100 new options. 20 new integrations. 2 huge product launches. A primary of its sort buyer convention. At Atlan, 2023 was the yr of constructing the long run, with knowledge groups which can be envisioning it. And we couldn’t be extra excited to recap the yr, so let’s get began.
The First AI Copilot for Knowledge Groups
Generative AI modified the expertise panorama in 2023 and each knowledge group began fascinated by the methods by which they might use AI to develop into extra productive.
Armed with learnings from once we had been an information group, we seized the chance to make the lives of people of knowledge higher with Generative AI. In April 2023, we known as for a company-wide AI hackathon, sourcing concepts for the way forward for knowledge catalogs and knowledge 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 knowledge catalogs, main a wave of AI innovation for knowledge governance.
Make your group love documentation with Atlan AI
Within the outdated world, everybody uncared for documentation, blocking companies from trusting knowledge and making sooner, higher choices. Atlan AI brings an finish to the ache by auto-generating descriptions for a variety of knowledge property in Atlan. All knowledge producers need to do is overview, edit, and publish.
After 6 months of testing with prospects below a closed preview, we’ve seen Atlan AI’s description strategies shine with an acceptance price of 60%, giving people of knowledge extra time to work on business-critical initiatives.
Clarify lineage transformations with Atlan AI
Lineage simplifies transformations by taking complexity away, exhibiting relationships between knowledge property. However when an information analyst desires to dive deeper into how and why an information asset was reworked, the method of parsing by complicated SQL queries can take hours. However not anymore.
Atlan AI helps knowledge analysts and engineers perceive complicated lineage transformations by explaining what’s occurring in pure language.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that knowledge catalogs and knowledge governance are altering without end, and for the higher, due to AI.
The Way forward for Knowledge Governance
In 2023, we hosted a primary of its sort group convention on trendy knowledge governance — Re:Govern. Practically a thousand people of knowledge got here collectively to listen to visionary knowledge leaders, from firms like Nasdaq, Fox, Autodesk, Elastic, and HelloFresh, speak about their methods and playbooks for contemporary knowledge governance.
If there was just one key takeaway from Re:Govern, it could be this: the way forward for knowledge 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 knowledge contracts. And Mihir Modi (FOX) defined his imaginative and prescient for knowledge merchandise and AI in knowledge governance.
Knowledge 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 knowledge mesh involves life, AI is embedded in our workflows, and handbook, conventional governance is automated. With that, Let’s recap 2023’s knowledge governance updates:
Convey your knowledge mesh to life with Atlan Mesh
Atlan Mesh is the primary ever native knowledge mesh expertise in an information catalog. It’s an expertise that caters to knowledge shoppers and improves their understanding of the info property. Right here’s how:
- Knowledge merchandise as first-class residents: Treating knowledge as a product requires a local answer, not workarounds. Knowledge merchandise can now be created & curated natively in Atlan, inside a brand-new residence for simple, context-rich discovery for enterprise customers.
- Devoted areas for federated domains: With Atlan Mesh, every area will get its group’s personal workspace and touchdown web page to accommodate curated knowledge merchandise and documentation for knowledge shoppers.
- Enterprise lineage: Historically, lineage has been a technical device for knowledge producers to grasp impression and discover root causes. Atlan Mesh introduces enterprise lineage for knowledge shoppers, who wish to perceive the provenance, not the technical structure, behind how knowledge merchandise are created to information utilization choices.
- Knowledge contracts: To assist the creation of knowledge merchandise and proactively bridge the hole between knowledge producers and shoppers, we launched a brand new imaginative and prescient for knowledge contracts in Atlan.
We’ve already began rolling out Atlan Mesh to the primary few prospects, who will likely be part of the Atlan Mesh Advisory Council, and we’re excited to construct the way forward for federated, versatile knowledge governance collectively.
Handle compliance in a single residence with Tag Administration
As the trendy knowledge stack continues to evolve, knowledge groups want to make sure the correct individuals have the correct entry to the correct knowledge. This entails figuring out delicate knowledge and defending it with the correct entry controls, whereas serving trusted knowledge to knowledge shoppers.
