Alation

APRIL 7, 2021

Jason Lim, director of Technical Product Marketing: Before we dive into what Alation Cloud Service is, can you tell me what was the motivation for building Alation Cloud Service? There are several reasons why a cloud service makes sense for some customers. Alation Cloud Service is deployed in the public cloud.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Alation and Tableau are instrumental in helping organizations create a data-driven culture by surfacing trusted data. Alation complements Tableau to empower everyone in an organization to answer questions with data – increasing the productivity, and enabling data stewardship across the organization. Watch the webinar here.).

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Alation

MARCH 7, 2023

Below, Nolan shares how Avista uses Alation to transform data into value. A Ship Named Alation We knew we needed to get a handle, er, tentacle, on each of these eight areas to achieve our goal of improving analyst productivity. So off we went to tame our data beast aboard the SS Alation! Curation became our main focus.

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Alation

MARCH 1, 2023

To learn the answer, we sat down with Karla Kirton , Data Architect at Blockdaemon, a blockchain company, to discuss data strategy , decentralization, and how implementing Alation has supported them. We made data available to those that needed it and the experts that are there. And, that’s what Alation has provided us.

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Alation

APRIL 14, 2023

Last week, the Alation team had the privilege of joining IT professionals, business leaders, and data analysts and scientists for the Modern Data Stack Conference in San Francisco. The show floor was buzzing with industry experts, networking and sharing valuable insights on the latest developments in the data space.

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Alation

JULY 13, 2021

However, collection of new data types is increasing, as experts have noticed these same organizations are now also managing internal text data, machine data, and semi-structured data at a greater percent than ever before. A rising demand for self-service analytics (over the reports and dashboards of old) is another factor.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Alation is excited to unveil Alation Connected Sheets , a new product that brings trusted, fresh data directly to spreadsheet users. Alation Connected Sheets is fully available for Google sheets , with plans to integrate with Excel coming very soon. Not knowing the right expert for questions about the data.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In an increasingly noisy data cataloging space, this recognition is a reminder that Alation continues to lead the pack with 100+ customers and a unique solution built on the combination of human collaboration and machine learning. The Accolades Continue to Roll. Ventana Research: 2018 Digital Innovation Awards for Big Data.

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Alation

APRIL 5, 2022

Not everyone has to be a data expert — leave that to the actual experts. A Cincinnati–based financial services company managing assets worth nearly half a billion dollars, Fifth Third launched “Bei Dati” (Italian for “beautiful data”), an execution plan for data management within a visual and fun format. Reinforcement.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Making subject matter experts available to deliver more isn’t just great for your organisation, it’s also great for your experts – freeing them up from answering the same questions and allowing them to explore more exciting business opportunities can be great for job satisfaction. How can Alation help you?

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Alation

JUNE 30, 2021

Alation has been named one of the Leaders in the GigaOm Radar for Data Catalogs Report. Alation pioneered the data catalog market and is a leader in this radar report because of its continued innovation,” said Andrew Brust, Analyst at GigaOm. The report’s release coincides with an exciting time for Alation.

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Alation

MARCH 8, 2022

Self-service analytics aims to remedy that situation by giving business users the knowledge needed to quickly find, access, and use the right data for the right job. Here’s everything you need to know about self-service analytics and how it can help your organization move faster and make better decisions. 6 Benefits Worth Noting.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Today, Alation is the leading data catalog. In essence, this is what Alation data intelligence is: A focus on the human experience around data, coupled with a compassionate commitment to improving this experience in every way. Self-Service Analytics. Subject matter experts share explicit intelligence in wiki-like articles.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

At Alation, we help business leaders develop an effective data governance operating model and help them to better understand how data governance decisions should be made. Consistent data privacy: Alation has made it much easier for data teams to control the handling and employee access of sensitive data in a Snowflake data ecosystem.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Since we launched the company, Alation has delivered a unique way to catalog data for the enterprise. Inspired by Google’s ability to automatically catalog the Internet by observing consumer behavior, we built Alation 1.0 We decided to address these needs for SQL engines over Hadoop in Alation 4.0.

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Alation

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Finally, cloud services enable businesses to reduce costs by eliminating upfront capital expenditures associated with purchasing and maintaining physical infrastructure and allowing them to pay only for what they use, scaling resources as needed. How Alation Can Help Accelerate Cloud Transformation. Subscribe to Alation's Blog.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Effective data governance also standardizes data and data terminology, exposes the details behind data elements and sources, shares institutional knowledge for better data usage, and identifies the subject matter experts to consult when questions arise. How Alation Data Governance Improves Retail. Subscribe to Alation's Blog.

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Alation

APRIL 18, 2023

In the past, experts would need to write dozens of queries to extract this information over hours or days. Data quality issue resolution When things break, experts often reach to data profiling as the first step to finding a fix. Learn how Alation enables data quality partners to customize solutions on our open framework.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Data and analytics experts were also spread across the organization, with some under the technology team but others embedded in the various business units. So he began working on a pilot project with data catalog and governance tool vendor Alation about a year ago, after it responded to Very’s RFP.

