This Valentine’s Season, we’re reflecting on all our goals that got here to life in 2024 and need 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 convention the place our group comes collectively every year to jot down down our boldest ambitions. These goals usually are not simply concerning the milestones we hope to achieve—they’re guiding lights for a 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 all over the 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 12 months the place many extra of those goals took flight. Along with our clients, companions, and the Atlan group, we’ve seen the facility of those goals remodel 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 turned 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 Energetic Governance—our groundbreaking method that transforms governance right into a collaborative ecosystem, constructed to adapt to in the present day’s quickly altering and numerous knowledge panorama.
Buyer Journeys Shaping 2024
The 12 months introduced unforgettable moments at international occasions. At Databricks Knowledge+AI Summit keynote, Brian Ames shared how Atlan reworked governance inside Common Motors as they pursue targets 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 aircraft 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 manipulate knowledge from 700M customers and 550B items of content material.
By way of every knowledge group’s transformative journey, we confirmed the information group 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 largest 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 Heart, which reworked insurance policies from static documentation to guidelines that dwell throughout the instruments the people of knowledge use daily. Knowledge Merchandise turned a common translator, bridging the language hole between engineers, analysts, and stewards. And with Knowledge Contracts, we embedded governance instantly 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 sincere 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 sequence: Hamburg | Geneva | Lausanne | Brno | Berlin | Paris
Recognition That Celebrates our Neighborhood
We dreamed of reaching “the very best buyer ranking of any DataOps software,” and in 2024, this dream got here true in outstanding 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 very best scores throughout all distributors in each “Present Providing” and “Technique” classes. Forrester described Atlan as “an unparalleled accomplice” 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
Once 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 traders be a part of us within the mission of serving to the people of knowledge and AI do extra, collectively. Try A New Period (Atlan’s Model)—our first ever music video celebrating this milestone.
We’re now seeing these early goals materialize throughout industries via our rising buyer base—from GM revolutionizing automotive knowledge practices, to Fox reimagining media analytics, Autodesk innovating in know-how, and Nasdaq shaping the way forward for monetary knowledge.
Trying 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 stay 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,
Workforce Atlan 💙