To unravel this problem, we launched Tag Administration — a brand new method to your knowledge group to handle compliance and safety — and have become one of many first Snowflake knowledge 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 knowledge property with tags at scale utilizing Atlan’s Playbooks
- Sync tag updates in Atlan again to knowledge sources like Snowflake
With Atlan’s Tag Administration for Snowflake, our group can have one central residence to handle tags. Bi-directional tag sync will empower our knowledge producers to tag property the place they work and allow our platform group to handle tags and permissions seamlessly.”
Roi Levoso Fernandez, Knowledge Engineering Supervisor, Taxfix
Perceive impression and optimize prices with Reputation & Utilization metrics
As an information chief, you’re at all times seeking to get probably the most out of your knowledge, whereas controlling prices. However you want visibility into who’s truly utilizing what knowledge by which instruments.
In 2023, we launched Reputation & Utilization for 4 connectors — Snowflake, Databricks, Energy BI, and Redshift — giving knowledge groups the flexibility to:
- Uncover probably the most or least used property by sorting by recognition
- Perceive recognition in lineage with recognition indicators & pop-ups
- See who’s utilizing knowledge with High Customers and Latest Customers
- Optimize the info property with Fashionable, Gradual, and Costly queries
With the launch of Reputation and Utilization for Snowflake, Mistertemp, a pacesetter in recruitment and momentary work based mostly in France, deprecated 50% of unused Snowflake tables and over 60% of their Looker property:
The whole lot downstream modified. We had been capable of see each present connection in Fivetran. We may see what was truly used. We saved these, and for every little thing else, we might disconnect.”
David Milosevic, Head of Knowledge & 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 knowledge estates throughout industries and companies too.
This yr, we had 20 new knowledge leaders, from companies like Docker, Purple, and Datacamp, be a 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 critiques 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
Impression evaluation is a tiring, time consuming, and disheartening course of for knowledge engineers. However with out it, one small change may break hundreds of dashboards. What if impression evaluation might be proactive and preventative, as a substitute of reactive and handbook? Say howdy to Metadata CI/CD.
With integrations for GitHub and GitLab, Metadata CI/CD robotically surfaces impacted property proper within the knowledge producer workflow. This implies knowledge engineers don’t need to manually test impression and enterprise customers can belief their dashboards, which break much less usually.
After its launch, Metadata CI/CD helped an information group on Atlan notice that the request for a column title change may impression greater than 1,000 business-critical dashboards.
Atlan has been an important assist. We not need to depend on these paperwork, and we’re capable of do impression assessments on the click on of a button.”
Nestor Jarquin, International Knowledge & Analytics Lead, Aliaxis
Bringing metadata to everybody’s favourite device: spreadsheets
There’s one knowledge device 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 circumstances:
- Speed up documentation by enriching metadata at scale
By importing knowledge 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 impression evaluation
Now you can analyze impression sooner by importing impression evaluation right into a spreadsheet and add bulletins to maintain finish customers knowledgeable.
Convey enterprise and knowledge collectively in Microsoft Groups
To create true company-wide adoption, you might want to meet your customers the place they work. That’s why Atlan now integrates with Microsoft Groups. Now you can speed up your knowledge and enterprise initiatives with higher, cross-functional collaboration round knowledge.
Atlan’s integration with Microsoft Groups lets you:
- Share knowledge property & ask knowledge questions in a Microsoft Groups channels with out leaving Atlan
- Hyperlink vital, 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 knowledge property and group for mission-critical knowledge initiatives, like AI fashions, wants a platform strategy to metadata. From event-driven metadata use circumstances like alerting to derived metadata use circumstances like Knowledge as a Product scoring, knowledge 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 knowledge groups to construct customized lively metadata use circumstances 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 akin to a “Metadata Completeness Rating” or “Knowledge as a Product Rating” by analyzing metadata enrichment.
- Metadata migration: Mechanically migrate all of your present metadata out of your legacy knowledge 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 circumstances.
