Alation

Alation is an enterprise data intelligence platform providing data catalog, governance, and stewardship capabilities for large organizations. Pricing is enterprise-only (typically $100,000-500,000+/year based on organization size). The platform pioneered behavioral data analysis, learning from how users query and use data to surface relevant assets and suggest improvements. Alation AI includes natural language search, automated data documentation, and AI-generated metadata suggestions. Data governance features include policy management, certification workflows, and compliance tracking. Stewardship workbench enables data quality workflows and issue tracking. Alation Connected Sheets brings cataloged data directly into Google Sheets and Excel. The Alation Trust Flags system enables crowdsourced data quality indicators (endorsements, warnings, deprecation). Page should cover: behavioral intelligence explanation, AI capabilities, governance workflow configuration, comparison with Collibra and smaller catalogs, enterprise deployment considerations, pricing expectations, and use cases for large enterprises.