Alation vs. MetaCenter Comparison


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About The Alation Agentic Data Intelligence Platform enables organizations to scale and accelerate their AI and data initiatives. By unifying search, cataloging, governance, lineage, and analytics, it transforms metadata into a strategic asset for decision-making. The platform’s AI-powered agents—including Documentation, Data Quality, and Data Products Builder—automate complex data management tasks. With active metadata, workflow automation, and more than 120 pre-built connectors, Alation integrates seamlessly into modern enterprise environments. It helps organizations build trusted AI models by ensuring data quality, transparency, and compliance across the business. Trusted by 40% of the Fortune 100, Alation empowers teams to make faster, more confident decisions with trusted data.		About MetaCenter enables business and technology teams to catalog and classify an organization's information assets. Users can self-service questions about their data assets and how data flows through the business and classify how it should be used. This enables organizations to lower costs while improving agility and reducing operational risks. Search-based semantic layer automates cross-referencing models. Faceted Views of specific data assets can be published to individual roles. Lower cost of ownership and higher levels of automation deliver superior ROI compared to competing solutions. Simple GUI driven customization enables rapid application customization. No programming or professional services are required.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook		Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Alation is ideal for enterprises, data leaders, and AI teams that want to build trusted AI applications, scale analytics, and govern data responsibly across their organizations		Audience Enterprise metadata management and data governance platform that helps organizations classify information assets
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online		Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API		API Offers API
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Pricing No information available. Free Version Free Trial		Pricing No information available. Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 4.0 / 5 features 4.0 / 5 design 4.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews		Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software
Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person		Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person
Company Information Alation Founded: 2012 United States www.alation.com/product/		Company Information Data Advantage Group www.dag.com/metacenter
Alternatives Atlan		Alternatives DataGalaxy
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Amundsen		Apache Atlas Apache Software Foundation
Databricks Data Intelligence Platform Databricks		Dataplex Universal Catalog Google
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Categories Data Analysis Data Catalog Data Collaboration Data Governance Data Lineage Data Management Data Visualization Machine Learning Metadata Management		Categories Data Catalog Metadata Management

Integrations ALTR AWS Marketplace Anomalo BIGDBM Bigeye Cloudera DataHawk DataOps.live Databricks Data Intelligence Platform Hackolade IRI FieldShield Lightup Okera Privacera Safyr Secuvy AI Snowflake Soda Tableau Zing Data Show More Integrations View All 32 Integrations		Integrations ALTR AWS Marketplace Anomalo BIGDBM Bigeye Cloudera DataHawk DataOps.live Databricks Data Intelligence Platform Hackolade IRI FieldShield Lightup Okera Privacera Safyr Secuvy AI Snowflake Soda Tableau Zing Data Show More Integrations
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