The Alation platform saves many hours of time and effort, according to study findings. Learn more about this in this interview with Andrea Levy and Naveen Kalyanasamy, case study authors and data scientists at Alation.
Alation 2020.3: Getting Business Users in the Game
The recent ‘The Alation State of Data Culture Report’, found that 78% of data & analytics leaders have a corporate initiative to become more data driven and help create data culture. But despite these ambitions, there is a stark data culture disconnect. The report...
Alation 2020.3: Discussing Customer-Centric Design with Colin Poindexter, Alation’s Product Design Lead
Nolan Necoechea, Director of Marketing: With the release of Alation 2020.3, the user experience has seen some big changes. Can you talk about those changes? Colin Poindexter, Design Lead, Alation: With the launch of Alation 2020.3, we’ve worked closely with our...
What Public Health Interventions Can Teach Us About Building Data Literacy Programs
Whether from watching CNN or FOX News (depending on your politics) or reading Le Monde or The Guardian, citizens worldwide are now ingesting more data in one day than they would normally encounter in a month. The crisis is making everyone—not just data analysts, data...
How does a data catalog work?
The architectures of the past for BI and analytics – the Corporate Information Factory or the Bus Architecture – are now only one part of a complete analytical environment. We now have multiple areas of analysis and a plethora of technologies to support and perform...
Deep Thoughts on Data Flow with Alation & Trifacta
Data lakes, while useful in helping you to capture all of your data, are only the first step in extracting the value of that data. Self-service analytics tools like Tableau help by democratizing the data analysis process, causing disruption to existing Extract,...
A Catalog-First Approach to MicroStrategy Reporting
Tools like MicroStrategy and Tableau make it easy for business users to quickly turn raw data into visualizations and reports. But before you can even start, you have to find a relevant data set, understand it, and trust it. Then you have to connect to it, which can...
A New Market Is Born: The Data Catalog Market Study
We’ve seen the trend first hand. Organizations who are so successful in their adoption of self-service analytics, that their own business intelligence (BI) evangelists worry that they’ve created an analytics “wild west.” When they see a data catalog for the first...
Gartner BI Bake Off: Data Catalogs and the Opioid Epidemic
For the past four years, Gartner has hosted a BI Bake Off competition at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Texas. Selected vendors are given the opportunity to highlight their solutions and show how data and analytics can be harnessed for social good. Each...
TrustCheck from Alation: In Conversation with Peter Burris
Meet TrustCheck: Your Spell Check for SQL or BI. Just like Spell Check prompts you as you’re writing—or like Waze nudges you as you’re driving—TrustCheck guides you to desired behavior while ensuring accuracy as you’re creating a query or a dashboard. With TrustCheck,...