Press Release • February 10, 2020
MEDIA ALERT: Alation to Match Donations to Assist in Australian Fire Recovery Efforts
REDWOOD CITY, FEB. 10, 2020 — Next week at the annual Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, being held February 17-18, 2020 in Sydney, Australia, Alation, the data catalog company, will offer attendees who visit its booth at the conference (#S2) the opportunity to choose a charity they would like the company to donate $5 AUD to. For every $5 AUD raised, Alation will also match funds for that specific charity. The charities attendees can choose from include the Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors, the Australian Red Cross or the NSW Rural Fire Service.
Additionally, Alation customer, Belong, an Australian-based mobile provider, will present in a session at the conference on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 3:05pm AET. Belong’s senior business intelligence specialist, Angela Fraga, will highlight Alation’s award-winning Data Catalog in a session titled “Belong: Creating a Single-Source of Reference with the Alation Data Catalog,” which will be held in the Exhibit Showcase Theater 1 at the conference.
Fraga will take attendees through Belong’s digital transformation journey as self-service data analytics have become central within the organization and she will discuss how this has accelerated their growth, as well as enabled them to deliver an improved customer experience. She will explain the framework the company has deployed to achieve these results and highlight how the Alation Data Catalog has served as its single source of reference for trusted data and greater collaboration across the company.
WHO: Angela Fraga, senior business intelligence specialist at Belong WHAT: “Belong: Creating a Single-Source of Reference with the Alation Data Catalog” WHEN: February 18, 2020 at 3:05pm AET WHERE: Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2020 (Alation booth #S2) International Convention Centre Sydney 14 Darling Dr. Darling Harbour Sydney, NSW 2000
As the first data catalog to market, Alation combines machine learning and human collaboration to help people find, understand, trust and use data so they can remain focused on business outcomes.
About Alation
Alation is the data intelligence company. Nearly 600 global enterprises — including 40% of the Fortune 100 — rely on Alation to realize value from their data and AI initiatives. Customers such as Cisco, DocuSign, Nasdaq, Pfizer, and Samsung trust Alation’s platform for self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI-ready data, fostering data-driven innovation at scale. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Alation has been recognized five times by Inc. Magazine as one of the Best Workplaces. To learn more, visit www.alation.com.