by Angela Guess

According to a recent press release, “Alation, Inc., the collaborative data company, today announced the planned Q4 release of a new product, Alation Tableau Edition, a data governance offering specifically designed for Tableau users. The new Alation product deeply integrates with Tableau Server and supports a new approach to no-risk, self-service analytics. Together, Alation and Tableau embrace the freedom and speed of self-service analytics with the trust in data that comes from consistent enforcement of data governance best practices. Tableau is a global leader in visual analytics and Tableau’s partnership with Alation recognizes the power of Alation for promoting accurate data use without impeding speed, flexibility or freedom typical of traditional governance tools and methods.”

The release continues, “Alation and Tableau create an analytics environment where data governance acts as a traffic light rather than a dead end. Alation Tableau Edition easily surfaces standardized data assets and data governance policies defined by data stewards. This is done directly in Tableau itself, providing Tableau users with a seamless experience and prompting them when their analysis may inadvertently lead to non-compliant or inaccurate insights. Alation automatically understands the full lineage of systems that have touched the data prior to visualization and indicates when there are underlying deprecations of source tables and files or even columns that are no longer accurate sources of data. With Alation, Tableau now supports a new approach to data governance — Governance for Insight. This strikes a balance between enabling more people to get hands on with data and effectively governing the use of data.”

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