Case Study: Airlines Reporting Corporation achieves faster time-to-market through data self-service with Alation

Alation Enables Self-Service to Help Users Find Data in the Snowflake + AWS Cloud

Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) is a long-standing travel-industry intermediary that settles airline transactions and has grown into a data and analytics business managing more than $97.4 billion in annual transactions. After 50 years of accumulating siloed, on‑premises data across multiple domains, ARC found product development slowed by reliance on tribal knowledge and repeated coordination, so it migrated its data to an AWS S3 data lake and Snowflake and sought a catalog to make data discoverable and reusable.

ARC selected the Alation Data Catalog for its intuitive UI and features like Trust Flags, Compose, data profiling, and manual lineage, and is curating cloud-only Snowflake data with a small team of stewards. The platform integrates with Tableau, supports masking and lineage to protect PII, and enables self-service SQL via Compose—resulting in faster time-to-market, improved data literacy, and much quicker identification and resolution of data-quality issues (minutes rather than hours or days).

Airlines Reporting Corporation

Leonard Kwok

Senior Data Analyst