Data is critical to modern enterprises and the modern workforce. It powers the products and services that organizations build and deliver, empowers workers to make better decisions, and can mean the difference between staying competitive and falling behind. 

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Data Basics: Structured, Unstructured, and Semi-structured Data

Today’s businesses, regardless of industry, must protect the massive amounts of data they generate and store. This information—ranging from customer data and intellectual property to operational records—is the backbone of modern organizations. Yet with distributed systems, hybrid work, and an increasing number of cyber threats, data loss remains a constant concern.

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How to Prevent Data Loss: 9 Strategies to Secure Your Company Data

Almost thirteen years into building one of the most successful data catalog companies in the world, Satyen Sangani made an unexpected admission at revAlation Chicago: "I feel like I'm refounding the company."

Alation User Conference revAlation is in Chicago October 1 2025

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The Refounding of Alation: From Data Catalogs to AI Agents

Today, we’re excited to announce the Alation Agent Builder — a breakthrough for enterprises looking to build agents they can actually trust. With governance, accuracy, and flexibility built in, the Agent Builder helps teams move beyond prototypes to deliver AI on structured data that is explainable, compliant, and ready for scale.

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From Prototype to Production: Introducing the Alation Agent Builder

Alation is launching a landmark initiative to train 10,000 Data Product Managers through Alation University over the next three years. Read on to learn why.

Alation's program to train ten thousand data product managers

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Training 10,000 Data Product Managers: Alation’s Program for Tomorrow’s AI Leaders

In today’s enterprises, employees are drowning in data. Dashboards pile up, reports multiply, and even the simplest question — “Which revenue dashboard should I use?” — can turn into a scavenger hunt. 

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Ask Alation: AI-Powered Search That Finds Answers, Not Just Results

A data marketplace is a governed storefront where data producers publish reusable, high-quality data products that data consumers can easily find, trust, and use to drive business impact.

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What Is a Data Marketplace?

For any data user in an enterprise today, data profiling is a key tool for resolving data quality issues and building new data solutions. In this guide, you’ll learn how to use profiling effectively, see its top use cases, and understand best practices to improve data quality and business outcomes.

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Data Profiling: What It Is and How to Perfect It

Every day, data teams face growing demand: business users want insights faster, and AI projects require business context to deliver precise, trusted results. Yet even with better visibility into data, core challenges persist. Teams spend valuable time handling repetitive requests. Analysts can’t always trust the answers they get. And AI initiatives often stall without a reliable, AI-ready foundation.

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Alation Data Products Builder: Create AI-Ready Data Products in Minutes

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From Prototype to Production: Introducing the Alation Agent Builder

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Alation Acquires Numbers Station: Enabling AI to Understand Structured Data at Scale

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