Alation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Today, there are more than 1,000, with Alation joining the unicorn herd in June 2021. They go on to explain that, at $100M in ARR, these companies have product-market fit, a scalable GTM model, and a growing customer base. Today, we’re excited to share that Alation has surpassed the $100M ARR mark, making it a Centaur.

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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

MAY 24, 2022

In the latest release of Alation, 2022.2, Alation has been leading the evolution of the data catalog to a platform for data intelligence. Higher data intelligence drives higher confidence in everything related to analytics and AI/ML. To help both partners and customers build on top of Alation, we provide open APIs and SDKs.

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Alation

AUGUST 9, 2021

percent) cite culture – a mix of people, process, organization, and change management – as the primary barrier to forging a data-driven culture, it is worth examining data democratization efforts within your organization and the business user’s experience throughout the data analytics stack. Help People Find Data On Their Own Terms.

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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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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

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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2022

Snowflake has launched a cloud-based, data-sharing platform for the healthcare industry that integrates the company’s core data warehousing, analytics and business intelligence offerings with a data marketplace and on-demand consulting services. ai, ThoughtSpot, Health Catalyst, Strata and IQVIA.

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Alation

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Alation is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Lyngo Analytics. Their product empowers users to take a truly data-driven approach for business-critical decisions. Talo Thomson, Head of Content Marketing, Alation: Hi Raj, thanks for taking the time to chat with me today. What is Lyngo Analytics? Let’s dive in.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Data and analytics experts were also spread across the organization, with some under the technology team but others embedded in the various business units. The new model enables Very to design once and deploy everywhere, while maintaining a product focus. It was very fragmented, and I brought it together into a hub-and-spoke model.”.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It’s been one year since we’ve started publishing the Alation State of Data Culture report, and uncertainty still remains the only sure thing. The Alation State of Data Culture Report provides a quarterly assessment of the progress enterprises have made in creating a data culture. Ignore Data at Your Peril. It’s obvious.

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Alation

JUNE 21, 2023

We’re thrilled to share that Alation is now available on Databricks Partner Connect. Now Databricks Premium or Enterprise customers can experience a 14-day trial of Alation, and connect their Databricks workspace. This is a fantastic way to explore Alation with self-guided tours. Riot Games is one such joint customer.

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CIOs may also fall into the trap of misunderstanding product mixes and the downside of auto-renewals, he adds. “I I often ask vendors to walk me through their product quote and explain what each product SKU or line item is, such as the cost for an application with the microservices and containerization,” Phelps says. “We

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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

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

OCTOBER 27, 2022

To answer this question, I sat down with members of the Alation Data & Analytics team, Bindu, Adrian, and Idris. In celebration of last week’s dbt Coalesce, their flagship event, I interviewed the D&A team to learn more about how they leverage dbt to support excellence in analytics. What do you do at Alation?

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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. Important to note? Embrace Data Governance.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Alation is excited to unveil Alation Connected Sheets , a new product that brings trusted, fresh data directly to spreadsheet users. Alation Connected Sheets is fully available for Google sheets , with plans to integrate with Excel coming very soon. Introducing Alation Connected Sheets. product release.

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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

JUNE 16, 2022

If you’re an engineer looking for a career at an organization steeped in business intelligence, awash in analytics, or minted with the mission to help other companies leverage their data , I’ve got good news: Our industry is growing, the work is exciting, and there are so many cutting-edge companies to choose from. So why Alation, then?

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

And this is why we’re excited to partner with Satyen Sangani, Venky Ganti, Aaron Kalb and the rest of the Alation team as they scale go-to-market for the Alation data catalog. We are excited to invest in Alation because we think it has a unique team addressing these critical needs with a superbly executed product.

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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. To arrive at a score, the writers reviewed product capabilities and strategy, combined with interviews with confirmed vendor customers. Architecture.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Channeling the spirit of AC/DC’s iconic album and tour, Alation has set out on its own world tour. Following an unprecedented summer of accolades that have helped establish Alation as the leader in emerging data catalog category, we are in the midst of a nine-show tour. The MLDC World Tour Begins. Data Catalogs Are the New Black.

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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 We’re seeing customers use Alation Analytics for a variety of use cases.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

All of these Alation customers are experimenting with the beginnings of the Sentient Enterprise. The explosion in the amount of data that an enterprise has to deal with and the related rise of self-service analytics has resulted in several problems that the Sentient Enterprise intends to tackle.

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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

JULY 18, 2022

As a proud Databricks partner , Alation joined the data and analytics community for three days of keynotes, leadership remarks, and breakout sessions during the last week of June in San Francisco. How the Unity Catalog and Alation Work Together. Tell them to grab a catalog … and go jump in a lake. Destination Lakehouse.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

A recent report from Gartner, Data Catalogs Are the New Black in Data Management and Analytics finds that, “Demand for data catalogs is soaring as organizations struggle to inventory distributed data assets to facilitate data monetization and conform to regulations.”* The trend mirrors demand for Alation.

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Alation

JUNE 7, 2021

The risk of massive fines, plus the fear of using data incorrectly, can prevent the productive use of data entirely. In this way, it can reduce the time span for self-service analytics, from months to minutes. Alation + Snowflake: An Integrated Approach to Data Governance. Subscribe to Alation's Blog. The result?

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Alation

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Alation is pleased to be named a dbt Metrics Partner and to announce the start of a partnership with dbt, which will bring dbt data into the Alation data catalog. Yet for raw data to become information, it not only must move from source systems to analytics, it must be transformed. Benefits of the Alation and dbt Partnership.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

We believe that this offering, Alation Tableau Edition, realizes the full promise of self-service analytics by allowing analysts to self-serve without making any of the errors of omission or commission that traditionally accompany an ungoverned data environment. Alation makes data accessible in multiple ways.

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