Alation

Alation is an enterprise data intelligence company whose product, the Alation Intelligence Operating System, is designed to keep AI agents and data applications accurate. The vendor frames the core problem as figuring out whether a wrong answer came from bad data, missing context or the agent itself, and the platform lets teams see which of the three is at fault and fix it. It serves large organizations that run data governance, analytics and AI programs. The vendor lists five solution areas: agentic data governance for automated governance and compliance, AI governance for registering every AI asset across platforms and proving compliance on demand, governed AI and BI so the same metric gives the same answer to any user or agent, agentic automation, and pipelines and observability with alerts that carry the context needed to trace and fix issues. Alation describes itself as having started the machine learning data catalog category in 2012, and it cites analyst recognition from Gartner, Forrester, GigaOm and IDC for metadata management and data governance. Pricing is not published. The pricing link leads to a contact form for a 30 minute call with an Alation expert, so costs are available only through the sales team.