Alation

Alation is a U.S. enterprise software company focused on data cataloging, data governance, and data intelligence. Its core products help organizations discover and understand data assets, including their meaning, origins, usage, and ownership, while supporting governance teams in establishing shared data knowledge and management processes. The platform is intended for data engineering, data governance, analytics, and business users in organizations operating across multiple databases, warehouses, data lakes, and analytical tools. Alation follows an enterprise software model and positions its products around improving data discoverability, data use, and governance. Because reliable public encyclopedia material is limited, this entry does not expand on unverified details about its customers, management, or financial performance.

Alation was founded in 2012, with its business centered on enterprise data cataloging and data discovery. The company developed a data intelligence platform that combines data asset cataloging, search, knowledge sharing, and governance workflows, helping organizations identify usable data and understand its business context in complex data environments. As enterprises adopted data warehouses, data lakes, and cloud analytics infrastructure, Alation expanded its product focus to related data governance, data quality, usage analysis, and collaboration use cases. Specific details about financing rounds, executive changes, customer counts, and operating scale are not included here because they have not been sufficiently verified from reliable sources for this entry.

A data catalog, data governance, and data intelligence platform for mid-size and large organizations

• Alation Data Intelligence Platform

  Alation's core enterprise software platform catalogs and enables search across databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and other data assets. It uses metadata, usage information, and collaborative knowledge to help users understand data, while supporting governance teams with related ownership and management workflows.

• Unconfirmed

  Alation raises $110 million in Series D funding[2]Alation 完成 1.1 亿美元 D 轮融资crn.com

  Data intelligence software developer Alation raised $110 million in a Series D funding round led by Riverwood Capital, with participation from new and existing investors.

• Unconfirmed

  Alation and Snowflake plan platform integration and go-to-market initiatives[2]Alation 完成 1.1 亿美元 D 轮融资crn.com

  Alation and Snowflake plan to integrate their platforms and undertake joint go-to-market initiatives; the source describes these actions as planned, not completed.

• 2021.04.07

  Reported2021.04.07

  Alation launches Alation Cloud Service[3]Alation推出Alation Cloud Servicesiliconangle.com

  Alation launched Alation Cloud Service, a cloud-based data intelligence platform that connects to data sources in cloud platforms and on-premises environments. It is available through Alation and the AWS Marketplace.

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1. 1Alation official websitealation.com
2. 2Alation 完成 1.1 亿美元 D 轮融资crn.com
3. 3Alation推出Alation Cloud Servicesiliconangle.com