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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Alation

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AAlation offers enterprise data intelligence solutions, including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation operates in thethe data catalog market. With its Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight with the goal of tackle the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management.N/A

    Ataccama ONE

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AAtaccama is a data quality platform handling data parsing, standardization, cleansing and matching, and data profiling.N/A
    Pricing
    AlationAtaccama ONE
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    AlationAtaccama ONE
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    AlationAtaccama ONE
    Considered Both Products
    Alation
    Chose Alation
    Alation is much easier to use than Ataccama ONE. Specific technical training and skills are necessary to use Ataccama whereas Alation is easy to use right out of the box.
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    Chose Alation
    1.Alation is cheaper.
    2.Manta meets the needs only in discovering lineage.
    3.AWS Glue is more technical data catalog and it doesn`t allow to describe source or table in detailed way.
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    Ataccama
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    16 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AlationAtaccama ONE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (17 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AlationAtaccama ONE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Alation
    Alation is well suited to helping a user find a column or even a query using a business term search. In this regard Alation is excellent because it's easy to not only associate these items with each other, but there are also many ways to link the column and/or query to that business term/concept
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    Ataccama
    Usage for enterprise wide data management and governance across wide range of user group. Ataccama ONE enables achieving higher data quality amongst the data products. It is a powerful platform that supports integration of several checks on different data sets that can be also consolidated in reports later on. Data discovery works quite fast and easy.
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    Pros
    Alation
    • Ability to link objects using the @ symbol. It allows us to easily provide a way to get more information or context. So if the business concept is part of a hierarchy, we can link to the other terms in that hierarchy.
    • The customization is really helpful. Most object types have robust customization options. Others are less so, but it is improving. We've created multiple custom fields to support our data governance framework.
    • The search feature with filtering is helpful in narrowing down what you're looking for.
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    Ataccama
    • It is one of the leading data quality tools in the industry, in our opinion.
    • Offers free data profiling.
    • Integrates with other tools for complete end-to-end lineage.
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    Cons
    Alation
    • The lineage UI is not ready for primetime. I would not recommend this feature for my users at this time because it's too complex to understand and is visually difficult to track down specific paths.
    • The underlying infrastructure of the on-premise version of the software is fragile and unnecessarily complicated, using too many modules and technologies.
    • The license model of the on-premise version contains too many add-ons. I would like to pay one price and get all of the features.
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    Ataccama
    • Performance in loading
    • Reduction of pop-up messages
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    Usability
    Alation
    Mostly because the search feature is case sensitive. This causes issues when users are searching for an industry standard acronym. These acronyms exist as attributes in thousands of places across our data ecosystem. Alation allows stewards to endorse attributes so that these endorsed items rise to the top of search results. The problem is no one types acronyms in caps in a search field. Alation returns results matching the case (lower-case) and in several instances the endorsed attributes don't even appear on the first page of results
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    Ataccama
    One of the key factors in our choice to onboard Ataccama was its usability - general end users have everything at their fingertips, it is not difficult for IT developers to setup the tool, and it has been an overall pleasure.
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    Support Rating
    Alation
    From the RightStart Program to the Customer Success team to technical support, Alation has it all covered. They respond quickly and expertly to answer my questions and fix my problems.
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    Ataccama
    Support has been excellent to date - very user friendly and knowledgeable to help support our needs and issues as they arise.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Alation
    Alation provided the right balance of connection with systems in use, trusted reputation and affordability. The product integrates with current ways of working and does not require reorganisation within other lines of business.
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    Ataccama
    Ataccama ONE is a designated tool for Data quality monitoring. Supports end to end. Quite easy to deploy. Alteryx is more about coding or almost as complicated while Ataccama ONE is a bit easier to use. Different interfaces. Many views automatically available for data sets in Ataccama ONE. Output is vizualized in the tool. While more data transformation is required in Alteryx.
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    Return on Investment
    Alation
    • Provides a place where people can go to find things
    • When we first implemented, someone was concerned that people would now see what a mess our data environment was. I consider that a feature. We can't clean up if we can't see what we have.
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    Ataccama
    • Less data inconsistencies in the system enable processes to run smoother without interruptions
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    ScreenShots

    Alation Screenshots

    Screenshot of Alation Intelligent Search, which helps to democratize access to enterprise data and foster a robust data culture.Screenshot of a display of end-to-end lineage to understand data flows, relationships, health, and impact analysis.Screenshot of where users can access the privacy policies. This helps everyone in an organization to make data-driven decisions while also ensuring compliance and security.