Alex is the single platform that connects various databases, existing catalogs, and data sources, creating a centralized data governance workspace for the entire enterprise. Alex seamlessly integrates all key components, providing a unified data governance solution that streamlines processes and enhances collaboration. Say goodbye to siloed approaches and embrace a holistic view of your data governance. Leverage the power of metadata-driven insights with Alex. Gain a deeper understanding of your data assets, enabling informed decision-making and strategic planning based on rich contextual information.
Navigate the convoluted journey of your data with confidence using Alex’s automated data lineage. Alex provides a clear, end-to-end understanding of data flows, transformations, and dependencies, fostering transparency and accountability across your organization. Understand how data moves through your systems and gain insights to make informed governance decisions and optimizations. In the same place, Alex identifies discrepancies, inconsistencies, and potential quality errors within your datasets. This approach ensures the integrity and accuracy of your data assets, preventing downstream issues and facilitating data-driven decision-making.
As organizations evolve and adopt new technologies, unified and consistent enterprise data governance becomes more challenging. Alex not only automates the unification of your data under management, it scales with your organization as new technologies or clouds are commissioned. Empower your workforce with Alex’s business glossary, a centralized repository for business terms and definitions. The glossary fosters a common understanding of terminology, governance processes and more, promoting seamless communication and collaboration across diverse teams. By creating a shared language, Alex enhances collaboration and ensures clarity in your organization’s data conversations.
Other catalogs struggle to integrate multi-cloud and hybrid enterprise architectures into the one data workspace. Alex was built to bring all your data into the catalog and enable automated cross-application lineage analysis. Get every major cloud platform under single-catalog management.
Metadata is the backbone of data smarts, and Alex metadata is context-rich. No matter which technology you need to understand and govern, Alex automatically provides the business significance of the data within. From cataloging and profiling to metadata enrichment and lineage tracking, every facet of data governance is automated in Alex with precision.
From Excel tables to Power BI analytics, Alex connects it all, whether your data resides in cloud platforms, on-premises databases, or specialized applications. Say goodbye to data silos in your stack and embrace unified enterprise data governance.
Analyst, data steward, data engineer and more – every member of your team needs role-based access to different data. In Alex, you can set establish powerful role-based views and controls that enable anyone from technical experts to business users to quickly find, access and manage data they need, always according to the relevant policies.
With Alex, you can create active data governance policies from a centralized location, ensuring consistency and coherence across the entire organization. Define policies related to data access, security, quality, and compliance using intuitive interfaces and customizable templates, tailored to meet your specific business needs.
Once active data governance policies are created, Alex enables you to apply them effortlessly across the entire enterprise. Whether you have multiple departments, business units, or data repositories, our platform ensures that governance policies are uniformly applied, regardless of the data’s location or format. Say goodbye to siloed governance approaches and hello to consistency and standardization.
Enforcing active data governance policies can be challenging without the right tools. With Alex, enforcement becomes automated and proactive. Leverage automated workflows, alerts, and notifications to ensure that governance policies are enforced consistently in real time. From access controls to data quality standards, our platform provides the mechanisms needed to uphold governance policies across the enterprise.
Alex is the only enterprise data catalog with fully integrated Data Playbooks. Imagine automated Data Playbooks that unfold effortlessly, providing a comprehensive governance guide to your data ecosystem. With Alex each term is not just defined; it’s a gateway to critical business information, linked to associated datasets, governance policies, KPIs, workflows and more. Built on the Alex Enterprise Knowledge graph, this interconnected approach ensures that your teams don’t just understand terms in isolation but grasp their broader context, fostering a holistic understanding of your data landscape and consistent governance standards.
Alex automates the creation and management of data playbooks, allowing you to define rules and policies for managing assets based on predefined criteria. Whether it’s identifying personal identifiable information (PII) or optimizing data quality, Alex Data Playbooks streamline the process.
Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies by leveraging Alex’s proactive compliance monitoring capabilities. Whether it’s unauthorized access to sensitive data or data usage patterns that violate standards, Alex provides the visibility and insights needed to take corrective action promptly.
Alex can massively reduce the time and effort required to execute key data governance workflows like data quality issue impact analysis. Having an automated detection and analysis platform supercharges data quality improvement.
Looking for a key metric for your report? Use Alex to find the data you need wherever it sits in your data landscape. Assess its trust and start governing and using it – fast.
When you identify an impacted table, compliance issue or find the source of an inaccurate report, remediation can start immediately within the lineage view with native, automated workflows.
Let the responsible subject matter experts take control of data issues for speedy remediation.
Easily detect and lodge any issues and their impacts up or downstream by conducting rapid lineage analysis.
Immediately understand how any issues in data sets, down to the column-level, impact critical workflows.
Directly apply easily configurable risk and compliance policies, workflows and rules on anything in the catalog.