Another year-end listicle enters the crowded data-catalog category, where Collibra, Alation, and a wave of AI-governance entrants have spent two years jockeying for analyst mindshare. These roundups matter less for the rankings than for who buys placement and how vendors spin them into sales collateral—worth watching given how much catalog spend is now tied to AI-training-data lineage and compliance budgets.
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