100 new options. 20 new integrations. 2 large product launches. A primary of its variety buyer convention. At Atlan, 2023 was the yr of constructing the longer term, with knowledge 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 knowledge workforce began eager about the methods by which they might use AI to turn into extra productive.
Armed with learnings from after we have been an information workforce, 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 knowledge catalogs and knowledge 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 deliver AI superpowers to knowledge catalogs, main a wave of AI innovation for knowledge governance.
Make your workforce love documentation with Atlan AI
Within the outdated world, everybody uncared for documentation, blocking companies from trusting knowledge and making quicker, higher choices. Atlan AI brings an finish to the ache by auto-generating descriptions for a variety of information property in Atlan. All knowledge producers should do is overview, edit, and publish.
After 6 months of testing with clients beneath a closed preview, we’ve seen Atlan AI’s description solutions shine with an acceptance price 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 knowledge property. However when an information analyst desires to dive deeper into how and why an information asset was remodeled, the method of parsing by way of advanced SQL queries can take hours. However not anymore.
Atlan AI helps knowledge analysts and engineers perceive advanced lineage transformations by explaining what’s happening in pure language.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that knowledge catalogs and knowledge governance are altering endlessly, and for the higher, due to AI.
The Way forward for Information Governance
In 2023, we hosted a primary of its variety neighborhood convention on fashionable knowledge governance — Re:Govern. Practically a thousand people of information got here collectively to listen to visionary knowledge leaders, from firms like Nasdaq, Fox, Autodesk, Elastic, and HelloFresh, speak about their methods and playbooks for contemporary knowledge governance.
If there was just one key takeaway from Re:Govern, it could be this: the way forward for knowledge governance will look very totally different from its previous.
Amy Raygada (Swiss Market Group) and Mark Kidwell (Autodesk), shared their visionary approaches to constructing an information mesh. Takashi Ueki (Elastic) make clear constructing automating belief by way of knowledge contracts. And Mihir Modi (FOX) defined his imaginative and prescient for knowledge merchandise and AI in knowledge governance.
Information groups are abandoning the outdated world of guide, siloed, one-size-fits-all approaches for a brand new world the place automation & AI, collaboration, and adaptability are key to success.
That’s why, in 2023, we began innovating in direction of a future the place knowledge mesh involves life, AI is embedded in our workflows, and guide, conventional governance is automated. With that, Let’s recap 2023’s knowledge governance updates:
Carry your knowledge mesh to life with Atlan Mesh
Atlan Mesh is the primary ever native knowledge mesh expertise in an information catalog. It’s an expertise that caters to knowledge customers and improves their understanding of the information property. Right here’s how:
- Information merchandise as first-class residents: Treating knowledge as a product requires a local answer, not workarounds. Information merchandise can now be created & curated natively in Atlan, inside a brand-new residence for straightforward, context-rich discovery for enterprise customers.
- Devoted areas for federated domains: With Atlan Mesh, every area will get its workforce’s personal workspace and touchdown web page to deal with curated knowledge merchandise and documentation for knowledge customers.
- Enterprise lineage: Historically, lineage has been a technical instrument for knowledge producers to know impression and discover root causes. Atlan Mesh introduces enterprise lineage for knowledge customers, who need to perceive the provenance, not the technical structure, behind how knowledge merchandise are created to information utilization choices.
- Information contracts: To assist the creation of information merchandise and proactively bridge the hole between knowledge producers and customers, we launched a brand new imaginative and prescient for knowledge contracts in Atlan.
We’ve already began rolling out Atlan Mesh to the primary few clients, who will probably be part of the Atlan Mesh Advisory Council, and we’re excited to construct the way forward for federated, versatile knowledge governance collectively.
Handle compliance in a single residence with Tag Administration
As the trendy knowledge stack continues to evolve, knowledge groups want to make sure the proper individuals have the proper entry to the proper knowledge. This includes figuring out delicate knowledge and defending it with the proper entry controls, whereas serving trusted knowledge to knowledge customers.
