Alation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

That’s why when it was announced that Alation achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data and Analytics Competency in the data governance and security category, we were not only honored to receive this coveted designation, but we were also proud that it confirms the synergy — and customer benefits — of our AWS partnership. Conclusion.

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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

MARCH 7, 2023

Nolan Steiner is a scuba diver, octopus lover, and data science team lead at Avista, an energy company involved in the production, transmission, and distribution of energy in eastern Washington, northern Idaho, and parts of Oregon. Below, Nolan shares how Avista uses Alation to transform data into value. Curation became our main focus.

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Alation

MAY 24, 2022

release, Alation is launching its Open Data Quality Initiative to address the challenges of data quality by integrating this valuable information directly into workflows. The Open Data Quality Framework, or ODQF, describes the complete set of product capabilities that are included as part of this initiative. Today, as part of its 2022.2

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Alation

JULY 26, 2022

Driving a data culture is now a lot more — well, driven — thanks to the latest of Alation’s 80+ connectors : Power BI Scanner, which unifies self-service and enterprise analytics and allows users to find answers fast with industry-leading AI. What Is the Significance of the Alation & Power BI Partnership?

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Alation

JUNE 6, 2022

Next week, the Alation team will be at the Snowflake Summit. Alation has been working hard to help all Snowflake users get the most out of their Data Cloud. Alation has been working hard to help all Snowflake users get the most out of their Data Cloud. Alation Is the Treasure Map to Your Data Cloud.

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Alation

AUGUST 30, 2022

With the launch of our latest product release, 2022.3, we are introducing Alation Anywhere, extending data intelligence directly to the tools in your modern data stack, starting with Tableau. Then Alation came along. Not only do they enjoy enormous productivity gains, they get confidence and peace of mind, as well.

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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.

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Alation

MARCH 31, 2023

I’m talking about not just Walt Disney World, but also this year’s Gartner Data & Analytics Summit , which took place last month in Orlando at the landmark resort. Alation was proud to have been among the thought leaders at the annual gathering of data experts from around the world. It’s the place where dreams come true.

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Alation

MAY 11, 2023

Alation is excited to announce that, following substantial growth in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, it has opened a new office in Chennai, India. In this blog post, I’ll share some exciting details about how Alation is growing in APAC and what this means for data transformation more widely in the region.

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Alation

JANUARY 11, 2022

As Chief Revenue Officer at Alation, my responsibilities go far beyond just sales. I also engage with our customers to ensure the Alation journey continues to be beneficial and rewarding to both them and us. I also engage with our customers to ensure the Alation journey continues to be beneficial and rewarding to both them and us.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 5, 2021

The data teams share a common objective; to create analytics for the (internal or external) customer. Data Governance/Catalog (Metadata management) Workflow – Alation, Collibra, Wikis. Enterprises need to examine their end-to-end data operations and analytics-creation workflow. For example: Complete toolchain.

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Alation

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Alation and Soda are excited to announce a new partnership, which will bring powerful data-quality capabilities into the data catalog. By leveraging Alation with Soda, organizations are equipped to answer key questions, such as: Are critical datasets healthy and up-to-date? Find, Understand, Govern, and Trust Data with Alation + Soda.

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Alation

JULY 19, 2021

Indeed, a popular online catalog, like Amazon, offers rich metadata around products to guide shoppers: ratings, reviews, and product details are all examples of metadata. This is the fourth consecutive year Alation has been recognized as a Leader. Subscribe to Alation's Blog. Subscribe to Alation's Blog.

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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. According to Paul Walker , account executive at Alation, the biggest message at MDSCon was that “the power is in the hands of business users.”

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Alation

JANUARY 20, 2022

Quality policies for data and analytics set expectations about the “fitness for purpose” of artifacts across various dimensions. – Gartner, “Data and Analytics Governance Requires a Comprehensive Range of Policy Types” 1. Implementing Data Quality with Alation. These integrations let us provide a whole product.

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Alation

JANUARY 10, 2023

Alation’s enterprise data catalog improves the productivity of data analysts , increases the accuracy of analytics, and enables confident data-driven decision making whilst empowering everyone across the organization to connect with data. But what is the Alation Data Catalog’s value in monetary terms?

