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Add Context That Counts. Strengthen Alation.

Bridge the gap between business definitions and real data with BigID and Alation. Through BigID’s Metadata Exchange App for Alation, bring deeper discovery, automated classification, and rich privacy and security context into your catalog—so teams can govern with more clarity and confidence.

Eliminate Blind Spots. Tag with Precision. Strengthen Governance with BigID and Alation.

  • Identify and tag sensitive, regulated, and high-risk data across your entire environment.
  • Enrich Alation with deep data intelligence by adding sensitivity, ownership, and relevant context.

  • Automatically map Alation glossary terms to actual data assets.
  • Close gaps between business definitions and technical metadata.
  • Leverage AI to enhance the user experience and circumvent blind spots.

  • Populate Alation with sensitivity, classification, and ownership attributes from BigID.
  • Improve governance accuracy and accelerate policy application.

  • Discover data wherever it lives including unstructured, dark, or forgotten sources.
  • Surface high-value and high-risk data directly in your Alation catalog.

Your Metadata Gaps — Solved

BigID augments Alation with rich discovery, classification, and privacy-aware context to drive smarter data governance:

Sensitive Data Discovery

  • Scan structured and unstructured data for sensitivity and regulation
  • Identify high-risk, personal, and regulated data types
  • Eliminate blind spots across SaaS, pipelines, and cloud stores

Glossary Term Correlation

  • Match physical data with Alation business terms
  • Improve accuracy across policy and governance workflows
  • Strengthen governance by closing semantic gaps

Metadata Enrichment

  • Add ownership, classification, and usage metadata
  • Surface key attributes missing from catalog entries
  • Make metadata actionable for downstream policies

Policy Readiness

  • Drive enforcement for data retention, minimization, and classification
  • Help teams meet compliance requirements across frameworks
  • Align cataloged data with privacy, risk, and security standards

Catalog Confidence

  • Detect and flag redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data
  • Improve catalog trust with consistent classification
  • Fill in missing or inconsistent metadata entries

AI and Analytics Enablement

  • Classify and validate datasets for AI and analytics projects
  • Ensure governed data is used in ML training or GenAI
  • Enrich pipelines and data products with contextual insights

Don’t Just Catalog Metadata — Enrich It and Act on It

BigID brings deeper context to Alation with intelligent discovery, classification, and policy-aligned metadata to close governance gaps and power trusted data use.

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