Alation

MAY 24, 2022

In the latest release of Alation, 2022.2, Data quality has become one dimension of a larger category called data observability , which is about diagnosing the internal state of the entire data value chain, by observing its outputs with the purpose of rectifying issues. How Data Quality Supports Data Intelligence.

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Alation

JULY 15, 2021

Eckerson recommends Alation for companies focused on supporting a wide range of users with a collaborative, social platform: Alation takes a people-oriented approach to the data catalog, seeking to foster collaboration and conversation about data. This is why data search & discovery is a core feature to Alation.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Alation has raised $123M in Series E funding at a valuation of in excess of $1.7B, a material increase from the Series D round in June of last year, particularly in the context of the recent stock-market decline. We’re very, very excited about that. “Alation’s momentum stood out,” he says.

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O'Reilly on Data

MAY 21, 2019

While we continue to read about impressive breakthroughs in speech and computer vision, companies are beginning to use deep learning to augment or replace existing models and algorithms. About a third of the respondents in the survey indicated they are interested in data governance systems and data catalogs. What about the cloud?

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

At Alation, our mission is to empower a more curious and rational world. SDR Yana Fedetov shared, “What I learned about inclusion over the years is that the only way to enjoy the benefits from a plethora of perspectives is being able to share your unique voice and be heard. Subscribe to Alation's Blog.

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Alation

JULY 19, 2021

Metadata is information about data. Today, metadata is extremely helpful in classifying, describing, and providing critical information about digital data. But there is a way to catalog and classify data that is mind blowing: it’s data…about data ! Subscribe to Alation's Blog. What Is Metadata?

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Today, there are more than 1,000, with Alation joining the unicorn herd in June 2021. Today, we’re excited to share that Alation has surpassed the $100M ARR mark, making it a Centaur. This news comes on the heels of many exciting Alation announcements. That’s exactly what we’re seeing at Alation.

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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. But what about governance rules that enforce quality? This step is about cataloging data sources and discovering data sources containing the specified critical data elements. Step 4: Data Sources.

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FineReport

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Tetapi orang-orang yang sering berurusan dengan laporan tahu bahwa sangat sulit untuk menggunakan Excel sebagai alat pelaporan. Untungnya, dengan munculnya alat pelaporan excel, Anda tidak perlu menghabiskan waktu berjam-jam untuk belajar bagaimana membuat alat pelaporan interaktif di Excel. Apa itu Alat Pelaporan Excel?

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Alation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

I don’t know about you, but every once in a while someone asks me a question and the answer completely changes my perspective on a topic. However, I paused and asked myself: What is the value that customers of Alation actually got for non-compliance or data security use cases? Subscribe to Alation's Blog. Parting Words.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. However, about 50% of those surveyed also admit that they do not assess, monitor, or measure their data governance systems. The irony is that most executives are acutely aware of the problem—but they aren’t doing much about it.

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Alation

AUGUST 9, 2021

Data catalogs , like Alation, are often a business user’s point of entry to data. Today, Blackstone’s data analytics stack includes Fivetran, Snowflake, Sigma, Jupyter Notebooks, Alation, and various other tools. The integration between Alation and Sigma at Blackstone is an example of how to solve this workflow issue.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I manage events at Alation, a fast growing enterprise data catalog company. If you “talked shop,” did you learn anything new about their role or day to day? Most of the other responses were around people actively trying NOT to talk about work and just getting to know each other on a personal level. 100% said Yes.

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Alation

MARCH 29, 2022

At Alation, we believe self-service has three unique stakeholders: End users trying to discover data for decision making. That’s why the value of self-service centers around changing how organizations think about what they’re doing and why. But at its core, it’s about making data discoverable, trustworthy, and shareable.

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Alation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In this essay, Jason reflects on the value of thinking spatially about data, showing how his experience as a graduate student influences his role as a data scientist today. After all, it’s not the data that is special, it’s how we think about data and the context in which we can place it that is worth drawing attention.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If you’ve been keeping up with the news, you’ve heard about the destructive bushfires that have burned more than 27.2 The post Scan Your Badge and Make a Difference appeared first on Alation. million acres across Australia. As a California-based company, we’ve witnessed […].

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Alation

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Alation is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Lyngo Analytics. I sat down with Raj Gossain, Chief Product Officer at Alation, to learn why we’re excited about Lyngo, how our new integration will empower business users, and what this means for the future of data intelligence. Let’s dive in. What is Lyngo Analytics?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It’s about making sure we understand the legal basis by which we’re capturing data, what we’re doing with it, where it flows, how we use it, and that we govern all those things,” he says. A lot of roles in data just talk about the data,” he says. Where do we store it? What’s the infrastructure? What’s our warehousing technology?

