Alation Reviews

I appreciate Alation's user-friendly interface, which simplifies the process of finding and accessing data. Its intuitive design enhances productivity and efficiency in navigating through various datasets and reports. Additionally, the platform's robust search capabilities empower users to quickly locate relevant information, supporting informed decision-making. The collaborative features within Alation foster effective communication and knowledge sharing among team members, contributing to a more collaborative and cohesive working environment, which we'd love to take advantage of soon.

While Alation offers many valuable features, there are a few areas where improvements could be made. One aspect that I find challenging is the complexity of setting up and configuring certain functionalities, such as customizing data governance policies or integrating with external tools. Streamlining these processes and providing clearer guidance would enhance the user experience and reduce the learning curve for new users. Additionally, although the platform offers extensive documentation and support resources, navigating through them can sometimes be overwhelming, leading to difficulties in finding specific information or troubleshooting issues. Simplifying the documentation structure and improving search functionality would greatly benefit users in efficiently accessing the help they need.

Alation addresses several critical challenges in data management, ultimately benefiting our organization in various ways. One key problem it solves is the lack of centralized and accessible data documentation. By providing a unified platform for cataloging and organizing data assets, Alation ensures that stakeholders can easily discover and understand available data resources, fostering collaboration and informed decision-making across teams. Additionally, Alation helps to promote data governance and compliance by enabling the implementation of standardized policies and procedures for data usage, lineage tracking, and access control. This not only enhances data quality and security but also mitigates risks associated with regulatory non-compliance or data breaches. Alation's automated data profiling and analysis capabilities also streamline the process of data discovery and validation, saving time and effort for data professionals. Overall, Alation's comprehensive suite of features empowers our organization to effectively manage and leverage its data assets, driving efficiency, productivity, and data-driven insights.

Alation is extremely flexible and able to fit small to large organizations. They tread the perfect line between analytics and governance. Their vision perfectly aligns with our organization's data management vision of universally understood and trusted data available across the company.

There is definitely some room for growth with lineage capabilities. Alation has been upfront with their plans to rapidly enhance lineage functionality.

We have plenty of data tribal knowledge in our organization. Alation is helping us document and set up processes that capture tribal knowledge and share it along with best practices to key individuals.

Governance across the company is critical and we're slowly getting there. It's simple as a google search.

Not as user friendly on the backend. Some things require research.

Nothing yet as we're still soft launching but long term, we want to solve for data trust and ease of finding things.

Alation strives for the best industrial business solultions and offers wide range of collections in their ecosystems be it across different categories like Finance, healthcare, etc., Alation delivers the best product which is ease of use and provide number of features across their deliverables.

Alation has great examples of showcasing business usecases to the clients by addressing and fostering their problems that they want to leverage. Highly recommended platform and there's no dislike takeaway since they provide ease of integration and ease of implementation in their own catalog.

Being a passionate machine learning developer, Alation provide their easy to implement ML and unity catalog to seamlessly integrate with hosted platforms on Databricks since most of my use-cases or projects is to solve real-time examples in healthcare and finance sector which benefits me to connect with Alation applications.

One stop shop for information on organizations data assets.

Unable to give lineage with synonyms with oracle

Distributed information

.Governance Materials and content and details on the governance topics

Integrated with applications for lineages

Governance and

Alation is so customizable and the team is really helpful with making sure that you get the most out of the product.

Nothing so far! We've had a really great experience this far, from the customer service to the features.

With acting as a data dictionary and helping our users understand our data.

I find the search and discovery feature allows us to quickly lookup critical information to us up and running.

I would like to be able to further customize my template to put an AA spin on things.

Being the source of truth, and will be able to search on this cover information related to our data assets.

.Knowledge about sensitive data and risks to org

Another tool requried to be trained on and deployed

I'd of sensitive data in org

Alation provides many opportunities for data governance and innovation.

New to Alation, so it would be great to see more relatable examples of the data integration from other companies.

Data integrity