2024 at Atlan: A Love Letter to the People of Knowledge – Atlan

This Valentine’s Season, we’re reflecting on all our goals that got here to life in 2024 and wish to take a second to rejoice the individuals who make these goals actual—the people of knowledge.

On the coronary heart of Atlan’s story is a wall—our dream wall. Since our earliest days, it’s been a practice the place our workforce comes collectively annually to jot down down our boldest ambitions. These goals will not be simply in regards to the milestones we hope to succeed in—they’re guiding lights for the way we assist knowledge groups do their lives’ greatest work.

Placing up our first dream wall in 2019

Our Goals on the Wall: A Imaginative and prescient for Knowledge Groups All over the place

From changing into “the icon on the desktop for knowledge groups in every single place” to “serving to the groups fixing the world’s greatest issues, like curing most cancers,” these goals have formed our journey. 2024 marked one other extraordinary chapter on this journey—a yr the place many extra of those goals took flight. Along with our clients, companions, and the Atlan workforce, we’ve seen the ability of those goals rework into one thing actual and significant.

Re:Govern 2024: Creating the Way forward for AI Governance with the People of Knowledge

Constructing on the success of our inaugural buyer occasion, Re:Govern 2024 grew to become the trade’s first of its variety digital convention devoted to the brand new period of knowledge & AI governance. With visionary keynotes from Zhamak Dehghani on distributed knowledge architectures and Eric Falthzik on scaling enterprise AI, Re:Govern emerged as a cornerstone for shaping the way forward for governance.

Furthermore, knowledge leaders from Patagonia, Dropbox, and Common Motors joined us in sharing their transformative journeys, demonstrating how they’re reimagining governance within the AI period. The convention additionally marked the launch of Lively Governance—our groundbreaking method that transforms governance right into a collaborative ecosystem, constructed to adapt to at this time’s quickly altering and numerous knowledge panorama.

Buyer Journeys Shaping 2024

The yr introduced unforgettable moments at world occasions. At Databricks Knowledge+AI Summit keynote, Brian Ames shared how Atlan remodeled governance inside Common Motors as they pursue objectives like zero emissions. We couldn’t assist however consider the dream on our wall—the one about Atlan powering groups engaged on local weather change.

At Snowflake Summit, we launched our new imaginative and prescient for governance alongside leaders from HubSpot and Grainger, bringing one other dream to life: “To construct the way forward for knowledge governance.”

We additionally created an expertise to recollect with our Atlan-branded airplane hovering over 15,000 attendees, an NBA-style locker room expertise, and an modern AI readiness mini-golf course. 

All year long, knowledge leaders shared their transformative journeys:

• On the Gartner Knowledge & Analytics Summit, Martina Ivaničová from Kiwi.com demonstrated how they’re democratizing knowledge for 100 million journey searches each day with Atlan.
• At dbt Coalesce, Cortney Worthy from Dropbox showcased how Atlan helped them scale to control knowledge from 700M customers and 550B items of content material.

By every knowledge workforce’s transformative journey, we confirmed the info neighborhood that Atlan isn’t simply constructing the way forward for knowledge and AI governance—we’re creating it along with the people of knowledge.

Innovation Constructed with Empathy

We dreamed of tackling the most important challenges in knowledge and AI – with empathy on the core. This imaginative and prescient drove our product innovation all through 2024. We constructed Coverage Supervisor and Transparency Middle, which remodeled insurance policies from static documentation to guidelines that stay inside the instruments the people of knowledge use daily. Knowledge Merchandise grew to become a common translator, bridging the language hole between engineers, analysts, and stewards. And with Knowledge Contracts, we embedded governance straight into the each day workflows, serving to knowledge groups shift governance to the left.

Our dedication to understanding customers’ wants took us throughout Europe with Knowledge in Transit, visiting seven cities. By sitting down with knowledge leaders, we gathered their trustworthy insights, refining our imaginative and prescient to proceed constructing instruments that actually help their evolving wants. 

For detailed insights from every metropolis, try our Knowledge in Transit collection:  Hamburg | Geneva | Lausanne | Brno | Berlin | Paris 

Recognition That Celebrates our Group

We dreamed of reaching “the best buyer ranking of any DataOps instrument,” and in 2024, this dream got here true in exceptional methods. Atlan was named a Visionary within the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Knowledge and Analytics Governance Platforms and earned prime rankings in Gartner Peer Insights. To rejoice this milestone, we created a particular music video honoring the visionary knowledge leaders shaping the longer term.

Atlan was additionally named a Chief in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Knowledge Catalogs for Q3 2024, receiving the best scores throughout all distributors in each “Present Providing” and “Technique” classes. Forrester described Atlan as “an unparalleled associate” for organizations pursuing knowledge democratization.

With 79 badges earned on G2 all year long, these milestones weren’t simply recognition—they have been proof of a dream coming true.

Constructing the Way forward for Enterprise Knowledge

After we secured our $105 million Sequence C funding spherical, led by GIC and Meritech Capital, alongside commitments from Salesforce Ventures and PeakXV Companions, we had iconic buyers be part of us within the mission of serving to the people of knowledge and AI do extra, collectively. Take a look at A New Period (Atlan’s Model)—our first ever music video celebrating this milestone.

We’re now seeing these early goals materialize throughout industries by way of our rising buyer base—from GM revolutionizing automotive knowledge practices, to Fox reimagining media analytics, Autodesk innovating in expertise, and Nasdaq shaping the way forward for monetary knowledge.

Wanting Ahead to 2025: Extra Goals, Extra Love

To our clients who belief us, the companions who innovate with us, and the Atlanians who construct with a lot care – you made 2024 extraordinary. As we sit up for 2025, we’re excited to push boundaries, resolve challenges, and dream even greater collectively.

We are able to’t wait to see what new goals we’ll write collectively, and produce to life subsequent.

With love and gratitude,

Group Atlan