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.

Tableau is a cloud-based visual analytics solutions provider. It provides software applications for analytics and visualization. Its products include Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and tableau online for cloud deployments. Some of the products can work with huge data live or in-memory, mash up data sources, visualize data in multiple ways. Users can build dashboards, create interactive data applications.

 Tableau is a powerful and fastest growing data visualization tool used in the Business Intelligence Industry.

Zoom Cloud Meetings is a proprietary video teleconferencing software program developed by Zoom Video Communications.

Deliveroo is a British online food delivery company founded by Will Shu and Greg Orlowski in 2013 in London, England.

Airbnb is the largest short term rental booking website

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online.

Facebook is a website which allows users, who sign-up for free profiles, to connect with friends, work colleagues or people they don't know, online. 

Instacart is an American company that operates a grocery delivery and pick-up service in the United States and Canada. The company offers its services via a website and mobile app. The service allows customers to order groceries from participating retailers with the shopping being done by a personal shopper.

Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly known as Uber, is an American technology company. Its services include ride-hailing, food delivery, package delivery, couriers, freight transportation, and, through a partnership with Lime, electric bicycle and motorized scooter rental.

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware

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

Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is the world's largest music streaming service provider

Zomato is an Indian multinational restaurant aggregator and food delivery company founded by Deepinder Goyal, Pankaj Chaddah, and Gunjan Patidar in 2008

Flixbus is a German brand that offers intercity bus service in Europe and the United States. It is owned by FlixMobility GmbH, which also operates FlixTrain and FlixCar.

Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook.

Meta-search platform for vacation rentals

Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top content platform and production company headquartered in Los Gatos, California. Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. 

Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. In April 2012, Meta acquired the service for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is an omnichannel retailer selling a wide assortment of domestics merchandise and home furnishings. Bed Bath & Beyond’s culture is customer-centric. Their commitment to customer service is supported by significant investments made to strengthen our company’s foundation for future growth. Their brands include: • Harmon Face Values • buybuy BABY • Decorist.com

Fetch Rewards is a discount App for grocery shopping. The platform offers a cashback and gift card earning app that rewards purchases. The users can snap pictures of the receipts or submit e-receipts using the receipt scanner and earn the gift cards and reward points. The users can redeem the rewards on popular stores, including Target, Amazon, Walmart, and more. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms

Pollen is an online event marketplace provider for local events. Enable users to view events such as travel, festivals, nightlife, and experiences. It offers features such as membership-based payment plans, member support, and ticketing platform collaboration.

Panasonic Corporation is multinational electronics corporation which provides a wide range of products across diverse industries ranging from consumer electronics to industrial devices. Panasonic provides customized solutions in automotive, avionics, consumer, healthcare, sports, entertainment and renewable energy spaces. Kazuhiro Tsuga is the Global CEO of Panasonic. In 2020, the company recorded annual revenues of $61.9 B and a net profit of $1.7 B.

Adevinta is an online marketplace for second-hand goods. The company offers pre-owned mobiles, furniture, vehicles, job, real estate, cars, consumer goods, and more.

Cloud-based marketing platform for e-tailers


ClickUp is a customizable productivity platform that replaces other workplace apps for all users and all departments in an organization.

Bench is the largest bookkeeping service in America for small businesses. They organize the financials of small businesses, independent contractors, and entrepreneurs. Pairing their intuitive software with a live bookkeeping team, they combine the convenience and efficiency of modern technology with the expertise and time-savings afforded by a professional service to let business owners get back to doing what they love: running their business.

Krisp is an AI-powered noise cancelling app that removes background noise and echo during online calls in real time. It works across any communication, conferencing, streaming and recording app and can be used with any wired or wireless microphone, speaker and headphones.


Winc is a modern winery with a direct connection to the consumer, building a portfolio of brands for the next generation



Babylon aims to provide accessible, affordable healthcare by combining AI with doctors.


TripActions is the leading cloud-based T&E platform that combines industry-first technology with best-in-class travel agency service. Trusted by travel managers and finance teams alike at more than 5,000 companies globally, TripActions leverages real-time data to keep traveling employees safe, control costs, and save time.

