Alation

Founded by Satyen Sangani in 2012

Govern company data and monitor machine learning models across enterprise environments

Pricing model

Demo, Paid

Rating

★ Positive

Time to value

15 minutes to 2 days

You can use Alation to catalog enterprise data assets and establish clear governance rules across your organization. It tracks metadata, lineage, and definitions so teams know where information originates and how it transforms over time. You can register artificial intelligence models, audit context pipelines, and verify data quality before it reaches downstream applications. The system alerts teams to drifting data and conflicting definitions, helping analysts, engineers, and risk managers collaborate on trusted datasets without confusing metrics or breaking reporting workflows.

What Alation does

Search and discover company datasets across multiple cloud warehousesAudit AI models and data feeds for regulatory complianceDefine and standardize business glossary termsInspect data lineage to diagnose pipeline errorsFlag conflicting data definitions across departmentsMonitor pipeline alerts to fix drift issuesAssign data stewards and manage governance workflowsAutomated data cataloging across distributed enterprise databasesCentral registry to track and inventory AI modelsContext verification to detect conflicting metrics and definitionsAutomated governance policies for regulatory complianceAlerts for data drift and stale pipeline feedsLineage tracking to trace data origins and modificationsCollaborative business glossaries to standardize terminology

Pricing breakdown

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