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.

  • Schedule a demo of the Alation Data Catalog here.

  • Visit Alation at booth #S2.

  • Read about the charities we’re supporting at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit on our blog.

About Alation

Alation delivers an agentic knowledge layer that enables enterprises to achieve business outcomes and grow their most critical asset, knowledge. Global enterprises, including hundreds of Fortune 5000 companies, and organizations like AbbVie, American Family, Cisco, Finnair, Nasdaq, and Sallie Mae partner with Alation to realize hard ROI and business outcomes from data and AI. Alation led the creation of the data catalog market, was named a 2019 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and has been named a five-time leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrants. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Alation has been recognized five times by Inc. Magazine as one of the Best Workplaces. To learn more, visit https://www.alation.com.

Alation Media Contact

Ashley Womack

Sr. Director, Corporate Marketing

ashley.womack@alation.com650-504-2647