Togo Group is building the leading technology platform for road-based travel and outdoor tourism. Through innovative products and services, Togo Group is empowering travellers who understand that the outdoors are meant to be explored, that roads are meant to be driven, and that your next adventure is right around the corner.

Getsales is a digital marketing agency that offers SEO, google ads, link building and online campaign services.

Hotjar equips product teams with Product Experience Insights, showing them how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so those teams can deliver real value. Discover product opportunities, consolidate qual and quant, and communicate user needs. 

Jetty is the financial services platform on a mission to make renting a home more affordable and flexible. Jetty's integrated suite of products helps property managers increase lease conversions, improve resident retention, reduce bad debt, and boost NOI. For renters, Jetty decreases the financial burden of moving into a new home and offers greater flexibility with how and when to pay rent.

ProGlove develops innovative industrial wearables that enable manufacturing and logistics staff to work faster, safer, and easier.

Custom Ink offer a better way to design and order custom t-shirts for your group, company or event.

SellerX buys and builds promising smaller businesses that sell via Amazon’s platform. Their goal is to optimize and grow the brands they acquire post-acquisition.

VTS is commercial real estate’s leading leasing and asset management platform, bringing together landlords, brokers, and tenants to make deals happen. VTS software enables office, retail, and industrial landlords and brokers to transform their leasing process and convert leads to leases 41% more efficiently.

A nonprofit dedicated to improving student enrollment, persistence, completion and career readiness.



Outreach, the first and only Engagement and Intelligence platform, helps revenue teams bring intelligence to workflows, unlock full visibility across the entire revenue cycle, and commit their forecasts with confidence. 

Zocdoc is the tech company at the beginning of a better healthcare experience. Each month, millions of patients use Zocdoc to find in-network neighbourhood doctors, instantly book appointments online, see what other real patients have to say, get reminders for upcoming appointments and preventive check-ups, fill out their paperwork online, and more.

Turntide Technologies (formerly Software Motor Company) has developed the world’s most efficient and intelligent electric motor system. The revolutionary Smart Motor System is based on proven switched reluctance technology, now managed with advanced cloud software and connected to precise controls via IoT. Turntide’s vision is to eliminate the 25% of global electricity consumption that is wasted by legacy motors, thus accelerating the world’s transition from fossil fuels.

Developer of dating applications. The company develops dating application "Pairs" that offers dating cum marriage matching application where users can search for profiles based on the interest, hobbies, etc, and claims to get matched with partner of their preference for a marriage relationship

Dotz Inc. is a robust technology company with extensive consumer knowledge, which brings together technology, data, loyalty, marketplace and techfin in its business model, being the pioneer company in the loyalty market in Brazil through the Dotz program.

Collibra is a data intelligence solution provider. It offers a cloud-based platform that connects IT and the business to build a data-based culture for the digital enterprise. It helps IT organizations to reduce complexity, risk, and costs. Collibra was a spin-off from STARLab at the Free University of Brussels. The Data Governance Center covers all key data governance and stewardship activities including Master data management, data quality, metadata management.

Convoy offers an app-based marketplace connecting truckers. The platform connects carriers and shippers for on-demand freight services. Its features include instant quotations and online booking, automated loading suggestions, bidding, online payments, viewing of shippers, and facility details on loads. The app is available on the Android & iOS platforms. Its clients include Unilever, P&G, and Waiakea, and more.

Stride Funding is an outcomes-driven company that provides Income Share Agreements to supplement student loans.

Zapier is on a mission to make automation incredibly easy and accessible to everyone at work. With Zapier, you can integrate apps like Salesforce, Intuit, Google, and Dropbox, to move data between them automatically, so you can focus on your most important work.

Gaia GPS helps people with the wildest adventures on Earth. World-class Everest guides, wildland firefighters, and record-breaking thru-hikers use Gaia GPS for work and play. Gaia GPS integrates the best topo maps, offline navigation tools, and planning features, seamlessly across phones, tablets, and gaiagps.com.

Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.

Make customers more successful with your product or service with interactive guides that can be embedded anywhere.

