The Best Enterprises Succeed With Alation

Customers leverage Alation as a platform for a broad range of data intelligence solutions

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How Enterprises Are Leveraging Alation

Finnair uses Alation to identify datasets that have never been combined before to predict flight delays and related impact caused by weather

Texas Mutual Insurance enables senior executives to make daily decisions on how best to deploy critical capital by using governed data in the cloud with Alation & Snowflake

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Alation provides Travelers with an “Amazon-like experience for data” so that non-technical users can search and find the right data to meet their business needs

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Pfizer identifies rare diseases that might have previously gone undiagnosed, using their AI analytics platform with Alation, Datatiku, and Tableau

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Munich Re leads industry in launching end-to-end wind turbine cover as a result of global collaboration with Alation

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

Peter Langham
Domain Chapter Lead - Data Engineering

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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

Oliver Bauer
Senior Director

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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

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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 Alation, data governance becomes part of the way you work with data."

Umid Akhmedov
Director, Head of Architecture, Data & Analytics

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

Stephen Perry
Director of Data and Analytics

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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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"Using Alation, 'We have shifted the power from hard-core tech developers to users."

Anthony Seraphim
Vice President of Data Governance, Texas Mutual Insurance Company

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"Alation is our one-stop-shop for our data and analytics."

Nick Hansgen
Lead Analytics Architect, General Mills

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"We identify critically sensitive data in Alation and the associated regulatory applications, e.g., HIPPA, 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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"Alation gives us a single client to access all the data, and the queries that have been written by other people."

Marcin Cinciala
Senior BI Engineer, Allegro

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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

"Alation is a great way for our users to discover information and make decisions that impact the business."

Michael Lempner
Head of Data, Mission Lane

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"Alation helps us get our products to market faster by enabling visibility into the data needed for compliance."

Patrick Brickson
Director of Data Systems, Digi-Key

"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 us to scour data automatically and overlay documentation from many locations in one place."

Peter Coughlin
Director, Data Products, Liberty Mutual

"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

"Alation allows me to query different systems like Oracle or Teradata without opening different front-ends."

Vaishakhi Lahoti
Senior Project Manager, Express Scripts

"[Alation] helps us break down organizational silos. We are able to think differently."

Wolfgang Hauner
Chief Data Officer, Munich RE

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"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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"Through Alation, we can tag at both table and column levels to identify GDPR related data objects."

Thomas Chong
Staff Data Governance Engineer, LogMeIn

"Alation gives users access to the data owners and helps them understand the data from a business point of view."

Pascale Assémat
Director Data Marketing, Retail, Société Générale

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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

"With Alation, users have a place to go for accurate data and metric documentation."

Dave Turner
Senior Manager, Business Process & Analytics, Akamai

"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

"Alation allows a user to start their analysis and run a query then continue the discovery process in Tableau."

Adrián Quilis
Director of BI, Mercado Libre

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"We want to use Alation for our privacy and security, like for classification and retention of data."

Archana Goya
Data Governance Manager, Ancestry

"Before Alation, it used to take 6-9 months to onboard a new employee. We are now seeing closer to 3 months."

Ankush Rustagi
Director of Product Management, Data Science, New Relic

"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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"The endorsing and deprecating feature in Alation is really important to keeping knowledge at a current state."

Matt Chau
Data Governance Program Administrator, SchoolsFirst

"Alation is so much more than a data repository."

Data Steward, Chegg

"We chose Alation for data governance and metadata management because it’s so user friendly for business analysts."

Lori Hermanson
Sr Business Analyst - Data Analytics, Avista

"Alation provides us the governance that we lost when we gave our analysts complete independence using Tableau."

Adrián Quilis
Director of BI, MercadoLibre

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"The Alation Data Catalog provides the communication hub for all of our knowledge around data."

Markus Schmidberger
Head of Data Engineering, Scout24

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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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"With Alation, a new data scientist was turning around his first analysis, fully done, in just two weeks."

Hernan Asorey
Chief Data Officer, Salesforce

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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

"I use Alation for sales & marketing analysis."

Sharon Graves
BI Applications Administrator, GoDaddy

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"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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"Alation is reducing our BI analysts' time searching for data by at least 75%."

Michael Meyer
Data Engineer, Farm Credit Services of America