Bring your data together in one place where everyone can quickly find what they need — and use it with confidence. Built for both data and business teams: from data engineering, data science, and AI, to marketing, product, and beyond.
Proven and trusted by 40% of the Fortune 100
Find the right data in seconds, not hours. Only with Alation.
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Data documentation used to be a laborious process... Today, the data discovery process takes as little as 15 minutes instead of up to 2 days.
— Prakash Jaganathan,
Sr. Director, Enterprise Data Platforms, Discover Financial Services
The Data Intelligence Platform
Data Catalog
Data Governance
Data Lineage
Analytics & more
Built to meet the strictest standards for performance and security at enterprise scale.
Help every team work with data more productively
Build trust in your data. Improve the accuracy of your analytics. And create a data culture where everyone is more productive with data.
Drive adoption across your organization
Designed with an intuitive interface that helps data & analytics, AI, and business teams use data quickly and confidently.
Connect to 100+ data sources & apps
Use pre-built connectors to integrate with all your data sources. Extend the platform into everyday apps such as Excel, Sheets, Teams, Slack, and Tableau.
Find, analyze, govern, and collaborate on data
Centralize all your data tables, BI reports, AI models, policies, and more. Then use search, discovery, governance, and collaboration features to do more with your data.
Only with Alation:
Give 1000s of users the power to use data with speed and confidence
Integrations
Bring your entire data ecosystem together in one place with 100+ pre-built connectors
Connect to all your data sources including relational databases, flat files, BI systems, data flows, AI models, and more. Integrate with any other source through our Open Connector SDK.
Save 1000s of hours of data search per year
Find the right data, reports, and policies in seconds. As users search, the AI-powered Behavior Analysis Engine guides users to the assets that are most popular, trusted, and relevant.
Now everyone across your organization can find the right data, right when they need it. No more dependence on other teams. No more data scavenger hunts.
Alation provides the platform and capability for stakeholders … to be able to search for the data they need, and for them to understand that the data that they need is defined such that they have confidence in using that data for their business needs.
— DR. Geraldine Wong,
Chief Data Officer, GXS Bank
Break down data silos. Build up collaboration.
Data silos keep valuable knowledge from being shared across teams. With Alation, everyone can share that knowledge by adding context, comments, endorsements, reusable SQL queries, policies, and more. All in one place where every team can see it.
Ensure proper governance and compliance with a people-first approach
Close the gap between policy and reality. With a people-first approach to governance, Alation helps you continuously improve your data practices by guiding people to handle data properly — not punishing them for mistakes.
The result? More compliance and better data quality.
Active data governance features in Alation help ensure the proper use of data. People are guided to use data compliantly and educated, in-workflow, on the policies relevant to the data they handle.
— Sebastian Kaus,
Data Governance Lead, Vattenfall
Migrations? AI projects?
Prep faster with Alation.
Streamline your data prep, discovery, and analysis for cloud migrations and AI/ML projects.
Migrate with confidence
See how data flows between systems and track data lineage so you can understand exactly how migrations will impact your operations and ensure a smooth transition.
Build AI/ML models everyone can trust
Quickly surface the most relevant and reliable datasets for model training. Ensure compliance by automating data governance protocols, tracking data lineage for full transparency, and applying compliance checks throughout the model development process.
The key to using AI and ML to make decisions is having context for the data. Alation can ensure that the datasets are labeled with accurate metadata, which tells the machine how to understand the context around the data it’s looking at. Only then can it answer our questions in a way that’s meaningful.
— Prakash Jaganathan,
Sr. Director, Enterprise Data Platforms, Discover Financial Services
Scale your data management with ALLIE AI
Put curation on autopilot
Automatically document new data assets upon creation, with AI-generated descriptions and metadata for easier access and use.
Smarter searches
Unlike keyword-based search, Alation's Intelligent Search grasps the context and intent of queries, delivering more precise and relevant results.
As an industry leader ourselves, we choose to partner with companies like Alation that have the same innovative fabric, and who also enjoy the same industry recognition that we do.
