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Let's Get Your AI Right

Global enterprises trust Alation to get their AI right — and keep it right.

It's why we built the Alation Intelligence Operating System.

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TRUSTED BY DATA LEADERS WHO CAN’T AFFORD TO GET IT WRONG

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THE PROBLEM

AI can quietly (and confidently) break. The problem is figuring out where and why.

An agent gives you the wrong answer. Is it the data, the context, the agent, two of the three, or all of it at the same time?

THE ANSWER IS AIOS

The Alation Intelligence Operating System ensures your data apps and agents are accurate.

Because there are so many ways to get the wrong answer, you see whether it was the data, the context, or the agent — and fix the right thing, with the right feedback, to constantly improve.

Diagram of what is inside AIOS: Governance of self-improving feedback loops covering agents, context, and data.

Solutions

For the work you can’t afford to get wrong.

AIOS powers solutions to your most critical business challenges.

  • Gartner logo in white

    Leader, Magic Quadrant for Data & Analytics Governance

    2025

    (11)

  • IDC

    Leader, Inaugural IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Catalog Software

    2023

    (13)
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    Leader, GigaOm Radar for Data Governance

    GigaOm Radar

    2023

    (14)

  • FORRESTER

    Leader, Forrester Wave: Data Governance Solutions

    2021, 2023, 2025

    (12)

  • FORRESTER

    Leader, Forrester Wave: Machine Learning Data Catalogs

    The Forrester Wave

    2018 · 2020

    (4)
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    Five time Leader, Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management

    Magic Quadrant

    2017–2020 · 2025

    (9)

  • FORRESTER

    The Leader Behind Machine Learning Data Catalog Category

    Category Creation

    Credited from 2012

    (1)

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Sources & Notes

Every external claim on this page is independently verifiable. The public sources — and the analyst attributions they require — are listed here.

  1. Credited with starting the machine learning data catalog category in 2012.

    — Forrester Wave: ML Data Catalogs, Q2 2018

  2. Leader, Forrester Wave: Machine Learning Data Catalogs (2018, 2020).

    — Forrester

  3. Five time Leader, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management (2017–2020, 2025).

    — Alation

  4. Leader, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data & Analytics Governance (2025).

    — Gartner / Alation

  5. Leader, inaugural IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Catalog Software (2020).

    — IDC / Alation

  6. Leader, GigaOm Radar for Data Catalogs (two time) and Innovation Leader, GigaOm Radar for Data Governance (2023).

    — GigaOm / Alation