100 new options. 20 new integrations. 2 large product launches. A primary of its variety buyer convention. At Atlan, 2023 was the 12 months of constructing the long run, with information groups which might be envisioning it. And we couldn’t be extra excited to recap the 12 months, so let’s get began.
The First AI Copilot for Information Groups
Generative AI modified the know-how panorama in 2023 and each information staff began fascinated with the methods by which they might use AI to turn out to be extra productive.
Armed with learnings from once we have been an information staff, we seized the chance to make the lives of people of information higher with Generative AI. In April 2023, we known 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 deliver AI superpowers to information catalogs, main a wave of AI innovation for information governance.
Make your staff love documentation with Atlan AI
Within the outdated world, everybody uncared for documentation, blocking companies from trusting information and making quicker, higher choices. Atlan AI brings an finish to the ache by auto-generating descriptions for a variety of information belongings in Atlan. All information producers should do is evaluation, edit, and publish.
After 6 months of testing with prospects beneath a closed preview, we’ve seen Atlan AI’s description strategies 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 belongings. However when an information analyst desires to dive deeper into how and why an information asset was reworked, the method of parsing by means of 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 ceaselessly, 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 information governance — Re:Govern. Almost a thousand people of information got here collectively to listen to visionary information leaders, from firms like Nasdaq, Fox, Autodesk, Elastic, and HelloFresh, discuss their methods and playbooks for contemporary information governance.
If there was just one key takeaway from Re:Govern, it will be this: the way forward for information governance will look very completely 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 means of information contracts. And Mihir Modi (FOX) defined his imaginative and prescient for information merchandise and AI in information governance.
Information groups are forsaking the outdated world of guide, 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 guide, conventional governance is automated. With that, Let’s recap 2023’s information governance updates:
Deliver your information mesh to life with Atlan Mesh
Atlan Mesh is the primary ever native information mesh expertise in an information 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 house for straightforward, context-rich discovery for enterprise customers.
- Devoted areas for federated domains: With Atlan Mesh, every area will get its staff’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 software for information producers to know impression and discover root causes. Atlan Mesh introduces enterprise lineage for information shoppers, who wish to perceive the provenance, not the technical structure, behind how information merchandise are created to information utilization choices.
- Information contracts: To assist 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 prospects, 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 house with Tag Administration
As the fashionable information stack continues to evolve, information groups want to make sure the precise folks have the precise entry to the precise information. This entails figuring out delicate information and defending it with the precise entry controls, whereas serving trusted information to information shoppers.
To resolve this problem, we launched Tag Administration — a brand new method on your information staff 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 lets you:
- Create tags natively or import tags from instruments like Snowflake into Atlan
- Classify information belongings 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 staff could have one central house to handle tags. Bi-directional tag sync will empower our information producers to tag belongings the place they work and allow our platform staff to handle tags and permissions seamlessly.”
Roi Levoso Fernandez, Information Engineering Supervisor, Taxfix
Perceive impression and optimize prices with Reputation & Utilization metrics
As an information chief, you’re all the time seeking to get essentially the most out of your information, whereas controlling prices. However you want visibility into who’s truly utilizing what information by which instruments.
In 2023, we launched Reputation & Utilization for 4 connectors — Snowflake, Databricks, Energy BI, and Redshift — giving information groups the flexibility to:
- Uncover essentially the most or least used belongings by sorting by recognition
- Perceive recognition in lineage with recognition indicators & pop-ups
- See who’s utilizing information with Prime Customers and Latest Customers
- Optimize the information property with Widespread, Gradual, and Costly queries
With the launch of Reputation and Utilization for Snowflake, Mistertemp, a pacesetter in recruitment and short-term work primarily based in France, deprecated 50% of unused Snowflake tables and over 60% of their Looker belongings:
All the things downstream modified. We have been in a position to see each current connection in Fivetran. We might see what was truly used. We stored these, and for every part else, we’d disconnect.”
David Milosevic, Head of Information & Analytics, Mistertemp
The Period of Lively Metadata
Lively metadata has all the time 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 12 months, we had 20 new information leaders, from companies like Docker, Purple, and Datacamp, be a part of the Lively Metadata Pioneers membership — a visionary group that’s pushing the boundaries of metadata ahead by making lively metadata a precedence. And to shut out the 12 months, in November 2023, G2 launched its first Lively Metadata Grid Report, pushed by evaluations from actual customers, with Atlan being the one chief within the class.
With that, let’s recap 2023’s lively 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 an alternative of reactive and guide? Say howdy to Metadata CI/CD.
