1.Alation is mainly used by business users for self-service analytics, but also for data governance and to accelerate data migration.

2.It focuses on collecting, linking and analyzing various kinds of metadata rather than data. An SQL Editor supports data querying.

3.With Alation, an organization can catalog their data assets, capture and add technical and business level information about them, steward, and govern these assets. Alation helps stakeholders understand what data assets exist, what they are made of, how they are being used, and manage risk, data privacy, and compliance.