To unravel this problem, we launched Tag Administration — a brand new method in your knowledge workforce to handle compliance and safety — and have become one of many first Snowflake knowledge 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 knowledge property with tags at scale utilizing Atlan’s Playbooks
- Sync tag updates in Atlan again to knowledge sources like Snowflake
With Atlan’s Tag Administration for Snowflake, our workforce can have one central residence to handle tags. Bi-directional tag sync will empower our knowledge producers to tag property the place they work and allow our platform workforce to handle tags and permissions seamlessly.”
Roi Levoso Fernandez, Information Engineering Supervisor, Taxfix
Perceive impression and optimize prices with Recognition & Utilization metrics
As an information chief, you’re at all times seeking to get probably the most out of your knowledge, whereas controlling prices. However you want visibility into who’s truly utilizing what knowledge by which instruments.
In 2023, we launched Recognition & Utilization for 4 connectors — Snowflake, Databricks, Energy BI, and Redshift — giving knowledge groups the flexibility to:
- Uncover probably the most or least used property by sorting by recognition
- Perceive recognition in lineage with recognition indicators & pop-ups
- See who’s utilizing knowledge with Prime Customers and Latest Customers
- Optimize the information property with Widespread, Gradual, and Costly queries
With the launch of Recognition and Utilization for Snowflake, Mistertemp, a pacesetter in recruitment and momentary work based mostly in France, deprecated 50% of unused Snowflake tables and over 60% of their Looker property:
Every thing downstream modified. We have been capable of see each present connection in Fivetran. We may see what was truly used. We stored these, and for every little thing 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 changing into the middle of information estates throughout industries and companies too.
This yr, we had 20 new knowledge 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
Impression evaluation is a tiring, time consuming, and disheartening course of for knowledge engineers. However with out it, one small change may break 1000’s of dashboards. What if impression evaluation might be proactive and preventative, as an alternative of reactive and guide? Say good day to Metadata CI/CD.
With integrations for GitHub and GitLab, Metadata CI/CD routinely surfaces impacted property proper within the knowledge producer workflow. This implies knowledge engineers don’t should manually test impression and enterprise customers can belief their dashboards, which break much less typically.
After its launch, Metadata CI/CD helped an information workforce on Atlan notice that the request for a column title change may impression greater than 1,000 business-critical dashboards.
Atlan has been an awesome assist. We not should depend on these paperwork, and we’re capable of do impression assessments on the click on of a button.”
Nestor Jarquin, International Information & Analytics Lead, Aliaxis
Bringing metadata to everybody’s favourite instrument: spreadsheets
There’s one knowledge instrument 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 knowledge property from Atlan into Excel or Sheets, now you can doc descriptions, certificates, homeowners, tags, and bulletins in your column property utilizing spreadsheet flexibility and sync the metadata updates to Atlan with a single click on.
- Construct belief and preserve 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.
Carry enterprise and knowledge collectively in Microsoft Groups
To create true company-wide adoption, it is advisable meet your customers the place they work. That’s why Atlan now integrates with Microsoft Groups. Now you can speed up your knowledge and enterprise tasks with higher, cross-functional collaboration round knowledge.
Atlan’s integration with Microsoft Groups allows you to:
- Share knowledge property & ask knowledge questions in a Microsoft Groups channels with out leaving Atlan
- Hyperlink essential, 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
Getting ready your knowledge property and workforce for mission-critical knowledge 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, knowledge 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 knowledge groups to construct customized energetic metadata use circumstances like:
- Governance reporting: Measure the success your governance initiatives by automating metadata enrichment experiences.
- Customized connections: Join Atlan to your enterprise homegrown techniques to allow end-to-end discovery and lineage.
- Derived metadata: Create customized metadata akin to a “Metadata Completeness Rating” or “Information as a Product Rating” by analyzing metadata enrichment.