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Alation

DECEMBER 20, 2022

That means it’s no longer about offering the best products and services. Several years ago, the CIO of a major nonprofit told me that everyone in the organization — including the people who would be impacted — understood the reason for a change, but some were worried about how their day-to-day roles would be impacted. Parting Words.

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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 helps everyone understand and leverage their data by making that data accessible to everyone. Alation Is the Treasure Map to Your Data Cloud.

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Alation

JUNE 14, 2021

Without question, CIOs want their CISOs thinking about more than moots, castles and simple access control and security. Once you have data classification then you can talk about whether you need to tokenize and why, or anonymize and why, or encrypt and why, etc.” Subscribe to Alation's Blog. These questions drive classification.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

Whereas data governance is about the roles, responsibilities, and processes for ensuring accountability for and ownership of data assets, DAMA defines data management as “an overarching term that describes the processes used to plan, specify, enable, create, acquire, maintain, use, archive, retrieve, control, and purge data.”

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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. Our theme was, “ Alation Is the Treasure Map to You Data ,” but the real treasure was the people we met and the connections we made to move the industry forward. Embrace Data Governance. Data Governance Partner of the Year.

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Alation

MARCH 29, 2021

It empowers everyone — from business analysts and sales managers, to marketing specialists — to make better decisions about virtually any business challenge. It’s also a repository of metadata — or data about data — on information sources from across the enterprise, including data sets, business intelligence reports, and visualizations.

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Alation

AUGUST 17, 2022

Too often, organizations don’t educate their users about data governance, security, and business risk,” claims analyst Jack Gold. The people involved need to know a ton about the data and how it’s used — this is not easy and often not in InfoSec’s charter.”. Curious to learn more about data governance solutions ?

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Alation

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Alation is the leading platform for data intelligence , delivering critical context about data to empower smarter use; to this end, it centralizes technical, operational, business, and behavioral metadata from a broad variety of sources. Alation Anywhere for Slack. Alation Anywhere will expand to the chat app Slack.

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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. Operationalize Data Governance.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In this podcast, Satyen gives an overview of the Alation product as well as describes the mission of Alation – making data accessible. And for those of you interested in learning more about the founding of Alation and its early days, this is a great podcast to listen to as you think about your own entrepreneurial pursuits! .

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Alation

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It seems with all this innovation, Santa had one of just about everything — sometimes two of everything! When Frizzle and Sparkle became regulars at the weekly demo, we knew Santa was getting serious about his data. Pretty soon, it was obvious that the data team up at the Pole was getting serious about tackling their data problem.

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Alation

MAY 20, 2021

I know you worked on important new updates in Alation Analytics. Can you tell us more about what Alation Analytics is and it’s connection to data culture? Monali Narayanaswami, director of product management, Alation: In 2020.3 last year, we set a goal to make Alation Analytics better serve our customers.

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Alation

APRIL 2, 2021

Three new case studies from Alation have exciting implications for the world of data management. The Alation platform saves many hours of time and effort, according to study findings. Recently I sat down with the study authors and data scientists at Alation, Andrea Levy and Naveen Kalyanasamy. What was your approach?

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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 Who can answer my questions about this dataset? to catalog enterprise data by observing analyst behaviors.

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Alation

MAY 12, 2023

At Alation, one of our core values is to measure success through customer impact. Why Our Customers Say Alation Is Top Rated Alation is the proven leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions. Data Catalog It should come as no surprise that Alation wins in this category.

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Alation

APRIL 7, 2021

Jason Lim, director of Technical Product Marketing: Before we dive into what Alation Cloud Service is, can you tell me what was the motivation for building Alation Cloud Service? First, customers like having the option to deploy and manage Alation themselves on-premises or in the cloud. Jason Ma: Sure.

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Alation

JUNE 20, 2023

We spoke with Katie Dreller , a Heights data steward, and Will Brantley , CURO’s Director of Data Governance, about how they united with Alation to conquer these challenges while fostering adoption of Alation Data Catalog. Alation: Easier said than done. Alation: Plus you had a deadline. Then the real work began.

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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. In the meantime, here’s a bit more about what this assessment means to customers and prospects alike. The Highest Product Capabilities Score.

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