Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Today, we’re announcing that Alation has closed a $50 million Series C funding led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from new investor Salesforce Ventures and our existing investors Costanoa Ventures, DCVC (Data Collective), Harmony Partners and Icon Ventures. And, the data catalog market has had a year of incredible growth.

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Alation

MARCH 8, 2022

When a data analyst exclaims, “I’ll just do it myself!”, They either can’t wait for someone else to find it or can’t explain exactly what they need, so they set off to search and dig and waste time looking for that data needle in the proverbial haystack. Business users gain a complete understanding of the available data.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today’s enterprise data science teams have one of the most challenging, yet most important roles to play in your business’s ML strategy. With almost all of the Fortune 500 and a majority of the Global 2000 relying on Cloudera for their most important data assets, Cloudera’s Machine Learning product (CML) is the way enterprises do ML.

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erwin

APRIL 16, 2020

erwin’s metadata management offering, the erwin Data Intelligence Suite (erwin DI), is comprised of erwin Data Catalog (erwin DC) and erwin Data Literacy (erwin DL) with built-in automation for greater visibility, understanding and use of enterprise data. and/or its affiliates, and is used herein with permission.

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Alation

MARCH 31, 2022

In the breakneck world of data, which I have been privy to since the mid 1990s, business intelligence remains one of the most enduring terms. 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. The Rise of the Data Warehouse.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

However, as the data warehousing world shifts into a fast-paced, digital, and agile era, the demands to quickly generate reports and help guide data-driven decisions are constantly increasing. Consider the following: More data types to be queried, but increasingly the data resides in separate silos.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Amazon DataZone enables customers to discover, access, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries, reducing the undifferentiated heavy lifting of making data and analytics tools accessible to everyone in the organization. This is challenging because access to data is managed differently by each of the tools.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The financial services industry has been in the process of modernizing its data governance for more than a decade. The answer is data lineage. We’ve compiled six key reasons why financial organizations are turning to lineage platforms like MANTA to get control of their data. Data lineage helps during these investigations.

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Alation

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Few actors in the modern data stack have inspired the enthusiasm and fervent support as dbt. This data transformation tool enables data analysts and engineers to transform, test and document data in the cloud data warehouse. Bindu Chandramohan, Lead, Data Analytics, Alation : Thanks, Jason! Happy to chat.

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Alation

AUGUST 16, 2022

This week, IDC released its second IDC MarketScape for Data Catalogs report, and we’re excited to share that Alation was recognized as a leader for the second consecutive time. All catalog vendors provide a “range” of capabilities. Many data catalogs suffer from a lack of adoption because they are too technical.

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Alation

APRIL 14, 2022

Moving data to the cloud can bring immense operational benefits. However, the sheer volume and complexity of today’s enterprise data can cause downstream headaches for data users. Semantics, context, and how data is tracked and used mean even more as you stretch to reach post-migration goals. Data pipeline orchestration.

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Alation

MARCH 29, 2021

How data catalogs with search & discovery help users. To keep up, more businesses have shifted toward data-driven decision making. According to a NewVantage Partners Report , 96% of executives indicate that their organization aspires to a data-driven culture, while only 24% report success.

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Alation

APRIL 4, 2023

Alation delivers extended connectivity for Databricks Unity Catalog , the lakehouse company, and new connectivity for dbt Cloud by dbt Labs , the pioneer in analytics engineering. Now, joint users will get an enhanced view into cloud and data transformations , with valuable context to guide smarter usage.

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Andrew White

JANUARY 9, 2022

On Thursday January 6th I hosted Gartner’s 2022 Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics webinar. – In the webinar and Leadership Vision deck for Data and Analytics we called out AI engineering as a big trend. I would take a look at our Top Trends for Data and Analytics 2021 for additional AI, ML and related trends.

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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. The data catalog is a foundational layer of the data fabric.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. However, most organizations don’t use all the data at their disposal to reach deeper conclusions about how to drive revenue, achieve regulatory compliance or accomplish other strategic objectives. Quite simply, metadata is data about data.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

“Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been.” Ten years ago, there was no modern data catalog. In 8 years, Michael has held six titles, and played essential roles in developing the product UI, as well as the data-driven culture thriving in the engineering department today.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Data Governance is growing essential. Data growth, shrinking talent pool, data silos – legacy & modern, hybrid & cloud, and multiple tools – add to their challenges. Hence, they are pursuing cloud transformation to help manage growth in data and cost. Meanwhile, data scientists and analysts need access to data.

