Alation Data Catalog

Alation Data Catalog

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Alation	Score7.2 out of 10	N/A	Alation offers enterprise data intelligence solutions, including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation operates in thethe data catalog market. With its Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight with the goal of tackle the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	Alation Verified User Chose Alation Alation might not have the same level of technical capabilities and features as these others (though it's very close) but what Alation offers is a neat and easy to learn UI. The new UI is even better, bringing more content onto the same space like Informatica while maintaining … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alation n/a Incentivized Helpful? Miriam Barberena Data Governance Analyst in Information Technology at NI (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Alation Alation's implementation seemed easier, and their team seemed more responsive and willing to work with our needs. The product and Alation as a company met more of our needs than the others. Incentivized Helpful? Allen Goldschmidt Director of Data Management in Engineering at Fiserv (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Alation Alation is much easier to use than Ataccama ONE. Specific technical training and skills are necessary to use Ataccama whereas Alation is easy to use right out of the box. Incentivized Helpful? Karla Kirton Data Architect in Information Technology at Blockdaemon (Financial Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Alation Additionally GCP data catalog (not on the listed selection options) Alation had a far more feature rich product, that connected well to our data architecture. None of the other tools at the time supported a connection to Kafka which is fundamental to our data processing. Incentivized Helpful? Alan Sheppard National Data Governance and Compliance Manager in Information Technology at Hato Hone St John (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Alation Alation provided the right balance of connection with systems in use, trusted reputation and affordability. The product integrates with current ways of working and does not require reorganisation within other lines of business. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alation Alation has the best user interface, easiest ability to implement, and sufficient opportunities to customize the platform to specific needs. Their customer and sales support is best in class and supportive throughout evaluation, implementation, and customer care. It solves the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alation Alation Data Catalog is so far above and beyond the functionality we had in Talend. The flexibility between user pages/groups stands out as the first major improvement. We have the connectors available to us for the different types of software we use. The ability to query … Incentivized Helpful? Nicole Guaetta-Hoffmann, CDMP Data Architect in Information Technology at Veterans United Home Loans (Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Alation We tried a home grown catalog, Informatica and Collibra in the past and none of these solutions were successful, in part because the company was not ready and also because they were not the right tools for the job. For each, the price point was also much higher. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alation leader in industry and adopted by our organisation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alation 1.Alation is cheaper. 2.Manta meets the needs only in discovering lineage. 3.AWS Glue is more technical data catalog and it doesn`t allow to describe source or table in detailed way. Incentivized Helpful? Joe Harrington Director of Business Intelligence at East Idaho Credit Union (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose Alation Alation had such good connectivity to third party platforms that we wanted to go with them. In particular they are tied very well to snowflake and tableau which are our two most critical systems. Additionally, Alation is so well received in the industry that it is easy to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alation Alation Data Catalog allows for more powerful data analysis, queries and export of said queries to build data models and reports that lead to internal presentations. It's more user-friendly than Azure SQL, and more powerful than Microsoft Excel VBA, though I still prefer to use … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Alation Apache atlas, LinkedIn Datahub, Lyft Amundsen are some of the open-source tools we've explored before using Alation. Alation is way advanced over these tools and it has AI capabilities to help you write queries in an automated fashion. and learn more about the data in an easy … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Alation
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (17 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (2 ratings)