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Alation

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Because of the criticality of the data they deal with, we think that finance teams should lead the enterprise adoption of data and analytics solutions. Recent articles extol the benefits of supercharging analytics for finance departments 1. Our successful customers invest in and infuse data and analytics throughout the enterprise.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Today, we’re excited to announce that Salesforce is bringing the collaborative power of data cataloging to its users with the integration of Einstein Analytics and the Alation Data Catalog. Alation’s Data Catalog makes finding, understanding and verifying data to ultimately uncover true business insights easy.

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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. Other key findings include….

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Alation

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Competition: By keeping pace with the market, launching new products, or expanding into new territories. How can Alation support companies with their digital transformation? Alation combines machine learning and human collaboration to change the way people find, understand, trust, use and reuse data. Subscribe to Alation's Blog.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Whether we’re speaking to data analysts or CDOs, data people almost instantly understand the value of the Alation Data Catalog. Faces light up when we describe how Alation helps enterprises find, understand, trust, use and reuse data. That’s why we believe Alation is the future of work and our claim is being validated by our users.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

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. The Alation data catalog enables active data governance. Empower anyone to find trusted data.

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Alation

JULY 20, 2022

We’re thrilled to announce that Alation has been named one of the UK’s best workplaces for women by Great Place to Work UK®! “And our commitment to an empathetic culture is essential to keeping them committed to Alation, in turn. Alation Culture for Women: In our own words. Learn more by visiting our Why Alation page.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

According to the Gartner report, The State of Data and Analytics Governance is Worse Than You Think , 80% of businesses acknowledge that high quality governance is essential to achieving long-term business goals. How is governance improving productivity across the business? How can Alation help you? to ensure buy-in.

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Alation

MARCH 22, 2022

Accenture and Alation have collaborated to provide the answer. Accenture calls it the Intelligent Data Foundation (IDF), and it’s used by dozens of enterprises with very complex data landscapes and analytic requirements. They can simply continue to use the same tools but with a greater level of capability and productivity.

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Alation

MARCH 8, 2022

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we sought to recognize some incredible women within the ranks of Alation. Hear from them, in their own words, on why you should consider applying to Alation today. What attracted you to Alation? Stephanie Fitzpatrick, Senior Customer Success Manager: The product initially.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2023

Chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) are poised to be of increasing strategic importance to their organizations, but many are struggling to make headway, according to data presented last week by Gartner at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2023. Organizations are still investing in data and analytics functions.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The term has been used a lot more of late, especially in the data analytics industry, as we’ve seen it expand over the past few years to keep pace with new regulations, like the GDPR and CCPA. Teams are better able to conduct research on AI technologies , new analytics tools, and methods and share them in a DataOps environment.

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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 29, 2022

First, data and analytics teams never were comfortable ceding control up to business teams. Although it became easier for BI and analytics teams to create custom reports and dashboards in tools such as Tableau, Looker, and Power BI those tools still isolated the user from data. This happened for many reasons. Parting Words.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Data is both the enabler and the competitive advantage behind these experiences.” — Satyen Sangani, CEO and co-founder, Alation. Your bank may be thinking of ways to better connect with customers, creating new products, or changing how you operate. If you want to use analytics as part of this review, you need data governance.

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Alation

APRIL 19, 2021

Alation & Global Data Strategy). Deep impact analysis shows how that movement affects processes and analytical applications. Source: Webinar with data expert Claudia Imhoff: A Data-Driven Approach to Cloud Migration (Teradata & Alation). Photo by RODNAE Productions from Pexels. Subscribe to Alation's Blog.

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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. That’s a problem!

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Organizations who are so successful in their adoption of self-service analytics, that their own business intelligence (BI) evangelists worry that they’ve created an analytics “wild west.” When they see a data catalog for the first time, they’re thrilled that a product exists that can govern the west and increase analyst productivity.

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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 envisioned and learnt from the early production customer implementations that cataloging data wasn’t enough.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Building a successful data strategy at scale goes beyond collecting and analyzing data,” says Ryan Swann, chief data analytics officer at financial services firm Vanguard. RaceTrac is leveraging Alation’s Data Intelligence Platform to centralize data as well as provide self-service analytics for users as needed.

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