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Alation

Alation Data Intelligence Platform

Composite Score
6.9 /10
CX Score
7.1 /10
Category
Alation Data Intelligence Platform
6.9 /10

What is Alation Data Intelligence Platform?

Alation provides an open, powerful, and intelligent data platform that supports a wide variety of metadata management and related applications from search and discovery to data governance to digital transformation. incorporates machine learning to analyze the ways data is used and to identify patterns from those accessing information.

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Awards & Recognition

Alation Data Intelligence Platform won the following awards in the Metadata Management category

Alation Data Intelligence Platform Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

83 Likeliness to Recommend

93 Plan to Renew

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68 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+78 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Alation Data Intelligence Platform?

3% Negative
10% Neutral
87% Positive

Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 70

Collaboration

82

Business Context

79

Automation of Metadata Creation

76

APIs and Integration

74

Metadata Design

74

Business Glossary

72

Business Rules and Event Management

72

Data Monitoring and Administration

69

Hierarchy Management

67

Data Lineage

64

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 74

Vendor Support

80

Usability and Intuitiveness

79

Business Value Created

76

Availability and Quality of Training

75

Ease of Implementation

75

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

74

Quality of Features

73

Ease of IT Administration

73

Ease of Data Integration

72

Breadth of Features

71

Ease of Customization

70

Alation Data Intelligence Platform Reviews

Dennis P.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2021

Fantastic product with a good interface.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Alation Data Intelligence Platform from other similar products?

Ease of use. Relatively quick execution time

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Checking schemas are easy

What do you dislike most about this product?

Bug with loading Csv data

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Make sure your use case is not loading csv

Pros

  • Inspires Innovation
  • Reliable
  • Generous Negotitation
  • Includes Product Enhancements

Cons

  • Commodity Features
  • Leverages Incumbent Status
  • Slower Product Innovation

Ambrish A.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2021

Easy to use, Intuitive & business friendly Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Alation Data Intelligence Platform from other similar products?

Best of the breed Data catalog & Data Curation features, which helps in building effective foundation for enterprise data initiatives like data governance, data analytics & digitization.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of use & effectiveness for business usage and at the same time good technical capabilities like metadata ingestion & data lineage. Product team has designed Alation considering all the key requirements from metadata management & data catalog aspects. Very good training and learning programs are available across variety of users(IT, Business, Governance etc.)

What do you dislike most about this product?

Sometimes support can be bit delayed but overall it is satisfactory

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Evaluate your organization's needs and prioritize them and based on that assess Alation's capabilities. If you need best data cataloging and stewardship tool, Alation can be the best fit for your needs.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Trustworthy
  • Caring
  • Respectful

Kathy D.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Insurance
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2021

Worth the Investment

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Alation Data Intelligence Platform from other similar products?

The ease of being able to collaborate and index large amounts of Metadata on a cloud platform. Data Governance is key for usage of any type of software.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Application Support and usage for the end-users, training is easy to execute.

What do you dislike most about this product?

At this time there is no complaints about the product that I dislike.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Request a demo with your business use cases. Compare to what your current process is and your company will see how this software aligns will your business model.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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