In a bold move to redefine enterprise data governance and close the longstanding divide between business strategy and technical data management, Alation Inc. today unveiled its new solution, Alation CDE Manager, at the revAlation London event. The platform is built to govern Critical Data Elements (CDEs) at scale, enabling organisations to align business, risk and data teams through purpose-built AI agents that translate policy intent into implementable standards, while continuously ensuring compliance. With regulatory mandates tightening and AI-driven risk rising, Alation emphasises that organisations often struggle not because of lack of intent but due to the complexity of turning governance requirements into action. CDE Manager addresses this by applying “Policy-as-Code” to automatically convert business policies into measurable rules, using semantic mapping to link CDEs to data assets across catalogues, lineage and quality layers, and delivering a unified, audit-ready view of each CDE’s health and ownership. As Alistair Griffin, Global Data Governance Lead at Brambles, commented: “The goal of the data governance program is to build trust in our data so it can be confidently used to deliver real business value. I can see huge potential for CDE Manager as a powerful, intuitive tool that helps us govern the data that drives our business, bringing key indicators for our most important data into one place and allowing us to manage the process in a realistically achievable way. I am genuinely excited for this module!” Another testimonial from Reece Offer, Data Governance Analyst at HBF Health Limited, adds: “One of the standout capabilities of Alation CDE Manager is how effortlessly it extracts and formats the information we need. It’s streamlined our workflows and saved a huge amount of time.” CDE Manager is currently in private beta with general availability slated for later this year, and organisations interested in joining the programme are encouraged to contact Alation.
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The launch underscores Alation’s vision of operationalising data governance at the intersection of business outcomes, regulatory compliance and AI-driven insight. By embedding declarative governance agents within its platform ecosystem, the company aims to advance data programmes beyond isolated silos and operational heavy lifting, offering a scalable, consistent, and proof-ready approach to managing the most critical data assets. According to Alation, more than 650 global enterprises, including 40 % of the Fortune 100, rely on its platform for self-service analytics, cloud transformation, governance and AI-ready data.