Data governance, data stewardship, data policies approval process, and data quality are automated and simplified by the use of machine learning and crowdsourcing.

Alation incorporates multiple regulations, like CCPA and GDPR, into one platform providing real-time visibility into the data lifecycle, data lineage, policies, usage patterns, and changes in the data environment.

The Analytics Stewardship application simplifies top-down policies, policy interpretation, and policy enforcement, making sure the right data is accessible to the right people at the right time.

Through deep impact analysis Alation shows the implications of moving data to the cloud, helping organisations decide which assets are suitable for moving to the cloud.

Alation uses machine learning and Behavioral Analysis Engine (BAE) to automatically generate business glossaries, popularity rankings, user breakdowns, usage recommendations, and natural language search capabilities.

Alation facilitates collaboration and knowledge sharing between data users. The system automatically identifies experts and allows other users to reach out to them for help. As well, when users search for data the system suggests relevant articles.

In order to overcome the complexity of enterprise data structures, Alation classifies the data, learns users’ behaviour, and then guides users’ searches with personal recommendations, flags, and policies.

Alation provides a central interface through which data compliance officers can manage, change, and set policies across the entire organisation, ensuring that users can access only the data they’re allowed to and that the enterprise complies with regulations.

Alation offers enterprise-grade secure sign on with LDAP and SAML. The system then ensures that users can access only data they are allowed to.

Alation’s modern data architecture supports huge data volumes and high-performance processing and allows the solution and organisation to scale easily.

Alation can be deployed irrespective of where the organisation hosts its’ data, whether it’s an on-premises installation, private, public, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments.

Alation’s Enterprise Data Catalog pulls all metadata into a central catalog, allowing data users to access, analyse, define, and manage metadata easily.