people easily find, understand, and trust data? Learn how Alation enables organizations to do just that.
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Can Your Data Catalog Do This?
Alation customers benefit from faster onboarding, query re-use, and automated curation.
See the case studies & Forrester TEI Report.
$584,182 value improvements from new ability to self-serve
6 months’ savings
in onboarding time
211 work days saved
by auto-classifying data
$2.7 million in productivity improvement due to shortened data discovery
Why a Data Catalog?
Stop hunting, gathering, and stressing!
Find great data instantly and use it to solve mission-critical business problems.

Data Governance for Growth
Alation’s active data governance puts people first, so folks have access to the data they need, with guidance in-workflow on how to use it.
Self-Service Analytics Utopia
Onboard analysts faster. Share queries to collaborate across teams. Welcome more folks to the data and empower quick data-driven decisions at scale.


Migrate What Matters
Facing down migration? Seize the chance to lead your business to new heights. A catalog-supported cloud data migration keeps your best data secure yet accessible to key users.
Search & Discovery
Enjoy a single system of reference for all the data & data users across your organization. Understand data quality, context, and usage patterns at a glance.

Search & Discovery
Enjoy a single system of reference for all the data & data users across your organization. Understand data quality, context, and usage patterns at a glance.

The Alation Difference
Trust the data — and be trusted. Understand it — and be understood.
Create lasting value — and be valued.
Intelligence
The Behavioral Analysis Engine learns from how people use data to better support them at every step. Leaders are empowered to manage data with more efficiency, innovation, and scale.
As pioneers in this space, Alation’s machine learning data catalog has been recognized as an industry leader. Read the Forrester Wave report to learn more.
Collaboration
Tired of duplicating work in silos? Connect bright minds and leverage the collective brainpower of your enterprise. Collaborate around data and solve problems quickly. Find experts. Hold conversations. Share queries, great assets, and wisdom.
See how Munich Re connected three global offices to create a new wind-farm product.
Guided Navigation
Feeling overwhelmed and lost in a vast landscape of data? Alation makes that wilderness navigable, sourcing asset popularity, top users and lineage. Get the background you need to use data with confidence.
Discover how Daimler Trucks leverages query sharing and guided navigation for global teamwork.
Active Governance (for thriving analytics)
Is your data governance failing? You’re not alone. Dozens of Alation customers failed with other software before switching. Our approach guides users as they work, and connects folks to the data they need — with guardrails.
See how Texas Mutual Insurance Company uses governance in Alation + Snowflake to speed up time to insight.
Broad, Deep Connectivity
Is your data landscape vast, wild and difficult? No longer: Alation brings order to data chaos, empowering users to dismantle silos and unify information. A range of native data source connectors make everything searchable – and usable – in one platform.
In the words of one customer, “Alation is more than a data catalog; it’s a user interface to a data environment.”
Alation Cloud, at Your Service
We do the work. You reap the benefits. Alation Cloud Service offers Data Intelligence as a service. Benefits include:
- Faster time to value
- Zero administrative overhead
- Flexibility to scale with growth, quickly

Data Governance. Thriving Analytics. Why Not Both?

Alation + Snowflake support data governance that’s actually good for business. Balance risk mitigation with data democratization, so people can access the data they need — with in-workflow guidance to use it compliantly.
Leading By Example
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