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Metadata Management
April 2024
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John Gilbert
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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    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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    2nd
    out of 27 in Metadata Management
    Views
    1,744
    Comparisons
    1,135
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    317
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    7.0
    9th
    out of 27 in Metadata Management
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    603
    Comparisons
    523
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    Overview

    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.

    IBM Watson® Knowledge Catalog is an open and intelligent data catalog for managing enterprise data and AI model governance, quality and collaboration. By providing an end-to-end experience rooted in metadata and active policy management, the solution can be leveraged to find success across top use cases like regulatory compliance for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), governing data lakes, and self-service consumption of high-quality data.

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    Salesforce, Snowflake, Citrix, eBay, TripAdvisor, Albertsons, Nasdaq, Pfizer, LinkedIn, Finnair.
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    REVIEWERS
    Retailer14%
    Insurance Company14%
    Government14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm24%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Company Size
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise71%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    Alation Data Catalog is ranked 2nd in Metadata Management with 7 reviews while IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is ranked 9th in Metadata Management. Alation Data Catalog is rated 7.8, while IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Alation Data Catalog writes "The catalog now provides an opportunity for people to come together, to share, and to find". On the other hand, Alation Data Catalog is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Collibra Governance, Informatica Axon, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and Collibra Lineage, whereas IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is most compared with IBM InfoSphere Information Server, IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog, Pentaho Data Catalog and Collibra Catalog.

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