Alation provides a data cataloging platform. It automatically builds a catalog of useful data documentation, covering all of the data sources, and allows users to collaborate and work on the data. It processes enterprise unstructured data by centralizing knowledge into a single place using machine learning and human analysts. The search can be made using keywords in plain English. Enables users to access relevant information (including experts, lineage, keys and indexes, relevant queries) and documentation on all tables, across the organization’s data sources. The clients include PepsiCo, Dow, Fox Networks, BMW and others.

Alation data catalog is an exhaustive solution for metadata storage and data querying.

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers, and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders

Swiggy is India's largest online food ordering and delivery platform, founded in July 2014. Swiggy is based in Bangalore, India, and as of March 2019, was operating in 100 Indian cities. In early 2019, Swiggy expanded into general product deliveries under the name Swiggy Stores

catch, the trusted place where australians start their shopping journey

datacoves is an enterprise dataops platform with managed vscode for dbt development and airflow. we enable you to implement data management best practices without compromising data security.

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence platform that provides non-technical business users with tools for aggregating, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing data. Power BI's user interface is fairly intuitive for users familiar with Excel and its deep integration with other Microsoft products makes it a very versatile self-service tool that requires little upfront training.
Microsoft Power BI is used to find insights within an organization's data. Power BI can help connect disparate data sets, transform and clean the data into a data model and create charts or graphs to provide visuals of the data.

Power BI unify data from many sources to create interactive, immersive dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights and drive business results.

Flipkart is an Indian e-commerce company, headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, and incorporated in Singapore as a private limited company.

Postman is the world’s leading collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster.

SpringWorks is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company applying a precision medicine approach to acquiring, developing and commercializing life-changing medicines for underserved patient populations suffering from devastating rare diseases and cancer.


Thrift Books was founded in July 2003. The two started their venture with a commitment to provide quality used books at the best prices

Velir is a full-service Digital Agency that designs and develops enterprise web solutions for experience-driven websites.

Construct Connect provides of cloud-based data, collaboration, and workflow automation solutions.

Collaborative Analytics Platform for Enterprise SQL Communities

ManyPets is a pet insurance company that takes care of your pet’s health 

World's largest Beauty company, inventing the future of Beauty while transforming to #1 BeautyTech company of the future

No-code data integration platform for business teams.

skypoint’s mission is to bring people and data together. 

we are the industry's first modern data stack platform with built-in data lakehouse, customer 360, data privacy vault, privacy compliance automation, data governance, analytics and managed services for organizations in several industries including healthcare, life sciences, senior living, retail, hospitality, business services and financial services.

industry leaders and over 10 million end users currently use skypoint.

digital insurance for travel, health and auto

chongtechnologies "data driven company by design" is an engineering & data science & artificial intelligence consultancy. we started in 2019 as a small group of people united by a broad vision of transforming the data industry, which empowers companies to transform data into information for decision making and improve the performance of their business and thus acquire competitive strategic advantages in relation to competition.

in addition, we position ourselves as an integrator of solutions and services capable of supporting the entire data driven journey of companies through consulting services and strategic partnerships with the main products on the market. in this way, we are able to support our customers from infrastructure, through culture to value delivery through advanced analytics.

we streamline the way companies manage, analyze and exchange high volumes of information/events, in real-time, providing data from multiple sources to countless destinations at the right time.

large companies are already using real-time data streaming to boost their business. what is the path you plan to take? the one about digital transformation, right? come with us .

JMAN Group is a technology-enabled management consultancy that works across a large number of sectors, with a particular focus on the Private Equity & Investor communities. They engage with many different companies and types of organisations – from big to small, established to start-up, large-cap to high-growth funds. In so doing, JMAN Group focuses on providing simple and actionable solutions, however complex the problem.

We help you leverage the modern data stack, to deliver faster, get better insight, and take action.

Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove appliances offer powerful performance, design, and dependability. Learn about products and find inspiration for your dream kitchen.

social business distributing solar home systems and other essential products on credit to rural households in africa

fragment studio is a forward-thinking digital boutique studio headquartered in germany. we operate across various sectors, including automotive, construction, and consumer, with a particular emphasis on the experience and data.

data & analytics is what we do, it is our expertise. our mission is to help our customers derive value from their data & analytics environment. for this we use user-friendly technologies that allow us to tell the story behind the data.

Overview	Alation	Power BI
Categories	Data Discovery, Data Cataloging	Business Intelligence (BI)
Stage	Late Stage	Late Stage
Target Segment	Enterprise, Mid size	Enterprise, Mid size
Deployment	SaaSOn Prem	SaaSOn Prem
Business Model	Commercial	Commercial
Pricing	Free trial	Freemium, Contact Sales
Location	California, US	Redmond, US
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