Our team really likes the collaborative features, as well as the tool being tailored to business user's needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Support and issue resolution times, low transparency on upcoming features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Best catalog and query scheduler available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Option to make specific query private or public Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Simple to use interface, great customer service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I overall enjoy Alation's software solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Collaboration features, when used widely Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Slow, buggy, hard to use collaboratively Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Dear Megan,
Thanks for sharing your concerns. Please note that they have been resolved in Alation R6 as our customer success lead, Monoo Prasad, would have communicated. With the new query collaboration features, you can see the title, connect to Compose, and directly run the query.
We sincerely hope that you're able to collaborate better with these enhancements.
Cheers,
Team Alation
Ability to search for columns and tables. Also like the ability to write SQL queries and see the commonly used join criteria. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Limited data lineage capabilities to show how data moves from one data source to another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Areas of Alation that I like are the simple UI and straightforward organization of the tool. Searching is fairly easy for different tables or schemas and my favorite part is being about to work across different databases (Teradata and Hive). For the most part, no major issues with Alation. It works well for our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The description and color-coding feature to describe tables isn’t too helpful and actually makes information confusing. Biggest pet peeve with a Alation is also the runtime errors with querying sometimes. Often enough if I have the page sitting for a few extra minutes, I have to refresh the page in order to run the query again. Not a big deal but could make the experience better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Iun, thanks for leaving us a review.
Our customer success lead, Monoo Prasad, connected with you in March 2019 to address the matter and again recently to provide an update. We sincerely hope that both of your concerns have been resolved.
Happy cataloging and querying!
Team Alation
The ability for it to sync all the different databases into one view. This helps us to have a clear view of all DB's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
completed rules oriented sometimes you have to give in all the details like sematics, metadata frameework details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Customer service very helpful and welcoming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing all good and very nice customer service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The global search is a life saver, commenting on data sources bring data engineers and analysts together. For large corporation it's easy to catalogue their data as long as everybody gets on board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Product is still at a startup level, setup is still not yet ready for enterprise even though some big players are using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like that it stays connected and doesn't time out when I un-dock from my work station. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The default window sizing is not ideal for my work setup, but it can adjusted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.