Alation Now Available on Databricks Partner Connect

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.

Data, analytics, and AI in the cloud represent tremendous market forces, which have propelled the growth of Databricks – along with customer demand for deeper integration between Alation and Databricks. Increasingly, our customers want to make their critical Databricks data and analytics resources visible, accessible, and searchable across the business.

Riot Games is one such joint customer. As the maker of League of Legends and organizer of the most widely viewed esports tournament, Riot Games captures a massive amount of data generated by Legend gamers in a Databricks data lakehouse. To deliver valuable insights from the data, they needed to empower everyone to find information in that lakehouse, while also creating and delivering analyses and insights in their BI platform, Tableau.

The team selected Alation to achieve data visibility, democratize contextual information, and enforce data usage policies effectively. The result? According to Michael Leslie, Senior Data Architect, “Riot Games has improved the efficiency and workflow of both engineers and analysts who use Alation, all while protecting sensitive data from misuse.”

“Riot Games has improved the efficiency and workflow of both engineers and analysts who use Alation, all while protecting sensitive data from misuse.” – Michael Leslie, Senior Data Architect, Riot Games

Alation now on Databricks Partner Connect

We are thrilled to announce that Alation is the first data intelligence company available on Databricks Partner Connect. This makes it quick, easy, and risk-free for Databricks Premium or Enterprise customers to create a 14 day trial of Alation, and connect their Databricks workspace. This trial is a fantastic way to explore Alation and learn with self-guided tours that teach you how to use Alation for Analysts (data search) and Lineage (data flow).“

Organizations need full visibility into all of their data to empower everyone across the business to understand the context of the data being used and build a data culture,” said Chris Hecht, SVP, Corp Development and Product Partnerships at Databricks. “Our deepened integration with Alation improves trust and provisions a single view of customers’ data. This enables faster migration, provides visibility, fosters collaboration across data teams to ensure frictionless lakehouse adoption, and facilitates self-service analytics. As a result, data engineers and data scientists can reinforce data as a product across their organizations.”

You can find Alation in Partner Connect under data governance; data governance is critical to driving adoption of the Databricks Lakehouse because it gives data meaning, context, and trustworthiness, making data easier to consume. Our latest product integrations include Databricks Unity Catalog and end-to-end lineage.

With Alation’s Databricks Unity Catalog integration, customers now get a single view of all their organization’s Databricks workspaces – combined with the rest of their data. This helps identify the most valuable data to migrate to Databricks and empowers all data consumers to better leverage the data lakehouse.

With detailed lineage from Databricks Unity Catalog in Alation, users benefit from a single easy-to-consume, end-to-end view of where Lakehouse data sits, where it came from, and where it is going within the context of all data sources and destinations within Alation’s Data Intelligence Platform.

A growing partnership

The partnership forged between Alation and Databricks has grown in line with the clear combined value between our product offerings. In fact, Databricks is an investi-partner: both an investor in Alation and technology partner, with Databricks Ventures joining as a strategic investor in our Series E round last year. Increasingly, businesses are recognizing the need to pair the growth of analytics and AI with a strong data governance foundation to drive adoption, which largely precipitated Databricks’ choice to invest.

"Organizations need full visibility into all of their data to empower everyone across the business to understand the context of the data being used and build a data culture,” said Chris Hecht, SVP, Corp Development and Product Partnerships at Databricks. “Our deepened integration with Alation improves trust and provisions a single view of customers’ data. This enables faster migration, provides visibility, fosters collaboration across data teams to ensure frictionless lakehouse adoption, and facilitates self-service analytics. As a result, data engineers and data scientists can reinforce data as a product across their organizations.”