Case Study: Forrester TEI: Alation Data Catalog delivers 364% ROI
Key results
The challenge
Forrester Consulting was commissioned by Alation to examine the return on investment organizations realize from the Alation Data Catalog. To assess benefits, costs, and risks, Forrester interviewed seven global Alation customers across e-commerce, engineering, insurance, and technology and modeled a composite organization.
The solution
The study analyzed how the Alation Data Catalog enables users of varying skill sets to find, understand, trust, use, and reuse data, then quantified the resulting time savings, onboarding efficiency, and self-service benefits against the cost of investment.
The results, in context
The commissioned study found organizations using the Alation Data Catalog can experience a 364% return on investment, including $2.7 million in time saved from shortened data discovery, analysts completing projects 70% faster, and $286,085 saved by shortening new-analyst onboarding by at least 50%.