We've recently onboarded the Power BI reports, and the inbuilt connector had an issue wherein it was not scanning the custom pages of Power BI. There's a mandate in our organization that details of the report will be on one of the custom pages. So we onboarded the custom page as well, and we have successfully achieved the task.
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A stable data catalog solution that helps onboard data sources
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of Alation Data Catalog are the simplicity in onboarding data sources, the security in securing the data sources, and the way the various users of Alation Data Catalog communicate with each other through a messenger.
What needs improvement?
Alation Data Catalog cannot scan the custom pages of Power BI. Having the capability to scan the custom pages of Power BI would be a great feature in Alation Data Catalog. Alation Data Catalog does not provide end-to-end data lineage. It cannot provide a data lineage where the data is going from one data source to another. Alation Data Catalog currently lacks these features.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Alation Data Catalog for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Alation Data Catalog is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scaling up was not easy in the earlier versions of the solution, and it used to crash. However, with the new updates provided by Alation Data Catalog, it is easy to scale up.
As an application support team or application admin team, we are two people using Alation Data Catalog in our organization.
How are customer service and support?
I have been working with Alation Data Catalog's technical support for many years, and I've had a very good experience working with them. They are very proactive and respond to you on time.
How was the initial setup?
Alation Data Catalog's initial setup was pretty easy. The solution provides a detailed step-by-step approach to implement and build the solution. The solution is deployed on cloud.
What about the implementation team?
Alation Data Catalog's basic features and software took around 12 to 13 days to deploy. We were able to onboard a few of the data sources within the next four to five days. In approximately 20 days, we were able to implement and deploy the solution; and onboard around 10 data sources.
What other advice do I have?
I'm working with the latest version of Alation Data Catalog.
I have seen many tools, and Alation Data Catalog is far better than other data catalog solutions.
I recommend every user go through the Alation Data Catalog courses. They have very well-defined videos explaining all the features of Alation Data Catalog.
I won't say that Purview has more features than Alation Data Catalog, but customers tend to go for Purview if their platform is on Azure Cloud. Purview won't be expensive if you already have an Azure membership.
Overall, I rate Alation Data Catalog an eight out of ten.
Great Tool
What do you like best about the product?
It has allowed me to collaborate with coworkers more easily
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface needs improvement. It is sometimes difficult to navigate to exactly what I want
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finding enterprise approved codes and metadata information
Enterprise Data Cataloging Made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
It's just stunning how easy it's been to stand up Alation, get it customized, get data sources connected and get people interested in using it. I love the interface and the intuitiveness of it and our programmers have been working with the APIs, working from Alation recipes that get us most of the way there out of the box.
What do you dislike about the product?
We've found no down sides of Alation - the experience has been positive for us in every aspect, from implementation to curation. Some features that we would like are still in development, but we knew that going in and Alation has been open about what's coming and when we can expect it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alation is making data governance straightforward and organized across many teams and many stakeholders. Regulatory compliance and practical daily data use is made much easier by a central tool that's accessible to all of those stakeholders.
Powerful and simple to use Metadata Catalog Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of Use. Caters for a customised user requirement implementation. Good product support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not historically focused on UK Public Sector and unawareness of the culture challenges coupled with disparate source system landscape to implementing a Metadata Catalog Tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lack of awareness on what data is available in the organisation, who owns it, who manages it, repeated data discovery exercises for the same data, lack of metadata accuracy, lack of organisational business glossary and management thereof
Best Pure Data Catalog on the Market
What do you like best about the product?
Strengths of Alation:
1) Clear focus on core data catalog functionality (no frills - doesn't try to be everything for everyone).
2) Simple and intuitive UI
3) Proven implementation approach that delivers on the promise in a matter of weeks
4) Product development delivers on most relevant enhancements and functionality
5) Quality account and relationship management
6) Makes data governance tangible!!!
1) Clear focus on core data catalog functionality (no frills - doesn't try to be everything for everyone).
2) Simple and intuitive UI
3) Proven implementation approach that delivers on the promise in a matter of weeks
4) Product development delivers on most relevant enhancements and functionality
5) Quality account and relationship management
6) Makes data governance tangible!!!
