Alation Data Catalog helps organizations scale and accelerate their AI and data initiatives by providing a centralized platform for finding, understanding, and trusting data. It addresses the challenge of data silos and the difficulty of tracking down the right information by bringing all data assets together in one place. The catalog offers a powerful search engine that uses machine learning to interpret natural language, enabling users to quickly locate the data they need without requiring technical expertise. It provides comprehensive information about each data asset, including descriptions, terms, definitions, policies, documentation, and lineage, ensuring users understand how to use the data properly and can trust its reliability. Alation integrates with over 100 data sources, BI systems, and applications, and automates metadata extraction to power a data fabric that eliminates manual data stitching. It also offers features like workflow automation, AI-driven curation, SQL query sharing, data quality integration, and data usage tracking, empowering data teams while delivering simplicity for business users. With Alation, organizations can break down silos, foster collaboration, automate data management, and ensure compliance, leading to faster ROI and significant savings.

Features:

• A powerful search engine for all your data: Find the right data. As you search, the catalog surfaces your company’s most popular data assets. There’s no need to know technical jargon or specific keywords — the catalog uses machine learning to interpret natural language and pinpoint the right data for every search.
• Understand how to use your data: See descriptions, terms, definitions, policies, documentation, and links to each asset’s data source. Now you don't have to guess what each asset is, or how to use it properly.
• Trust your data: View lineage, tags, quality, trust flags, endorsements, and comments from other users. Now you know how reliable each asset is at a glance.
• Put your data to good use: Bring Alation into Excel, Google Sheets, Slack, and other tools where you need to use the latest data. Now every user can find, understand, and trust governed data.
• Unify your data ecosystem with 100+ connectors: Access all your data assets including relational databases, flat files, BI systems, applications, AI models, and more. Easily Integrate with any other source through our Open Connector Framework.
• Power your data fabric with active metadata: Stop stitching data together manually. The catalog auto-extracts and integrates metadata from each source into your data fabric.
• Automate pipeline code: Optimize your data processes. With active metadata, accelerate your organization’s data fabric and enable data pipeline code generation.
• Automate data management: Automatically add new data assets to the catalog as they’re created. Workflow Automation improves metadata quality, consistency, and compliance.
• View data lineage end-to-end: See your data’s journey from source to destination, including everything that’s happened along the way.
• Curate your catalog with AI: Let ALLIE AI recommend metadata descriptions and help them efficiently populate your data catalog with Intelligent Curation and AI assistance.
• Share your best SQL queries: Write better SQL with Compose. Share and reuse the best queries across teams — even non-technical ones — to speed up everyone’s data work.
• Connect to any data quality tool: Integrate with your favorite data quality software using Alation’s Open Data Quality Framework. Alation aggregates the results into a single system of record so you can see everything in one place.
• Bring data into your favorite tools: Let teams bring trustworthy data into the apps they use daily with Alation Anywhere. Search, share, and take action on data assets within Excel, Google Sheets, Teams, Slack, and more.
• Track data usage: Tracking the value of data products is key, especially if you use a data mesh approach. Discover which data products are most popular and which are safe to retire with Alation Analytics.
• Govern data across your org: Ensure compliance with a people-first approach to governance that helps users handle data properly instead of penalizing them for mistakes.
• Easy deployment. Fast ROI.: Simple integrations for IT. Get 100+ pre-built connectors to data sources, BI systems, file systems, applications, and more.