Extending Alation’s lineage capabilities, Business Lineage provides a visual map of technical, system, and business metadata for data flowing between systems.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 11, 2024 (Globe Newswire) — Alation, Inc., a data intelligence company, today announced a comprehensive and rich review of the flow of data as it flows through systems and is transformed. We announced Business Lineage, which provides visibility to business users. This visibility increases trust in your data and reduces time to insight. Business Lineage is an extension of Alation’s end-to-end data lineage that provides an abstraction layer for filtering views of data flows and visualizing relationships between technical, system, and business metadata. This integrated approach provides a complete view so that all users can confidently and effectively leverage information to maximize the potential of their organization’s information assets and improve decision-making. Masu.
AI and cloud technologies have provided organizations with the opportunity to use enterprise data to enhance their products, services, and business models. However, the proliferation of data sources has increased data fragmentation and data silos, making it difficult to use data effectively. This complicates tracking the origin of data and understanding how it transforms throughout its lifecycle. IDC reports that 41% of organizations believe that data is changing faster than they can keep up, and 33% believe that data is fragmented or siled across the organization. We believe that we are no longer able to extract more value from. Additionally, 64% of these organizations believe that the amount of metadata is growing faster or more significantly than the creation or collection of raw data. Organizations need lineage to provide users with this end-to-end view and prove the authenticity of their data.
Alation Data Intelligence Platform provides deep and broad connectivity to over 100 data sources, providing a unified view of data abstracted and exposed through rich metadata. This enables organizations to obtain a comprehensive map of their data environment and provides a flexible way to visualize end-to-end data flows on a single pane of glass at a business or technical level. This allows users to apply various filters to uncover details such as technical code references and data health metrics, reducing time to insight. This approach helps business analysts and other non-technical users understand data problems without writing queries and track system-wide metrics to uncover data quality issues. Lineage allows users to instantly prove the authenticity of their dashboards and quickly perform quality checks to ensure that the data is approved and trustworthy.
John Gilbert, Data Governance Manager at Cbus said: “Alation’s actionable end-to-end business lineage serves both business and technical personnel within an organization, helping them understand the flow of data from the point of initial acquisition to usage. ”. “This provides an audit trail, enables impact analysis of changes, reduces risk, and ensures that corporate data is managed as a critical asset and implemented in an effective and sustainable manner. This fundamental enhancement of data governance supports the four pillars of data culture maturity and provides organizations with a solid framework to be more competitive, compliant, and innovative in the face of change. .”
“Collecting data is just the beginning. Enabling everyone to truly understand and trust it unlocks its true value,” said Diby Malakar, VP of Product Management at Alation. says Mr. “Alation’s business lineage shines a light on the flow of data and provides critical context for impactful decisions. By integrating trusted data into strategic planning, businesses can become more informed and agile. It strengthens data governance as a fundamental pillar of business operations. It strengthens data culture, breaks down silos, fully leverages data in a controlled manner, and improves data governance. People, policies come together to drive insightful, collaborative decision-making and unlock the full potential of data.”
Alation lineage empowers technical and business teams to increase confidence in data and reduce time to insight.
- Improved transparency. By providing data maps, all users benefit from a deeper understanding of their data in a visual context that is meaningful to them. Users can also track important KPIs and metrics back to their source and identify important data elements using contextual metadata overlays such as data health, sensitivity, policies, and selected custom fields. You can also highlight. Filters also allow you to drill down to see exactly what you need. into your field of interest.
- Stronger data governance. Gain visibility into the movement and usage of sensitive data across your organization, significantly reducing audit time. Additionally, governance teams can see the movement and usage of this data using the classification metadata overlay in business lineage views. Finally, Alation’s lineage provides users with the ability to monitor changes, track them through audit trails, enhance governance with retrospective views, and understand impact analysis. This means users are aware of the impact of changes, identify who is affected, and increase interconnectivity between teams.
- Reduce costs. Business lineage reduces development and maintenance costs by streamlining the change process. Impact analysis and confidence flags help identify and fix errors faster, prevent costly outages, and reduce the time needed for root cause analysis. Additionally, Alation’s query log ingestion process provides critical operational metadata that helps data operations teams derive insights that support cost savings through optimizing data pipeline performance and reducing technical debt. .
Read our blog, Unlock Trust and Transparency with Data Lineage, to learn more about how Alation’s business lineage helps all users speed up discovery to insight and make better business decisions .
Business Lineage is in private preview and is expected to be generally available in Q2 2024.
About aration
Alation is a leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions, enabling self-service analytics, cloud transformation, and data governance. Over 550 companies, including Cisco, Nasdaq, Pfizer, Salesforce, and Virgin Australia, use Alation to build a data culture and improve data-driven decision-making. Aration has been named to Inc. Magazine’s ‘Best Workplaces’ list four times, and in 2022 was named ‘Best Workplaces™’ and ‘Best Workplaces™ for Women’ in the UK Technology sector. , voted ‘Best Workplaces™’ in the UK in 2022 and 2023. For more information, please visit www.alation.com.
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