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Alation's Right Start program helps deliver value quickly
What do you like best about the product?
What is most helpful about it is how simple it is to add policies and terms to the catalog. Combining this with easy data dictionary upload helps data stewards and SMEs effectively memorialize metadata to the data marketplace.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost per data steward is a bit high is one thing. Another thing is having to pay to enable column level data linieage. Sure you can get by with just table level, but column level lineage is key for impact analysis.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alation's data catalog is helping improve data literacy via it's layout. Users better understand that information exists about the data they care about because this metadata is now exposed to them in the data catalog. In addition to data literacy, it helps users make confident choices in the datasets they consume because they can now see not only who else uses the data but also queries that have been shared for others to use. This benefits the company because it cuts down on duplication of effort but also helps create a standard process.
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Data Catalog!
What do you like best about the product?
We can easily integrate it with other applications, and simple to configure. Multiple members can comment. Easy to capture the data lineage.
What do you dislike about the product?
No significant dislikes after 2-3 months of usage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We mainly used alation to understand the Data Lineage and for data governance purpose.
Great Tool
What do you like best about the product?
It has allowed me to collaborate with coworkers more easily
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface needs improvement. It is sometimes difficult to navigate to exactly what I want
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finding enterprise approved codes and metadata information
Enterprise Data Cataloging Made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
It's just stunning how easy it's been to stand up Alation, get it customized, get data sources connected and get people interested in using it. I love the interface and the intuitiveness of it and our programmers have been working with the APIs, working from Alation recipes that get us most of the way there out of the box.
What do you dislike about the product?
We've found no down sides of Alation - the experience has been positive for us in every aspect, from implementation to curation. Some features that we would like are still in development, but we knew that going in and Alation has been open about what's coming and when we can expect it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alation is making data governance straightforward and organized across many teams and many stakeholders. Regulatory compliance and practical daily data use is made much easier by a central tool that's accessible to all of those stakeholders.
Powerful and simple to use Metadata Catalog Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of Use. Caters for a customised user requirement implementation. Good product support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not historically focused on UK Public Sector and unawareness of the culture challenges coupled with disparate source system landscape to implementing a Metadata Catalog Tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lack of awareness on what data is available in the organisation, who owns it, who manages it, repeated data discovery exercises for the same data, lack of metadata accuracy, lack of organisational business glossary and management thereof
Best Pure Data Catalog on the Market
What do you like best about the product?
Strengths of Alation:
1) Clear focus on core data catalog functionality (no frills - doesn't try to be everything for everyone).
2) Simple and intuitive UI
3) Proven implementation approach that delivers on the promise in a matter of weeks
4) Product development delivers on most relevant enhancements and functionality
5) Quality account and relationship management
6) Makes data governance tangible!!!
1) Clear focus on core data catalog functionality (no frills - doesn't try to be everything for everyone).
2) Simple and intuitive UI
3) Proven implementation approach that delivers on the promise in a matter of weeks
4) Product development delivers on most relevant enhancements and functionality
5) Quality account and relationship management
6) Makes data governance tangible!!!
What do you dislike about the product?
Areas for Development:
1) The pricing model is complex and could be improved. For instance, Alation should remove the limit of read-only users. It should also encourage the use of additional connectors. These features will only help to ensure quality implementations used across the enterprise.
2) Need to find a way to more clearly differentiate themselves from Collibra in how they market the product.
1) The pricing model is complex and could be improved. For instance, Alation should remove the limit of read-only users. It should also encourage the use of additional connectors. These features will only help to ensure quality implementations used across the enterprise.
2) Need to find a way to more clearly differentiate themselves from Collibra in how they market the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) Allowing users to discover data.
2) Allowing users to understand the data.
3) Allow users to understand who owns the data.
4) Allow the users on how to collaborate in use of the data.
5) Creates a deeper connection between the business users and data stewards.
6) Is the application which ensures the accountability of the data stewards.
2) Allowing users to understand the data.
3) Allow users to understand who owns the data.
4) Allow the users on how to collaborate in use of the data.
5) Creates a deeper connection between the business users and data stewards.
6) Is the application which ensures the accountability of the data stewards.
Alation is an amazing data catalogue tool.
What do you like best about the product?
The thing that appeals to me most about Alation is that it is a user-friendly tool with superior data catalog capabilities. It is also very cost effective. Additionally, Alation by far has the smartest sales and professional development teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only issue that I have with Alation is that I wish they had a fully integrated Data Quality tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a data catalog/business glossary tool to support the implementation of our Data Catalog tool.
The tool that we've been wanting for a long time.
What do you like best about the product?
The catalog part, although we are still slowing but steadily building on it, holds a lot of promise. It will save our team and our user base, considerable time and effort.
What do you dislike about the product?
Delays in the renewal of licenses. The application displays warnings that our license is about to expire which makes it look like we are not taking care of our bills.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaboration with user base and user base amongst themselves. Data Governance app should help but there is budgetary constraints at this time
Best Data intelligence providers
What do you like best about the product?
Alation's data catalog and search capabilities make it easier for users to find and access relevant data.
What do you dislike about the product?
no dislike for Alation products on my side.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alation addresses the data governance challenges by providing tools and features for establishing and enforcing data policies, standards, and best practices. This ensures data integrity and compliance with regulations and reduces the risk of data breaches. Users benefit from improved data governance and increased confidence in their data assets. So we solved our Data related issue solved.
A great data cataloging capability for data driven enterprises
What do you like best about the product?
Having a data catalogue is essential for any data driven business to succeed, in the appropriate way, and scale correctly without incurring tech debt or creating siloes. Alation allows this is an efficient way that speaks to both technical and business stakeholders.
What do you dislike about the product?
Alation in our experience has occasionally struggled to scale at the pace that we often require it. The UI can sometimes be difficult to use for more inexperienced individuals.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Contextual information is embedded alongside the data, and being able to link together business process documentation, terminology definitions and data together in one place is very useful for our stakeholders.
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