This week, IDC released its second IDC MarketScape for Data Catalogs report, and we’re excited to share that Alation was recognized as a leader for the second consecutive time. This report underscores the growing need at enterprises for a catalog to drive key...
In the technology industry, even the most incremental trends often get framed in next-generation terminology. And every megatrend produces its own new vocabulary. DataOps sprung up to connect data sources to data consumers. Tools became stacks. Architectures became...
Alation has been named the #1 data catalog in Dresner’s 2022 Wisdom of Crowds report for the sixth consecutive year! To arrive at a ranking, report authors interviewed and surveyed real data catalog users. In this way, report authors have furnished a useful buyer’s...
Introduction What a week! Alation attended last week’s Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in London from May 9 – 11, 2022. Coming off the heels of Data Innovation Summit in Stockholm, it’s clear that in-person events are back with a vengeance, and...
So far, we’ve considered the rivalry of data fabric versus mesh. We’ve explored what is a data fabric, what is a data mesh, and how a data catalog supports these architectures. We’ve even made the case that this is less a rivalry than a love story in the making....
