Alation, a vendor in enterprise data intelligence solutions, enables self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI-ready data. More than 550 enterprises build data culture and improve data-driven decision-making with Alation.
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Usability, especially when navigating the tool with a new user. Once they get a demo and understand the path of where we want to be with the app one day, they become in full support.
Powerful, relatively easy to use, looks modern-ish
Alation's integration of observability, lineage, data quality and governance context - combined with the power of the AI agents, sets it apart from traditional products in this space. These features greatly simplify governance and surface data quality issues proactively. Data discovery is intuitive, and the depth of metadata makes it easier for non-technical users to understand datasets in context. The combination of rich metadata and automated agentic abilities has significantly reduced manual governance workloads and improved insight accuracy
I support with connecting new data sources to the site, so having more defaulted data sources to select from would simply the process for getting connected. Example is a tool that's specific to the utility market but is well known across is PowerPlan. Having this as a connection option would be a great default option.
Lacks some basic functionality of more mature solutions/competitors; too costly for what it provides
There remain a few gaps in coverage, particularly within more modern pipeline/notebook-based operations that are used, but this position continues to improve incrementally. Some documentation is unclear, but Alation support are always on hand to solve any problems.