Alation

 

“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

Accelerate time to insight

Advanced AI capabilities make Alation the most intelligent data catalog on the market. Powered by the Behavioral Analysis Engine, Alation surfaces insight details like popularity, search relevancy, usage recommendations, and more — guiding users to the best use of data.

Spur collaboration and eliminate data silos

Build a shared data language. Centralize your data’s context, rules, policies, definitions, and relationships in a single source of reference. Build trust in data while improving accuracy of analytics and analyst productivity.

People-first data governance

Alation’s data governance methodology was created to close the gap between guidelines, policies, and the way that data is actually being used. The goal is to deliver an iterative process of continuous management and improvement meanwhile empowering people — not punishing them.

Your entire data ecosystem, all in one place

To be able to effectively guide analytics work, spur collaboration, and encourage active data governance, data catalog software must connect to many different data sources.  Alation has 100+ connectors for a wide variety of data sources. Develop connectors to less common sources with our Open Connector SDK.

Quickly scale and save time with ALLIE AI

ALLIE AI is a co-pilot for AI engineers, Data analysts, and data stewards. It builds upon Alation’s machine learning (ML) core so you can democratize data and advance new AI initiatives. Automatically document new data assets and get steward suggestions with Alation’s intelligent curation. Accelerate the population of your data catalog.