Alation Inc., a leading enterprise data intelligence solutions provider, has recently introduced Alation Marketplaces. This new product offers third-party datasets to supplement existing data in Alation Data Catalog, allowing for more comprehensive analysis. Furthermore, Alation has expanded its Anywhere platform to include Microsoft Teams and Connected Sheets to Microsoft Excel, providing data users with direct access to contextual information from the catalog within their preferred tools.
The use of third-party data can reveal opportunities and risks that enterprises may miss with their proprietary data. For example, while industries like air travel rely on internally produced data on customers, fuel, and predictive maintenance to operate, external data, such as weather patterns, is also crucial to optimize customer experience and streamline operations. However, as third-party data providers proliferate, sourcing reliable data can be time-consuming and challenging.
With Alation Marketplaces, users can easily explore third-party external data from vendors like Snowflake, Amazon Web Services, and data.gov to complement existing data in Alation Data Catalog. In addition, the product offers easy-to-scan sample data and a single, well-organized environment that allows everyone in an organization to conveniently find and integrate external data that would otherwise be difficult to locate.
Alation Anywhere for Microsoft Teams will be available soon, allowing data teams and business users to preview metadata from Alation Data Catalog directly within Microsoft Teams and collaborate with others seamlessly. This builds on the existing Alation Anywhere integration for Tableau and Slack. Additionally, Alation Connected Sheets now supports Microsoft Excel, enabling business users to import trusted data from various source databases in real time into the most commonly used spreadsheet tool.
About Alation
Alation is a leading enterprise data intelligence solutions provider for data search and discovery, data stewardship, data governance, analytics, and digital transformation. Its products include a powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, open interfaces and collaboration tools, combining machine learning with human insight to manage data and metadata effectively. Over 450 companies, including American Family Insurance, AbbVie, Autozone, Cisco, Fifth Third Bank, Draft Kings, Munich Re, Exelon, Finnair, NASDAQ, Parexel, Virgin Australia, Pfizer, Salesforce and Vistaprint, use its offerings to improve decision-making and realize business outcomes. Alation's solutions dominate the data catalog market, helping organizations to drive a data culture and overcome the most demanding challenges in data management.