Case Study: Cbus Superannuation Fund achieves faster insights and stronger data governance with Alation

How Cbus is leveraging Alation to drive a strong data-centric culture

Cbus, a Melbourne-based superannuation fund managing about AUD $73 billion for roughly 875,000 members, needed to strengthen data governance to support growth and meet regulatory demands. The organisation faced siloed data sources, limited use of metadata, low data literacy and no self‑service analytics, and wanted to reduce data-related risks and costs while extracting more value from its data assets.

Cbus selected Alation’s data catalog (chosen for its Gartner leadership, intuitive UI and competitive pricing) and used Alation’s Right Start program to roll out to analysts and integrate metadata from Azure, AWS, Tableau and Power BI. The catalog centralized governed metadata, linked confidentiality classifications to policies, and enabled bi-directional integrations—helping analysts cut search time by up to 80%, improve collaboration and data literacy, protect sensitive data, accelerate time to insight, and lift governance maturity to support compliance and strategic objectives.

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John Gilbert

Data Governance Manager