Atlan

““Obviously, we have users consuming all of this. We have all of our assets in Atlan; everything integrated into Atlan. Basically, Atlan is the place where all data sharing happens,” Kasia explained.”

““We’ve onboarded into Atlan all of our data sets from both our legacy platform and our new data platform” Kasia explained. “And for migration purposes, we’re using Atlan to identify these sources of the products that are to be migrated to the new data platform, as well as to figure out the downstream objects affected by decommissioning in the legacy platform.””

““We figured out that we needed a data catalog to support us with the cultural piece of Data Mesh. We went through several proofs of concept, and through those, we chose Atlan as our data catalog .””

“We used Insights to support our client service team, and Atlan made it so much easier and saved a bunch of time for me and my team. It was an easy and effective workaround, until our CRM was ready to handle the new product. So it really gave us peace of mind. It was something that took my team only a couple of hours to put together. We could not have done that without Atlan.”

“That was a really powerful piece of what Atlan offered for us, and I’ve been very happy with how that’s progressed,”

“Atlan became a necessity. That’s how we control access in an easily repeatable fashion,” Ian explained. “And then the fact that we have data lineage on top of it, and the ability to organize all of our information and classifications, and add glossary terms linked to that data? That’s all icing on the cake for us.”

“This is the first and only cataloging tool I’ve used. We got some demos from other companies, but the Atlan team innovates really quickly, and was responsive for any issues or requests we had early on; issues that have mostly gone away at this point, a year later. My advice would be to look for something that’s not only usable by your technical teams, but simple to understand and navigate for all the people who are going to be your consumers. If it’s not, they’re not going to touch it.”

“You have to have one place where everything is put together and documented. Atlan provides all the tools I need to do good governance on the assets I have,” their leader shared. “We want to enable quality, data-driven decisions, and make the right decisions with the right insights. We can’t do that without proper governance.”

“For people that want to do a little bit of analysis on their own, my goal is to send them to Atlan,” he explained. “There, they’ll have all the context they need and some saved queries they can get started with. They can make better sense of it.”

“A lot of times, people just want reports, but there are also a lot of brilliant technical people that want to dive more deeply into data, and we’re able to provide something to all of them,” their leader shared. “Having a documentation tool means we’re aligning better, and aligning better helps us make faster decisions.”

“What stood out to me about Atlan is that our stakeholders could log in and query information directly. Instead of my team providing direct access to all these data stores in Snowflake, I could provide access to Atlan, and they could find what they needed. It’s a one-stop-shop model for governance and discovery, and that’s what I was looking for. I didn’t want more than one tool.”

“That level of support was excellent, and I could tell, “Oh. That one’s a new company. You guys are interested in building strong relationships,” whereas folks with some of the older platforms are just hanging out, trying to figure out how to charge more money.”

“For me, Atlan stands out for its user experience.”

“With the evolution of the data platform, we’ve matured and we’re ready for the future. Are we 100% there? You never are, but we want Atlan to continue to evolve in the right direction to support us in that journey so that day, we can be world-class.”

“What’s important is this allows people to focus on the right things. Developers are focusing on delivering value with data, rather than having to troubleshoot and spend time digging through code finding where pipelines broke,” Nestor shared. “When data is properly documented and data products are easy to find, our business partners can answer questions without jumping through hoops trying to find the right owner, then waiting for busy people to respond. In terms of time savings, this is significant.”

“We’ve gotten a lot better at testing and managing issues. Atlan has been a big help, and we’re able to catch all these potential issues before they even occur,” Nestor explained.”

“When I first showed Atlan to this person, his first reaction was ‘When can I get it? I need this ASAP.’ Having lineage and column-level documentation meant the need for these spreadsheets just went away. He doesn’t need to update them, and he definitely doesn’t rely on them, so it’s a huge time-saver.”

“Atlan has been a great help. We no longer have to rely on these documents, and we’re able to do impact assessments at the click of a button,” Nestor shared.”

“We have to acknowledge that terms and definitions are not always going to be the same at the global and regional level. What Atlan has provided is a single glossary to maintain definitions, whether global or local, visibility into where discrepancies exist between definitions, and visibility into what the regions are doing just by looking at the data products they have. It’s allowed for sharing of ideas and projects.”

“I think of Atlan as a bridge. Our data catalog is our data marketplace, so if there’s any question you have about data in Snowflake, go to Atlan. It’s the same with dbt, where people get to understand the process of how data goes from source to the data product they’re consuming,” Nestor shared. “Without Atlan, it would be complicated and time-consuming to be answering questions and explaining all of this.”

“Our objective was to improve Aliaxis’ maturity around Data Governance, and we wanted to ensure that whatever tool we picked not only fit nicely with our tech stack, but that users didn’t feel intimidated, or felt that it was a huge organizational shift. Atlan’s user-friendliness seemed so simple, and when we presented it to our users they said, ‘This doesn’t look too complicated.’ And for our team, we knew the capabilities of the tool gave us room to grow and mature as an organization without too many restrictions.”