Alation Data Catalog pros and cons

Alation Data Catalog increases productivity by documenting data, enabling engineers to focus on critical questions. It supports data efficiency and collaboration via metadata cataloging, SQL query publication, workflow automation, and tagging. Users face issues with limited search functionality and problematic connector setup, compounded by support challenges. While enhancing integration, it's hindered by lack of end-to-end data lineage and data governance. Improvements in data observability and interactive quality solutions are needed.