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Alation is the perfect fit for data governance at Crocs

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"Alation is essentially teaching people how to use data, why data is important, why it's good to keep data, and why data quality matters."

Kam Rokon, Data Officer, WoodmenLife

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“The general accessibility and Google-style search engine were the compelling reasons we selected Alation.”

Simon Lewis, Data Lead, Endeavour Energy

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“The combination of Alation’s Active Data Governance and Snowflake’s Data Cloud is game-changing.”

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Through decentralization and self-service, Vista reduced the effort required to create low-code dashboards and use the data by around 95%.

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"Using Alation has helped us create a much more efficient data discovery process because our analysts can understand the data, see how it is defined, who is using it, and the types of queries being written against it."

Nolan Steiner
Data Science Manager, Avista

We sat down with Karla Kirton, Data Architect at Blockdaemon, a blockchain company, to discuss data strategy, decentralisation, and how implementing Alation has supported them.

"Everything is just right there at your fingertips. It's like performing a Google search on the data within your company. It makes finding things very, very simple."

Harrison Fine
Data Science Analyst, Avista

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“Compose was a huge differentiator between Alation and other data catalogs that didn’t have the ability to write SQL code and query data within the tool.”

Analytics Manager, US Federal Government Agency

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“The only thing that's going to happen within data and analytics is constant, [and] even more change. … So being able to be agile and adapt is probably one of the biggest things for me as a CDO.”

Steve Pimblett
CDO, The Very Group

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“Alation has the ability to go very deep technically but also has functionality that is great for the business users within our organization.”

Michael Kavalchuk
Manager of Data Governance, Crocs

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“Alation creates an end-to-end relationship between the data producers and consumers at Riot Games.”

Michael Leslie
Senior Data Architect, Riot Games

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“Alation is the know-it-all in the room. Anytime there's a working meeting there's a seat reserved for Alation.”

Ku‛uipo Curry
Director of IT Data Management, VillageCare

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“Data consistency is huge for us. We want to have one view in Alation that means the data is dependable and reliable.”

Drew Goodchild
Head of Data & Information Management, HBF Health Ltd.

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"We need a tool that is business-oriented, easy to use, makes it easy to find information, and has good collaborative tools. That’s why we picked Alation."

Data Lead, Data Platforms Team, Virgin Australia

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“So much [in Alation] is automatic – the metadata extraction, curation, labeling, query log ingestion, and building out the lineage – it’s a big help.”

Leonard Kwok
Senior Data Analyst, ARC

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"Alation empowers data-savvy decision makers, analysts, and data consumers to find shared data for faster, more accurate insights."

Yash Bhagde
Data Governance Manager, Oportun

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“Cataloging your data is more important than ever for many companies. ... Understanding what data you’ve got locked in all [your] different [data] stores is a big part of the jigsaw puzzle.”

Steve Pimblett
CDO, The Very Group

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"The [Alation Data Catalog] is helping us achieve both data democratization and governance."

Aisha Memon
Data Governance and Democratization Product Owner

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"[Alation allows] people to build up knowledge of the data that we have...rather than creating their own ring-fenced datasets."

Steve Pimblett
CDO, The Very Group

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“Alation is democratizing our data. It’s bringing people together to collaborate to solve our business problems.”

Sebastian Kaus
Data Governance Lead, Vattenfall

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"Alation has absolutely accelerated the adoption of Snowflake amongst our users."

Peter Langham
Domain Chapter Lead - Data Engineering, Spark

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"We're hoping to get 25,000 people in the bank in Alation one day, as step one to the data marketplace."

Greg Swygart
VP of Enterprise Data, Fifth Third Bank

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"With Alation, we can document and share the logic of models, which creates trust in the accuracy of recommendations."

Nina Marila
Head of Data Science, Finnair

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"You can onboard a variety of data sources, including AWS, Snowflake, Redshift, MySQL, among others."

Yash Bhagde
Data Governance Manager, Oportun

“Alation helps us with our governance audits. It holds our policies, procedures, and data flow diagrams via lineage.”

Amber O'Connell
Director of Data Governance, Tennessee State Gov

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"Alation enables us to make more informed decisions and create more personalized encounters with our customers."

Minna Kärhä
Data and Analytics Lead, Finnair

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“Alation Cloud Service provides the full benefits of the Alation Data Catalog...with zero administrative overhead."

Oliver Bauer
Senior Director, Vistaprint

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"Alation plays a role in the content promotion and certification process using RESTful APIs (between Alation and Tableau)."

John Gilbert
Data Governance Manager, CBus

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"Alation allows for controlled visibility and access into trusted data...at the point of consumption."

Sebastian LaRosa
Director of Data Platforms, Vice President

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"I don’t think we would be able to move through this cultural shift at the rate we are if it weren’t for Alation."

Michelle Hoiseth
Chief Data Officer, Parexel

“With...data domains, Alation will allow our users to understand the relationships between data like never before."

Stephen Perry
Director of Data and Analytics, Genius Sports

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"Users can search for and discover data, and ensure that data is properly governed and used in a compliant manner.”

