Alation | findAIList | findAIList

Alation | findAIList | findAIList

Use Cases

Accelerating Cloud Data Migration

Identifying 'rot' (redundant, obsolete, trivial) data before moving to Snowflake or Databricks.

VIEW EXECUTION STEPS

1.

Connect Alation to legacy on-prem warehouse.

2.

Run Behavioral Analysis to identify top 20% of used tables.

3.

Tag unused assets for archival.

4.

Map dependencies using lineage.

5.

Execute migration of high-value assets first.

Self-Service Analytics Empowerment

Business analysts spending 80% of their time finding data and 20% analyzing it.

VIEW EXECUTION STEPS

1.

Search for business terms in Alation NLP search.

2.

Verify data quality via TrustCheck flags.

3.

Preview data samples within the catalog.

4.

Access verified SQL templates via Compose.

5.

Export results to BI tool.

AI/LLM Governance

LLMs hallucinating or providing incorrect info due to poor training data quality.

VIEW EXECUTION STEPS

1.

Use Alation to curate a 'Golden Data' set.

2.

Tag data as 'AI-Ready'.

3.

Use Alation APIs to feed curated metadata into RAG pipelines.

4.

Monitor data provenance via lineage.

5.

Audit AI usage patterns.

Automated GDPR Compliance

Manual mapping of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) is slow and error-prone.

VIEW EXECUTION STEPS

1.

Deploy Allie AI to auto-identify PII patterns.

2.

Apply 'Confidential' tags across all columns.

3.

Link policy documents to data assets in the Governance App.

4.

Generate compliance reports for auditors.

5.

Enforce RBAC based on PII classification.

Data Quality Transparency

Users losing trust in dashboards due to frequent data pipeline failures.

VIEW EXECUTION STEPS

1.

Integrate Alation with Great Expectations or Soda.

2.

Surface data quality scores on the table overview page.

3.

Set up alerts for when quality scores drop below thresholds.

4.

Show visual lineage to identify the source of data corruption.

5.

Notify downstream users automatically.

Data Stewardship Scale-out

Small data teams overwhelmed by documentation requests from the entire company.

VIEW EXECUTION STEPS

1.

Enable Allie AI to draft initial table descriptions.

2.

Route drafts to subject matter experts for quick approval.

3.

Track stewardship progress via the Governance Dashboard.

4.

Gamify the curation process with badges.

5.

Use 'Top Contributors' metrics to recognize stewards.

M&A Data Integration

Integrating two companies' disparate data stacks quickly after an acquisition.

VIEW EXECUTION STEPS

1.

Crawl metadata from both organizations' environments.

2.

Use Alation to identify overlapping datasets.

3.

Standardize business glossaries across both entities.

4.

Map cross-company data lineage.

5.

Retire redundant systems based on catalog usage stats.

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