Critical Data Manager

by Alation · Data and analytics · Redwood City, United States

Automated system for identifying, documenting, and monitoring critical data elements across the enterprise.

What Critical Data Manager does

• Data prioritization by risk and usage
• Critical data element identification from business outcomes
• Backward tracing from outcomes to authoritative sources
• AI-powered data triaging at scale
• Continuous quality monitoring of critical assets
• Versioned attestation and lineage snapshots
• Usage signal analysis for priority reordering

What Critical Data Manager is used for

• Reducing governance scope to high-risk data
• Tracing answers back to their sources for audits
• Accelerating data governance at scale
• Managing data across multiple domains and regions

Who Critical Data Manager is for

• Enterprises with complex regulatory obligations

About Alation

Data governance and AI agent platform for trusted enterprise data and compliance.

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Also by Alation

• Alation Intelligence Operating System (AIOS): A unified platform for data governance, AI agent management, and compliance across the enterprise.
• Agent Studio: Platform for building, governing, and running purpose-built AI agents on top of the data catalog.
• Data Products Marketplace: Governed data products that carry definitions, lineage, quality metadata, and access controls for use by agents and automations.
• Alation Data Catalog: Metadata catalog with search, curation and query log ingestion
• Data Governance: Stewardship workflows, policies and critical data element management
• Data Quality: Data quality monitoring surfaced inside the catalog

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