In the race to adopt AI and advanced analytics, speed is often the primary metric. Business analysts are under pressure to deliver AI-powered insights, but as organizations move beyond pilots and into production, a new metric takes precedence: Trust.
AI only works when humans and agents can trust the data behind it. Successfully operationalizing AI depends on understanding where the data comes from, how it moves, and who is using it. That is why we are thrilled with the continued partnership between Alteryx and Collibra to strengthen enterprise governance and enable end-to-end visibility into your AI-powered workflows.
This integration is a win for our joint customers, bridging the gap between data preparation and enterprise governance.
From black box to glass box: The power of data lineage
As analytics initiatives scale, workflows can become increasingly complex. Visibility into the complex chain of transformations across the data ecosystem is crucial.
With the integration between the Alteryx One Platform and Collibra Data Lineage, users gain full traceability and visibility from data origin to outcome. This ensures that every report, dashboard and AI model is grounded in approved, auditable sources.
This level of transparency delivers five critical benefits:
- Strengthened compliance: Automatically map data flows to prove regulatory adherence
- Higher visibility: Track the usage of sensitive data to ensure it is handled correctly throughout the transformation process
- Increased reliability and trust: Create AI outputs that business users can confidently trust
- Improved data quality: Identify the usage of stale or unapproved data sets and redirect analysts to preferred data sources
- Reduced risk: Model downstream impacts of data transformations executed in Alteryx workflows or easily perform root cause analysis to track erroneous metrics to the source
Turning governance into a modernization accelerator
Data lineage is often viewed solely as a defensive safeguard, but this integration transforms it into strategic offense. By gaining visibility into how data is being used across Alteryx workflows, leaders can better understand team behaviors and data usage across their business so that they can ensure only trusted data sources are being used to feed their AI models and analytic workflows.
Additionally, this integration helps identify the most frequently accessed sources and surfaces previously hidden or duplicated work. This visibility empowers organizations to prioritize which data assets to consolidate, migrate or elevate into cloud data platforms — turning governance into an accelerator for data modernization as well as AI-powered analytics.
How does data lineage with Alteryx work?
Simply set up a connection from the Alteryx One admin portal to your external data catalog to enable dynamic runtime lineage. When a workflow executes in Server, Alteryx will automatically collect the relevant metadata, create OpenLineage events and share them with Collibra.
From there, users can simply log into their Collibra instance and search for Alteryx workflows for near real-time insight into how data is being used across your business. This integration supports both:
- Workflow-level lineage for visibility into what data input produces each data output
- Column-level lineage for visibility into the origin of each field or column
A partnership built for the AI era
We are excited to collaborate with the Collibra team to deliver complete data lineage and trusted governance for AI-powered analytics.
Chandra Papudesu, Vice President of Product Management, Data Lineage and Integrations at Collibra, noted “Our joint customers need visibility and transparency of their data that is powering AI and analytics. Through this partnership we enable technical and business teams to have full context to their data to improve trust, address compliance and power AI workloads.”
Together, Alteryx and Collibra empower customers with the end-to-end visibility needed to fuel trusted AI and analytical workloads.
Want to learn more about how Collibra and Alteryx can power AI-powered analytics in your business? Register for our webinar Accelerate AI-Ready Analytics with Trusted Data Lineage. Product experts from Alteryx and Collibra will show how end-to-end data lineage empowers teams to accelerate AI-ready analytics with trusted data.