In case you somehow missed it, last week Alation’s partner Snowflake, leading provider of cloud-based data warehousing solutions, had the biggest tech IPO of 2020. While everyone has Snowflake on the brain, we figured it might be a good time to remind you that Alation...
Alation is excited about our recent collaboration with Looker, a platform for data & analytics used by over 2,000 customers. Read more on the partnership and how it’s valuable to Alation customers.
Ron Powell, independent analyst and industry expert for the BeyeNETWORK and executive producer of The World Transformed FastForward Series, interviews Adrian Quilis, Director of Business Intelligence at MercadoLibre. Read the interview.
This article is based on a podcast Ron Powell conducted with Sharon Graves, Enterprise Data and BI Tools Evangelist for GoDaddy. Learn more.
A Data Catalog is a collection of metadata, combined with data management and search tools, that helps analysts and other data users to find what they need in one place. Discover more about how it helps to improve efficiency as well as data analysis.
Data curation is the work of organizing and managing a collection of datasets to meet the needs and interests of a specific groups of people. Learn more.
Data catalogs collect metadata about datasets, metadata about processing, metadata for searching, and metadata for and about people.
For the third consecutive year, Alation has been named the top-ranked data catalog in the Dresner Advisory Services Wisdom of the Crowds® Data Catalog Market Study. Learn more.
The process of getting people to actively participate in data management activities is a barrier to building a strong data culture. A data catalog helps break through the barrier with collaboration and crowdsourcing. Learn more.
Many organizations find data catalog adoption to be among the biggest challenges to data catalog success. Understanding the causes of resistance and developing an adoption plan helps to overcome these challenges. Learn more.