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Smartlogic Semaphore

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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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    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.

    Our Semantic AI platform Semaphore, provides the semantic layer in your digital ecosystem so you can manage knowledge models, automatically extract and classify the context and meaning from structured and unstructured information, and generate rich semantic metadata.

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    Salesforce, Snowflake, Citrix, eBay, TripAdvisor, Albertsons, Nasdaq, Pfizer, LinkedIn, Finnair.
    HP, Amgen, Merck, KPMG, Thomson Reuters
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    Retailer14%
    Insurance Company14%
    Government14%
    Computer Software Company14%
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    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government8%
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    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Retailer8%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise5%
    Large Enterprise72%
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    Alation Data Catalog is ranked 2nd in Metadata Management with 7 reviews while Smartlogic Semaphore is ranked 15th in Metadata Management. Alation Data Catalog is rated 7.8, while Smartlogic Semaphore 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 Smartlogic Semaphore is most compared with PoolParty Semantic Suite and Collibra Catalog.

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