Alation

Alation is a global leader in data intelligence, helping organisations make data-driven decisions with confidence. Founded in Silicon Valley and now operating globally—including across Southeast Asia—Alation delivers a modern data intelligence platform that combines data cataloging, data governance, analytics enablement, and AI-powered data search in one unified solution.

Their platform is trusted by over 500+ enterprises worldwide, including Fortune 100 companies, top banks, insurers, healthcare providers, and government agencies. In Southeast Asia, Alation supports digital transformation initiatives across industries.

What They Do

Alation enables enterprises to find, understand, trust, and use data effectively. Their core capabilities include:

• Data Catalog: Intelligent search and discovery of datasets, reports, and definitions
• Data Governance: Policy creation, data stewardship workflows, and compliance readiness
• Data Lineage: End-to-end traceability across BI tools, databases, and cloud platforms
• Analytics Enablement: Promoting trusted, certified data for self-service analytics
• Agentic AI: AI assistants and recommendations to surface the right data when it's needed

Together, these features power secure, scalable, and AI-ready data environments for regulated and fast-moving organisations.

Key Benefits for Singapore and the Region

• Accelerates Digital Economy Goals: Supports national initiatives like Singapore’s Digital Government Blueprint and AI Governance Framework
• Enables Responsible AI: Builds trusted data foundations to ensure explainability, traceability, and compliance in AI use cases
• Boosts Productivity: Reduces time to insight through intelligent automation, metadata reuse, and business-friendly data access
• Improves Data Stewardship: Empowers both technical and non-technical users to take ownership of data quality and policy adherence

Who They Serve

They work with a wide range of organisations across banking & finance, telecommunications, healthcare, public sector, and digital-native industries. Alation integrates with platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, Tableau, dbt, and more, making it highly adaptable to both cloud-native and hybrid environments.