We're proud to share that Alation has been named an Inc. Best Workplace for the 5th time! 🥳 🏆 5 times in a row?! Just how do we keep on winning?! We have to say: we're not surprised. Hear from some of our Alationauts what makes our culture so special: 🧡 “We have a lot of people with significant tenure here, and people don't stay somewhere for years where they're not successful and where they’re not enjoying the culture." — Tassia Reinhold, Regional Sales Director. 💙 "The people are the most important part of our company. If we all like each other and we know about each other, we can build a better business.” — Michael Lupo, SVP, Global Sales. 🧡 "Every single person that we hire has what I like to call this do-what-it-takes mentality. And that's something that is very unique, because oftentimes so many people have their day-to-day jobs, and being able to depend on so many people when you raise your hand is something that I haven't always seen in the past.” — Kelsey Malof, Account Executive. Celebrate our win with us and learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e4GKZiD2 Did you know: we're hiring! See our open roles on our careers page. #incbestworkplaces #alationawards Inc. Magazine
Alation
Software Development
Redwood City, California 106,161 followers
Leader in enterprise #DataIntelligence solutions 🧡 Data Governance Partner of the Year for Snowflake & Databricks ❄️🧱
About us
Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions, enabling self-service analytics, cloud transformation, and data governance. More than 550 enterprises and 40% of Fortune 100 companies build data culture and improve data-driven decision-making with Alation, including Cisco, Nasdaq, Pfizer, Salesforce, and Virgin Australia. Alation has been named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list four times, is a 2022 UK’s Best Workplaces for Women, and recognized as a 2022 and 2023 UK’s Best Workplaces in Tech. For more information, visit www.alation.com.
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www.alation.com
External link for Alation
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Redwood City, California
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2012
- Specialties
- Data, Data Catalog, Machine Learning Data Catalog, Enterprise Data Catalog, Metadata Management, Cloud Data Migration, Enterprise Cloud, Spreadsheet Data, Data Intellligence, Data Lineage, AI, Trusted Data, Generative AI, Federated Data Governance, and data governance
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3 Lagoon Dr
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Redwood City, California 94065, US
Employees at Alation
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Ashu Garg
Enterprise VC-engineer-company builder. Early investor in @databricks, @tubi and 6 other unicorns - @cohesity, @eightfold, @turing, @anyscale…
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Ben Kennedy
Sales Director @ Alation | Helping organizations build a thriving data culture.
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Raman Khanna
Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital and former CIO of Stanford University
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Fred Wang
Partner Growth Equity, Adams Street Partners
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How can you create exceptional experiences for customers? Just ask Elizabeth Friend, Senior Director, Data Governance at Sallie Mae. She understands that a data culture built upon a trusted data foundation is key for optimal customer experiences. 🔑 However, this education solutions company faced distributed data across the company and no formal data governance program. Working with Alation, Sallie Mae could now integrate all aspects of data governance; not just cataloging the information but driving policies and providing a central place for data collaboration. 🤝 The results: 👥 500 data users across the company 📊 250TB of accumulated data 📑 350,000 database fields to be cataloged 🚪 1 front door to key data Elizabeth shares: "Alation is where we can integrate all aspects of data governance – not just cataloging the information, but driving policies and providing a place for people to collaborate." Discover more in our case study: https://lnkd.in/ggyVBSgM #alationcustomers #salliemae #trusteddatatrustedai #alationdataintelligence #casestudy
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What a fabulous day spent at our Hands-On Lab with PwC Singapore! 💻 We appreciated the chance to share with attendees about how PwC Singapore implemented Alation across diverse industries and more about Alation's data cataloguing, governance, and curation capabilities. Data stewards, analysts, and business users got first-hand experience on: 💡 Understanding the principles of data governance and how to implement them using Alation 💡 The power of automated data curation and its impact on #dataquality and accessibility 💡 Hands-on exercises that simulate real-world scenarios, reinforcing understanding of the platform Shoutout to the Alation team for organizing this experience, including Mendelsohn Neil Chan, Sidharth Sharma , Jiunn Hao Choo, Ivy Lim, and Bee Ser Chan, along with PwC's Ronald Chung, Vincent Tham, and Phaedra Pang. Until next time! Seeing this and attended? Let us know your thoughts in the comments 💬 #alationapac #pwcsg #dataintelligence #dataculture
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Meet ALLIE AI on this Alation Brief 👋 Join us on July 25 at 8 AM PDT / 4 PM BST for an introduction to Alation's co-pilot that increases the productivity of AI engineers, data analysts, and data stewards. Salima Mangalji, Michael Moulsdale, and Edmond Leung will share: 🤔 An introduction to ALLIE AI 👀 How ALLIE AI works 🖥️ A live product demo 🙋♀️ Q&A RSVP: https://lnkd.in/dAwvcq38 #alationbrief #dataintelligence #allieai
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My latest in ZDNet: If data is the new oil, then AI, which needs lots and lots of it, is the 'gas guzzler' of data. However, consuming large volumes of data risks a loss of quality in the process -- creating trust issues with AI. Thanks to Andy Thurai of Constellation Research for providing this analogy!
