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alation.com • Oct 29 • by Alation

AI · Data engineering +10

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What Is an AI Operating System? Defining the Category Beyond the Data PlatformFour different things get called an “AIOS.” Learn which one a vendor means and what it must do that a data platform…

alation.com • Oct 27 • by Alation

AI · AI agents +10

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Context Without Purpose Is a Swamp: Lessons from a Data-Leader HackathonContext for AI agents works best with an outcome, an owner and a boundary. See what a hackathon of data leaders learned and how to apply it.

alation.com • Oct 23 • by Alation

AI · Enterprise AI +9

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The SaaSpocalypse Is Real but Narrow: Why Apps that Learn Outlast Apps that ExecuteAs AI disrupts enterprise software, lightweight apps are at risk. Discover why the secret to durable, compounding…

alation.com • Oct 21 • by Alation

AI · AI agents +9

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How a Self-Improving Context Layer Makes AI Agents More AccurateA self-improving context layer turns agent corrections into governed updates every agent can reuse. See how feedback loops lifted SQL accuracy from 50% to 84%.

alation.com • Oct 20 • by Alation

AI · AI agents +8

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Governed Agent Discovery: What It Is and How It WorksGoverned agent discovery registers AI agents from connected platforms and links each to its use case and the live data it depends on. See how it works.

alation.com • Oct 19 • by Alation

AI agents · Cybersecurity +8

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Context Tells an Agent What It Knows. Permissions Decide What It Can Do.Your agents know a lot. Could you show what they were stopped from doing, and who stopped them?

alation.com • Oct 15 • by Alation

AI · AI policy +9

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The Context Layer is a Useful Fiction: Why AI Governance Must Cover the Whole SystemEven perfectly governed data can produce wrong answers once a model is involved. Two data leaders disagree on where…

alation.com • Oct 14 • by Alation

Data governance · Fintech +8

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What Is BCBS 239? Your 2027 Data Governance GuideOver 40% of banks remain materially non-compliant with BCBS 239. Discover the 14 core principles, common implementation…

alation.com • Oct 12 • by Alation

AI · AI agents +8

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The Hidden Architecture of Enterprise Data AgentsA ten-word question about Formula 1 hides five ways an AI agent can quietly go wrong. None of them are the model’s…

alation.com • Oct 8 • by Alation

Data science · Data governance +9

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What's New in Alation Lineage: The Graph That Keeps UpOne missing source can sink trust in a whole lineage graph. Here's how we're closing the gaps, from spreadsheets to…

alation.com • Oct 6 • by Alation

AI · AI agents +9

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What Is an AI Agent Harness? Components, Architecture, and GovernanceAn AI agent harness provides the execution, memory, and safety loops that turn model reasoning into enterprise action.…

alation.com • Oct 5 • by Alation

Data governance · chief +7

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What Should a New CDO Fix First? Advice from the Data Chief Behind ZelleEarly Warning CDO Cara Tice, who leads data for the company behind Zelle, says a new CDO should fix one data quality problem first. Here's her playbook.

alation.com • Oct 1 • by Alation

AI · Data governance +8

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Going Far Together: How Data Teams Own the Ground Truth in the AI EraDiscover key takeaways from Alation CEO Satyen Sangani’s revAlation 2026 keynote on AI trust, why BI and governance teams are merging, and data context.

alation.com • Sep 29 • by Alation

Privacy · Cloud +9

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Data Sovereignty: The Complete Guide for Enterprise Data LeadersDiscover what data sovereignty means beyond storage location. Learn residency vs. localization differences, CLOUD Act/GDPR risks, and 12 key vendor questions.

alation.com • Sep 28 • by Alation

AI · AI agents +9

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Who Authorized Your AI Agent? A Chain of Command for Autonomous ActionsMost teams can say which agent acted. Few can name the human who authorized it. Why delegated authority, expiring…

alation.com • Sep 25 • by Alation

AI · AI agents +9

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Where Should AI Agent Guardrails Be Enforced? Lessons from Columbia's DAPLabAgents are acting, not just answering, and most guardrails are still text files. Columbia's Eugene Wu on moving rules…

alation.com • Sep 23 • by Alation

Data governance · Automation +9

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Automated Data Quality: What to Automate, What to Keep HumanAutomated data quality scales rule execution and detection. Here's what it can automate, what still needs a human, and how to prioritize coverage.

alation.com • Sep 22 • by Alation

AI · Evals +9

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Your AI Readiness Test Says You're Not Ready: Now What?An enterprise AI readiness score tells you what you already suspect: you're not ready. Charlene Li argues the fix isn't…

alation.com • Sep 17 • by Alation

AI · AI policy +10

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Why We Built AI Governance & Semantic Model Mastering: Notes from 6 Months of Customer InsightsConflicting metrics quietly erode trust in AI. Discover how Alation unifies definitions across your tech stack so teams…

alation.com • Sep 15 • by Alation

AI · AI agents +10

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Agent-Ready Data Catalog: Why "Fix the Catalog First" Is the Wrong GoalOnly 11% of AI agent pilots reach production. Discover why "fixing your data catalog first" is the wrong strategy, and…

alation.com • Sep 15 • by Alation

AI agents · Data governance +8

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Making Agents Work: Why "Fix the Data First" Is the Wrong Place to StartMost teams treat clean data as the prerequisite before agents ship. A Stanford researcher and two CEOs on why that…

alation.com • Sep 14 • by Alation

Software engineering · AI policy +8

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OSFI E-21 Compliance After the Deadline: What Supervisors Assess NowThe E-21 deadline passed September 1, 2026, and OSFI's supervisory window is open. Learn what Section 4.7 requires, and the five artifacts auditors ask to see. — 152 characters

alation.com • Sep 11 • by Alation

Enterprise AI · Data governance +10

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Centralized or Federated? Data Architecture for Agentic AIIBM CTO Anant Jhingran on why agentic workloads weaken the case for centralizing data, and why active metadata becomes the binding constraint instead.

