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 long run, with information groups which are 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 workforce began enthusiastic about the methods wherein they may use AI to grow to be extra productive.
Armed with learnings from once we had been a knowledge 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 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 workforce love documentation with Atlan AI
Within the outdated world, everybody uncared for documentation, blocking companies from trusting information and making sooner, higher selections.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 need to do is evaluation, edit, and publish.
After 6 months of testing with clients below a closed preview, we’ve seen Atlan AI’s description options shine with an acceptance charge of 60%, giving people of information extra time to work on business-critical initiatives.
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 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 endlessly, and for the higher, due to AI.
The Way forward for Information Governance
In 2023, we hosted a primary of its variety group convention on trendy information governance — Re:Govern. Practically a thousand people of information got here collectively to listen to visionary information leaders, from firms 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 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 a knowledge 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 abandoning the outdated world of handbook, 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 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:
Carry 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 customers and improves their understanding of the info 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 simple, 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 accommodate curated information merchandise and documentation for information customers.
- Enterprise lineage: Historically, lineage has been a technical software for information producers to grasp affect and discover root causes. Atlan Mesh introduces enterprise lineage for information customers, who wish 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 customers, 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 correct individuals have the correct entry to the correct information. This includes figuring out delicate information and defending it with the correct entry controls, whereas serving trusted information to information customers.
To unravel this problem, we launched Tag Administration — a brand new means to your information workforce 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 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 workforce could 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 workforce to handle tags and permissions seamlessly.”
Roi Levoso Fernandez, Information Engineering Supervisor, Taxfix
Perceive affect and optimize prices with Recognition & Utilization metrics
As a knowledge chief, you’re at all times trying to get essentially the most out of your information, whereas controlling prices. However you want visibility into who’s truly utilizing what information wherein instruments.
In 2023, we launched Recognition & Utilization for 4 connectors — Snowflake, Databricks, Energy BI, and Redshift — giving information groups the flexibility to:
- Uncover essentially the most or least used property 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 info property with Well-liked, Sluggish, and Costly queries
With the launch of Recognition and Utilization for Snowflake, Mistertemp, a pacesetter in recruitment and non permanent work primarily based in France, deprecated 50% of unused Snowflake tables and over 60% of their Looker property:
All the pieces downstream modified. We had been capable of see each present connection in Fivetran. We might see what was truly used. We saved these, and for every thing else, we’d 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 lively metadata a precedence. And to shut out the yr, in November 2023, G2 launched its first Energetic Metadata Grid Report, pushed by opinions 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
Influence 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 affect evaluation could possibly be proactive and preventative, as a substitute of reactive and handbook? Say hi there 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 need to manually verify affect and enterprise customers can belief their dashboards, which break much less typically.
After its launch, Metadata CI/CD helped a knowledge workforce on Atlan understand that the request for a column title change might affect greater than 1,000 business-critical dashboards.
Atlan has been an amazing assist. We now not need to depend on these paperwork, and we’re capable of do affect assessments on the click on of a button.”
Nestor Jarquin, International 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 property from Atlan into Excel or Sheets, now you can doc descriptions, certificates, house owners, tags, and bulletins to your column property utilizing spreadsheet flexibility and sync the metadata updates to Atlan with a single click on.
- Construct belief and hold finish customers knowledgeable with affect evaluation
Now you can analyze affect sooner by importing affect evaluation right into a spreadsheet and add bulletins to maintain finish customers knowledgeable.
Carry enterprise and information collectively in Microsoft Groups
To create true company-wide adoption, it is advisable 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 initiatives with higher, cross-functional collaboration round information.
Atlan’s integration with Microsoft Groups lets you:
- 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 workforce for mission-critical information initiatives, 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 yr’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 reviews.
- Customized connections: Join Atlan to your enterprise homegrown methods to allow end-to-end discovery and lineage.
- Derived metadata: Create customized metadata similar 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 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 instances.
Webhooks 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 probabilities are really limitless and we’re excited to see the way forward for lively metadata, constructed not by Atlan, however by information groups around the globe.
A Collaboration to Ship Trusted Information
With each software within the trendy information stack turning into more and more siloed, the people of information have gotten siloed as nicely.
Information customers, who stay in BI instruments, don’t have visibility into the upstream pipeline world of information producers. So when issues go fallacious, they’re typically the final to know. And information producers don’t know the way 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 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 fallacious, enterprise stakeholders are the primary to determine information points. It doesn’t need to be this fashion. Information high quality is a elementary sign into information belief, but it surely wants to satisfy enterprise customers the place they work, together with the correct 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 help modern new methods to method distributed information infrastructure. The native Monte Carlo integration provides you the flexibility to:
- Uncover Monte Carlo incidents and displays in Atlan with Monte Carlo-specific filters.
- Democratize Monte Carlo’s information high quality alerts wherever enterprise customers work with Atlan’s Chrome extension.
- Speed up root trigger and affect 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 crucial for the manager workforce 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 offers information groups with an intuitive and complete platform to seek out, belief, and use the correct information. The native Soda integration provides you the flexibility to:
- Uncover Soda information high quality metrics and leads to Atlan.
- Inform information customers of information points earlier than they make selections by highlighting Soda’s verify leads to Atlan’s Chrome extension.
- Speed up root trigger and affect 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 is advisable 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 fact for BI property by enabling discovery and documentation of BI property in Atlan.
- Allow proactive affect evaluation of downstream dashboards and use instances by connecting BI property to upstream warehouse, ELT, and supply property with cross-system lineage.
- Construct belief in information by surfacing belief alerts from information high quality, observability, and orchestration instruments.
I’ve had at the very least two conversations the place questions on downstream affect would have taken allocation of loads of sources. Then truly getting the work executed would have taken at the very least 4 to 6 weeks, however I managed to sit down 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 affect.”
Karthik Ramani, International 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 would assist reply this query: when a pipeline fails, how do you inform a enterprise consumer and assist a knowledge engineer discover the foundation trigger sooner? 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, similar 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 affect of your Airflow pipelines by visualizing how Airflow DAGs and duties hook up with your information property with cross-system lineage.
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