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Partner News
Alation + Looker: Trusted, Modern Analytics — Perfect for the Cloud
Sep 17, 2020 — Raja Perumal
Industry News
MIT CDOIQ Video: The Data Catalog as a Platform for Data Intelligence
Sep 2, 2020 — Satyen Sangani
Industry News
What is CDO 4.0? — A CDO’s Perspective
Sep 1, 2020 — Nolan Necoechea
Partner News
Alation and Manta: Automating Advanced Data Lineage
Aug 20, 2020 — Peter Wang
Industry News
Data Governance Should Not Threaten Work Culture
Aug 19, 2020 — Robert Seiner
Industry News
Data Governance: Stay Non-Invasive in Your Approach
Jul 23, 2020 — Robert Seiner
Data Catalog
The Modern Data Catalog: ‘Mythbusting’ the Top Four Assumptions
Jul 21, 2020 — Paige Bartley
Partner News
Five Questions on the Alation Partner Network with Kiran Narsu, VP of Business Development, Alation
Jul 14, 2020 — Nolan Necoechea
Company News
Alation Named Leader in IDC’s Inaugural Data Catalog Assessment
Jul 13, 2020 — Nolan Necoechea
Company News
Eight Questions on Data Governance: An Interview with Alation Co-Founder and Chief Data Officer Aaron Kalb
Jun 24, 2020 — Nolan Necoechea
Partner News
Deliver on the Promise of the Cloud with Alation and Databricks
Jun 16, 2020 — Raja Perumal
Company News
Four in a Row: Customers Give Alation the Top-Rank in Dresner’s 2020 Wisdom of Crowds® Data Catalog Market Study
Jun 16, 2020 — Nolan Necoechea
Company News
Searching for Answers
Jun 2, 2020 — Satyen Sangani
Data Catalog
A Data Architect’s Guide to the Data Catalog
May 21, 2020 — Dave Wells
Partner News
Alation and BigID: Driving Privacy-Aware Data Culture
May 13, 2020 — Raja Perumal
Data Catalog
Introducing the COVID-19 Data Catalog
May 5, 2020 — Nic Colley
Data Catalog
What Public Health Interventions Can Teach Us About Building Data Literacy Programs
Apr 27, 2020 — Aaron Kalb
Self-Service Analytics
Supporting Remote Workers with a Data Catalog in the WFH Era
Apr 23, 2020 — Dave Wells
Data Catalog
Enterprise Data Catalog Maturity: A Key to Data Literacy and Data Fluency
Mar 26, 2020 — Dave Wells
Data Catalog
Why Data Literacy Matters for the Enterprise
Mar 19, 2020 — Nolan Necoechea
Company News
Work in the time of Coronavirus
Mar 10, 2020 — Satyen Sangani
Company News
Alation Achieves ISO 27001 Certification
Mar 5, 2020 — Zlatko Unger
Data Catalog
How does a data catalog work?
Feb 27, 2020 — Claudia Imhoff
Data Catalog
The Business Case for an Enterprise Data Catalog
Feb 20, 2020 — Dave Wells
Company News
Scan Your Badge and Make a Difference
Feb 10, 2020 — Ashley Womack
Data Catalog
What in the World is an Augmented Data Catalog?
Feb 5, 2020 — Nolan Necoechea
Customer News
MercadoLibre grows governed, self-service analytics with Alation and Tableau
Jan 13, 2020 — Conor Knowles, Tableau
Company News
Measuring the Value of Your Analytic Investments with the Alation Data Catalog
Jan 3, 2020 — Raja Perumal
Industry News
Build or Buy an Enterprise Data Catalog: Top 6 Considerations
Dec 11, 2019 — Nolan Necoechea
Company News
Introducing Alation Analytics Stewardship: Unlocking the Business Value from Governance
Dec 10, 2019 — Sergey Astretsov
Company News
Forrester Does the Math on the ROI of the Alation Data Catalog
Oct 16, 2019 — Stephanie McReynolds
Company News
Diversity and Inclusion: It’s not enough to get invited to the party, get invited to dance
Aug 7, 2019 — Paige Caldwell
Industry News
Driving Data Catalog Adoption
Jul 23, 2019 — Dave Wells
Company News
Why We Decided to Rethink Incentive Trips
Jul 15, 2019 — Dave Stevens
Industry News
Collaboration and Crowdsourcing with Data Cataloging
Jul 2, 2019 — Dave Wells
Company News
Alation Ranked Top Data Catalog Third Year in a Row
Jun 25, 2019 — Jason Lim
Industry News
Where Do Data Catalogs Fit in Metadata Management?
Jun 19, 2019 — Dave Wells
Industry News
What Is Data Curation?
May 30, 2019 — Dave Wells
Industry News
What Is a Data Catalog?
