CASE STUDIES
Data Quality and Data Governance at VillageCare
Key Results
250%+
Catalog usage increase in 12 months
4.4K
Average monthly Compose queries
About VillageCare
VillageCare is a community-based, not-for-profit organization serving persons living with HIV/AID, senior citizens and individuals in need of continuing care and rehabilitation. They are headquartered in New York, New York.
Tech Stack
Data Warehouse:Â Â 
Data Catalog:Â Â 
Size
1,000+ Employees
Industry
Healthcare Non-profit
The Challenge
Providing high-quality data for healthcare delivery
Robert Warburton leads VillageCare’s data strategy, focusing on providing accurate data essential for operational decisions and reporting across the organization. To address data redundancy and improve reporting, VillageCare migrated key datasets to Amazon S3 and Redshift in 2022, increasing the need for high-quality data as the organization grew and required more complex Tableau reports. The data team at VillageCare sought to:
- Improve analyst productivity by putting trusted data at users’ fingertips
- Strengthen the data culture within the organization
- Ensure only trustworthy data is used for reporting
The Solution
Finding trustworthy data with Alation and Anomalo
VillageCare previously used OwlDQ to perform data quality checks. When the tool was acquired by Collibra, VillageCare switched to Anomalo to ensure data validity, accuracy, and timeliness.
Thanks to Anomalo’s seamless integration with Alation’s data catalog, says Diana Melnikov, Data Governance Manager, “We don’t have to create special licenses because our stewards can just check alerts in Alation against any table, view, or object.”
The Results
Trusted data enhances healthcare delivery decision-making
VillageCare’s adoption of Anomalo marks a turning point in its data governance strategy. After moving from Collibra’s OwlDQ, the team saw immediate results through seamless integration with Alation. Thanks to the integration of Alation and Anomalo, stewards not only receive data quality alerts but can see them right in the Alation interface. This eliminates the need for multiple tools or complex workflows, further improving productivity and building trust in data.
“With OwlDQ, the rules were created in and accessed from Tableau dashboards linked to OwlDQ,” says Melnikov. “With Anomalo alerts in Alation, users don’t have to access any other tool. So it’s much more elegant and more efficient.”
Today, Anomalo is helping VillageCare make better data-driven decisions, ensuring data is used to enhance the delivery of timely, reliable, and impactful services and support to VillageCareMAX’s more than 36,000 members.
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“It’s very helpful that Alation is linked to Anomalo. We don’t have the create special licenses because our stewards can just check alerts in Alation against any table, view, or object”
Diana Melnikov
Data Governance Manager
