Alation Launches Workflow Automation to Proactively Identify and Close Data Governance Gaps
13 Mayo 2024 - 8:04AM
Alation, Inc., the data intelligence company, today announced the
launch of Alation Workflow Automation to help data stewards meet
the increasingly complex data governance needs of enterprise data
environments. The solution leverages Alation Automation Bots and
extends existing platform workflow automation capabilities to
automate manual and repetitive tasks.
Data stewards play a crucial role in establishing processes that
enforce governance policies, enabling users to trust and understand
what data is available and the appropriate usage guidelines for
that data. As enterprise data proliferates and environments have
become more complex, the demands on data stewards have
significantly increased. Data teams often struggle to scale to meet
the influx of data from thousands of sources, resulting in a data
governance gap. Poorly described data descriptions and usage
guidelines result in misunderstandings, misuse, and compliance
risks. Additionally, manual, repetitive tasks, such as security
classifications and policy updates, are error-prone, leading to
missing or inaccurate metadata, poor data curation, and unreliable
data usage across the business.
Alation Workflow Automation addresses these gaps by optimizing
data governance processes from curation to consumption. Alation
Automation Bots increase metadata quality by proactively checking
for missing security classifications, titles, and terms and
prompting data stewards to act. These rulesets and workflows can be
further customized to reflect organizations’ unique needs. The
solution also provides visualization of data governance progress
through dashboards that display rule adherence. Alation Workflow
Automation eliminates the need to expand data steward teams,
fosters faster, more reliable decision-making, and ensures
cost-effectiveness while delivering trusted and AI-ready data
enterprise-wide.
“Alation Automation Bots will streamline data governance by
maximizing data steward efficiency and focus our team's efforts on
high-value areas through constant catalog updates,” said Spencer
Percy, Senior Data Management Analyst at Kinross. “These bots will
enhance scalability by automating workflows, ensuring the long-term
sustainability of the platform. This empowers data professionals to
address real-world business challenges effectively. Alation
Automation Bots will be fundamental to our organization's ongoing
data-driven evolution, promoting enhanced workflow automation and
more robust data governance. Alation is central to our platform's
enduring success and automation-forward approach.”
"Workflow Automation is critical in today's complex data
environment, enhancing the way organizations govern their data with
significant improvements in speed, quality, and compliance," said
Junaid Saiyed, CTO at Alation. "By leveraging Alation Workflow
Automation, organizations can automate the more mundane data
management tasks, enabling data stewards to focus on strategic
initiatives that propel business impact. This shift boosts metadata
quality and ensures adherence to regulatory standards more
efficiently. As a result, organizations can drive quicker
decision-making, improve operational efficiencies, and manage
growing data volumes without the continuous need to increase
headcount. Alation Workflow Automation is essential for any
enterprise aiming to sustain and accelerate their data governance
initiatives in a scalable and cost-effective manner."
Alation Workflow Automation streamlines data governance and
improves operational efficiency with:
- Alation Completeness Bot: This bot ensures
that all titles and descriptions are accurately filled out and
properly categorized into specific domains, quickly identifying and
correcting gaps in metadata.
- Alation Compliance Bot: This bot streamlines
key data governance tasks, such as security classifications and
policy updates, improving data consistency and compliance. It
identifies data classified as Personally Identifiable Information
(PII) using standard patterns and supports custom rules to ensure
compliance with regulations.
- Alation Current Content Bot: This bot includes
a set of rules that verifies available fields in the catalog, such
as date, and compares it with a timeframe to identify whether data
is current and up-to-date. By automating these checks, the bot
helps maintain the integrity and relevance of data
governance.
- Alation Metadata Management Bot: This bot
ensures data stewards and data owners receive timely alerts when
new metadata is added to key databases, such as new tables or
columns. These notifications allow users to promptly curate content
in the data catalog, ensuring that business users clearly
understand how to utilize data effectively.
- Customizable
Workflows: These capabilities provide collaborative,
user-friendly workflows tailored to data stewards and governance
teams. These workflows are enabled with Alation Catalog Sets,
Alation Workflow Center, and a robust set of APIs and developer
recipes that can send notifications when set rules are triggered.
These help streamline tasks, send alerts, and link various
activities to accomplish a specific initiative.
Alation at Gartner Data & Analytics
Summit London 2024
- Visit booth #410 to discover how Alation expands data
intelligence enterprise-wide and enhances the consistency and
accuracy of data governance initiatives.
- Join Jon Eklöf, CDAO of GKN Aerospace Engines, for a session
titled “Is Hype Clouding Your Judgement? Ensuring Your Data &
Analytics Initiatives Deliver Business Value” at 3:15 PM BST on 13
May. Discover how to make sure your data and analytics initiatives
deliver business value.
About AlationAlation is the leader in
enterprise data intelligence solutions, enabling self-service
analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI-ready
data. More than 550 enterprises build data culture and improve
data-driven decision-making with Alation, including Cisco, Nasdaq,
Pfizer, Salesforce, and Virgin Australia. Alation has been named to
Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list four times, is a 2022 UK’s
Best Workplaces™ in tech and Best Workplaces™ for Women, and
recognized as a 2022 and 2023 UK’s Best Workplaces™. For more
information, visit www.alation.com.
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