Webhooks assist you to monitor occasions occurring in Atlan, obtain notifications to a URL of your alternative, and take motion instantly. For instance, you may create a webhook to ship notifications to your electronic mail tackle or collaboration app, like Slack or Microsoft Groups, when a time period is up to date or an asset is tagged.
The probabilities are actually infinite and we’re excited to see the way forward for lively metadata, constructed not by Atlan, however by knowledge groups all over the world.
A Collaboration to Ship Trusted Knowledge
With each device within the trendy knowledge stack turning into more and more siloed, the people of knowledge have gotten siloed as nicely.
Knowledge shoppers, who dwell in BI instruments, don’t have visibility into the upstream pipeline world of knowledge producers. So when issues go flawed, they’re usually the final to know. And knowledge producers don’t know the way their code modifications are breaking downstream dashboards.
This yr, we launched native, out-of-the-box connectors for 18 new instruments, overlaying areas like Knowledge High quality, Knowledge Observability, Knowledge Orchestration, and Enterprise Intelligence, to convey the world of knowledge producers and shoppers nearer collectively. Let’s recap 2023’s key integrations.
All-New Partnerships with Knowledge High quality Instruments
Practically 75% of the time, when issues go flawed, enterprise stakeholders are the primary to determine knowledge points. It doesn’t need to be this manner. Knowledge high quality is a elementary sign into knowledge belief, nevertheless it wants to fulfill 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 Knowledge 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 knowledge well being, construct belief in knowledge, and assist revolutionary new methods to strategy distributed knowledge infrastructure. The native Monte Carlo integration offers you the flexibility to:
- Uncover Monte Carlo incidents and displays in Atlan with Monte Carlo-specific filters.
- Democratize Monte Carlo’s knowledge high quality indicators wherever enterprise customers work with Atlan’s Chrome extension.
- Speed up root trigger and impression evaluation by Monte Carlo incidents being surfaced in Atlan’s column-level lineage.
With Monte Carlo and Atlan, we are able to catch knowledge incidents early on, and supply everybody with clear visibility into the present standing of knowledge accuracy. This has been vital for the manager group to have faith we are able to ship on our promise of dependable, reliable knowledge.“
Michael Weiss, Senior Director of Product Administration (NAM, Knowledge Entry and Analytics), NASDAQ
Soda x Atlan
Atlan and Soda’s native integration supplies knowledge groups with an intuitive and complete platform to search out, belief, and use the correct knowledge. The native Soda integration offers you the flexibility to:
- Uncover Soda knowledge high quality metrics and ends in Atlan.
- Inform knowledge customers of knowledge points earlier than they make choices by highlighting Soda’s test ends in Atlan’s Chrome extension.
- Speed up root trigger and impression evaluation by Soda checks being surfaced in Atlan’s column-level lineage.
BI Connectors for Enterprise Adoption
To drive adoption of your knowledge catalog platform and knowledge governance initiatives, you might want 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 knowledge 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 property by enabling discovery and documentation of BI property in Atlan.
- Allow proactive impression evaluation of downstream dashboards and use circumstances by connecting BI property to upstream warehouse, ELT, and supply property with cross-system lineage.
- Construct belief in knowledge by surfacing belief indicators from knowledge high quality, observability, and orchestration instruments.
I’ve had no less than two conversations the place questions on downstream impression would have taken allocation of plenty of assets. Then truly getting the work completed would have taken no less than 4 to 6 weeks, however I managed to sit down alongside one other architect and resolve that inside half-hour, saying ‘For those who’re altering the column title or including an additional column, that is what it’s going to interrupt or impression.”
Karthik Ramani, International Head of Knowledge 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 knowledge 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 person and assist an information engineer discover the basis 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, akin to DAGs and duties.
- Observe and monitor your pipeline in a single residence with real-time operational metadata like job run particulars and statuses.
Perceive impression of your Airflow pipelines by visualizing how Airflow DAGs and duties hook up with your knowledge property with cross-system lineage.
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