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Get the sparknotes from our recent webinar, "Accelerating Your Data and AI Journey with Alation Consumption Tracker and Peak Performance." Alationauts Nick Jewell, Ph.D. and Anthony Lempelius along with Sreeraj K. share about the power of Peak Performance, a native Snowflake app built by Spreems Inc, an Alation systems integrator partner, using Alation technology. ❄️ ⚡ Read the highlights from this webinar here (and make sure to catch the full webinar on demand with the link in the comments) ⏭️ https://lnkd.in/eaPcnXPi #snowflake #alationpartners #peakperformance
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You've heard the phrase, "data is the new oil" but AI just might be the "gas guzzler" of data, according to Andy ThurAI, principal analyst at Constellation Research, Inc. ⛽️ As data fuels up AI's engine, the topic on everyone's mind isn't about leaded vs. unleaded gas, but one about the importance of data quality and the need for AI governance. Alation CTO, Junaid Saiyed, shares: 🗣️ "The rapid pace, vast scale, and intricate complexity of data processing in GenAI demands robust AI governance frameworks. Organizations can overcome the garbage in, garbage out dilemma with effective AI governance." Fill up your brain tank with this piece from Joe McKendrick at ZDNET (who's also shared about Junaid's thoughts regarding trust in AI outputs in Forbes and other pieces - thanks, Joe! 😃). 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ewuYbWW8 #alationaiready #trusteddatatrustedai #ai
If AI is the 'gas guzzler' of data, how do we get better mileage?
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"If we think about AI as a complement to human labor and intelligence, rather than as a replacement for it, then a somewhat more reliable LLM might well be worth a turn of the crank." — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune. AI fanatics: don't miss out on chance to talk about your favorite subject at Fortune Brainstorm AI 30 - 31 July! 🎤 See how #AI can transform your business at this can't-miss event, and hear from Alation CEO Satyen Sangani and Geraldine Wong, PhD, Chief Data Officer at GXS Bank. Their session, "Case Study: How to Deliver AI-Ready Data," explores how data governance helps deliver high-quality, AI-ready data and ways that your organization can build a robust data infrastructure. 💪 Learn more ↪️ https://lnkd.in/eUTVVPi2 #alationaiready #fortuneai #trusteddatatrustedai
A former OpenAI researcher sees a clear path to AGI this decade. Bill Gates disagrees
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🤷♀️ "Data that is not catalogued is useless to me." — A Fiserv executive. They speak the truth: every piece of data needs to accessible, governed, and ultimately valued through a comprehensive data catalog. 💯 With Alation, Fiserv embarked on a journey to intelligent cloud migration and #AI innovation. 🧭 This journey entailed building with Alation and Snowflake "Data Compass" to deliver metadata and business intelligence solutions throughout the business, which provided data intelligence across 250,000+ distinct fields from Fiserv core systems to thousands of registered users. Jim Haas, Chief Data Architect at Fiserv, shared: 💬 "During our cloud migration, part of this is understanding what you have, whether it’s locked up in people’s heads or in spreadsheets flying around in an email. Descriptions of data need to be coming from a central, trusted source…Alation’s central for us for that." Boom. 💥 Head over to the blog from Nick Jewell, Ph.D. to learn more: https://lnkd.in/ePuMfmfX #cloudmigration #alationcustomers #fiserv
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It's game time. 😎 ⚽️ Join us NOW for our #Euro2024 webinar! Get your head in the game with a live demo of Alation's data cataloging and governance features, and discover best practices for implementing data governance in your organization. Catch all the excitement of the Euros with this webinar, as Mehul Modha, Senior Solutions Engineer at Alation, and Account Executive Liza Branella share how real-time data from the tournament can be leveraged for business insights. Hop in here: https://lnkd.in/ewXaXg8U
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