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Alation

AUGUST 31, 2021

In the previous blog , we discussed how Alation accelerates your journey to the Snowflake Data Cloud. In this blog, we will discuss how Alation provides a platform for data scientists and analysts to complete projects and analysis with speed. How will you support your key users in the Data Cloud?

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Alation

AUGUST 24, 2021

In the previous blog , we discussed the race to the South Pole of 1911-12, and explored how approach was key. As you consider your journey to the Snowflake Data Cloud, why might a superior approach matter? We discussed how the Alation Data Catalog helps you get to the Snowflake Data Cloud quickly and safely.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It requires organizations to adopt a scientific mindset of testing and iteration to find the truth, rather than using data to support a predetermined path. According to a new survey from NewVantage Partners , 72% of executives say they have yet to forge a data culture, let alone a customer data culture. The reason?

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Cloudera

APRIL 11, 2023

One of the core principles that guides Cloudera and everything we do is a commitment to the open source community. As the entire Cloudera Data Platform is built on open source projects, we find it crucial to participate in and contribute back to the community. Applied ML prototypes are one of the ways that we accomplish this.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 21, 2021

While cloud-native, point-solution data warehouse services may serve your immediate business needs, there are dangers to the corporation as a whole when you do your own IT this way. And you also already know siloed data is costly, as that means it will be much tougher to derive novel insights from all of your data by joining data sets.

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Alation

APRIL 2, 2021

Three new case studies from Alation have exciting implications for the world of data management. The Time Is on My Side case studies examine major pain points for data-centric enterprises. Recently I sat down with the study authors and data scientists at Alation, Andrea Levy and Naveen Kalyanasamy. What is its value?

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DataRobot Blog

APRIL 1, 2018

Paxata was a Silver Sponsor at the recent Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Grapevine Texas. Although some product solutions disrupted the operational reporting market, they require users to know the questions they need to ask their data. 2) Line of business is taking a more active role in data projects. We agree with that.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Table of Contents 1) The Benefits Of Data Visualization 2) Our Top 27 Best Data Visualizations 3) Interactive Data Visualization: What’s In It For Me? 4) Static vs. Animated Data Visualization Data is the new oil? No, data is the new soil.” ” – David McCandless Humans are visual creatures.

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Alation

APRIL 12, 2022

In 2002, Capital One became the first company to appoint a Chief Data Officer (CDO). Early CDOs largely sought to ensure compliance with regulations around financial data, taking a defensive posture to guard company and customer information. Today, the modern CDO drives the data strategy for the entire organization.

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Alation

MAY 27, 2021

For data-driven enterprises, data governance is no longer an option; it’s a necessity. Businesses are growing more dependent on data governance to manage data policies, compliance, and quality. For these reasons, a business’ data governance approach is essential. Data Democratization.

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Alation

JULY 21, 2021

I’m pleased to share that Alation has been named a data governance leader in the new report, The Forrester Wave : Data Governance Solutions, Q3 2021. This recognition from Forrester is gratifying, as it aligns with the success our customers are having with Alation and their data governance programs. Class-Leading Capabilities.

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datapine

MAY 17, 2021

1) What Is Data Discovery? 2) Why is Data Discovery So Popular? 3) Data Discovery Tools Attributes. 5) How To Perform Smart Data Discovery. 6) Data Discovery For The Modern Age. We live in a time where data is all around us. Being a data-driven organization starts with understanding your data.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We recently announced $50M in Series C funding to supercharge our growth, cement our leadership position, and innovate so data catalogs can create even deeper and broader value than they are today. As well as our great community of over 100 customers now who want to build this data-democratized future with us.

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Alation

AUGUST 2, 2022

Similary, every touchpoint offers data that can help you improve that customer experience, from the number and duration of support interactions to the intuitiveness of your website. Analyzing this data can build your ability to anticipate a customer’s specific needs. But customers aren’t data; they’re people.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Prashant Parikh, erwin’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, talks about erwin’s vision to automate every aspect of the data governance journey to increase speed to insights. The clear benefit is that data stewards spend less time building and populating the data governance framework and more time realizing value and ROI from it.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

What Is Data Governance In The Public Sector? Effective data governance for the public sector enables entities to ensure data quality, enhance security, protect privacy, and meet compliance requirements. With so much focus on compliance, democratizing data for self-service analytics can present a challenge.

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Alation

AUGUST 9, 2021

In her current role as VP of UX, Design & Research at Sigma Computing, she deploys human-centric design to support data democratization and analysis. Less than 40 percent of Fortune 1000 companies are managing data as an asset and only 24 percent of executives consider their organization to be data-driven.

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