— Pavan Tumu,
Director of Product Management, Salesforce
You’ll be in great hands with our team of experts
Gain access to a team of data experts who will help you every step of the way, from onboarding and adoption, to wherever your Alation journey takes you.
Jumpstart your projects with specialized “Right Start” tracks for:
Self-Service Analytics
Data Governance
Cloud Migrations
And more
Security that meets the requirements of the world’s top companies
We ensure enterprise-grade security across data, network, and infrastructure using cloud best practices. This includes authentication, authorization, encryption, and key management. Our compliance program covers GDPR, CCPA, and other data protection laws.
SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001 and 27701
HIPAA and HITECH
Go with Alation: A leader with the highest possible scores in 12 criteria
Alation was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Governance Solutions, Q3 2023 earning the highest possible scores in 12 criteria including Data Catalog, Data Governance Management, Data Discovery, Stewardship Roles and Responsibilities, Vision, and Adoption.
“Alation's offering differentiates itself by blending strong technical skills in the field of machine learning (ML) and intelligent asset classification capabilities with an obsessive focus on collaboration tools and data valuation models.”
— Raluca Alexandru, Analyst at Forrester
Find out how Alation can help your teams use data with speed and confidence
Get answers to your questions. Explore pricing. And get a product demo with an Alation expert.
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Here are 21 ways Alation
helps you manage your data
Data governance
Data analysis
Find your top 1% most used data
Automatically add new assets to the catalog
Centralize your metadata for all data assets
Find data faster with AI-powered search
Guide users to the best data with each search
Improve collaboration with shared queries and insights
Share knowledge about data assets across the org
Find data that needs owners or stewards
Automatically classify data accurately with AI
Simplify audits by centralizing your policies
Ensure consistency & accuracy across teams
Get real-time alerts for governance violations
Tailor data access controls to enforce security
Simplify compliance reporting with automated lineage
Analyze data usage patterns to inform decisions
Visualize data lineage to understand its journey
Understand how migrations will impact other systems
Find unused and redundant data to optimize storage
Analyze metrics like user activity and top queries
Gauge data product value through usage tracking
Showcase ROI through faster data search & querying
Search and discovery
Find the data you need in seconds with intuitive searches that guide users toward the most trusted assets.
Active governance
Ensure compliance with a people-first approach to governance that helps users handle data properly instead of penalizing them for mistakes.
Collaboration
Help everyone get the most from each data asset by sharing ratings, reviews, comments, and SQL queries across teams.
Metadata management
Automatically gather metadata from every source, and enrich it with details based on how users interact with it.
End-to-end lineage
Visualize relationships across technical, system, and business layers. Find relationships between data, people, and policies to make smarter decisions.
Alation in your apps
Let teams bring trustworthy data into the apps they use daily. Search, share, and take action on contextual data assets within Excel, Google Sheets, Teams, Slack and more.
ALLIE AI
A layer of AI across the platform with features such as Intelligent curation and search that helps your organization save time, scale data initiatives quickly, democratize trusted data, and advance AI initiatives.
Analyze how data gets used, what data is most popular, and how data flows between systems. Gauge the value of data products by tracking usage, and see how much search time you save per year.
Alation Analytics
Intelligent SQL
Write better SQL with smart suggestions. Share and reuse the best queries across teams — even non-technical ones — to speed up everyone’s data work.
Search & discovery
Find your top 1% most used data
Automatically add new assets to the catalog
Centralize your metadata for all data assets
Find data faster with AI-powered search
Guide users to the best data with each search
Improve collaboration with shared queries and insights
Share knowledge about data assets across the org
Data governance
Find data that needs owners or stewards
Automatically classify data accurately with AI
Simplify audits by centralizing your policies
Ensure consistency & accuracy across teams
Get real-time alerts for governance violations
Tailor data access controls to enforce security
Simplify compliance reporting with automated lineage
Data analysis
Analyze data usage patterns to inform decisions
Visualize data lineage to understand its journey
Understand how migrations will impact other systems
Find unused and redundant data to optimize storage
Analyze metrics like user activity and top queries
Gauge data product value through usage tracking
Showcase ROI through faster data search & querying
Search & discovery
