Alation

MARCH 22, 2022

DataOps requires an array of technology to automate the design, development, deployment, and management of data delivery, with governance sprinkled on for good measure. In fact, DataOps places an outsized burden on data management teams. Accenture and Alation have collaborated to provide the answer. Alation’s DataOps Role.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Alation achieves a top-rank for Innovation within the peer group Data Governance Products , according to BARC’s The Data Management Survey 22. Feedback from real Alation users informed the survey results. Alation scored above average in 13 of 17 KPIs, and 90% of users surveyed said they’d recommend Alation to others.

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Alation

MAY 11, 2023

In this blog, I’ll detail how we’ve grown in EMEA specifically, sharing exciting updates and plans for the future. The CDO of The Very Group, Steve Pimblett, is an Alation champion who’s overseen incredible momentum around data use within his own organisation. These metrics are a testament to our global expansion in EMEA and APAC.

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Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

A data strategy is a long-term plan setting out the technologies, processes, people, and rules that manage data. Gartner describes it as ‘ a highly dynamic process employed to support the acquisition, organisation, analysis, and delivery of data in support of business objectives ’. What is a data strategy?

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Alation

APRIL 18, 2023

In this blog, we’ll cover the definition of data profiling, top use cases, and share important techniques and best practices for data profiling today. How do other thought leaders define it? This is one of the use cases that I’ve used across my career,” shares Marlene Simon, Lead Professional Services Consultant at Alation. “If

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Earlier this month in London, more than 1,600 data and analytics leaders and professionals gathered for the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit. In her session, “What CDOs Need to Know About Emotion AI” Annette Zimmermann, VP analyst at Gartner, pointed to some truly incredible breakthroughs. Human Curation + Machine Learning.

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Alation

JUNE 16, 2021

Alation has been named the #1 data catalog in Dresner Advisory Services’ 2021 Wisdom of Crowds® Data Catalog Market Study. Alation received the highest score of 2021, marking this as the fifth straight year in which Alation has been ranked the best data catalog on the market by the research firm. business intelligence) solution.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Gone are the days when static metadata repositories and manual curation were enough (if they ever really were). In a recent report*, Gartner analysts, Ehtisham Zaidi and Guido De Simoni, call augmented data catalogs an “enterprise must-have” for data and analytics leaders. Hundreds of data sources. Millions of datasets.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This is the last of the 4-part blog series. In the previous blog , we discussed how Alation provides a platform for data scientists and analysts to complete projects and analysis at speed. In this blog we will discuss how Alation helps minimize risk with active data governance.

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erwin

MAY 18, 2022

Built on the Gartner-recognized DQLabs augmented data quality platform, erwin Data Intelligence’s new data quality offering provides erwin Data Intelligence customers with the ability to leverage erwin Data Catalog metadata to initiate a need for data quality assessment. First, erwin Data Intelligence 12.0 And, this is why.

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Alation

JANUARY 25, 2022

Data fabric is now on the minds of most data management leaders. In our previous blog, Data Mesh vs. Data Fabric: A Love Story , we defined data fabric and outlined its uses and motivations. This marketecture diagram 2 is a simplified version of its fellow from our first blog. The Power of Social Metadata.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In our first blog in this series , we define the terms data fabric and data mesh. The second blog took a deeper dive into data fabric, examining its key pillars and the role of the data catalog in each. In this blog, we’ll do the same with data mesh, unpacking the four key pillars, with a few notes on the role of the data catalog.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Key analyst firms like Forrester, Gartner, and 451 Research have cited “ soaring demands from data catalogs ”, pondered whether data catalogs are the “ most important breakthrough in analytics to have emerged in the last decade ,” and heralded the arrival of a brand new market: Machine Learning Data Catalogs.

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Alation

JULY 6, 2021

Small wonder that leaders are overwhelmed! Source: Gartner : Adaptive Data and Analytics Governance to Achieve Digital Business Success. This means that leaders confront challenges within and without. Many leaders may think that “IT owns the data.” Yet tech is catching up. Top Challenges.

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

It includes intelligence about data, or metadata. The earliest DI use cases leveraged metadata — EG, popularity rankings reflecting the most used data — to surface assets most useful to others. Again, metadata is key. Data Intelligence and Metadata. Data intelligence is fueled by metadata.

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Alation

AUGUST 2, 2022

Gartner describes it as “the ability of people in an organization to understand customers’ situations, perceptions, and expectations.” Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organizations and Shape the Future, page 71.). Too often, companies manage data in spreadsheets or individual databases.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We’re delighted to watch leading organizations like Daimler, eBay, Hilton Hotels, LinkedIn, Munich Re, and Pfizer trust the Alation Data Catalog to connect analytics to decision-making every single day. I’m here with Aaron Kalb, who is the co-founder and VP of design at Alation. Alation does the exact same thing.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

On the front-end, organizations invested in customer relationship management (CRM) software. Increasingly, Chief Data Officers (CDOs) are the leaders tasked with harnessing data to drive the business forward. As data initiatives mature, the Alation data catalog is becoming central to an expanding set of use cases.

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