Alation × Ciena
Alation x Ciena: Years of catalog curation delivered in two weeks
6,000 assets curated in two weeks vs. a multi-year manual rollout plan
Glacial manual progress to automated scale
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Why it works
The story earns its Efficiency tag cleanly: the headline number is time collapsing from years to weeks, not a growth metric going up. The mechanism is specific enough to replicate, a Microsoft Copilot prep step feeding a six-to-eight-page protocol into Curation Automation, so readers understand the actual sequence. User growth from 300-400 to 1,100-plus adds a Breakthrough angle, but the framing leads with time saved, so Efficiency holds as primary.
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The 'precondition chain' structure: each objective is explicitly framed as unblocking the next, which gives the implementation section a logical spine and makes the sequence feel inevitable rather than arbitrary.
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