The Alation Difference
Agentic Data Management
Our approach enables seamless data documentation, quality, and data product creation with AI-driven automation.
Built for Everyone
An intuitive user experience empowers people and AI models to harness data for better decisions and measurable business impact.
Proven and Trusted
Alation’s data platform is trusted by 40% of the Fortune 100 and meets stringent enterprise requirements.
Products
Search and Discovery
Empower everyone to find, understand, and use trusted data. Catalog and centralize your data's context, rules, policies, definitions, and relationships in a single source of reference.
Alation Data Governance
Simplify governance for success. Create all your policies in the Data Governance Policy Center to actively manage risk and compliance.
Data Lineage
See the full story of data. Visualize data relationships easily with automated column-level lineage. Get a birds-eye view of data lineage, or zoom in to explore details.
Data Quality
Ensure trust in data with AI-powered data quality prioritization, proactive monitoring, and automated rule application—providing confident insights at enterprise scale
Data Products Marketplace
Enables fast, trusted access to reusable data products, empowering teams, apps, and AI to accelerate business impact while ensuring governance and compliance.
Analytics
Measure the value of your data initiatives. Track and optimize your data maturity progress. See metrics like total assets curated, total active users, top queries, and more.
Alation Agents
Alation Agents automate data documentation, quality, and governed data products, enabling organizations to accelerate AI, BI, and compliance initiatives.
Documentation Agent
Automate data asset documentation for accurate, consistent, and scalable data management and governance.
Data Quality Agent
Scale data quality with AI and metadata to automate data quality monitoring and rule application.
Alation Data Products Builder Agent
Accelerate data product delivery with built-in governance and certification. Automate creation and packaging from end to end for faster time-to-value.
Platform Services
Alation Platform Services provides the foundation for trusted data management, empowering organizations to scale data initiatives, ensure compliance, and drive innovation. Built on an open, extensible architecture, Alation Platform Services offer seamless integration with existing data ecosystems, enabling secure, governed access to reliable data across the enterprise.
Active Metadata Graph
Provide a dynamic, interconnected view of metadata to improve data discovery and governance.
Workflow Automation
Streamline data stewardship tasks, enabling efficient governance and faster decision-making.
Security
Ensure robust data protection and compliance with industry regulations across the data lifecycle.
ALLIE AI
ALLIE AI builds upon Alation’s machine learning (ML) core to enable organizations to save time and scale data initiatives more efficiently and democratize trusted data.
Open Connector Framework
Unlock valuable insights with a breadth and depth of connectivity to data sources across the enterprise
Open Data Quality Framework
Get a unified view of data health by integrating data quality tools and metrics across your data estate.
APIs
Enable seamless integration across data ecosystems, automating workflows and accelerating data-driven innovation
AI Agent SDK
Seamless data intelligence integration helps organizations build secure AI applications and agents.
Discover why 40% of the Fortune 100 choose and trust Alation
“Alation helps us to have confidence that our data is trusted and fit for purpose.”
“Alation provides the platform and capability for stakeholders to be able to search for the data they need…”
“[With Alation] We identified user-centricity and high-quality data as key enablers to foster our data culture and generate business value."
Frequently asked questions
What makes Alation’s data intelligence platform different from traditional data catalogs?
Unlike traditional data catalog solutions focused on passive documentation, Alation’s platform uses intelligent, agentic workflows. These workflows embed governance directly into daily data operations, automating manual tasks and aligning metadata with business outcomes.
The platform also includes a unified data products marketplace and data product builder agent to operationalize governance at scale and accelerate data-to-value workflows. These are powered by generative AI for proactive insight discovery.
How is the Agentic Data Intelligence Platform deployed and maintained in enterprise environments?
Alation’s platform features a cloud-based, open, and extensible architecture that integrates seamlessly with existing data ecosystems via native connectors and APIs. Additionally, it accommodates both on-premises and multi-cloud (e.g., Azure) deployments to meet diverse enterprise needs.
By centralizing metadata, governance policies, and automation workflows, Alation’s data intelligence solution ensures consistent management across all environments. In turn, this unified approach enables secure, governed access throughout distributed data infrastructures.
What existing tools and platforms does Alation integrate with?
Alation integrates with a broad range of data sources, including:
Cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake)
Legacy systems, BI tools
Collaborative platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams
Modern APIs
It also provides native connectors for Databricks Unity Catalog, ensuring end-to-end automation, governance, and data intelligence across diverse enterprise infrastructures.