Alation

Top Executive: CEO Satyen Sangani

The Alation data catalog system combines elements of machine learning with human insight to create an inventory of an organization's data assets, helping data-driven businesses more easily find, understand, use and govern their data for making faster and better decisions.

Alation has vigorously pursued alliances with other big data vendors in the last year, integrating its software with products from Trifacta, Tableau, MicroStrategy, Teradata, Hortonworks and others.

Based in Redwood City, Calif., Alation was founded in 2012.