Find and govern data more efficiently. With Data Governance by Alation.
Help data and business teams find data. With a collaborative, user-friendly platform designed for organization-wide adoption.
Automate governance tasks. Save your team hours of metadata management, data classification, policy enforcement, steward assignment, and more.
Boost compliance. With a people-first approach to governance that guides users to handle data properly (instead of penalizing them for mistakes).
Proven and trusted by 40% of the Fortune 100 Built to meet the strictest standards for performance and security at enterprise scale.
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Unlock the value of your data
Break down your data silos. Bring your data together in one place where everyone can find it, trust it, and collaborate on it. So you can tap into your data’s full potential.
Drive adoption across your organization
Designed with an intuitive interface that helps data & analytics, AI, and business teams use data quickly and confidently.
Connect to 120+ data sources & apps
Use pre-built connectors to integrate with all your data sources. Extend the platform into everyday apps such as Sheets, Teams, Slack, and Tableau.
Find, analyze, govern, and collaborate on data
Centralize all your data tables, BI reports, AI models, policies, and more. Then use search, discovery, governance, and collaboration features to do more with your data.
Your complete solution for data governance
Active governance
Ensure compliance with a people-first approach to governance that helps users handle data properly instead of penalizing them for mistakes.
Search and discovery
Find the data you need in seconds with intuitive searches that guide users toward the most trusted assets.
Collaboration
Help everyone get the most from each data asset by sharing ratings, reviews, comments, and SQL queries across teams.
Metadata management
Automatically gather metadata from every source, and enrich it with details based on how users interact with it.
End-to-end lineage
Visualize relationships across technical, system, and business layers. Find relationships between data, people, and policies to make smarter decisions.
Alation in your apps
Let teams bring trustworthy data into the apps they use daily. Search, share, and take action on contextual data assets within Excel, Teams, Slack, and more.
ALLIE AI
A layer of AI across the platform with features such as Intelligent curation and search that helps your organization save time, scale data initiatives quickly, democratize trusted data, and advance AI initiatives.
Alation Analytics
Analyze how data gets used, what data is most popular, and how data flows between systems. Gauge the value of data products by tracking usage, and see how much search time you save per year.
Intelligent SQL
Write better SQL with smart suggestions. Share and reuse the best queries across teams — even non-technical ones — to speed up everyone’s data work.
"Data documentation used to be a laborious process... Today, the data discovery process takes as little as 15 minutes instead of up to 2 days."
"Active data governance features in Alation help ensure the proper use of data. People are guided to use data compliantly and educated, in-workflow, on the policies relevant to the data they handle."
"When we started looking for a data catalog, we wanted a single place for people to search for data. I don’t think we even considered the kind of system that we’re developing now — a robust, API-fed application that integrates information about table metadata, data governance, data quality, and lineage."
"The key to using AI and ML to make decisions is having context for the data. Alation can ensure that the datasets are labeled with accurate metadata, which tells the machine how to understand the context around the data it’s looking at. Only then can it answer our questions in a way that’s meaningful."
"As an industry leader ourselves, we choose to partner with companies like Alation that have the same innovative fabric, and who also enjoy the same industry recognition that we do."
Here are 21 ways Alation helps you manage your data
Search & discovery
Find your top 1% most used data
Automatically add new assets to the catalog
Centralize your metadata for all data assets
Find data faster with AI-powered search
Guide users to the best data with each search
Improve collaboration with shared queries and insights
Share knowledge about data assets across the org
Data governance
Find data that needs owners or stewards
Automatically classify data accurately with AI
Simplify audits by centralizing your policies
Ensure consistency & accuracy across teams
Get real-time alerts for governance violations
Tailor data access controls to enforce security
Simplify compliance reporting with automated lineage
Data analysis
Analyze data usage patterns to inform decisions
Visualize data lineage to understand its journey
Understand how migrations will impact other systems
Find unused and redundant data to optimize storage
Analyze metrics like user activity and top queries
Gauge data product value through usage tracking
Showcase ROI through faster data search & querying
“Alation's offering differentiates itself by blending strong technical skills in the field of machine learning (ML) and intelligent asset classification capabilities with an obsessive focus on collaboration tools and data valuation models.”
Analyst at Forrester
