100 new options. 20 new integrations. 2 huge product launches. A primary of its sort buyer convention. At Atlan, 2023 was the yr of constructing the long run, with information groups which might be envisioning it. And we couldn’t be extra excited to recap the yr, so let’s get began.
The First AI Copilot for Information Groups
Generative AI modified the expertise panorama in 2023 and each information group began excited about the methods during which they might use AI to grow to be extra productive.
Armed with learnings from once we had been a knowledge group, we seized the chance to make the lives of people of information higher with Generative AI. In April 2023, we referred to as for a company-wide AI hackathon, sourcing concepts for the way forward for information catalogs and information governance.
Two months later, in June 2023, we launched Atlan AI. By partnering with Microsoft and utilizing Azure OpenAI Service, Atlan was the primary to convey AI superpowers to information catalogs, main a wave of AI innovation for information governance.
Make your group love documentation with Atlan AI
Within the previous world, everybody uncared for documentation, blocking companies from trusting information and making quicker, higher selections. Atlan AI brings an finish to the ache by auto-generating descriptions for a variety of information property in Atlan. All information producers must do is overview, edit, and publish.
After 6 months of testing with clients below a closed preview, we’ve seen Atlan AI’s description recommendations shine with an acceptance fee of 60%, giving people of information extra time to work on business-critical tasks.
Clarify lineage transformations with Atlan AI
Lineage simplifies transformations by taking complexity away, displaying relationships between information property. However when a knowledge analyst needs to dive deeper into how and why a knowledge asset was remodeled, the method of parsing via advanced SQL queries can take hours. However not anymore.
Atlan AI helps information analysts and engineers perceive advanced lineage transformations by explaining what’s occurring in pure language.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that information catalogs and information governance are altering without end, and for the higher, due to AI.
The Way forward for Information Governance
In 2023, we hosted a primary of its sort neighborhood convention on fashionable information governance — Re:Govern. Practically a thousand people of information got here collectively to listen to visionary information leaders, from corporations like Nasdaq, Fox, Autodesk, Elastic, and HelloFresh, speak about their methods and playbooks for contemporary information governance.
If there was just one key takeaway from Re:Govern, it might be this: the way forward for information governance will look very totally different from its previous.
Amy Raygada (Swiss Market Group) and Mark Kidwell (Autodesk), shared their visionary approaches to constructing a knowledge mesh. Takashi Ueki (Elastic) make clear constructing automating belief via information contracts. And Mihir Modi (FOX) defined his imaginative and prescient for information merchandise and AI in information governance.
Information groups are abandoning the previous world of handbook, siloed, one-size-fits-all approaches for a brand new world the place automation & AI, collaboration, and suppleness are key to success.
That’s why, in 2023, we began innovating in the direction of a future the place information mesh involves life, AI is embedded in our workflows, and handbook, conventional governance is automated. With that, Let’s recap 2023’s information governance updates:
Convey your information mesh to life with Atlan Mesh
Atlan Mesh is the primary ever native information mesh expertise in a knowledge catalog. It’s an expertise that caters to information shoppers and improves their understanding of the information property. Right here’s how:
- Information merchandise as first-class residents: Treating information as a product requires a local resolution, not workarounds. Information merchandise can now be created & curated natively in Atlan, inside a brand-new dwelling for straightforward, context-rich discovery for enterprise customers.
- Devoted areas for federated domains: With Atlan Mesh, every area will get its group’s personal workspace and touchdown web page to accommodate curated information merchandise and documentation for information shoppers.
- Enterprise lineage: Historically, lineage has been a technical device for information producers to know impression and discover root causes. Atlan Mesh introduces enterprise lineage for information shoppers, who need to perceive the provenance, not the technical structure, behind how information merchandise are created to information utilization selections.
- Information contracts: To help the creation of information merchandise and proactively bridge the hole between information producers and shoppers, we launched a brand new imaginative and prescient for information contracts in Atlan.
We’ve already began rolling out Atlan Mesh to the primary few clients, who shall be part of the Atlan Mesh Advisory Council, and we’re excited to construct the way forward for federated, versatile information governance collectively.
Handle compliance in a single dwelling with Tag Administration
As the fashionable information stack continues to evolve, information groups want to make sure the fitting folks have the fitting entry to the fitting information. This entails figuring out delicate information and defending it with the fitting entry controls, whereas serving trusted information to information shoppers.
To unravel this problem, we launched Tag Administration — a brand new means on your information group to handle compliance and safety — and have become one of many first Snowflake information governance companions to allow bi-directional tag sync between Snowflake and Atlan.
Tag Administration allows you to:
- Create tags natively or import tags from instruments like Snowflake into Atlan
- Classify information property with tags at scale utilizing Atlan’s Playbooks
- Sync tag updates in Atlan again to information sources like Snowflake
With Atlan’s Tag Administration for Snowflake, our group can have one central dwelling to handle tags. Bi-directional tag sync will empower our information producers to tag property the place they work and allow our platform group to handle tags and permissions seamlessly.”