Helen Hunter
Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Sainsbury's

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"Smart catalog (Alation) is a core asset in our analytics, security, and compliance spaces."

Pavan Tumu
Director of Product Management, Salesforce

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"Alation has evolved from our data catalog to the backbone of our data governance program."

Ross Schalmo
Sr. Director, Data & Analytics, GE Aviation

"Data consumers from marketing, ecommerce, and merchandising self-serve using Alation."

Himali Kumar
Director of Data Management, Autozone

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"We identify critically sensitive data in Alation and the associated regulatory applications, e.g., HIPAA, CCPA, GDPR, etc."

Scott Drummond
Director of Enterprise Data Enablement & Governance, CNA

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"We have been able to combine data sets that we didn't combine before."

Minna Kärhä
Head of Data, Finnair

"Before it would have takena month to find out what is SOX compliant – now it takes seven seconds.”

Gregg Rinsler
Senior Manager of Data Governance, Hulu

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"We have used Alation as a foundation of our data democratization premise as well as quality and policy linkage.”

Abra Le
Sr. Manager, Data Governance, Cisco

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“Through the use of [Alation], we can really shave minutes off people’s days."

Michael Leslie
Senior Data Governance Architect, Riot Games

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Travelers Insurance uses Alation to create an "Amazon-like experience for data within Travelers"

Mano Mannoochahr
Senior VP | Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Travelers

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"Alation is one of the main drivers to improve information analysis and the maturation of AI in the organization."

Karthik Kandamuri
Senior Enterprise Architect, AbbVie

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"Alation makes our organization more data literate and cognizant instead of relying on experience and intuition."

Jeremy Busselman
Analytics Architect, Nebraska Furniture Mart

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"We use Alation to understand our data and empower our teams with critical insights to build better products."

Paul Liberman
President, Global Technology & Product, DraftKings

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"Right now, having Alation as a place where we can capture information is critical."

Cristian Varela
Director of Enterprise Data Architecture, Aon

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"The value of opportunity cost that subject matter experts save as a result of Alation is huge."

Andy Carrington
VP Data Stewardship, Nielsen

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"People can now collaborate much more efficiently with each other across the different parts of the company across the globe."

Andreas Kohlmaier
Head of Data Engineering, Munich RE

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"[Alation] is the self-service portal to the entire data ecosystem."

Ming Yuan
AVP, Cloud & Analytics, Zurich NA

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"Compose—that lets us create and run queries to get on-demand data—has been truly transformative."

Kelly Barnes
Data Operations and Data Integrity Leader, Genentech

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"We have one place where we make our data assets visible and document our AI models."

Minna Karha
Head of Data, Finnair

"Alation is very user friendly, has a lot of collaboration capabilities, and integrates with all source systems."

Matteo Cassani
Senior IT Manager, HP

"Finding the data and understanding the data today is much easier with the data catalog."

Markus Schmidberger
Head of Data Engineering, Scout24

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"We’re able to figure out what datasets people are using, and endorse and contextualize the datasets."

Jon Tudor
Self-Service Analytics Manager, GE Aviation

"Alation allows analysts to quickly find data. They now spend 80 percent of their time doing analysis on the data."

Patrick Dever
Chief Data Strategist, Avista

"Data has become an extremely powerful currency for any company, and we were finding data was very fragmented."

Julie Schiffman
VP Business Analytics, Pfizer

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"Alation is a lens into how the business uses data and it will create new ways in which we can actually use it."

Angela Fraga
Senior Business Intelligence Specialist, Belong

"Alation helps us centralize all our information so there's one place users can find data with business context."

Andrew Stewardson
Data Manager, Farm Credit Services of America

"We spend 80% of time searching for data. We need one touchpoint to find the right data and persons responsible."

Andreas Hähre
PM Cloudbased Analytics Solutions, Vattenfall

"We see up to 99% time savings in finding the right data to write and execute queries. From 80 hours to 2 hours."

Jonathan Mason
IT Manager, BI and Data Governance, Daimler Trucks NA

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"We really want to enable everyone in the company to find out and push the boundaries of what is insurable."

Andreas Kohlmaier
Head of Data Engineering, Munich RE

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"Our analyst teams are now able to coordinate & collaborate across the globe."

Kristie Allen
Director of Analytics, Albertsons

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"Alation serves as a self-service layer that helps data users perform a quick search on various data elements."

Yannis Katsanos
Head of Customer Data Science, Exelon Corporation

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"Alation's collaborative environment identifies the right way to use data, which expands the usage of data."

Sharon Graves
Enterprise Data and BI Tools Evangelist, GoDaddy

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"Alation has the ability to take many different disparate systems and bring them under one tool."

Greg Tsukahara
Insights Analyst, LinkedIn

"Alation is evolving to be more than just a data catalog. It's becoming a knowledge management platform."

Susannah Barnes
Information Standards Governance & Quality, American Family Insurance

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"We are moving from a culture of reporting to a culture of analysis. It's about people transformation."

Nishant Upadhyay
VP, Information & Data Management, American Family Insurance

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