The tool's metadata cataloging is the most valuable feature.
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What do you like best about the product?
data catalog and governance capabilities
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing. it is an industry leading and enetwrprise grade solution
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
enterprise data governance
Great cataloging & governance product
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use. Seamless integration with snowflake.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing that I can think of. Works great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Not a customer but a partner. Great for data cataloging and discovery.
Has metadata cataloging features but needs changes in domain model
What is our primary use case?
What needs improvement?
The tool's domain model needs to be changed.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Alation Data Catalog is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable.
How was the initial setup?
Alation Data Catalog's deployment is easy. I rate it a nine out of ten. Deployment takes only two to three hours to complete. One to two resources are enough to handle the deployment.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Alation Data Catalog an eight out of ten.
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.
A stable data catalog solution that helps onboard data sources
What is our primary use case?
We've recently onboarded the Power BI reports, and the inbuilt connector had an issue wherein it was not scanning the custom pages of Power BI. There's a mandate in our organization that details of the report will be on one of the custom pages. So we onboarded the custom page as well, and we have successfully achieved the task.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of Alation Data Catalog are the simplicity in onboarding data sources, the security in securing the data sources, and the way the various users of Alation Data Catalog communicate with each other through a messenger.
What needs improvement?
Alation Data Catalog cannot scan the custom pages of Power BI. Having the capability to scan the custom pages of Power BI would be a great feature in Alation Data Catalog. Alation Data Catalog does not provide end-to-end data lineage. It cannot provide a data lineage where the data is going from one data source to another. Alation Data Catalog currently lacks these features.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Alation Data Catalog for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Alation Data Catalog is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scaling up was not easy in the earlier versions of the solution, and it used to crash. However, with the new updates provided by Alation Data Catalog, it is easy to scale up.
As an application support team or application admin team, we are two people using Alation Data Catalog in our organization.
How are customer service and support?
I have been working with Alation Data Catalog's technical support for many years, and I've had a very good experience working with them. They are very proactive and respond to you on time.
How was the initial setup?
Alation Data Catalog's initial setup was pretty easy. The solution provides a detailed step-by-step approach to implement and build the solution. The solution is deployed on cloud.
What about the implementation team?
Alation Data Catalog's basic features and software took around 12 to 13 days to deploy. We were able to onboard a few of the data sources within the next four to five days. In approximately 20 days, we were able to implement and deploy the solution; and onboard around 10 data sources.
What other advice do I have?
I'm working with the latest version of Alation Data Catalog.
I have seen many tools, and Alation Data Catalog is far better than other data catalog solutions.
I recommend every user go through the Alation Data Catalog courses. They have very well-defined videos explaining all the features of Alation Data Catalog.
I won't say that Purview has more features than Alation Data Catalog, but customers tend to go for Purview if their platform is on Azure Cloud. Purview won't be expensive if you already have an Azure membership.
Overall, I rate Alation Data Catalog an eight out of ten.
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.
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
Alation Review
What do you like best about the product?
Alation is one of its kind solution that helps in creating a repository of data sets used in our organization. The platform is easy to use and navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Alation could broaden the services provided on its platforms such as data visualization and analytics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Alation to create data catatlog for different projects that could be shared across teams.
Great digital safety training software
What do you like best about the product?
The training emails for spam, scams and phishing are really good and important for people to understand about the importance of digital safety
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of easy access to our Hox Hunt profile to see what is our score and the other training courses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Breach of security by humans fault. Employees are getting more aware of possible fraudulent emails and websites.
Deserve A Try
What do you like best about the product?
Alation Data Catalog is used as a data analytics tool within the part of the organization where I reside in. It serves as a database for all of our data, including third-party data, where we can run queries that are then used in Tableau dashboards, Microsoft Excel pulls and other data analytic tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Alation data catalog has some cons which are additional help tools, guided building, debugging etc
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was involved with the selection/purchase process and was involved with the implementation phase. I would not recommend it for anyone with zero SQL or knowledge
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