Enhance the capabilities of your lakehouse with two new validated partner solutions
by Riley Maris, Zaheera Valani and Maraki Ketema
In today's data-driven world, organizations continuously seek innovative solutions to enhance their data intelligence and security. With that in mind, we are excited to announce two new integrations in Databricks Partner Connect: Alation and Hunters. These partnerships extend the power of the lakehouse, with Alation enabling seamless data discovery, collaboration, and governance, and Hunters empowering proactive threat detection and response.
By leveraging these integrations, organizations can unlock the full potential of their data assets, make well-informed decisions, and improve their security posture.
Alation helps organizations create a centralized and searchable catalog of their data assets. With Alation, businesses can efficiently discover, understand, and utilize their data, leading to improved data governance, data quality, and decision-making processes. Integration with Unity Catalog enables Alation to provide visibility across all of the organization's workspaces as well as the source systems, analytics, and AI tools.
The trial available via Databricks Partner Connect is a great way to explore Alation and learn with self-guided tours that teach you how to use Alation for data discovery, analysis, and governance. Get started with a free 14-day trial and learn more here.
The Hunters SOC Platform enables Databricks customers to build a security data lake effortlessly and run their security operations on top of it. The platform offers a library of prebuilt integrations, seamless ingestion, and ETL capabilities for all security data. It also provides hundreds of built-in, always up-to-date detection mechanisms across surfaces while reducing false positives by correlating dispersed signals and alerts on a graph.
Hunters' auto-investigation capabilities enrich alerts with contextual information, facilitating efficient triage and prioritizing alerts based on their risk level. Additionally, users can search and respond to incidents quickly using purpose-built search capabilities, entity views, and direct access to raw data on their Databricks lakehouse.
To get started, simply select the Hunters tile in Databricks Partner Connect or request a demo of the full SOC Platform experience.
As the gas flows at a RaceTrac retail service station, so does data – a lot of data. On average RaceTrac handles more than 260 million transactions per year across four lines of business. When they chose to unify their data on Databricks, RaceTrac used Alation to help identify which data to migrate. Alation also extends data discovery, governance, and catalog capabilities to all of RaceTrac's data. Together, Alation and Databricks break down silos and provide a unified view of the organization's data. Coupled with real-time analytics and reporting, this single source of truth supports data-driven decisions across the enterprise.
"Alation is crucial to making data a trusted asset throughout the organization. We use it to enable evidence-based analytics and more strategic business decisions. And it's critical to smarter cloud usage; we gain valuable insights about our data, which help us maintain a cloud environment, provide access to everyone, and foster a data-driven culture. This means we have a clear understanding of which data to migrate, and our data teams can easily find and understand high-quality data within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform with detailed contextual metadata. This improved visibility empowers our teams to enhance analytical models and make confident, data-driven decisions." — Raghu Jayachandran, Senior Manager of Enterprise Data at RaceTrac
Sign up for a free trial of Databricks to try Partner Connect at no additional cost, and look for additional partner integrations in the coming months.
Databricks Partner Connect is the hub where customers can discover and activate partner integrations, such as Alation and Hunters, directly from within Databricks. Selecting a partner's tile in Partner Connect lets you start exploring that integration, and Databricks notes that additional partner integrations will continue to be added in the coming months. A free trial of Databricks lets you try Partner Connect at no additional cost.
Alation's integration with Unity Catalog gives it visibility across all of an organization's Databricks workspaces as well as its source systems, analytics, and AI tools. This lets Alation build a centralized, searchable catalog of data assets so teams can discover, understand, and govern data more effectively. The result is improved data governance, data quality, and decision-making across the lakehouse.
The Hunters SOC Platform lets Databricks customers build a security data lake and run security operations on top of it, using a library of prebuilt integrations and ETL capabilities for security data. It includes hundreds of built-in, continuously updated detection mechanisms and reduces false positives by correlating dispersed signals and alerts on a graph. Auto-investigation features enrich alerts with contextual information, and purpose-built search, entity views, and direct access to raw data on the Databricks lakehouse help teams triage and respond to incidents quickly.
You can start with a free 14-day trial of Alation through Databricks Partner Connect, which includes self-guided tours covering data discovery, analysis, and governance. Details on getting started are available on Alation's Databricks partner page.
RaceTrac, which handles more than 260 million transactions per year across four lines of business, used Alation to help identify which data to migrate when unifying its data on Databricks. Alation also extends data discovery, governance, and catalog capabilities across all of RaceTrac's data, giving the company a unified view that supports real-time analytics, reporting, and data-driven decisions across the enterprise.
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