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Updated December 2024

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Alation Data Catalog review

John Gilbert
John Gilbert
Data Governance Manager at Cbus
The catalog now provides an opportunity for people to come together, to share, and...
Alation Data Catalog doesn't support end-to-end lineage. By that, I mean the ability to trace the movement of data from when it first comes into our organization to where it's consumed. Along the way, the data is stored in different places, transformed, aggregated, etc. The journey can be quite a long one from the perspective of a single...
Alation Data Catalog review

reviewer2349747
Vice President at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Builds data catalogs with a proper business glossary and establishes data lineage
The key aspect is ensuring that any policy changes in data governance are translated into rules within Alation. For instance, if a new attribute, such as a private one like SSN, is added to a database, and a policy mandates SSNs be masked for the first eight characters, Alation will enforce that rule uniformly. This ensures that all SSN...

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