Roi Levoso Fernandez, Information Engineering Supervisor, Taxfix
Perceive impression and optimize prices with Reputation & Utilization metrics
As a knowledge chief, you’re at all times trying to get probably the most out of your information, whereas controlling prices. However you want visibility into who’s truly utilizing what information during which instruments.
In 2023, we launched Reputation & Utilization for 4 connectors — Snowflake, Databricks, Energy BI, and Redshift — giving information groups the power to:
- Uncover probably the most or least used property by sorting by reputation
- Perceive reputation in lineage with reputation indicators & pop-ups
- See who’s utilizing information with Prime Customers and Current Customers
- Optimize the information property with Standard, Gradual, and Costly queries
With the launch of Reputation and Utilization for Snowflake, Mistertemp, a frontrunner in recruitment and momentary work primarily based in France, deprecated 50% of unused Snowflake tables and over 60% of their Looker property:
Every little thing downstream modified. We had been capable of see each current connection in Fivetran. We might see what was truly used. We saved these, and for the whole lot else, we might disconnect.”
David Milosevic, Head of Information & Analytics, Mistertemp
The Period of Energetic Metadata
Energetic metadata has at all times been core to Atlan’s platform, and in 2023, we noticed it turning into the middle of information estates throughout industries and companies too.
This yr, we had 20 new information leaders, from companies like Docker, Purple, and Datacamp, be part of the Energetic Metadata Pioneers membership — a visionary group that’s pushing the boundaries of metadata ahead by making energetic metadata a precedence. And to shut out the yr, in November 2023, G2 launched its first Energetic Metadata Grid Report, pushed by critiques from actual customers, with Atlan being the one chief within the class.
With that, let’s recap 2023’s energetic metadata developments:
Don’t go breaking my coronary heart dashboards with Metadata CI/CD
Affect evaluation is a tiring, time consuming, and disheartening course of for information engineers. However with out it, one small change might break hundreds of dashboards. What if impression evaluation may very well be proactive and preventative, as a substitute of reactive and handbook? Say whats up to Metadata CI/CD.
With integrations for GitHub and GitLab, Metadata CI/CD mechanically surfaces impacted property proper within the information producer workflow. This implies information engineers don’t must manually verify impression and enterprise customers can belief their dashboards, which break much less typically.
After its launch, Metadata CI/CD helped a knowledge group on Atlan notice that the request for a column title change might impression greater than 1,000 business-critical dashboards.
Atlan has been an amazing assist. We now not must depend on these paperwork, and we’re capable of do impression assessments on the click on of a button.”
Nestor Jarquin, World Information & Analytics Lead, Aliaxis
Bringing metadata to everybody’s favourite device: spreadsheets
There’s one information device that has stood the check of time: Excel.
In 2023, we launched and upgraded our integrations with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets to allow new use circumstances:
- Speed up documentation by enriching metadata at scale
By importing information property from Atlan into Excel or Sheets, now you can doc descriptions, certificates, house owners, tags, and bulletins on your column property utilizing spreadsheet flexibility and sync the metadata updates to Atlan with a single click on.
- Construct belief and maintain finish customers knowledgeable with impression evaluation
Now you can analyze impression quicker by importing impression evaluation right into a spreadsheet and add bulletins to maintain finish customers knowledgeable.
Convey enterprise and information collectively in Microsoft Groups
To create true company-wide adoption, you must meet your customers the place they work. That’s why Atlan now integrates with Microsoft Groups. Now you can speed up your information and enterprise tasks with higher, cross-functional collaboration round information.
Atlan’s integration with Microsoft Groups allows you to:
- Share information property & ask information questions in a Microsoft Groups channels with out leaving Atlan
- Hyperlink crucial, context-rich Microsoft Groups threads to Atlan property
- Get notifications & alerts in chosen Microsoft Groups channels
Push the boundaries of metadata with Webhooks and new Python and Java SDKs
Making ready your information property and group for mission-critical information tasks, like AI fashions, wants a platform method to metadata. From event-driven metadata use circumstances like alerting to derived metadata use circumstances like Information as a Product scoring, information groups are making the way forward for metadata come to life with this yr’s extensibility enhancements.
In 2023, we launched the Java and Python SDKs, enabling information groups to construct customized energetic metadata use circumstances like:
- Governance reporting: Measure the success your governance initiatives by automating metadata enrichment reviews.
- Customized connections: Join Atlan to your enterprise homegrown programs to allow end-to-end discovery and lineage.
- Derived metadata: Create customized metadata comparable to a “Metadata Completeness Rating” or “Information as a Product Rating” by analyzing metadata enrichment.
- Metadata migration: Routinely migrate all of your current metadata out of your legacy information catalog to Atlan.
Together with Python and Java SDKs, we additionally launched help for Webhooks in 2023 — opening up the world of event-driven metadata use circumstances.
