Alation Inc., the data intelligence company, is announcing the launch of its Agentic Platform—a solution that empowers data teams with AI-driven automation—and with it, three additional new technologies, Alation Data Quality (DQ), a Data Products Marketplace, and an Expert Services offering. With the goal of making data management as intuitive and “invisible” as possible, Alation’s latest innovations cut through the complexities of data management with AI agents, data trust, reusable data assets, and robust support services.
Framing these announcements is the launch of Alation’s Agentic Platform, a reinvention of the data catalog for the AI era that utilizes AI agents to automate and fuel data discovery, governance, and compliance management, according to the company. At its core, the Agentic Platform aims to alleviate the pains of manually cataloging data assets, where data alignment, standards, and governance policies often complicate the process.
“The amount of data has only increased. The value that you can get from data has only increased. The rate of change in technology has only increased. And so, the opportunity is there, but the complexity is literally growing faster than the opportunity, or at least just as fast,” explained Satyen Sangani, co-founder and CEO at Alation. “We've been fighting this war with arrows, when we sort of need a machine gun…we need something that's much more powerful in order to be able to fight the battle.”
Tapping into this need, Alation’s AI agents help transform the time-consuming, manual data management process, increasing data teams’ productivity and capacity to deliver on business-critical initiatives. These agents are designed to automatically identify business requirements, resolve incomplete metadata, and apply data governance policies, combining data management domain knowledge with the metadata captured in the data catalog—making each workflow tailored to an organization's unique needs.
Some of the initial agentic capabilities include:
- Documentation Agent: Automatically ingests, organizes, and connects content to relevant data assets, enhancing data comprehension and impact of documentation.
- Agent SDK: Empowers enterprises to build their own AI agents underpinned by Alation’s search and discovery capabilities, delivered as tools that support Anthropic’s MCP and can be accessed through an Alation sandbox.
Underneath the Agentic Platform umbrella are Alation’s three complementary solutions: Alation DQ, Alation Data Products Marketplace, and Data Products Expert Services.
Alation DQ serves to close the data trust gap, acting as an AI-native solution that identifies and proactively monitors critical data assets. Powered by an AI agent that analyzes usage patterns to determine the most crucial data assets, the Alation DQ Agent automatically generates and applies data quality rules tailored to an organization's business and semantic context held within the Alation Data Intelligence Platform.
“Everybody wants better data quality…The reality, of course, is, what does that mean? How do I get there, what rules do I apply to which datasets, and how much do I spend to make sure that a dataset is actually of high quality?” said Sangani. “The really exciting thing about this app [Alation DQ] is it really takes the knowledge of best practices and puts it right into the application. You don't need a consultant or an expert, you can just start doing the work.”
Alation DQ helps reduce the guesswork of what data assets really matter, ultimately decreasing costs and increasing the effectiveness of data quality rules. With integrated data quality and data governance reporting, enterprises are also afforded elevated transparency that helps them track their data quality health and policy status within a single interface.
The new Alation Data Products Marketplace and Data Products Expert Services offering enable enterprises to more easily operationalize their data assets at scale, amplifying business impact.
The Data Products Marketplace allows the task of operationalizing data products at scale to be a systematic, repeatable process, remediating the challenge of delivering data quickly without sacrificing quality and governance. Acting as a central, governed platform, Alation’s Data Products Marketplace enables business users, applications, and AI systems to easily discover and use reliable, high-value data products. This enables:
- Data teams to more efficiently deliver data products by allowing them to publish and manage reusable data products based on usage patterns across business teams
- Business users to more rapidly discover insights to drive decision-making through easy-to-find, ready-to-use trusted data products
- Governance policies to be enforced across data access, usage, and sharing activities through predefined compliance and security standards
- The creation of data-driven AI and business applications underpinned by quality and compliance
Further complementing the marketplace is Alation’s Data Products Expert Services offering, which assists enterprises as they transition to a new data operating model. These services offer robust, hands-on guidance and best practices for defining, managing, and delivering data products that align people, processes, and technology with business goals, according to Alation. The Data Products Expert Services offering also enables organizations to implement a producer/consumer model that cultivates collaboration and accountability; launch pilot initiatives designed to prove value and drive repeatable success; and strategically scale data products.
“With AI adoption accelerating and creating even more strain on over-burdened data teams, organizations need a scalable, governed approach to data products to keep up with the demands of the business,” said Jake Magner, senior director, product management at Alation. “Our Data Products Marketplace and Expert Services provide a complete solution that enables businesses to balance speed with trust—delivering high-quality, reusable data products quickly that drive smarter AI and impactful business insights.”
To learn more about Alation’s latest innovations, please visit https://www.alation.com/.