Metadata Management

Activate High-value Metadata

Your metadata is valuable. Activate it across the data management ecosystem. Improve analytics, adapt to change, and power your data fabric.

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Enrich your data fabric with active metadata

Alation brings data fabric to life with behavior-driven metadata, pulling in and connecting metadata from various data sources. The result? Smarter data solutions that tap into your organization’s data assets while staying aligned with a central business glossary.

Leverage behavioral metadata

Powered by the Behavioral Analysis Engine, Alation uncovers insights like popularity, search relevancy, usage recommendations, and more. This helps users make better decisions and use data compliantly, driving business value across a range of use cases.

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Metadata where and when you need it

Alation’s metadata management software is a user-friendly way to find, understand, and trust data in the tools you use most. Bi-directional connectors surface governed data right when you need it. Get useful metadata information in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Tableau, and more.

Launch data pipelines with lineage

End-to-end data lineage lets you see how data flows and changes over time, so you can make sure it’s handled in a safe and trusted way. Impact analysis shows the potential upstream and downstream impacts of changes to your data, as well as who will be affected.

Alation Customer: Discover Financial Services

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

See the impact of active metadata management

70%

Reduced data delivery time

80%

Time spent on data analysis

Find out how Alation can help your teams use data with confidence

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