Find, understand, and govern data
Build a shared data language. Centralize your data's context, rules, policies, definitions, and relationships in a single source of reference. Make it easy to find, understand, and govern data. Build trust in data while improving accuracy of analytics and analyst productivity.
The Social Network for Data
Connect
Connect data sources to the catalog to reveal a rich trove of insights. Alation connects to a broad range of source types, including relational databases, file systems, and BI tools. The platform extracts useful metadata from each source, from data popularity and usage patterns to samples, profiling, and lineage. Empower smarter, more confident data usage through broad, deep connectivity.
Curate
After data is connected and starts to flow into the data catalog, curation can begin. Human contributed knowledge is augmented by AI/ML. People closest to the data can add rich context, describing what data really means and how it should be used. Machines can automate and scale tedious tasks, like translating technical to natural language, ranking data popularity, or identifying experts for guidance or data stewardship.
Collaborate
Now that you've laid the groundwork of a curated catalog, a vibrant community can collaborate. People can ask questions on and add their wisdom to specific data assets. They can document projects with inter-catalog links and share powerful SQL queries for others to use or adapt. People can even favorite data assets to monitor change over time.
Committed to Platform Openness
Interoperability ensures information can be pulled into Alation and pushed out to other systems. Use Open Connector Framework to build connectors and Open Data Quality Framework to integrate data quality tools. Alation Anywhere extends intelligence to third party tools, including Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Intelligent SQL Editor
Compose learns from human behavior, propagating data from the catalog. So users get auto-complete suggestions and trust flag warnings of deprecated data as they query. Publish queries for colleagues to reuse and adapt. Collaborate with other teams to efficiently write the best queries.
Alation Analytics
Gain insights into how people are using Alation with pre-built analytics dashboards and reporting. Encourage contribution to the catalog with a gamified leaderboard. Create custom reporting to design metrics that matter. Leverage insights to monitor and optimize catalog success.
Alation Cloud, at Your Service
We do the work. You reap the benefits. Alation Cloud Service offers data intelligence as a service. Benefits include:
Faster time to value
Zero administrative overhead
Flexibility to scale with growth, quickly
Alation helps us get our products to market faster by enabling visibility into the data needed for compliance
We have used Alation as a foundation of our data democratization premise as well as quality and policy linkage.
