Case Study: eBay cuts data governance timelines to months and doubles analyst query speed with Alation

eBay - Customer Case Study

eBay manages one of the world’s largest data environments—over a million tables across Teradata, Hadoop, SQL Server, Oracle—and a user base of 1,000+ analysts plus thousands of data consumers. The company faced challenges documenting and governing dispersed data, speeding analyst onboarding and productivity, and making existing analyses and answers easy to find and reuse.

By deploying Alation to centralize access and automatically organize metadata, eBay accelerated its governance and documentation timeline from years to months, reduced analyst onboarding by up to six months, enabled ad hoc queries to be written twice as fast, and let users find answers in minutes rather than hours or days—boosting collaboration and overall data-driven decision making.

eBay

Valerie Steinbrugge

Head of Data Governance