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Informative
What do you like best about the product?
One stop shop for information on organizations data assets.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unable to give lineage with synonyms with oracle
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Distributed information
Decent tool with helpful features but Cloud functionality still nascent.
What do you like best about the product?
Integrations ability and automated lineage
What do you dislike about the product?
Current install of Alation is on prem and only a few years old. Already being pushed to cloud which is good but costs more money and several new features that make Alarion a much more complete tool are only available in new cloud tool and those features are still relatively new and unproven.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data lineage and certification documentation
Allation Governor
What do you like best about the product?
Governance Materials and content and details on the governance topics
What do you dislike about the product?
Integrated with applications for lineages
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Governance and Data Catalogue
Great tool for data governance and getting buy-in/adoption from the business!
What do you like best about the product?
Alation is so customizable and the team is really helpful with making sure that you get the most out of the product.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing so far! We've had a really great experience this far, from the customer service to the features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With acting as a data dictionary and helping our users understand our data.
We love Alation!
What do you like best about the product?
I find the search and discovery feature allows us to quickly lookup critical information to us up and running.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to be able to further customize my template to put an AA spin on things.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being the source of truth, and will be able to search on this cover information related to our data assets.
Great size of event
What do you like best about the product?
Knowledge about sensitive data and risks to org
What do you dislike about the product?
Another tool requried to be trained on and deployed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'd of sensitive data in org
Driving a data community culture
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite feature of Alation is the lineage graph. We actively reference the lineage graph during our routine discussions in our organization.
Currently exploring the API and getting more familiar with the Health API
Currently exploring the API and getting more familiar with the Health API
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm looking forward to being able to catalog our ML models in the near future.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're currently cataloging our customer and partner data and ensuring our stakeholders have a source of truth for all customer data references
Promising Opportunities
What do you like best about the product?
Alation provides many opportunities for data governance and innovation.
What do you dislike about the product?
New to Alation, so it would be great to see more relatable examples of the data integration from other companies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data integrity
A smart tool with a crisp UI
What do you like best about the product?
It's a smart data catalog. There are many features such as the Lexicon and Catalog Sets that address the challenges associated with catalog curation. I also love that it allows connection to so many different data sources and data quality tools. It's nice to have options.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wish there was more built in data quality capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Improve data discovery.
Make data governance and documentation less painful.
Make data governance and documentation less painful.
First Impressions
What do you like best about the product?
Seems like a great UI and well organized
What do you dislike about the product?
Without data custodians will require a large effort from the team to curate everything
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data cataloging
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