The Alex Platform
Knowledge You Can Act On.
Alex connects metadata, business meaning and policy across every system in one AI-enriched knowledge graph, giving people, applications and AI agents context they can trust.
Inside the platform
Alex works in five layers, each building on the one before: connecting your sources, adding business meaning, mapping relationships, driving action and delivering context wherever it’s needed.
Discover what you have. Connect what matters.
Critical data lives far beyond one cloud, in SAP, enterprise applications, warehouses, BI and legacy systems. Alex reaches it all through prebuilt connectors, specialised scanners and the open OpenMetaHub framework, enriching metadata automatically without moving or replicating business data. Automated scanning keeps it current as systems change.
The outcome
Full visibility, modern and legacy
New sources onboarded faster
Metadata that stays complete and current
Give your data meaning. Speak one business language.
Knowing data exists is only the start. Alex links every technical asset to business definitions, metrics, owners, classifications, policies and quality, so people know what it means and whether to trust it. An ontology-driven model fits your business, not a vendor template, and AI-assisted enrichment does the heavy lifting.
The outcome
One definition for every metric, across teams
Clear ownership for every asset
The right data, found first time
A trusted foundation for analytics and AI
Connect the dots. See the bigger picture.
Enterprise knowledge lives in relationships between data, applications, processes, rules and people. Context Intelligence and the Knowledge Graph bring them together, while automated lineage traces information across every system and transformation. Trace a reporting discrepancy to its source, or see who a change affects before it ships.
The outcome
End-to-end visibility, source to report
Impact analysis before changes ship
Faster root-cause investigation
Richer, connected context for AI
From knowing what’s wrong to knowing what’s next.
Understanding your data only pays off when you act on it. Alex combines quality, policies, ownership and dependencies with analytics, workflows and AI to spot issues, weigh their impact and coordinate the fix in one connected environment. Automation takes the repetitive work. Owners and stewards keep the approvals and accountability.
The outcome
Governance without the manual overhead
Issues resolved faster
Clear accountability at every step
Coordinated action across teams
Put trusted intelligence to work, wherever it’s needed.
Context creates value when it reaches the people, applications and AI agents doing the work. Alex delivers governed knowledge through discovery, reusable data products, analytics and APIs, and to AI agents through the Alex MCP Server. The same foundation powers Alex Business Solutions.
The outcome
Data products built once, reused everywhere
Consistent decisions on trusted data
AI agents grounded in governed context
Faster time to business outcomes
One connected experience
Find information, understand what matters and finish the job, without jumping between disconnected tools.
Workspace
A unified entry point for data owners, stewards, analysts and governance leaders. Manage your assets, review tasks, investigate dependencies and approve changes in one consistent environment.
Ask Alex with AI Guru
No need to know where data lives or who to ask. Explore metadata and business knowledge in natural language, with answers drawn from governed context and the knowledge graph. Choose the AI model that fits your security requirements.
A platform built for action
Alex Business Solutions apply the platform’s connected context to specific business problems, each with a defined outcome.
Nothing is moved, replicated or replaced. They keep doing what they do best.
Five layers turn scattered metadata into one system of intelligence.
Focused, repeatable applications for regulatory reporting, operational resilience, AI readiness and analytics optimisation.
Platform FAQ
It collects metadata (what data exists, where it lives, what it means and how it moves) from across your systems into one place you can search, govern and act on. Alex does this automatically, then uses that metadata to enforce policy, trace lineage and supply context to AI.
Active metadata is metadata that stays current automatically and triggers action, rather than sitting in an inventory people read. Alex works this way: it classifies new data, detects change, scores quality and starts governed workflows as things happen.
A catalogue lists what exists. Alex keeps that inventory current automatically and uses it to trigger work. If you already have a catalogue, Alex can read from it and add meaning, ownership, policy and operational signals on top.
No. Those tools govern their own platform well. Alex works across them, so lineage, classification and policy cover the whole estate, and each platform’s own controls can still act on the results.
Alex parses SQL, ETL and BI logic and captures runtime events to build column- and table-level lineage across sources, pipelines, models and reports. It refreshes as things change, so the lineage you show an auditor is current, not a diagram drawn months ago.
Yes. SAP and ERP sources connect like any other system, and SAP-sourced objects appear in the same end-to-end lineage as your cloud, BI and legacy systems.
It’s a model of your business concepts built around your own terms, domains, critical data elements and policies, not a fixed vendor schema. When the business changes, the ontology changes with it, and lineage, quality and policy stay linked to the concepts your teams use.
Alex gives every dataset a Trust and Readiness score based on completeness, accuracy and policy compliance, and links it to certified definitions and lineage. AI teams get a straight answer about which data is safe to use, and why.
Through the Alex MCP server, an assistant or agent queries the same governed context your people use: metadata, lineage and certified definitions. APIs and OpenMetaHub carry context and actions back to the platforms you already run.
No. Alex works with metadata, so your data stays where it is. It works across the boundaries between platforms, including ERP, BI and legacy systems.
The platform is the foundation. Each Business Solution applies it to one business problem, such as understanding the impact of a change or verifying regulatory compliance. Every Solution draws on the same five layers, so you can start with one and add more.
One platform subscription with unlimited users, unlimited native connectors and no module-based pricing. Implementation is scoped in a statement of work.
Yes. Alex supports on-premises, private-cloud and hybrid deployments, with integration and AI model options that can be aligned with enterprise architecture and security requirements.
Start with your data landscape, a critical dependency or a business challenge. See how Alex connects the context and turns it into action.
Layers of the Alex Platform