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Metadata Management
April 2024
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The catalog now provides an opportunity for people to come together, to share, and to find
We had no data catalog beforehand, but we're coming from a very mature environment. Before we had the data catalog, there was no mechanism for... Read more →
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  • "A three-year agreement is better than a one-year rolling 12-month agreement from a price point of view. I'd recommend looking at a three-year deal because you can't stand up a catalog and produce value in 12 months."
  • "The solution is a little expensive."
  • "The platform is moderately expensive compared to the other competitors in the market."

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    What do you like most about Alation Data Catalog?
    Top Answer:The platform's most valuable features are workflow automation, automated business metadata tagging, technical metadata tagging, and data integration with data quality tools or platforms.
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    Top Answer:The platform is moderately expensive compared to the other competitors in the market.
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    21st
    out of 27 in Metadata Management
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    78
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    2nd
    out of 27 in Metadata Management
    Views
    1,744
    Comparisons
    1,135
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    317
    Rating
    7.0
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    Overview

    The Adaptive Metadata Manager™ product (V9.0) comprises a number of highly configurable software components that provide an organization with the eight core capabilities required to govern and improve virtually any data-driven business capability. These capabilities are: Data Lineage, Data Quality, Impact Analysis, Business Terminology, Business to Technical Traceability, Version Management, Change Approval Workflow, Stewardship, and Automated Harvesting & Stitching.

    Built on a modern web application stack, application modules are accessed via a web browser. End-user capabilities, like business glossary lookups, are also easily integrated into desktop productivity applications (like Microsoft Office and Outlook email client) for ‘in-document’ searching.

    Alation pioneered the data catalog market and is now leading its evolution into a platform for a broad range of data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, lineage, stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation.

    Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. With Alation, analysts are empowered to search, query and collaborate on their data to achieve faster, more accurate insights.

    Trusted by 400+ enterprises worldwide like Salesforce, Nasdaq, LinkedIn, Finnair, and Cisco.

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    Salesforce, Snowflake, Citrix, eBay, TripAdvisor, Albertsons, Nasdaq, Pfizer, LinkedIn, Finnair.
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    Retailer14%
    Insurance Company14%
    Government14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government8%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Adaptive Metadata Management is ranked 21st in Metadata Management while Alation Data Catalog is ranked 2nd in Metadata Management with 7 reviews. Adaptive Metadata Management is rated 0.0, while Alation Data Catalog is rated 7.8. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Alation Data Catalog writes "The catalog now provides an opportunity for people to come together, to share, and to find". Adaptive Metadata Management is most compared with , whereas Alation Data Catalog is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Collibra Governance, Informatica Axon, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and Collibra Lineage.

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