Description
🖼️ Tool Name:
Alation
🔖 Tool Category:
AI-powered data intelligence and data catalog platform; it falls under the category of enterprise data management tools designed to help organizations discover, govern, and use data effectively.
✏️ What does this tool offer?
Alation provides a data intelligence platform that helps organizations understand what data they have, where it lives, how it is used, and whether it can be trusted. It combines a data catalog with AI-driven insights to improve data discovery, governance, and collaboration across teams.
⭐ What does the tool actually deliver based on user experience?
• Centralized data catalog for databases, warehouses, and analytics tools
• AI-powered data discovery and search
• Contextual metadata, usage analytics, and data lineage
• Collaboration features such as data documentation and stewardship
• Trust indicators for data quality and reliability
• Support for analytics, BI, and data science teams
🤖 Does it include automation?
Yes — Alation includes intelligent automation, such as:
• Automatic metadata harvesting from data sources
• AI-driven classification and tagging of data assets
• Automated data lineage and usage tracking
• Continuous updates as data environments change
• Reduced manual effort in data governance and documentation
💰 Pricing Model:
Enterprise subscription (custom pricing)
🆓 Free Plan Details:
• No public free plan
• Demos or proof-of-concept access available upon request
💳 Paid Plan Details:
• Enterprise pricing based on data sources, users, and scale
• Includes advanced governance, collaboration, and analytics features
• Dedicated enterprise support and onboarding
🧭 Access Method:
• Web-based enterprise platform
• Integrations with databases, data warehouses, BI, and analytics tools
• APIs for extending data intelligence workflows
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