Fox Corporation produces and distributes compelling news, sports and entertainment content through its iconic domestic brands including: FOX News, FOX Sports, the FOX Network, and the FOX Television Stations.

EZ Texting is a SaaS company that delivers the fastest, easiest, and most reliable way to connect. It has served over 165,000 customers and is one of the top SMS platforms for business users, setting the standard for business texting. Its messaging solutions allow businesses to quickly and effectively reach and engage their mobile audiences.

Airtasker is an online and mobile marketplace that connects people and businesses with local community members.

Collectors Universe, Inc. is the leading provider of value-added services to the collectible’s markets. We authenticate and grade collectible coins, trading cards, video games, event tickets, autographs, and memorabilia through our subsidiaries, which include Professional Sports Authenticators (PSA), Professional Coin Grading Services (PCGS), Certified Coin Exchange (CCE), Wata, Collectors Corner, Set Registry, Collectors.com, and the Long Beach Expo collectibles trade show. Since our founding in 1986, we have graded and authenticated more than 80 million items. We employ over 1,000 people across our Santa Ana, CA headquarters, New Jersey, Seattle, Hong Kong, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo.

Wallbox is a global company, offering a complete portfolio of charging and energy management solutions for residential, semi-public, and public use in more than 80 countries.

Bolt is a checkout experience platform, designed to give retailers the freedom to focus on their brand while Bolt perfects the purchase.


We help companies generate value and build products with big data and AI. We bring innovation from pioneers of Big Data and AI to other aspiring companies.
To enable them solve data based use cases we build data & ML platforms with them.

No-code data integration platform for business teams.

blablacar is the world’s leading community-based travel network enabling over 100 million members to share a ride across 22 markets.

PingCAP is the company behind TiDB, an open-source, distributed, NewSQL database that supports hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

CircleUp is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs with the funding and support that they need to thrive. having identified over a hundred successful brands, we use our helio business intelligence platform to increase the speed, quality and objectivity of decision-making in the private company landscape through a unique application of data and machine learning technology.

Aritzia is a design house with an innovative global platform. 

We are creators and purveyors of Everyday Luxury, home to an extensive portfolio of exclusive brands for every function and individual aesthetic. 

We pride ourselves on creating immersive, and highly personalized shopping experiences at aritzia.com and in our 100+ boutiques throughout North America to everyone, everywhere.

 step is the largest youth sport event and club operator in the nation, operating more than 1,100 events and dozens of club programs for athletes ages 8 – 18 spanning 40+ states and across eight sports.

mighty canary helps data teams communicate and collaborate seamlessly with their report users, increasing confidence in data and reducing time spent on support.

supply chain sustainability management for complex manufacturers
the only supply chain sustainability management solution with the depth to serve the world’s complex manufacturers, from product compliance to esg.

BukuWarung is a startup focused on building bookkeeping, digital payments, and e-commerce solutions for MSMEs in Indonesia.

apac leading news publisher with the mission to lead the global conversation about china

keyrus is a global consultancy that develops data and digital solutions for performance management. combining business and technical expertise, we help companies like yours uncover the most value possible from data while optimizing digital strategy and customer experience.

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.

decision tree is a global provider of advanced analytics and campaign management solutions. we create value for businesses by transforming raw data into actionable insight.

lodgify is an innovative all-in-one solution that simplifies vacation rental marketing. it allows both owners and property managers to create their own mobile-friendly website with a “book now” button, manage reservations and calendars efficiently, and instantly synchronize property information with listings on external portals.

data science consultancy in south east asia building ai & data platforms to solve high impact problems

dashlane's mission is to make security simple for millions of organizations and their people. we empower businesses of every size to protect company and employee data while helping everyone easily log in to the accounts they need—anytime, anywhere. over 17 million users and 20,000 businesses in 180 countries use dashlane for a faster, simpler, and more secure internet.

matillion is a built for the modern data stack etl/elt platform

group.one is a leading european provider of online presence, cloud hosting and digital marketing services. over 2 million customers trust us with their online success

Overview	Alation	Tableau
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	Contact Sales, Free trial
Location	California, US	California, US
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