alation.com • Sep 10 • by Alation

AI agents · AI policy +10

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Why We Built AI Governance & Semantic Model Mastering: Notes from 6 Months of Customer InsightsYour last audit passed on evidence someone reconstructed by hand. Why that model collapses once AI agents are reading…

alation.com • Sep 8 • by Alation

AI · Evals +9

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What Is a Semantic Layer and Why Does It Matter for AI? (Plus What It Still Can't Do)What a semantic layer is, why vendors define it differently, what the benchmarks actually show about AI accuracy, and…

alation.com • Sep 4 • by Alation

AI · Enterprise AI +9

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"AI Is Not The Strategy": Two ServiceNow Executives On What Leaders Get WrongIf AI saved your company 10,000 hours, what are you doing with them? ServiceNow's Brian Solis and Dave Wright say…

alation.com • Sep 3 • by Alation

Enterprise AI · Data governance +9

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Alation Named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform SoftwareIDC named Alation a Leader in its 2026 Data Intelligence Platform MarketScape. See how two key identified strengths work in practice at the BBC.

alation.com • Sep 2 • by Alation

Enterprise AI · AI policy +9

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The EU AI Act Is Your AI StrategyAI pilots stall on ungoverned data. The governance the EU AI Act requires by 2027 is the same foundation your AI programme needs to reach production.

alation.com • Sep 1 • by Alation

AI · Data science +8

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Is BI dead? A Former Tableau CPO Who Helped Build It Weighs InFrancois Ajenstat helped build Tableau. Now he says the chart was never the result. What AI actually changes about BI — and what still needs a human owner.

alation.com • Aug 31 • by Alation

AI policy · Privacy +9

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Bring Your Own Model (BYOM): The Four Controls Regulated Enterprises NeedEvery vendor now offers bring your own model. The label tells you almost nothing about what you control. Four questions that separate a control from a checkbox.

alation.com • Aug 28, 04:00 AM • by Alation

AI agents · Data governance +11

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How the BBC Governs Data and AI When Trust Is KeyNathalie Berdat, Director of Product Data at the BBC, on turning a contested metric into a trusted data product, and why lineage has to come before AI agents.

alation.com • Aug 27, 04:00 AM • by Alation

AI agents · Data governance +12

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Data Governance Pilots: 4 Questions Before You Scale Enterprise AICNA Insurance's data lead on the four questions every data governance pilot must answer before production, and why agentic AI changes the staffing math.

alation.com • Aug 26, 04:00 AM • by Alation

AI agents · AI +10

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What Is Agentic Data Management? A Complete Guide for Enterprise Data LeadersAgentic data management applies goal-directed AI agents to data discovery, quality, and governance under human-defined constraints. Here's how it works.

alation.com • Aug 24, 04:00 AM • by Alation

RAG · AI +11

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What Is AI Grounding? Techniques, Trade-offs, and How to Measure ItDiscover what AI grounding is, why RAG breaks on structured data, and how to measure groundedness to build reliable enterprise AI systems.

alation.com • Aug 21 • by Alation

Fintech · Enterprise AI +12

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Why CNA Insurance Started Its Agentic AI Rollout with GovernanceCNA Insurance began its agentic AI rollout with data governance rather than underwriting. Its VP of Global Data Operations shares the enterprise strategy for agents, stewardship, and trust.Read More

alation.com • Aug 20 • by Alation

Industrial & IoT · Data science +10

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Supply Chain Analytics: Turning Fragmented Data Into Real-Time VisibilitySupply chain analytics fails when data has no shared meaning. How four global supply chains built real-time visibility,…Read More

alation.com • Aug 19 • by Alation

Data engineering · Data governance +10

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Snowflake Intelligence and Alation: Why the Best AI Answers Need BothDiscover how combining Alation and Snowflake Intelligence solves metric drift, masters cross-platform semantic models, and powers trusted enterprise AI.Read More

alation.com • Aug 18 • by Alation

Automation · Data governance +8

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Introducing Critical Lineage: End-to-End Lineage for Regulatory Filings and Critical ReportsAchieve audit-ready regulatory compliance with Alation. Unify manual gaps and automated scans into one end-to-end lineage graph for critical reports.Read More

alation.com • Aug 17 • by Alation

Enterprise AI · AI policy +9

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ISO 42001: The AI Compliance Certification Guide For Enterprise LeadersISO/IEC 42001 is the first international standard for AI management systems (AIMS) , published December 2023. It…Read More

alation.com • Aug 14 • by Alation

Enterprise AI · Data science +11

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Former CEO Tableau Mark Nelson: AI Agents Don't Need a Better Model; They Need Your Business ContextFormer Tableau CEO Mark Nelson on why taste and judgement are critical in the age of AI. Foundation models know the world, but not your business. Learn why 40% of agentic AI projects get canceled — and how a governed context layer fixes it.Read More

alation.com • Aug 13 • by Alation

Enterprise AI · AI +10

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Model Risk Management in the Agentic AI Era: A Guide to Risk ModelingLearn model risk management fundamentals, from risk modeling to a proven risk management program, and see how Alation keeps AI right past pilot.Read More

alation.com • Aug 12 • by Alation

Automation · Data governance +10

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Compliance That Sustains Itself: How We Automated the Data Management Work at the Heart of OSFI E-21Alation and PwC Canada have partnered to help financial insitutions meet the regulatory demands of OSFI E-21. See how automated classification, lineage, and evidence sustain compliance past September.Read More