Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions. Alation offers products in Data Catalog and Data Governance. It empowers their customers to find, understand and govern the data. Alation has developed broad range of native data source connectors. It offers Open Connector Framework (OCF) SDK to connect to any additional data sources apart from their own prebuilt connectors.

Logan Data had developed a Custom Connector from Microsoft Purview Data Catalog to Alation. It is an unidirectional connector. The connector will enable the customers to extract Purview RDBMS artifacts to Alation. This will catalog the metadata(accounts, collections, assets and schemas) to increase the ability to trust the data and give visibility for faster decision-making.

Impact & Business Outcome

  • Faster Decision Making: The Purview connector will synchronize artifacts between Microsoft Purview and Alation regularly and near real-time integration thus exploring new insights and fostering faster decision making.

  • Data Governance solution: Microsoft Purview includes unified data governance solutions that help you manage data services across your on-premises, multicloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) estate. The Purview connector will ensure we are looking at the most relevant and recent information.

  • Connectivity and User Experience: The connector enriches Alation’s ecosystem by enabling seamless access to Microsoft purview comprehensive data sources. Having the ability to extract, search and use all data in one place is powerful.

  • Existing Customers: Enable existing customers to connect to the MS Purview source.