- Metadata migration: Robotically migrate all of your present metadata out of your legacy knowledge catalog to Atlan.
Together with Python and Java SDKs, we additionally launched assist for Webhooks in 2023 — opening up the world of event-driven metadata use circumstances.
Webhooks let you monitor occasions occurring in Atlan, obtain notifications to a URL of your selection, and take motion instantly. For instance, you may create a webhook to ship notifications to your electronic mail tackle or collaboration app, like Slack or Microsoft Groups, when a time period is up to date or an asset is tagged.
The chances are actually countless and we’re excited to see the way forward for energetic metadata, constructed not by Atlan, however by knowledge groups world wide.
A Collaboration to Ship Trusted Information
With each instrument within the fashionable knowledge stack changing into more and more siloed, the people of information have gotten siloed as effectively.
Information customers, who stay in BI instruments, don’t have visibility into the upstream pipeline world of information producers. So when issues go unsuitable, they’re typically the final to know. And knowledge producers don’t understand how their code modifications are breaking downstream dashboards.
This yr, we launched native, out-of-the-box connectors for 18 new instruments, protecting areas like Information High quality, Information Observability, Information Orchestration, and Enterprise Intelligence, to deliver the world of information producers and customers 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 unsuitable, enterprise stakeholders are the primary to establish knowledge points. It doesn’t should be this manner. Information high quality is a elementary sign into knowledge belief, but it surely wants to fulfill enterprise customers the place they work, together with the proper 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 achieve an up-to-date understanding of their knowledge well being, construct belief in knowledge, and assist modern new methods to method distributed knowledge infrastructure. The native Monte Carlo integration offers you the flexibility to:
- Uncover Monte Carlo incidents and displays in Atlan with Monte Carlo-specific filters.
- Democratize Monte Carlo’s knowledge high quality alerts wherever enterprise customers work with Atlan’s Chrome extension.
- Speed up root trigger and impression evaluation by way of Monte Carlo incidents being surfaced in Atlan’s column-level lineage.
With Monte Carlo and Atlan, we will catch knowledge incidents early on, and supply everybody with clear visibility into the present standing of information accuracy. This has been essential for the manager workforce to believe we will ship on our promise of dependable, reliable knowledge.“
Michael Weiss, Senior Director of Product Administration (NAM, Information Entry and Analytics), NASDAQ
Soda x Atlan
Atlan and Soda’s native integration supplies knowledge groups with an intuitive and complete platform to seek out, belief, and use the proper knowledge. The native Soda integration offers you the flexibility to:
- Uncover Soda knowledge high quality metrics and ends in Atlan.
- Inform knowledge customers of information points earlier than they make choices by highlighting Soda’s test ends in Atlan’s Chrome extension.
- Speed up root trigger and impression evaluation by way of Soda checks being surfaced in Atlan’s column-level lineage.
BI Connectors for Enterprise Adoption
To drive adoption of your knowledge catalog platform and knowledge governance initiatives, it is advisable 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 knowledge 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 knowledge by surfacing belief alerts from knowledge high quality, observability, and orchestration instruments.
I’ve had at the least two conversations the place questions on downstream impression would have taken allocation of quite a lot of assets. Then truly getting the work carried out would have taken at the least 4 to 6 weeks, however I managed to sit down alongside one other architect and clear up that inside half-hour, saying ‘In the event you’re altering the column title or including an additional column, that is what it’s going to interrupt or impression.”
Karthik Ramani, International Head of Information Structure, Dr. Martens
Bringing ELT & Orchestration Context to the Enterprise
Operational metadata can deliver highly effective context from pipeline processes for each enterprise customers and knowledge 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 an information 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, akin to DAGs and duties.
- Observe and monitor your pipeline in a single residence with real-time operational metadata like activity run particulars and statuses.
Perceive impression of your Airflow pipelines by visualizing how Airflow DAGs and duties connect with your knowledge property with cross-system lineage.
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