May 16, 2019 — Dave Wells
Company News
One of the Best Places to Work—and Getting Better
May 16, 2019 — Ed Avila
Customer News
GoDaddy: Customer-First Digital Transformation
Apr 15, 2019 — Ron Powell
Company News
Why Data Culture Made Me Pack a Space Suit and Head to Orlando
Mar 25, 2019 — Stephanie McReynolds
Customer News
Customer Data Culture: The Innovators Have Already Reinvented Themselves
Mar 14, 2019 — Satyen Sangani
Industry News
Gartner Data & Analytics London: Human Curation + Machine Learning
Mar 12, 2019 — Nolan Necoechea
Company News
At the Top of Everyone’s List
Feb 20, 2019 — Nolan Necoechea
Company News
The “FUTURe” of Working with Data
Feb 19, 2019 — Aaron Kalb
Company News
Funding and Our Future
Feb 2, 2019 — Aaron Kalb
Company News
Our Next Phase of Growth: Enterprise Data Catalogs
Jan 17, 2019 — Satyen Sangani
Customer News
MercadoLibre Democratizes BI with Certified Data, Collaboration and Self-Service
Dec 20, 2018 — Ron Powell
Industry News
The year of the data catalog
Dec 20, 2018 — Chitra Rakesh
Product News
TrustCheck from Alation: In Conversation with Peter Burris
Nov 15, 2018 — Aaron Kalb
Customer News
Munich Re Launches Enterprise-Wide Data-Driven Platform for Analytics
Oct 31, 2018 — Ron Powell
Company News
Join the Alation MLDC World Tour!
Sep 27, 2018 — Chitra Rakesh
Partner News
Defining Data Acquisition and Why it Matters
Sep 14, 2018 — Malcolm Chisholm
Company News
The Alation Arena: Enter the world of robots
Sep 11, 2018 — Chitra Rakesh
Partner News
Alation + First San Francisco Partners: A New Approach to Data Governance
Sep 6, 2018 — Stephanie McReynolds
Partner News
Introducing Agile Data Governance – Alation TrustCheck
Jul 12, 2018 — Jason Ma
Industry News
Data Catalogs: A Category of Their Own
Jun 27, 2018 — Stephanie McReynolds
Data Catalog
Gartner BI Bake Off: Data Catalogs and the Opioid Epidemic
Mar 7, 2018 — Jason Ma
Company News
The Year Enterprises Embraced the Data Catalog
Jan 25, 2018 — Satyen Sangani
Data Catalog
Driving Business Value and ROI from a Hybrid Cloud Data Lake
Nov 27, 2017 — Jason Ma
Partner News
Alation and Einstein Analytics Announce Deep Integration For Data Cataloging and Governance
Oct 31, 2017 — Stephanie McReynolds
Data Catalog
Alation’s Role in the Sentient Enterprise
Oct 23, 2017 — Satyen Sangani
Partner News
Alation + Tableau — Announcing Deeper Integration for Governance for Insight
Oct 10, 2017 — Aaron Kalb
Company News
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Includes Alation
Aug 16, 2017 — Stephanie McReynolds
Company News
Why Icon Ventures Invested in Alation
Jul 18, 2017 — Michael Mullany
Chief Data Officers
The CDO Imperative: From Process Centric to data-driven
Jul 15, 2017 — Satyen Sangani
Company News
Aaron Kalb named to the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” list
Jul 15, 2017 — Satyen Sangani
Industry News
A New Market Is Born: The Data Catalog Market Study
Jun 20, 2017 — Stephanie McReynolds
Partner News
A Catalog-First Approach to MicroStrategy Reporting
Apr 18, 2017 — Aaron Kalb
Partner News
Deep Thoughts on Data Flow with Alation & Trifacta
Apr 17, 2017 — Stephanie McReynolds
Agile Stewardship
Shopping for Data
Mar 28, 2017 — Stephanie McReynolds
Partner News
Navigating Data: Alation + Trifacta
Mar 15, 2017 — Satyen Sangani
Partner News
Data Cataloging in the Data Lake: Alation + Kylo
Mar 14, 2017 — Stephanie McReynolds
Partner News
Cataloging MicroStrategy
Mar 2, 2017 — Aaron Kalb
Partner News
Announcing Alation Tableau Edition
Nov 2, 2016 — Satyen Sangani
Partner News
Announcing Alation 4.0 with Alation Connect
Sep 27, 2016 — Venky Ganti, Ph.D.
Self-Service Analytics
How do you make self-service data analysis work for your organization?
Aug 23, 2016 — Stephanie McReynolds
Data Catalog
Data Engineering Teams Waste Time & Resources Due to Poor Knowledge of Data Usage
Apr 26, 2016 — Venky Ganti, Ph.D.
Self-Service Analytics
Self-Service Data’s New Frontier: The Data Catalog
Mar 19, 2016 — Stephanie McReynolds
Partner News
Alation Partners with Teradata
Jan 26, 2016 — Satyen Sangani
Data Catalog
The 2016 Crystal Ball – What’s Next in Data?
Dec 22, 2015 — Venky Ganti, Ph.D.
Data Catalog
Suppliers Keep Inventories. Consumers Need Catalogs.
Sep 21, 2015 — Aaron Kalb
Data Catalog
These Are Data’s Dark Ages, and That Needs to Change
Aug 12, 2015 — Satyen Sangani
Company News
[Podcast] Alation at the Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT)
Jun 12, 2015 — Aaron Kalb
Analyst Productivity
Data Analysts Spend A Lot of Time Finding and Understanding Data
May 4, 2015 — Venky Ganti, Ph.D.
Customer News
[Podcast] Alation CEO, Satyen Sangani on After Nines
Apr 23, 2015 — Arlene Boyd
Data Catalog
Using Data
Apr 14, 2015 — Feng Niu
Data Catalog
Challenges of Working with Big Data: Beyond the 3Vs
Apr 10, 2015 — Venky Ganti, Ph.D.
Company News
Launching Today
Mar 31, 2015 — Satyen Sangani
Data Catalog
The Agile Analytics Gap
Mar 31, 2015 — David Crawford
Data Catalog
Making Data Accessible
Mar 31, 2015 — Satyen Sangani