The Data Intelligence Platform

Find the right data in seconds, not hours. Only with Alation.

Bring your data together in one place where everyone can quick find what they need — and use it with confidence. Built for both data and business teams: from data engineering, data science, and AI, to marketing, product, and beyond.

Data Catalog
Data Governance
Data Lineage
Analytics & more

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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Help every team work with data more productively

Build trust in your data. Improve the accuracy of your analytics. And create a data culture where everyone is more productive with data. Only with Alation.

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.

Give 1000s of users the power to use data with speed and confidence

Search and discovery

Find the data you need in seconds with intuitive searches that guide users toward the most trusted assets.

Active governance

Ensure compliance with a people-first approach to governance that helps users handle data properly instead of penalizing them for mistakes.

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.

Integrations

Bring your entire data ecosystem together in one place with 120+ pre-built connectors.

Connect to all your data sources including relational databases, flat files, BI systems, data flows, AI models, and more. Integrate with any other source through our Open Connector SDK.

Save 1000s of hours of data search per year

Find the right data, reports, and policies in seconds. As users search, the AI-powered Behavior Analysis Engine guides users to the assets that are most popular, trusted, and relevant. 

Now everyone across your organization can find the right data, right when they need it. No more dependence on other teams. No more data scavenger hunts.

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.

Prakash Jaganathan

Sr. Director, Enterprise Data Platforms, Discover Financial Services

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Break down data silos. Build up collaboration.

Data silos keep valuable knowledge from being shared across teams. With Alation, everyone can share that knowledge by adding context, comments, endorsements, reusable SQL queries, policies, and more. All in one place where every team can see it.

Alation provides the platform and capability for stakeholders … to be able to search for the data they need, and for them to understand that the data that they need is defined such that they have confidence in using that data for their business needs.

Dr. Geraldine Wong

Chief Data Officer, GXS Bank

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Ensure proper governance and compliance with a people-first approach

Close the gap between policy and reality. With a people-first approach to governance, Alation helps you continuously improve your data practices by guiding people to handle data properly — not punishing them for mistakes.

The result? More compliance and better data quality.

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.

Sebastian Kaus

Data Governance Lead, Vattenfall

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Migrations? AI projects? Prep faster with Alation.

Migrate with confidence 

See how data flows between systems and track data lineage so you can understand exactly how migrations will impact your operations and ensure a smooth transition. 

Build AI/ML models everyone can trust 

Quickly surface the most relevant and reliable datasets for model training. Ensure compliance by automating data governance protocols, tracking data lineage for full transparency, and applying compliance checks throughout the model development process.

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.

Prakash Jaganathan

Sr. Director, Enterprise Data Platforms, Discover Financial Services

Scale your data management with ALLIE AI

Put curation on autopilot 

Automatically document new data assets upon creation, with AI-generated descriptions and metadata for easier access and use.  

Smarter searches 

Unlike keyword-based search, Alation's Intelligent Search grasps the context and intent of queries, delivering more precise and relevant results.

You’ll be in great hands with our team of experts

Gain access to a team of data experts who will help you every step of the way, from onboarding and adoption, to wherever your Alation journey takes you.

Jumpstart your projects with specialized “Right Start” tracks for:

Self-Service Analytics
Data Governance
Cloud Migrations
And more

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.

Pavan Tumu

Director of Product Management, Salesforce

Security that meets the requirements of the world’s top companies

We ensure enterprise-grade security across data, network, and infrastructure using cloud best practices. This includes authentication, authorization, encryption, and key management. Our compliance program covers GDPR, CCPA, and other data protection laws.

SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001 and 27701
HIPAA and HITECH

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

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A leader with the highest possible scores in 12 criteria

Alation was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Governance Solutions, Q3 2023 earning the highest possible scores in 12 criteria including Data Catalog, Data Governance Management, Data Discovery, Stewardship Roles and Responsibilities, Vision, and Adoption.

“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.”

Raluca Alexandru

Analyst at Forrester

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