The data intelligence firm Alation Inc. has introduced a new product named Alation Chat with Your Data that enables anyone within the firm to obtain trusted numbers quickly and precisely using structured data by posing plain-language questions, and the solution is computed to provide the trusted numbers to anyone in the firm without any analytics or engineering skills and it is also capable of enhancing accuracy up to 60% when compared to generic AI solutions.
Context-sensitive responses provided by metadata-sensitive agents
According to SiliconANGLE, today, data intelligence company Alation Inc. has released a new feature called the Alation Chat with Your Data, which is designed to enable anyone within the enterprise to extract quick, precise numbers on structured data by posing plain English questions about the data. The new solution will enable access to trusted insights by all employees, and one will not require analytics or engineering skills.
Unlike standalone solutions, Alation metadata-aware agents are able to reason through every response based on business definitions, context, and lineage, resulting in accuracy that has been improved by up to 60 times. Co-founder and Chief Executive Satyen Sangani explained that by enabling more people to ask questions and believe the answers, we are turning into data-driven thinking as a regular part of work. Alation Chat with Your Data aims to resolve the problem of employees wasting excessive time on data search, be it in dashboards, following down with analysts, or deciphering inconsistent metrics.
Developed on top of the Numbers Station acquisition technology
Alation Chat with Your Data has a query agent that is engineered to work with structured data, as per the Alation blog. Alation states that in most of the current artificial intelligence tools, the metadata context (business definitions or data lineage) would be lost between questions, and therefore, no consistency in responses would be obtained.
As an illustration, when querying a generic tool such as the annual recurring revenue definition of a company, the tool may forget the answer after the first query, where the Alation query agent is a context-aware tool that uses a knowledge layer of curated data products and the entire metadata on the Alation Data Intelligence Platform to ensure all conversations remain relevant to its business environment.
Flexible architecture circumvents lock-in by vendors
Alation Chat with Your Data is architected to integrate with any data system, and it supports an open and flexible architecture, not vendor-locked. The solution does not require all data to be copied or migrated to the Alation platform because it queries data exactly where it is situated, as opposed to all data being loaded into its own environment.
Evidence of successful real-world results is promising
Euromonitor has already shown results with the implementation of Chat with Your Data in their Passport AI. At Euromonitor, our data enables companies to influence vital decisions in markets across the globe, Lamine Lahouasnia, Director of Gen AI at Euromonitor, said. They can now find strategic insights on local and global trends by having simple conversations.
Shared vision was captured by the Numbers Station CEO, Chris Aberger: With Alation, we are realizing a shared vision: making AI useful by basing it on structured metadata and enterprise context. Such integration transforms the promise of generative AI into explainable action on both sides of the business and data teams.
Chat with your Data by Alation marks a breakthrough in the field of enterprise AI because it takes metadata-aware intelligence and natural language processing together, allowing organizations to democratize access to data and maintain standards of governance and security, ultimately changing the way employees engage with structured data in the enterprise with conversational interfaces providing accurate and contextual answers.