Case Study: Square achieves faster, more productive analysis and unified data access with Alation

Square - Customer Case Study

Square, a financial-services company with 500+ analysts managing 10,000+ tables across Hive, MySQL, and Vertica, faced fragmentation from multiple databases and interfaces. Analysts lost time to context switching, struggled to share best practices and queries, and needed better, up-to-date documentation and discovery to reduce ad hoc questions and speed analysis.

Alation delivered a unified interface and query tool (with SmartSuggest), cross-source search, real-time results, and a documentation engine that serves as a data dictionary and business glossary. Automated profiling, metadata extraction, and query-log usage stats centralized knowledge, improved discovery and collaboration, and measurably boosted analyst productivity and the analyst experience.

Square

Ryan Mason

Data Scientist