Webhooks can help you monitor occasions taking place in Atlan, obtain notifications to a URL of your alternative, and take motion instantly. For instance, you’ll be able to create a webhook to ship notifications to your e mail deal with or collaboration app, like Slack or Microsoft Groups, when a time period is up to date or an asset is tagged.
The chances are really limitless and we’re excited to see the way forward for energetic metadata, constructed not by Atlan, however by information groups world wide.
A Collaboration to Ship Trusted Information
With each device within the fashionable information stack turning into more and more siloed, the people of information have gotten siloed as effectively.
Information shoppers, who stay in BI instruments, don’t have visibility into the upstream pipeline world of information producers. So when issues go mistaken, they’re typically the final to know. And information producers don’t understand how their code adjustments are breaking downstream dashboards.
This yr, we launched native, out-of-the-box connectors for 18 new instruments, overlaying areas like Information High quality, Information Observability, Information Orchestration, and Enterprise Intelligence, to convey the world of information producers and shoppers nearer collectively. Let’s recap 2023’s key integrations.
All-New Partnerships with Information High quality Instruments
Practically 75% of the time, when issues go mistaken, enterprise stakeholders are the primary to establish information points. It doesn’t must be this manner. Information high quality is a elementary sign into information belief, nevertheless it wants to fulfill enterprise customers the place they work, together with the fitting metadata context.
That’s why, in 2023, we launched two new out-of-the-box integrations with leaders within the Information High quality and Observability market: Monte Carlo and Soda.
Monte Carlo x Atlan
With Monte Carlo and Atlan, companies can acquire an up-to-date understanding of their information well being, construct belief in information, and help revolutionary new methods to method distributed information infrastructure. The native Monte Carlo integration provides you the power to:
- Uncover Monte Carlo incidents and displays in Atlan with Monte Carlo-specific filters.
- Democratize Monte Carlo’s information high quality indicators wherever enterprise customers work with Atlan’s Chrome extension.
- Speed up root trigger and impression evaluation via Monte Carlo incidents being surfaced in Atlan’s column-level lineage.
With Monte Carlo and Atlan, we will catch information incidents early on, and supply everybody with clear visibility into the present standing of information accuracy. This has been crucial for the chief group to have faith we will ship on our promise of dependable, reliable information.“
Michael Weiss, Senior Director of Product Administration (NAM, Information Entry and Analytics), NASDAQ
Soda x Atlan
Atlan and Soda’s native integration supplies information groups with an intuitive and complete platform to seek out, belief, and use the fitting information. The native Soda integration provides you the power to:
- Uncover Soda information high quality metrics and ends in Atlan.
- Inform information customers of information points earlier than they make selections by highlighting Soda’s verify ends in Atlan’s Chrome extension.
- Speed up root trigger and impression evaluation via Soda checks being surfaced in Atlan’s column-level lineage.
BI Connectors for Enterprise Adoption
To drive adoption of your information catalog platform and information governance initiatives, you must meet enterprise customers the place they work: in BI instruments. In 2023, we launched native, out-of-the-box connectors for six new BI instruments to assist information groups drive company-wide adoption:
- Sigma
- Qlik Sense
- Amazon Quicksight
- MicroStrategy
- Thoughtspot
- Sisense
These BI connectors allow companies to:
- Construct a verified, single supply of fact for BI property by enabling discovery and documentation of BI property in Atlan.
- Allow proactive impression evaluation of downstream dashboards and use circumstances by connecting BI property to upstream warehouse, ELT, and supply property with cross-system lineage.
- Construct belief in information by surfacing belief indicators from information high quality, observability, and orchestration instruments.
I’ve had no less than two conversations the place questions on downstream impression would have taken allocation of plenty of assets. Then truly getting the work completed would have taken no less than 4 to 6 weeks, however I managed to take a seat alongside one other architect and resolve that inside half-hour, saying ‘In case you’re altering the column title or including an additional column, that is what it’s going to interrupt or impression.”
Karthik Ramani, World Head of Information Structure, Dr. Martens
Bringing ELT & Orchestration Context to the Enterprise
Operational metadata can convey highly effective context from pipeline processes for each enterprise customers and information groups. In 2023, we invested in constructing native connectors to instruments that might assist reply this query: when a pipeline fails, how do you inform a enterprise person and assist a knowledge engineer discover the foundation trigger quicker? That’s why we constructed our first event-driven integration with Airflow and OpenLineage.
Airflow x OpenLineage x Atlan
In 2023, Airflow, OpenLineage, and Atlan partnered to construct an ecosystem of belief by making real-time pipeline observability a actuality. Right here’s how:
- Get a complete overview of your Airflow pipelines in Atlan by cataloging and documenting Airflow property, comparable to DAGs and duties.
- Observe and monitor your pipeline in a single dwelling with real-time operational metadata like process run particulars and statuses.
Perceive impression of your Airflow pipelines by visualizing how Airflow DAGs and duties connect with your information property with cross-system lineage.
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