What do you dislike about the product?
Areas for Development:
1) The pricing model is complex and could be improved. For instance, Alation should remove the limit of read-only users. It should also encourage the use of additional connectors. These features will only help to ensure quality implementations used across the enterprise.
2) Need to find a way to more clearly differentiate themselves from Collibra in how they market the product.
1) The pricing model is complex and could be improved. For instance, Alation should remove the limit of read-only users. It should also encourage the use of additional connectors. These features will only help to ensure quality implementations used across the enterprise.
2) Need to find a way to more clearly differentiate themselves from Collibra in how they market the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) Allowing users to discover data.
2) Allowing users to understand the data.
3) Allow users to understand who owns the data.
4) Allow the users on how to collaborate in use of the data.
5) Creates a deeper connection between the business users and data stewards.
6) Is the application which ensures the accountability of the data stewards.
2) Allowing users to understand the data.
3) Allow users to understand who owns the data.
4) Allow the users on how to collaborate in use of the data.
5) Creates a deeper connection between the business users and data stewards.
6) Is the application which ensures the accountability of the data stewards.
Alation is an amazing data catalogue tool.
What do you like best about the product?
The thing that appeals to me most about Alation is that it is a user-friendly tool with superior data catalog capabilities. It is also very cost effective. Additionally, Alation by far has the smartest sales and professional development teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only issue that I have with Alation is that I wish they had a fully integrated Data Quality tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a data catalog/business glossary tool to support the implementation of our Data Catalog tool.
The tool that we've been wanting for a long time.
What do you like best about the product?
The catalog part, although we are still slowing but steadily building on it, holds a lot of promise. It will save our team and our user base, considerable time and effort.
What do you dislike about the product?
Delays in the renewal of licenses. The application displays warnings that our license is about to expire which makes it look like we are not taking care of our bills.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaboration with user base and user base amongst themselves. Data Governance app should help but there is budgetary constraints at this time
Best Data intelligence providers
What do you like best about the product?
Alation's data catalog and search capabilities make it easier for users to find and access relevant data.
What do you dislike about the product?
no dislike for Alation products on my side.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alation addresses the data governance challenges by providing tools and features for establishing and enforcing data policies, standards, and best practices. This ensures data integrity and compliance with regulations and reduces the risk of data breaches. Users benefit from improved data governance and increased confidence in their data assets. So we solved our Data related issue solved.
A great data cataloging capability for data driven enterprises
What do you like best about the product?
Having a data catalogue is essential for any data driven business to succeed, in the appropriate way, and scale correctly without incurring tech debt or creating siloes. Alation allows this is an efficient way that speaks to both technical and business stakeholders.
What do you dislike about the product?
Alation in our experience has occasionally struggled to scale at the pace that we often require it. The UI can sometimes be difficult to use for more inexperienced individuals.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Contextual information is embedded alongside the data, and being able to link together business process documentation, terminology definitions and data together in one place is very useful for our stakeholders.
Alation is the go-to data catalogue for fast-to-insights governance
What do you like best about the product?
Firstly, the Alation team are very customer centric. Regular, consistently useful comms, on point, every time. The product is very easy to deploy in AWS, and connecting to our DW and reporting systems has been mostly a doddle. We've had a few issues in connecting to Kafka, but that has been because of our setup.
The product is really intuitive to use, and quickly highlights gaps in current processes around documenting data sources within a DW environment. The fact that it can pull lineage from warehouses is really useful for impact analysis.
The product is really intuitive to use, and quickly highlights gaps in current processes around documenting data sources within a DW environment. The fact that it can pull lineage from warehouses is really useful for impact analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think there is a gap within the specific Power BI connector, in that I'm sure there is more metadata behind the scenes that Alation can tap into, but doesnt. For example, where people are creating reports in Power BI, making use of calculations and functions, it'd be super handy to be able to identify these, and compare for duplications across the org. Otherwise, there isnt much to complain about!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alation is underpinning our business and technology strategies, and is enabling a more digital way of working. It helps us identify what we have, what condition its in, who's best to talk to as a SME, and federated governance across teams.
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