GDPR Compliance

Put the Data Subjects Front and Center

Overview

Alation provides a sustainable approach to GDPR compliance by helping to build a privacy-aware data culture. The Alation platform brings full visibility into personal data, automatically classifies data assets, facilitates management and mitigation of risks, and effectively communicates policies to front-line users.

Accelerate GDPR Compliance Readiness and Response

QUICKLY SATISFY DATA REQUESTS

Accelerate fulfillment of data requests by enabling quick and accurate discovery of personal data, enriched with human and machine-generated context.

INSTILL PRIVACY ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE

Foster a privacy-aware data culture that makes protecting personal data everyone’s responsibility by actively engaging line-of-business stakeholders, empowering them to make risk-aware decisions.

SAVE TIME AND REDUCE COST THROUGH AUTOMATION

Jump-start GDPR efforts by automatically cataloging and classifying enterprise data assets — saving time and reducing the cost associated with unagile, ineffective approaches.

DEMONSTRATE COMPLIANCE TO GDPR

Reinforce compliance efforts by providing an aggregated view of documentation comprising underlying policies, processes, behavior insights, and data usage patterns.

Bring visibility and context to personal data

Alation enables organizations to actively catalog all enterprise data assets, contextualized with relevant and searchable metadata. Alation brings full visibility into data and its lifecycle, enabling faster discovery and retrieval of data to satisfy data requests from subjects in a timely manner.

Automate classification and tagging of data assets

The Alation platform automatically classifies and tags data assets at scale. Alation accelerates documentation through collaboration and crowdsourcing, enabling rapid response to GDPR requests and systematic assessment and documentation of level of privacy and risk.

Report data risks and documentation KPIs

Alation’s data catalog actively tracks changes in the data environments, including data lineage, behavioral insights, and usage patterns that enable proactive auditing, impact assessments, reporting, and management of data risks. The Alation platform delivers dashboards and analytics for tracking documentation progress and informing overarching action and resource-allocation.

Communicate policies to the front line

Alation actively communicates privacy policies, such as GDPR, CCPA, to front-line users directly within their workflows through flags, alerts, and conversations. Alation ensures that personal data is processed only when necessary for each specific purpose as required by GDPR.

Extend via integration with existing capabilities

The Alation Platform provides robust APIs that allow enterprises to integrate existing metadata, like documentation, business glossaries, lineage, data quality metrics from other tools, and to export policies and metadata from Alation — enabling a holistic approach to meeting the ongoing demands of GDPR.