Alation, Inc.

Accelerate AI and data initiatives with trusted data and seamless automation.

Build Governed AI Agents With Speed And Control.

Automate Data Asset Documentation for Accuracy and Consistency.

Ensure Trusted Decisions with Proactive Data Quality Management.

Accelerate data product delivery with AI assistance, ensuring trusted, governed outcomes.

Accelerate data-driven decisions with AI-ready, governed, reusable data products.

Empowers teams to find and understand trusted data quickly and effortlessly.

Proven AI Compliance and Governance for Responsible Data Use.

Enables confident decision-making with universally trusted data for all stakeholders.

Streamline data governance by automating compliance and aligning with business objectives.

Capabilities to inventory, index, and contextualize enterprise data so users can find, understand, and trust assets for analytics and decision-making.

Products: Data Catalog, Documentation Agent, Agentic Data Intelligence Platform, Self Service Analytics, Data Products Marketplace

Policy, control, and critical data element management that enforce access, lineage, approvals, and regulatory requirements across data and AI programs.

Products: Outcome-Based Governance, AI Governance, Data Catalog, Agentic Data Intelligence Platform, Data Products Marketplace

Packaging, certifying, and publishing reusable AI-ready data products with built-in governance, no-code publishing, and marketplace discovery for internal reuse.

Products: Data Products Builder Agent, Data Products Marketplace, Documentation Agent, Agentic Data Intelligence Platform

Automated monitoring, anomaly detection, and usage-driven prioritization that maintain data integrity and surface issues for proactive remediation.

Products: Data Quality Agent, Agentic Data Intelligence Platform, Data Products Builder Agent

Controls, inventory, model cards, and approval workflows to manage model risk, ensure responsible AI deployment, and govern data-driven agents.

Products: AI Governance, Agent Studio, Agentic Data Intelligence Platform

Agentic Data Intelligence Platform

Alation's Agentic Data Intelligence Platform empowers data teams with AI-driven automation, accelerating data initiatives, ensuring compliance, and delivering trusted data at the speed of business.

• Automate Data Tasks
  Streamline processes by automating the heavy lifting in data management, enabling teams to focus on strategic decision-making.
• Ensure Compliance
  Maintain regulatory compliance effortlessly by integrating comprehensive data governance capabilities.
• Enhance Data Understanding
  Provide clear visibility into data flow, helping teams assess the impact of changes and ensure data integrity.
• Promote Data Accessibility
  Empower users to discover trusted data seamlessly while ensuring that governance standards are met.
• Gain Actionable Insights
  Leverage advanced analytics to measure performance and improve decision-making across data initiatives.
• Enhance Decision-Making
  Leverage real-time metadata to drive insights and foster confidence in data-driven strategies.
• Facilitate Data Product Usage
  Streamline access to reusable data products, promoting best practices and compliance in data utilization.

Agent Studio

Alation's Agent Studio enables users to build AI-driven agents efficiently, creating governed, accurate, and context-aware digital assistants tailored to business needs. It integrates various data sources and leverages a vendor-neutral design, allowing for speedy deployment into applications and workflows.

• Create Tailored Agents
  Utilize the Agent Studio's SDK for flexible development of AI agents customized to your organization’s specific needs while ensuring governance and accuracy.
• Ensure Secure Agent Deployment
  With governance embedded in Agent Studio, organizations can confidently scale agent usage while adhering to compliance standards.
• Connect To Multiple Data Sources
  Easily integrate with a wide range of data platforms, allowing agents to access the necessary data in real-time for informed decision-making.
• Achieve Transparent Decision-Making
  By grounding agents in trusted metadata, users can rely on the precision of responses and the consistency of outputs.
• Speed Up Development Process
  Leverage out-of-the-box templates and quick deployment features to fast-track agent development and testing.

Documentation Agent

Streamline documentation with an agent that automatically translates data context to business terms and suggests descriptions you can approve or refine. Alation’s Documentation Agent expands technical abbreviations and auto-titles assets in natural language, making metadata and dataset names intuitive and searchable for all users.

• Automate Documentation Maintenance
  Reduce manual work on documentation tasks by using AI suggestions to keep metadata accurate, ensuring all data remains trusted and accessible.
• Simplify Data Terms
  Translate complex technical terms into easily understandable language, enhancing data literacy across the organization.
• Enhance Documentation Flexibility
  Empower users to take control of their data descriptions while ensuring consistency in metadata.