With integrations for GitHub and GitLab, Metadata CI/CD mechanically surfaces impacted belongings proper within the information producer workflow. This implies information engineers don’t should manually verify impression and enterprise customers can belief their dashboards, which break much less usually.
After its launch, Metadata CI/CD helped an information staff on Atlan notice that the request for a column title change might impression greater than 1,000 business-critical dashboards.
Atlan has been an incredible assist. We now not should depend on these paperwork, and we’re in a position to do impression assessments on the click on of a button.”
Nestor Jarquin, World Information & Analytics Lead, Aliaxis
Bringing metadata to everybody’s favourite software: spreadsheets
There’s one information software that has stood the take a look at of time: Excel.
In 2023, we launched and upgraded our integrations with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets to allow new use instances:
- Speed up documentation by enriching metadata at scale
By importing information belongings from Atlan into Excel or Sheets, now you can doc descriptions, certificates, house owners, tags, and bulletins on your column belongings 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.
Deliver enterprise and information collectively in Microsoft Groups
To create true company-wide adoption, it’s good to 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 lets you:
- Share information belongings & ask information questions in a Microsoft Groups channels with out leaving Atlan
- Hyperlink vital, context-rich Microsoft Groups threads to Atlan belongings
- 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 staff for mission-critical information tasks, like AI fashions, wants a platform method to metadata. From event-driven metadata use instances like alerting to derived metadata use instances like Information as a Product scoring, information groups are making the way forward for metadata come to life with this 12 months’s extensibility enhancements.
In 2023, we launched the Java and Python SDKs, enabling information groups to construct customized lively metadata use instances like:
- Governance reporting: Measure the success your governance initiatives by automating metadata enrichment experiences.
- Customized connections: Join Atlan to your enterprise homegrown methods 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: Mechanically migrate all of your current metadata out of your legacy information 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 instances.
Webhooks assist you to monitor occasions occurring in Atlan, obtain notifications to a URL of your selection, and take motion instantly. For instance, you possibly can 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 probabilities are really limitless and we’re excited to see the way forward for lively metadata, constructed not by Atlan, however by information groups world wide.
A Collaboration to Ship Trusted Information
With each software within the fashionable information stack changing into more and more siloed, the people of information have gotten siloed as effectively.
Information shoppers, who reside in BI instruments, don’t have visibility into the upstream pipeline world of information producers. So when issues go fallacious, they’re usually the final to know. And information producers don’t know the way their code adjustments are breaking downstream dashboards.
This 12 months, we launched native, out-of-the-box connectors for 18 new instruments, masking areas like Information High quality, Information Observability, Information Orchestration, and Enterprise Intelligence, to deliver the world of information producers and shoppers nearer collectively. Let’s recap 2023’s key integrations.
All-New Partnerships with Information High quality Instruments
Almost 75% of the time, when issues go fallacious, enterprise stakeholders are the primary to establish information points. It doesn’t should be this manner. Information high quality is a basic sign into information belief, however it wants to satisfy enterprise customers the place they work, together with the precise 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 information well being, construct belief in information, and assist progressive new methods to method distributed information infrastructure. The native Monte Carlo integration provides you the flexibility to:
- Uncover Monte Carlo incidents and screens 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 by means of 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 vital for the chief staff to trust 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 gives information groups with an intuitive and complete platform to seek out, belief, and use the precise information. The native Soda integration provides you the flexibility to:
- Uncover Soda information high quality metrics and ends in Atlan.
- Inform information customers of information points earlier than they make choices by highlighting Soda’s verify ends in Atlan’s Chrome extension.
- Speed up root trigger and impression evaluation by means of 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, it’s good to 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 reality for BI belongings by enabling discovery and documentation of BI belongings in Atlan.
- Allow proactive impression evaluation of downstream dashboards and use instances by connecting BI belongings to upstream warehouse, ELT, and supply belongings with cross-system lineage.
- Construct belief in information by surfacing belief indicators from information high quality, observability, and orchestration instruments.
I’ve had at the very least two conversations the place questions on downstream impression would have taken allocation of a number of sources. Then truly getting the work achieved would have taken at the very least 4 to 6 weeks, however I managed to take a seat alongside one other architect and resolve that inside half-hour, saying ‘When 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 deliver 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 consumer 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 belongings, comparable to DAGs and duties.
- Monitor and monitor your pipeline in a single house with real-time operational metadata like job run particulars and statuses.
Perceive impression of your Airflow pipelines by visualizing how Airflow DAGs and duties connect with your information belongings with cross-system lineage.
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