Alation Anywhere for Chrome: Data Intelligence, Where You Are

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The modern data stack is stacked. Today’s data workers face a bewildering array of methods by which to find, process, and distribute data. In fact, research shows that the average knowledge worker switches between applications nearly 1,200 times daily (HBR). This adds to nearly five weeks of lost productivity each year and leads to fragmented workflows, wasted time, and mistakes that impact the entire organization.

The answer? A unified source for trusted, contextualized data—delivered where you need it, in the tools and platforms you use daily. By integrating with such tools, Alation Anywhere reduces the time spent searching for data, minimizes errors, and accelerates time to value by making data intelligence an integral part of your workflow.

Alation Anywhere surfaces rich and collaborative contextualized information, such as AI-powered semantic search results, business term definitions, metadata previews, and database table details- directly into a suite of third-party tools. By delivering this critical data context exactly where it’s most useful, Alation Anywhere reduces friction, accelerates time to insight, and empowers all data users to simply get work done faster. 

Introducing Alation Anywhere for Chrome

Imagine being able to search, preview, and retrieve vital metadata while completing work on the web. With the release of Alation Anywhere for Google Chrome, users can now instantly discover useful metadata around trusted data and BI using natural language search without ever leaving their browser. This extension brings the power of self-service data intelligence directly into Chrome, enabling users to search, preview, and retrieve critical metadata within their workflow.

Whether you're working in Snowflake, Power BI, or building reports in Google Sheets, Alation Anywhere for Chrome delivers democratized access to trusted data across your organization. Alation Anywhere delivers real-time metadata insights, including automated, side-by-side previews of data assets from Snowflake’s Snowsight, Looker, and Power BI. With advanced filtering and search capabilities, teams can quickly locate relevant data assets across multiple productivity apps. 

Governance where it counts

Data governance shouldn’t slow you down; it should empower you. Alation Anywhere makes governance seamless by surfacing data quality flags, business glossary terms, and key asset context directly in Chrome. This ensures data-driven decisions are made with confidence and consistency across the enterprise. Users can surface data quality flags, explore data asset context, and access searchable business glossary terms right within Chrome, ensuring that they are making data-driven business decisions safely. By providing critical metadata details at your fingertips, Alation Anywhere helps boost productivity, reduce errors, and enable faster decision-making. 

Keeping data terminology consistent across an organization is critical for effective collaboration. For example, when you’re building a report in Power BI or preparing a presentation in Google Slides, you can easily see glossary definitions and standardized organizational acronyms such as GDPR, ensuring everyone’s on the same page without disrupting your workflow. 

Conclusion: Build a data culture with Alation Anywhere

At Alation, we believe that trusted data should be accessible wherever people work in order to build a collective data culture. With Alation Anywhere for Chrome, we’re delivering self-service data intelligence directly into the browser—streamlining workflows and allowing teams to make smarter, faster decisions with the context they need, when (and where) they need it.

The power of Alation Anywhere lies in its ability to surface rich contextual information across a suite of popular tools, including Chrome, Slack, Tableau, and more. By embedding data intelligence in the workflow, we help organizations foster a stronger data culture, increase visibility and trust in data, and ultimately, promote the value of trusted data governance across the entire enterprise.

Interested in learning more? Check out the press release, or book a demo today!