Data Quality Agent

Alation Data Quality utilizes AI and metadata to enhance data trustworthiness by automatically suggesting and applying quality rules, monitoring data issues in real-time, and streamlining data workflows for proactive resolution, thus ensuring high data integrity across enterprise systems.

• Enhances Data Trust
  By utilizing AI, it identifies high-impact data assets and deploys tailored quality rules, significantly improving data reliability.
• Focus Quality Efforts
  Improves business outcomes by directing resources toward data that holds the most significance for decision-making.
• Streamlines Data Workflows
  This feature allows teams to resolve data quality issues directly within their workflows, minimizing context switching and enhancing efficiency.
• Flexible Quality Management
  Allows organizations to maintain oversight of data quality while utilizing their preferred tools within a unified framework.

Data Products Builder Agent

Data Products Builder helps data teams package, document, and prepare AI-ready data products quickly, with AI recommendations, active metadata, and built-in governance to publish to a governed marketplace.

• Enhances Product Creation Speed
  Leverage AI to identify relevant data assets and automatically generate comprehensive documentation, ensuring a faster turnaround for data products.
• Ensures Compliance and Trust
  Automated governance processes ensure all data products meet organizational standards for quality, compliance, and security before release.
• Facilitates Easy Access to Data Products
  Integrates with the Data Products Marketplace, providing a platform for easy distribution and access to approved data assets.
• Optimizes Data Product Efficiency
  Utilizes real-time feedback to enhance data product offerings based on user interactions and performance insights.
• Empowers Non-technical Users
  Enables users to create data products using an intuitive interface, removing the barriers for non-technical team members.
• Enhances Product Interoperability
  Ensures that data products are compliant with ODPS, promoting compatibility across varying data environments.

Data Products Marketplace

Data Products Marketplace is your marketplace for governed, reusable, AI-ready data. It enables discovery of trusted data assets, plain-English queries, and no-code data product publishing with built-in governance.

• Enhance Decision-Making
  AI-ready data products deliver actionable insights across business and technical teams, streamlining the path to innovation.
• Ensure Compliance
  Governed data products facilitate easier compliance with industry standards and regulations, providing peace of mind to data consumers.
• Streamline Data Delivery
  Quickly create and distribute data products, enabling teams to leverage data without technical barriers.
• Simplify Data Access
  Users can easily interact with data, leveraging natural language queries to gain insights without needing SQL expertise.
• Build Trust
  Certified data assets provide assurance of quality and reliability, fostering confidence among data users.
• Accelerate Insights
  Timely data insights allow for quick decision-making based on the most relevant information available.

Data Catalog

Alation Data Catalog centralizes the data’s context, rules, policies, definitions, and relationships in a single source of reference, enabling discovery and trusted collaboration.

• Use Natural Language Search
  Search using everyday language to find relevant data and insights without needing technical knowledge.
• Ensure Compliance Automatically
  Automatically discover, classify, and manage sensitive data with comprehensive policy enforcement.
• Integrate 120+ Data Sources
  Access all your data assets including relational databases and applications seamlessly integrated through our robust connectors.

AI Governance

AI Governance provides controls and policies to manage AI initiatives, ensuring responsible use and compliance with data governance. It registers every AI asset in a single inventory, generates model cards, and routes approvals through regulation-aware workflows, thereby creating a live compliance posture for immediate insights.

• Ensure Safe AI Operations
  Implement comprehensive and adaptive measures to maintain compliance in AI initiatives, ensuring that AI operates within established policies.
• Monitor AI Compliance
  Establish frameworks to continuously assess and ensure compliance with evolving regulations and standards across all AI-driven initiatives.
• Enhance AI Frameworks
  Seamlessly incorporate AI into your existing governance structures for unified management and oversight.

Self Service Analytics

Alation's Self-Service Analytics empowers all data stakeholders with instant access to trusted data, enabling informed decision-making, faster insights, and business agility.

• Enhance Data Discovery
  Users can quickly locate trustworthy insights and make informed decisions, shortening the time from query to actionable insights.
• Enable Faster Decisions
  Data teams can quickly pivot, utilizing real-time data for strategic initiatives, thus enhancing overall business responsiveness.

Outcome-Based Governance

Outcome-Based Governance empowers organizations to transform their governance practices by defining critical data elements and translating regulatory policies into actionable standards.

• Streamlines Compliance Processes
  By automating governance, businesses save time and resources, ensuring compliance is maintained without hindering operational workflows.
• Enhances Decision-Making
  CDE management allows organizations to define what data is most critical, ensuring focus on data that drives business success and compliance readiness.