Alation Connected Sheets

Organizations depend on spreadsheets to gather, prepare, and analyze data. Critical business decisions rely on the accuracy and validity of spreadsheets. Alation Connected Sheets helps to address these questions:

• Where does the data in this spreadsheet come from?

• Is the data in this spreadsheet trustworthy and up to date?

• How do I get new data into the spreadsheet quickly?

Alation connected sheets requires subscription to Alation.

Users can easily access and refresh data from sources in Alation Data Catalog to Microsoft Excel™ with a few clicks.

Benefits of Alation Connected Sheets:

• Connected. Pull in data with clicks, not SQL. Enable business users to self-service data without having to learn a new technical tool or rely on technical resources to get relevant, formatted data.

• Governed. Pull in trusted, governed data from databases directly into Google Sheets™, avoiding multiple copies of spreadsheets formed by copy/pasting data or exporting csv files.

• Secure. Reuse existing data source security settings, allowing only authorized users to pull in data they have access to.

• Reusable. Automated refresh of data ensures users have accurate, up-to-date data and calculations in the spreadsheet without having to manually update it.

• Discoverable. Search and discover existing spreadsheets cataloged in Alation. Understand the context of spreadsheets with descriptions, owners, stewards, and classification tags.

Data sources currently supported (more to come):

• Amazon Redshift

• Snowflake

• MySQL

• PostgreSQL

Learn more:

• See alation.com/connected-sheets

• Contact your account executive.