Alation Data Governance helps organizations safely unlock the value of their data. It enables everyone in the organization to make data-driven decisions while ensuring compliance and security. Balancing data access with compliance is a challenge, often leading to restrictive policies that slow innovation. Alation's people-first approach aligns data governance with business goals and measurable ROI. It enables teams to use data quickly and confidently while staying compliant, turning data governance from a blocker into a strategic advantage that drives results. Alation breaks down barriers between systems and departments, creating a single source of truth with data that’s easy to access, share, govern, and use across the organization. Alation’s automated workflows and policy management tools ensure your data governance stays updated, minimizing risk and keeping your organization aligned with the latest requirements. Alation’s data lineage, curation tools, and quality controls ensure your teams always work with accurate and trusted data for better decision-making. Alation integrates all aspects of data governance – not just cataloging the information, but driving policies and providing a place for people to collaborate. Alation helps build AI models with reliable, high-quality data and clear lineage, ensuring full traceability and confidence in outcomes. Alation unifies your data ecosystem with 100+ connectors, accessing all your data assets including relational databases, flat files, BI systems, applications, AI models, and more.

Features:

• Eliminate data silos: Bring all your metadata together in one place. Alation breaks down barriers between systems and departments, creating a single source of truth with data that’s easy to access, share, govern, and use across the organization.
• Stay compliant with evolving regulations: Alation’s automated workflows and policy management tools ensure your data governance stays updated, minimizing risk and keeping your organization aligned with the latest requirements.
• Ensure high-quality data: Maintain data integrity across systems. Alation’s data lineage, curation tools, and quality controls ensure your teams always work with accurate and trusted data for better decision-making.

Ensure compliance without slowing teams down Curate data faster

• Generate suggested descriptions that help your teams quickly find and understand the data they need.
• Guide users to handle data safely
• Trust Flags lead users to trusted data with linked policies, ensuring they use the right information compliantly.
• Protect sensitive data
• Apply row-level access controls and dynamic masking to safeguard sensitive information and ensure compliance.

Manage risk and compliance at scale Centralize your policies

• Keep all policies organized and accessible in the Policy Center to help teams stay compliant.
• Automate compliance tasks
• Assign and track tasks like policy updates and renewals with Workflow Automation to reduce manual effort.
• Classify data automatically
• Use Catalog Sets to classify new data and apply the right policies to reduce risk and keep pace with the flow of data.

Improve AI safety Surface trusted data for AI

• Build AI models with reliable, high-quality data and clear lineage, ensuring full traceability and confidence in outcomes.
• Maintain ethical AI practices
• Future-proof your AI models and datasets to promote ethical, safe, auditable, and compliant practices.
• Promote AI transparency
• Track and document your AI models. Give stakeholders visibility into model types, training data, and compliance with ethics policies.