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Your AI sounded certain. Your boardroom wants a source. Lineage, context, and governance are what turn a confident answer into a defensible one.

Your AI never hedges. It answers everything with total confidence - including the things it gets wrong. Certainty is a must, not an option.

Today we're launching the Alation Intelligence Operating System — AIOS. It's a system designed to get your AI right. Like any operating system, you build data apps and agents on top of it. And, just like any operating system allows you to swap keyboards, monitors, and printers, you can swap components — databases, LLMs, semantic layers, and storage. AIOS is the result of years of work: transforming our product and our culture, moving Alation from AI-aware to AI-native. AI-native transformation is brutal. I empathize with every CEO, leadership team, and organization in the middle of it, which is pretty much every company not founded in the last 3 years. The expectations are high, the change is relentless, the hard decisions never stop — and it never feels done. But with a lot of grit and teamwork, you can build something you're proud of. We believe AIOS is one of those things. I have an incredible amount of gratitude for our entire Alation team for making this real, and to the customers who've helped us learn and evolve along the way. Special thanks to Warren Durrett at Electronic Arts (EA), who coined the term AIOS. If you haven't looked at us in a while, this is the moment to. I really want to hear what you think — reach out and let me know. More to do, and more to come. www.alation.com (the video is best full screen and sound on 😄)

See how Alation CDE Manager uses AI to unify teams, enforce governance standards, and deliver a single, trusted view of your most critical data.

Companies treating data like a product implement new use cases up to 90% faster (HBR, 2022). With Alation’s Data Products Marketplace, teams can quickly find, understand, and build governed, AI-ready data products in minutes (no code required). The result: faster insights from data you can trust.

Over 25% of organizations lose $5M+ annually due to poor data quality (Forrester, 2023). See how Alation Data Quality automatically surfaces issues in context, enforces standards, and gives teams a clear, trusted view of data health.