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Our Next Phase of Growth: Enterprise Data Catalogs

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The Alation Data Catalog is taking years of data lake and self-service analytics investments and driving them from investments to insights. 451 Research’s Matt Aslett has gone so far as to ask whether the data catalog could be “ the most important breakthrough in analytics to have emerged in the last decade.”

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Why We Started the Data Intelligence Project

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In 2013 I joined American Family Insurance as a metadata analyst. I had always been fascinated by how people find, organize, and access information, so a metadata management role after school was a natural choice. The use cases for metadata are boundless, offering opportunities for innovation in every sector. Our paths converge.

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Join the Alation MLDC World Tour!

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According to the report, “Demand for data catalogs is soaring as organizations struggle to inventory distributed data assets to facilitate data monetization and conform to regulations.” The tour stops at Gartner Symposium next month, where you can learn first hand why Gartner believes “Data Catalogs are the New Black.”.