Alation

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Overview

About Alation

Alation pioneered the data catalog market and is now leading its evolution into a platform for a broad range of data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data management all while improving your data culture. Trusted by 250+ enterprises worldwide including Salesforce, LinkedIn, Cisco, Nasdaq, Finnair, and Pepsico.

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Alation Features

Features of Alation
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Automatic Backup
Customer Database
Data Connectors
Data Import/Export
Data Migration
Data Quality Control
Data Security
Data Synchronization

Alation Integrations

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Snowflake
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Tableau
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Microsoft Azure
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MongoDB
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Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
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Amazon Redshift

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Verified Professional

Insurance · 10000+ employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

A great database consumption and data dictionary documentation tool

This is a great product that allows data analysts to schedule queries for execution against connected data sources. You can import data dictionaries, which should result in field tips being available. As you run a query and wait for results, it prompts you to describe the various joins. You can also create standardized queries and publish them, with others having the ability to review and sign off on those queries.

What they liked

Scheduled queries, field name documentation, ability to import data dictionaries, verified queries

Room for improvement
  • Exports of automatically scheduled queries are in CSV format without an Excel option
  • For users who would just open up the file in Excel, all numeric test fields with leading zeros will be incorrectly assumed to be numeric and the leading zeros will be lost (you'd need to import the text file to Excel and choose the data format or use the data connections from Excel or Power BI)

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