Alation

JANUARY 20, 2022

Several weeks ago (prior to the Omicron wave), I got to attend my first conference in roughly two years: Dataversity’s Data Quality and Information Quality Conference. Ryan Doupe, Chief Data Officer of American Fidelity, held a thought-provoking session that resonated with me. Instead, data quality rules promote awareness and trust.

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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. What do you do at Alation? Jason: I’m curious to learn about your modern data stack.

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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. Now, “spreadsheet jockeys” can pull the most current, compliant data directly from a range of cloud sources, without having to know SQL or depend on a data team to deliver it.

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Alation

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Data-driven decision-making (DDDM) is the process of using trusted data and insights to drive tactical business decisions that support key goals. Data analysts , scientists , stewards , engineers , and business leaders are just some of the core user groups for DDDM.

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Alation

JUNE 24, 2022

Last week the Alation team joined data leaders from all over the world for Snowflake Summit 2022 in Las Vegas. With over 10,000 people in attendance, it was truly an event for the entire data community. Attendees were focused on one key question: how can we put data into action and make it accessible to everyone?

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Alation

MARCH 1, 2023

In a world as interconnected as ours, it’s difficult to overstate the value of secure information exchange. Blockchain technology delivers a secure record of transaction, using cryptography to interlink records. How are blockchain organizations tackling data management? What are the goals of your data team?

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Alation

APRIL 7, 2021

In the newest offering, Alation Cloud Service , Alation delivers the most comprehensive cloud-based data intelligence platform on the market. It provides users with the simplest and fastest way to drive data intelligence across hybrid environments. Deliver data intelligence, as a service.

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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. In fact, Alation received the highest score in the current offering category. The report evaluated 12 data governance solution providers, scoring them based on 31 criteria.

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Alation

AUGUST 3, 2021

But where DevOps focuses on product development, DataOps aims to reduce the time from data need to data success. At its best, DataOps shortens the cycle time for analytics and aligns with business goals. Operations then releases and monitors the products. What is DevOps? And so it goes. What is DataOps?

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Founded on 12/12/12, Alation celebrated its 10th year in business this week. Among all the internal celebrations, I wanted to take this moment to reflect on our journey so far and ask a thought-provoking question: who is the GOAT of data catalogs ? January 2015: Alation acquires its first customer. What Is a GOAT?

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Alation

JANUARY 11, 2023

The purpose of this program is to build a network of development partners to accelerate the development of connectors that expand the reach of Alation’s data intelligence platform. A platform approach to data intelligence. Data intelligence delivers trustworthy, reliable insight about all of the data within an organization.

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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. We had data but no data intelligence and, as a result, insights remained hidden or hard to come by.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In this day and age, regardless of industry, keeping data protected and its uses understood is vital. No business wants to have the PR nightmare of a data leak or personal data being used without the correct permissions. This is where successful data governance programs can act as a savior to many organizations.

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Alation

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Alation is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Lyngo Analytics. As pioneers in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) space, Lyngo has leveled the data playing field with tools that allow anyone to learn from data. Their product empowers users to take a truly data-driven approach for business-critical decisions.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Today Alation and Teradata announced a strategic partnership. Teradata will sell Alation worldwide. Alation will be the primary solution for Teradata customers seeking a product to help increase the productivity of their data consumers as well as the effectiveness of their data stewards. Good people.

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Alation

AUGUST 2, 2022

Are you responding to these needs as you develop new products and services? Modern businesses may have hundreds of touchpoints across a customer’s lifetime. Analyzing this data can build your ability to anticipate a customer’s specific needs. But customers aren’t data; they’re people. Customers drive business success.

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Alation

AUGUST 11, 2022

DataOps sprung up to connect data sources to data consumers. The data warehouse and analytical data stores moved to the cloud and disaggregated into the data mesh. We chatted about industry trends, why decentralization has become a hot topic in the data world, and how metadata drives many data-centric use cases.

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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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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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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, 2021

How data catalogs with search & discovery help users. Staying ahead in business is challenging — but essential. Every business feels the pressure of competition, resource scarcity, and disruption due to technology breakthroughs. To keep up, more businesses have shifted toward data-driven decision making.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The foundation of insurance is data and analytics. As the volume, veracity, variety, and volume of data expands, insurance companies need a stable framework to govern data and democratize access. Further, compliance regulations like the GDPR and CCPA demand that organizations maintain data security and compliance.

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Alation

APRIL 18, 2023

For any data user in an enterprise today, data profiling is a key tool for resolving data quality issues and building new data solutions. 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.

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Alation

JUNE 3, 2021

Today, I’m excited to share some big news that will allow us to accelerate: Alation has raised $110 million in Series D financing. This also means that Alation is valued at $1.2 And while the business milestone is exciting, I mainly love the idea of being a unicorn because they are super fast. billion — a unicorn.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Banks collect and manage a lot of sensitive data. And, the data collection doesn’t stop there — rich insights like transactions and purchasing information help to round out customer profiles. Data is both the enabler and the competitive advantage behind these experiences.” — Satyen Sangani, CEO and co-founder, Alation.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Data catalogs are here to stay. This week, two independent analyst reports validated what we’ve known for years – data catalogs are critical for self-service analytics.[1]. The Forrester Wave : Machine Learning Data Catalogs, Q2 2018. This is Forrester’s inaugural Wave on data catalogs. A New Market Category.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The way enterprises implement data governance is changing. In the past, data governance either emphasized exercising tight control over data or fitting people into rigid roles and processes. With both approaches, data governance is a hurdle to productive data & analytics rather than an enabler.

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Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

Data gathering and use pervades almost every business function these days — and it’s widely acknowledged that businesses with a clear strategy around data are best placed to succeed in competitive, challenging markets such as defence. What is a data strategy? Why is a data strategy important?

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Alation

JULY 30, 2021

6 Business Problems Data Catalogs Solve. CIOs seek salespeople who use plain language to describe complex business problems. In Key Takeaways from ‘The Qualified Sales Leader’, I shared that salespeople must sell product value over feature and function if they wish to excel. Savings are a piece of this, too.

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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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Alation

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Why should an enterprise care about data culture? Because the lack of a robust data culture can derail your entire data strategy. People are convinced of data’s value but they struggle to use it effectively. People are convinced of data’s value but they struggle to use it effectively.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The value of a tool — like an idea — lies in the using of it. Today, Alation is the leading data catalog. Our product is regarded as the best because our users achieve the most successful outcomes the most quickly. To summarize, we’ve built a usable tool that propagates useful data in a user-friendly way.

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Alation

MARCH 1, 2022

There are many approaches to manage and use data. Despite a plethora of frameworks, ideologies and best practices in the data world, data is fluid and must adapt to unique scenarios. As data complexity increases and organizations become more ‘data driven’, catalogs will continue to rank as a high priority.”.

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Alation

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Companies collect and analyze vast amounts of data to make informed business decisions. From product development to customer satisfaction, nearly every aspect of a business uses data and analytics to measure success and define strategies. So what are the key differences, and what should data users know about them?

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Modern business is built on a foundation of trusted data. Yet high-volume collection makes keeping that foundation sound a challenge, as the amount of data collected by businesses is greater than ever before. An effective data governance strategy is critical for unlocking the full benefits of this information.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

When we work with data, we know where we are starting from, often with a destination in mind, but the path we take is not always the fastest because we may not have all the necessary intelligence to optimize our route. Not only is the data distributed, diverse, and dynamic, but so are the people working with data.

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