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A very capable data catalog - and growing
What do you like best about the product?
-allows for huge database of data objects
-easy to use for data stewards, data admins - and end users
-continued evolution of capabilities (example: lineage)
-easy to use for data stewards, data admins - and end users
-continued evolution of capabilities (example: lineage)
What do you dislike about the product?
-licensing model can be confusing
-small desktop software for search/interaction would be helpful
-small desktop software for search/interaction would be helpful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
-business user understanding of what data means, its purpose, quality and utilization
-higher level of business data literacy
-better business decisions based on data
-higher level of business data literacy
-better business decisions based on data
Best query catalog
What do you like best about the product?
Best catalog and query scheduler available
What do you dislike about the product?
Option to make specific query private or public
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Query catalog
User friendly, intuitive data catalog
What do you like best about the product?
User friendliness, very strong data curation capabilities, easy to add rich content and documentation. Business users can get started within minutes. Alation is probably the most efficient data curation tool.
On the administrative site, the server is very easy to maintain. Not much work is needed. Upgrading to new versions is very straight forward with few tasks.
Being part of the Alation Community, which is a very active one is also valuable. There are many webinars, and online discussions which means opportunities to learn from Alation itself and other customers.
Having active client success managers means an efficient channeling of all cases that might need support.
Support personnel are very friendly and helpful.
Feature requests are handled very professionally, they are eager to improve the product itself.
On the administrative site, the server is very easy to maintain. Not much work is needed. Upgrading to new versions is very straight forward with few tasks.
Being part of the Alation Community, which is a very active one is also valuable. There are many webinars, and online discussions which means opportunities to learn from Alation itself and other customers.
Having active client success managers means an efficient channeling of all cases that might need support.
Support personnel are very friendly and helpful.
Feature requests are handled very professionally, they are eager to improve the product itself.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although easy to add and manage business glossaries, the function set is not that rich. Some examples of missing functionality.
- Visualization of taxonomy, no tree view or even graph view of glossary
- Handling of synonymous missing
- Import/export for glossaries
- Mapping of business glossary terms to data fields is a manual process, no support for mapping documents
- Visualization of taxonomy, no tree view or even graph view of glossary
- Handling of synonymous missing
- Import/export for glossaries
- Mapping of business glossary terms to data fields is a manual process, no support for mapping documents
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
First and foremost it is used for data curation, search and find, and conversations. We are also using endorsements, warnings etc.
It is very well received by business users. They like the interface, and especially the top down approach for data curation. Some well informed people are no longer bottlenecks and can focus on their valuable tasks instead of answering the same questions over and over again.
It is very well received by business users. They like the interface, and especially the top down approach for data curation. Some well informed people are no longer bottlenecks and can focus on their valuable tasks instead of answering the same questions over and over again.
Data Catalog that facilitates collaboration between business users and developers
What do you like best about the product?
Our team really likes the collaborative features, as well as the tool being tailored to business user's needs
What do you dislike about the product?
Support and issue resolution times, low transparency on upcoming features
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data transparency, Knowledge retention, Data Governance
Creating a common understanding for Data Analytics projects
Creating a common understanding for Data Analytics projects
An innovative Data Catalog Tool
What do you like best about the product?
The road map of the potential of the Data Catalog. Always improving the product and getting into areas to make it the one stop shop. Alation is easy to use, like a google search, a smart algorithm to show the right search results to the top using natural language processing. There's data popularity, sampling and lineage that makes the tool more useful. The collaborative feature of being able to start conversation any where in Alation is great. Getting notified by email and having a dedicated inbox in Alation helps as well. Analytics is a useful data base to help show statistics and trends of what users are doing. Overall, the tool is pretty easy to use and can be quite educational. Having all the data in one place in your company and being able to search is very powerful for a company.
What do you dislike about the product?
There limited testing done on each build, always an issue in each release. Needs more stability. There are performance issues from time to time, we've had to figure out ways to optimize the database and needed to change our disk and ram size a few times in order to accommodate our data sets and performance. No PowerBI connector for visualization reports. No easy way to request access to the data or shop for data. Needs more lineage capabilities for automated lineage. There are still some short comings but I believe they are working on addressing it all in the upcoming releases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One place for the Data Dictionary for our company. Who the experts are and having a data taxonomy. In addition, being able to show lineage for transformations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Alation is very complete tool and can be used and deployed for most clients. If there aren't to many requirements, what Alation can do well is be the data catalog tool. If you require more from your users, it's probably doable in one fashion or another. If you need automated lineage, or better insights to your users, or being able to stay current with GDPR and other Privacy guidelines. All can be done with Alation with a bit of work. Out of the box you get everything you need to setup a catalog. Just need to ensure the connections are compatible with Alation. If your data is mostly in a SAS environment then do more diligent research. If you want to report use of Dashboards in the company, Tableau works great but PowerBI is not supported out of the box. Advice review your requirements and understand what's needed so you can make the right choice.
Data catloging and analytics tool
What do you like best about the product?
I am the platform admin and Alation SME for more that 2 years. I liked Alation Analytics feature most which are providing so many in-depth knowledge of the system.
What do you dislike about the product?
Alation is some how lagging from Data Governance front.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I mostly worked with Data Analyst and Data Scientist and there primary goal is to extract relevant information from different kind of sources and create lineages.
Alation works well for a small shop but still not mature enough for enterprise big time
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to browse around for schema, tables & metadata about them, see sample queries. Search is fast & straight forward.
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficult to find the relationships, cardinality, and other metadata about data models & linages between data sources. Often extremely slow to run any query of reasonable complexity.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provide a central web portal & repository to store & find metadata about data in the enterprise.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are small or midsize shop, go ahead give it a try. For large enterprise, there may be better alternatives offering more features & better performance if you can afford them.
Alation review
What do you like best about the product?
Popularity and usability of the tool for the enterprise
What do you dislike about the product?
support and technical change needs of their product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We did not know how siloed we were till we implemented
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get commitments from your C suite and get them to be proponents of the product
Syncing different systems
What do you like best about the product?
The ability for it to sync all the different databases into one view. This helps us to have a clear view of all DB's.
What do you dislike about the product?
completed rules oriented sometimes you have to give in all the details like sematics, metadata frameework details.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No problems
Great data catalog for organizations with lots of data producers and consumers
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to search for columns and tables. Also like the ability to write SQL queries and see the commonly used join criteria.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited data lineage capabilities to show how data moves from one data source to another.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sharing metadata about our data assets, writing and sharing queries. Benefits are knowledge management and stronger data governance.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great tool for organizations with many data analysts who are hands on working with the data and writing SQL
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