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Alation

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Increasingly, data catalogs now address a broad range of data intelligence solutions, including self-service analytics , data governance , privacy , and cloud transformation. Key business people (domain owners) and application subject matter experts. Subscribe to Alation's Blog. Downstream consumers.

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Alation

JUNE 14, 2023

At the recent webinar Fifth Third’s Journey to Data Mesh with Alation and Snowflake Kaleigh Lavorini , director of product ownership and data strategy at Fifth Third , explains that many people don’t know whether they’re a data source owner, or even where their data goes or who uses it. Register (and book a meeting with our team).

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As data management becomes more complex with data lakes, big data, self-service analytics,and data science, the role of metadata changes, and the importance of metadata increases exponentially. Metadata in the Age of Self-Service. Subscribe to Alation's Blog. appeared first on Alation. Automated metadata discovery.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2023

According to a 2022 study from Alation and Wakefield Research, 71% of data leaders said they were “less than very confident” that their company’s leadership sees a link between investing in data and analytics and staying ahead of the competition. The composer creates and sells the storyline of the value of data and analytics.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Gartner’s Gareth Herschel, VP analyst, pointed out that although “Hotel Weird” presents a compelling novelty, machines just aren’t great at every aspect of service. The angry customer is sent to a trained expert who is now prepared to deal with a disgruntled customer. Subscribe to Alation's Blog.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

Alation Alation is an enterprise data catalog that automatically indexes data by source. Meant specifically to support self-service analytics, TrustCheck attaches guidelines and rules to data assets. One of its key capabilities, TrustCheck, provides real-time “guardrails” to workflows.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

To keep up with the rapid influx of data, the many disparate data environments, and the rise in self-service analytics users, enterprises need an enterprise data catalog to drive the business forward with data, and ensure compliant, accurate data use. Subscribe to Alation's Blog. But, perhaps, you don’t need to be convinced.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Data catalogs have become the standard for metadata management in the age of big data and self-service analytics. People metadata describes those who work with data—consumers, curators, stewards, subject matter experts, etc. We work in an age of self-service analytics. Subscribe to Alation's Blog.

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Alation

MARCH 31, 2022

So I was surprised to learn from my colleague Myles Suer’s blog piece about Self-Service vs. Traditional BI that it was first referenced in 1865. Democratising access to all users is essential to the next chapter of BI: self-service at scale. Blockers to Wider Adoption of Self-Service BI. What should self-service BI look like?

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Ron is an independent analyst and industry expert for the BeyeNetwork and executive producer of The World Transformed Fast Forward Series. Graves: One of the things that we found with our user population within GoDaddy, our business partners, is that we needed to get them information that they could easily use via self-service.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Andreas Kohlmaier, Head of Data Engineering at Munich Re 1. --> Ron Powell, independent analyst and industry expert for the BeyeNETWORK and executive producer of The World Transformed FastForward Series, interviews Andreas Kohlmaier, Head of Data Engineering at Munich Re. Subscribe to Alation's Blog. energy going on.

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Alation

JULY 30, 2021

In his book Managing Brand Equity, David Aaker suggests that disasters can reduce the perceived value of a firm’s products or services. By making the best data sources discoverable, machine learning connects more experts to more actionable, useful data. Subscribe to Alation's Blog. The above problems, fortunately, meet this end.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Today, there are more than 1,000, with Alation joining the unicorn herd in June 2021. Today, we’re excited to share that Alation has surpassed the $100M ARR mark, making it a Centaur. This news comes on the heels of many exciting Alation announcements. It’s what your customers are willing to pay for the service you provide.

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Alation

JULY 7, 2022

Alation launched the Data Intelligence Project in the summer of 2021 to train the next generation of data leaders. With Alation, students learn the critical skills they need to curate, govern, and discover data assets in the data-driven enterprises of today. He even had a name for it: Alation Open. Our paths converge.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

However, I paused and asked myself: What is the value that customers of Alation actually got for non-compliance or data security use cases? To my surprise, the customer case studies largely centered around the value provided from self-service BI. You are assembling a cadre of data experts with the catalog. Parting Words.

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Alation

JANUARY 11, 2023

Alation empowers users to discover the right data via search, understand that data through detailed metadata, and trust that data based on governance and lineage. Broad connectivity to data sources is a core pillar of Alation’s data intelligence platform. A platform approach to data intelligence. Architecting an open framework.

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Domino Data Lab

APRIL 3, 2019

Granted, I’m no expert in DG. So when I asked people who are experts in this field, it was no surprise that their responses came back posed as questions. Overall, I’m not convinced there are many people who are complete experts in DG. DG emerges for the big data side of the world, e.g., the Alation launch in 2012.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Alation and Snowflake are tightly integrated, bringing robust governance capabilities to the Snowflake Data Cloud. When it comes to enterprise governance , many are leveraging a combination of the Alation Data Catalog and Snowflake Data Cloud. Alation and Snowflake Help You Scale Governance. For whom, and for how long?

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