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Lightup + Alation

Alation Data Quality Partner

Trusted Data Assets in Alation, Powered by Lightup

Ensure high-quality data assets in Alation with Lightup's Data Quality Monitoring with AI-powered Anomaly Detection and Incident Alerts.

Democratize Data Quality for Alation

Just as Alation democratizes Data Discovery for data citizens, Lightup advances their mission by providing no-code Data Quality Checks — bridging the skills gap between technical data teams and non-technical business users that need to define, update, and deploy Data Quality Checks for Alation data assets.

Lightup democratizes Data Quality Checks, enabling organizations to distribute Data Quality workloads among data stewards, data analysts, and business users to:

  • Reduce reliance on engineering resources as sole authors of Data Quality rules for Alation assets
  • Increase trust in Alation data assets for stronger adoption
  • Accelerate and scale Data Quality Checks for 100% endorsed data assets in Alation

The result? Alation’s Data Catalog becomes business-critical for building a data-driven culture with self-service access to trustworthy data assets, based on effective Data Governance.

Key Benefits

As a partner of Alation's Open Data Quality Framework, Lightup is dedicated to providing the same white glove service to maximize the value of Alation and ensure success for our joint customers.

Empower Data Citizens with Lightup's No-code Data Quality Checks.
Ensure Accurate Trust Flags & Deprecation Alerts leveraging Lightup's AI-based Anomaly Detection.
Activate Alation's Catalog & Lineage with Lightup's Data Health Insights.
Integrated Data Quality for Alation

Integrated Data Quality for Alation

Lightup feeds data health insights to Alation’s Catalog and Lineage Mapping.

Unlike legacy Data Quality tools, Lightup pushes queries down to data sources, without moving or copying data. Aggregate metrics are then pulled from the data source for AI-powered Anomaly Detection and rule testing in Lightup.

Lightup insights are surfaced in Alation’s Health tab, Catalog, and Lineage mapping, enabling you to:

  • Gain a full understanding of data assets
  • Leverage a centralized view of Data Governance
  • Rely on Alation for all Data Discovery needs

When there’s an incident warning in Alation, simply click the hyperlinked incident to drill into the incident time frame in Lightup, see correlated issues, and create Jira or ServiceNow tickets for further investigation.

No-code Data Quality Checks

Instead of having to learn a new proprietary rule engine, Lightup provides a graphical interface with easy-to-use dropdown menus to deploy no-code Data Quality Checks on real data, not just metadata.
No-code Data Quality Checks
Custom SQL Checks

Custom SQL Checks

Unlike closed-system Data Quality solutions, Lightup provides a full SQL interface to express complex business logic for custom checks, unique to your organization’s requirements.

The critical thing is Lightup integrating with Alation. It's very, very important. Because to move forward with data governance without data quality visibility is impossible.

— Data Platform Lead at Fortune 500 Retailer

Query Governance

Lightup gives you full control of queries, so they don’t scan unnecessary data or run too long. For maximum efficiency, configure Lightup to colocate resources to run queries at optimal times after jobs finish. Plus, backfill historical data to understand trends, seasonality, and burn.
Get comprehensive query history
Bound query runtime
Schedule when queries run
Set cost budgets

Why Lightup Data Quality for Alation

Accelerate Time to Market

Deploy no-code Data Quality Checks in minutes, not months.

Identify Issues in Real Time

Identify Data Quality issues in real time, find the root causes, and remediate problems to minimize deprecation warnings in Alation.

Democratize Data Quality

Democratize Data Quality Checks for non-technical business users, data analysts, data governance teams, and data engineers.

End-to-End Workflows

Create end-to-end operational workflows using prebuilt integrations with workflow management, ticketing, collaboration, and alerting systems.

Broad Connectivity

Easily connect to a variety of Cloud and legacy on-premises data sources with prebuilt integrations and APIs.

Fast Time to Value

Experience fast time to value and positive ROI.

Data Asset Health

Gain a deeper understanding of data asset health.

Deploy Anywhere

Deploy anywhere, just like Alation.

Eliminate Scalability Issues

Eliminate Data Quality scalability issues to achieve 100% coverage.

Integrate Data Quality for Alation

Democratize Data Quality and increase data trust in Alation with Lightup.