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Alation Launches Salesforce Connector to Enhance Data Trust
We are excited to announce a new strategic partnership with Salesforce. This partnership will bring data governance and deep insights around data lineage into Salesforce Data Cloud. With this bidirectional integration, Alation joins the Salesforce Data Governance alliance.
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How to Choose the Best Enterprise Data Catalog: Key Criteria Uncovered
It's analyst report season! In the next few months, analyst firms will provide guidance on how to approach the data catalog market and key criteria for choosing a data catalog. These reports can be helpful starting points. But they should be just that: a starting point. With over 12 years of experience and a customer base of nearly 600 enterprises, including 40 of the Fortune 100, we've developed a comprehensive understanding of what truly matters in a data catalog solution to deliver business success. Here are our key criteria uncovered:
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Alation Anywhere for Chrome: Data Intelligence, Where You Are
Automated insights with Power BI, Snowflake, and more.
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AI Governance: Your Business's Competitive Edge or Its Biggest Risk?
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes ubiquitous, it’s reshaping decision-making in ways that go far beyond the scope of traditional business automation. Using a combination of predictive and generative AI, systems can now make tactical, operational, and strategic decisions at scale. They dynamically adjust product prices, recommend your next binge-worthy TV show, and generate sales and marketing content for mass diverse audiences. Yet scaling such AI use cases requires governance frameworks that do more than just manage data—effective AI governance frameworks encompass systems that continuously learn, adapt, and operate with minimal human intervention.
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Alation Brief: Learn about the Open Data Quality Initiative
Note: Alation now has 17 data quality partners instead of the 10 mentioned in the original session.
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Inside Alation India: People-First Culture That Fuels Success
As a global company, Alation has offices across the world, including Chennai, Redwood City, Salt Lake City, London, Singapore, and Sydney. Distance aside, we’re connected by our central mission to help organizations realize value from their data and AI initiatives. Key driving forces for this include our commitment to our people and our servant leadership culture.
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The Rising Need for Data Governance in Healthcare
Healthcare is changing, and it all comes down to data. Leaders in healthcare seek to improve patient outcomes, meet changing business models (including value-based care), and ensure compliance while creating better experiences. Data & analytics represents a major opportunity to tackle these challenges. Indeed, many healthcare organizations today are embracing digital transformation and using data to enhance operations. In other words, they use data to heal more people and save more lives.
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What Is a Data Marketplace?
A data marketplace is a platform that enables data producers to list consumable data products to its users. In this way, a data marketplace simplifies how data consumers discover and access trusted data assets within an organization.
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MAS’ New Guidance on Data Governance and Management: How to Respond
On May 29, 2024, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) issued new guidance on Data Governance and Management Practices for banks and financial institutions. This guidance stems from MAS’s inspections and aligns with the Basel Committee's principles for effective risk aggregation and reporting. It calls for stronger data governance frameworks to ensure robust data management controls, particularly in risk aggregation and reporting.
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Data Radicals Season 3: Exploring Data & AI with Industry Leaders
Since the wrap of the last season of Data Radicals in March 2024, we’ve witnessed the explosion of AI and Nividia, the rise of robotics, and the most high-stakes race for the White House in modern history. Within Alation, we’re seeing customers build AI agents, trusted semantics, and data products to drive repeatable value.
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Data Catalog First, Master Data Management Second: Here’s Why
Master Data Management (MDM) and data catalogs are both becoming ubiquitous as organizations integrate more systems, embark on data-hungry and compliance-fraught AI initiatives, comply with extensive privacy regulations, and address data quality concerns — all while making data easy to find, access, trust, and use. Organizations that use data catalogs to support subsequent MDM initiatives experience organizational efficiency, accelerated decision-making, and overall customer satisfaction.
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