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JDU Consulting and Alation

The partnership to transform data intelligence

The digital transformation era has created a paradox: more data than ever, yet diminishing ability to harness its value. As physical proximity becomes irrelevant in hybrid work models, companies need systems that replicate - and surpass - the expertise once gained through hallway conversations. Our alliance with Alation represents a quantum leap in organizational data intelligence, transforming raw information into strategic assets.

“Alation revolutionizes metadata management through its unified data catalog platform, delivering the essential capabilities for data harmonization and cross-functional collaboration that enterprises require for digital transformation success.”

Luc Ducrocq, Vice President, NA Insights & Data Practice Lead, JDU Consulting

Alation transforms metadata management through its advanced data catalog platform, delivering essential data unification and collaborative capabilities that organizations identify as critical success factors for effective data governance.

Luc Ducrocq, Vice President, NA Insights & Data Practice Lead, JDU Consulting

Introducing Alation

Alation represents the next evolution in data catalogs, integrating machine learning algorithms with human governance to create an intelligent metadata layer. This hybrid approach powers a unified search interface for enterprise data assets across hybrid cloud environments, leveraging behavioral analytics, natural language processing, and contextual inference to accelerate data discovery and interpretation.
 
The platform maximizes access to trusted data to speed discovery – guiding users to the right data to accelerate analyst onboarding. Alation enforces policies at the point of consumption to balance business value and compliance.

Why we are partners

The modern data landscape presents a paradox: while enterprises invest heavily in data warehouses and BI tools, teams increasingly struggle with basic discovery. In an era of vendor proliferation, true differentiation lies not in cataloging data, but in making it meaningfully accessible - bridging the gap between infrastructure investments and actual decision-making.
 
Alation's industry-leading behavioral intelligence, powered by its patented Query Log Processing (QLP) technology, delivers unmatched data discovery capabilities. Through our strategic partnership, JDU Consulting now helps enterprises transform raw data into confident decisions - while realizing significant cost savings through reduced query errors and optimized search efficiency.

What we love about Alation

Business priorities

Through our alliance with Alation, we're bringing next-generation data discovery capabilities to our clients. Alation's innovative behavioral intelligence platform enables us to deliver on our clients' most critical business priorities - from accelerating analytics to ensuring data-driven decision making at scale.

Reference architecture

We insert Alation into JDU Consulting reference architecture and embed it as part of larger service offerings around data trust and governance

Quick-start approach

We leverage Alation’s lightweight, quick-start approach to shape data strategies, culture, and governance projects combining integrated development environments (IDEs) with insight and data to define the architecture and data models

Product development capabilities

We provide feedback to Alation around features and possible enhancements for its next releases, enhancing product development

Speed of migration

By embedding Alation’s lightweight catalog into IDEs, we enable real-time, data-driven architecture and modeling—turning insights into actionable governance and strategy

Alation empowers organizations to drive profitability through data intelligence - enhancing decision-making, revealing hidden insights via machine learning, and cutting infrastructure costs by 50%.

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