Brilliance Badges
What’s a Brilliance Badge?
A Brilliance Badge is a way for learners to show what they know as they increase their knowledge and skills about The Alation Data Catalog and build their own data culture. These credentials earned through several of our Alation University courses represent short, competency-based recognition of specific content.
What Brilliance Badges can I earn now?
Alation User
Wondering what a Data Catalog is? Want to know more about Alation, the Data Catalog Leader? Want to learn to utilize your organization’s data?
The Get to Know Alation course introduces the Alation Data Catalog and shares the basics for anyone seeking to gain real value from their data.
With no prerequisites other than your own curiosity, this course is less than 30 minutes and will show you a data catalog that brings together the best of data intelligence and human brilliance. When you have completed the course, be sure to take the short exam and earn your Alation User Brilliance Badge.
Course details
- Audience: Anyone interested in Alation
- Duration: Less than 1 hour
- Prerequisites: None
- If you are not a current customer or partner, please register and request access .

If you are already an active Alation University user, you can access this course instantly here.

Alation Data Governance Advocate
Alation Data Governance simplifies how organizations enforce authority over the definition, production, and use of their data. The Alation Data Catalog enables Active Data Governance, which accelerates a program’s time to success. This foundational course supports modern Data Governance with an active, non-invasive focus, and demonstrates the Alation Data Catalog’s impressive performance when supporting Data Governance initiatives.
Course details
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Alation Data Governance Practitioner
Course details
- Audience: All members of the data governance community
- Duration: 8 hours
- Prerequisites: None


Data Analyst Advocate
The Analyst Advocate Brilliance Badge is the next step in our program for anyone who performs data analysis within their role or works with data on a regular basis. This course provides guidance and shares methods that enable analysts to integrate use of the data catalog into their workflows. By applying curation and collaborating in a way that enables and encourages fellow data users, analysts can positively impact the overall data community.
Course details
- Audience: Anyone who performs data analysis as a part of their role or works with data on a regular basis.
- Duration: 1 hour
- Prerequisites: None
- If you are already an active Alation University user, you can access the course instantly here.
- If you are not a current customer or partner, please register and request access .
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We are continuing to add new Brilliance Badges here at Alation and have new offerings under development. If you have brilliant ideas for future Brilliance Badges send them to certification@alation.com. We love hearing from data citizens!