Alation with Dell Data Lakehouse offers a solution to help reduce complexities in enterprise data management. Alation enables customers to search, discover, query, and understand data across an organization. Dell Data Analytics Engine enables a single point of access and can connect to various data systems with diverse formats.
This document explores some of the capabilities of Alation with Dell Data Lakehouse. This document discusses various steps to achieve that. The main solution components are.
- Alation Data Intelligence Platform—The Alation platform offers multiple features and reduces complexities in data management. Its intuitive, integrated UI is business-oriented and built for everyone across an organization. This document explores metadata extraction, data classification, and discovery capabilities.
- Dell Data Lakehouse—The Alation platform offers multiple features and reduces complexities in data management. This document explores metadata extraction, data classification, and discovery capabilities.
- OCF Connector—Alation Data Intelligence Platform provides a wide range of connectors to connect to data sources. If a customer data source is unsupported by prebuilt connectors, Alation Open Connector Framework (OCF) helps users develop their own connector. Dell Technologies used the OCF-based Starburst connecter in this solution.