Data governance - Product
Alation
A data catalogue that helps organisations find, understand and govern their data
What's it for?
Helps people find organisational data and understand what it means, who looks after it and whether it can be trusted.
For example…
An analyst searches Alation for “customer revenue” and finds the approved dataset, its owner and how other teams use it.
A data steward uses Alation to document what a field means and flag which source should be trusted
Think of it like…
Alation helps people find trusted datasets and understand them through crowdsourced context plus automation