100 new options. 20 new integrations. 2 huge product launches. A primary of its form buyer convention. At Atlan, 2023 was the 12 months of constructing the long run, with knowledge groups which might be envisioning it. And we couldn’t be extra excited to recap the 12 months, 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 eager about the methods by which they may use AI to turn out to be extra productive.
Armed with learnings from after we had been a knowledge group, we seized the chance to make the lives of people of knowledge higher with Generative AI. In April 2023, we referred to 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 deliver 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Within the outdated world, everybody uncared for documentation, blocking companies from trusting knowledge and making quicker, higher selections. 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 evaluate, edit, and publish.
After 6 months of testing with clients below a closed preview, we’ve seen Atlan AI’s description recommendations shine with an acceptance fee 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 a knowledge analyst needs to dive deeper into how and why a knowledge asset was remodeled, the method of parsing by way of advanced SQL queries can take hours. However not anymore.
Atlan AI helps knowledge analysts and engineers perceive advanced lineage transformations by explaining what’s happening in pure language.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that knowledge catalogs and knowledge governance are altering perpetually, and for the higher, due to AI.
The Way forward for Knowledge Governance
In 2023, we hosted a primary of its form neighborhood convention on fashionable knowledge governance — Re:Govern. Practically a thousand people of knowledge got here collectively to listen to visionary knowledge leaders, from corporations 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 might be this: the way forward for knowledge governance will look very totally 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 way of knowledge contracts. And Mihir Modi (FOX) defined his imaginative and prescient for knowledge merchandise and AI in knowledge governance.
Knowledge groups are forsaking 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:
Carry your knowledge mesh to life with Atlan Mesh
Atlan Mesh is the primary ever native knowledge mesh expertise in a knowledge catalog. It’s an expertise that caters to knowledge customers and improves their understanding of the information property. Right here’s how:
- Knowledge merchandise as first-class residents: Treating knowledge as a product requires a local resolution, not workarounds. Knowledge merchandise can now be created & curated natively in Atlan, inside a brand-new residence for straightforward, 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 deal with curated knowledge merchandise and documentation for knowledge customers.
- Enterprise lineage: Historically, lineage has been a technical device for knowledge producers to know affect and discover root causes. Atlan Mesh introduces enterprise lineage for knowledge customers, who need to perceive the provenance, not the technical structure, behind how knowledge merchandise are created to information utilization selections.
- Knowledge contracts: To help the creation of knowledge merchandise and proactively bridge the hole between knowledge producers and customers, 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 clients, who might 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 fashionable knowledge stack continues to evolve, knowledge groups want to make sure the precise folks have the precise entry to the precise knowledge. This includes figuring out delicate knowledge and defending it with the precise entry controls, whereas serving trusted knowledge to knowledge customers.
To unravel this problem, we launched Tag Administration — a brand new means on 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 allows you to:
- 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 affect and optimize prices with Reputation & Utilization metrics
As a knowledge chief, you’re at all times trying to get essentially the most out of your knowledge, whereas controlling prices. However you want visibility into who’s really 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 power to:
- Uncover essentially the most or least used property by sorting by reputation
- Perceive reputation in lineage with reputation indicators & pop-ups
- See who’s utilizing knowledge with Prime Customers and Latest Customers
- Optimize the information property with Standard, Gradual, and Costly queries
With the launch of Reputation and Utilization for Snowflake, Mistertemp, a frontrunner in recruitment and momentary work based mostly in France, deprecated 50% of unused Snowflake tables and over 60% of their Looker property:
Every part downstream modified. We had been in a position to see each present connection in Fivetran. We might see what was really used. We stored these, and for the whole lot else, we’d 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 12 months, we had 20 new knowledge 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 12 months, in November 2023, G2 launched its first Energetic Metadata Grid Report, pushed by evaluations 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 knowledge engineers. However with out it, one small change might break 1000’s of dashboards. What if affect evaluation could possibly be proactive and preventative, as a substitute of reactive and handbook? Say hiya to Metadata CI/CD.
With integrations for GitHub and GitLab, Metadata CI/CD mechanically surfaces impacted property proper within the knowledge producer workflow. This implies knowledge engineers don’t need to manually test affect and enterprise customers can belief their dashboards, which break much less usually.
After its launch, Metadata CI/CD helped a knowledge group on Atlan notice that the request for a column title change might affect greater than 1,000 business-critical dashboards.
Atlan has been an incredible assist. We now not need to depend on these paperwork, and we’re in a position to do affect assessments on the click on of a button.”
Nestor Jarquin, World 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 instances:
- 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 on your column property utilizing spreadsheet flexibility and sync the metadata updates to Atlan with a single click on.
- Construct belief and maintain finish customers knowledgeable with affect evaluation
Now you can analyze affect quicker by importing affect evaluation right into a spreadsheet and add bulletins to maintain finish customers knowledgeable.
Carry enterprise and knowledge collectively in Microsoft Groups
To create true company-wide adoption, you have 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 allows you to:
- Share knowledge property & ask knowledge questions in a Microsoft Groups channels with out leaving Atlan
- Hyperlink essential, 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
Getting ready your knowledge property and group for mission-critical knowledge initiatives, like AI fashions, wants a platform method to metadata. From event-driven metadata use instances like alerting to derived metadata use instances like Knowledge as a Product scoring, knowledge groups are making the way forward for metadata come to life with this 12 months’s extensibility enhancements.
In 2023, we launched the Java and Python SDKs, enabling knowledge groups to construct customized lively metadata use instances like:
- Governance reporting: Measure the success your governance initiatives by automating metadata enrichment stories.
- Customized connections: Join Atlan to your enterprise homegrown techniques to allow end-to-end discovery and lineage.
- Derived metadata: Create customized metadata reminiscent of 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 help for Webhooks in 2023 — opening up the world of event-driven metadata use instances.
Webhooks assist you to 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 electronic 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 chances are actually countless 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 fashionable knowledge stack turning into more and more siloed, the people of knowledge have gotten siloed as effectively.
Knowledge customers, who stay in BI instruments, don’t have visibility into the upstream pipeline world of knowledge producers. So when issues go unsuitable, they’re usually the final to know. And knowledge producers don’t understand how their code adjustments are breaking downstream dashboards.
This 12 months, we launched native, out-of-the-box connectors for 18 new instruments, masking areas like Knowledge High quality, Knowledge Observability, Knowledge Orchestration, and Enterprise Intelligence, to deliver the world of knowledge producers and customers 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 unsuitable, enterprise stakeholders are the primary to establish knowledge points. It doesn’t need to be this manner. Knowledge high quality is a elementary sign into knowledge belief, but it surely wants to satisfy enterprise customers the place they work, together with the precise 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 help modern new methods to method distributed knowledge infrastructure. The native Monte Carlo integration offers you the power 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 affect evaluation by way of 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 essential for the chief group to trust 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 precise knowledge. The native Soda integration offers you the power to:
- Uncover Soda knowledge high quality metrics and leads to Atlan.
- Inform knowledge customers of knowledge points earlier than they make selections by highlighting Soda’s test leads to Atlan’s Chrome extension.
- Speed up root trigger and affect evaluation by way of 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 have 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 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 knowledge by surfacing belief indicators from knowledge high quality, observability, and orchestration instruments.
I’ve had not less than two conversations the place questions on downstream affect would have taken allocation of plenty of assets. Then really getting the work performed would have taken not less than 4 to 6 weeks, however I managed to sit down alongside one other architect and remedy 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, World Head of Knowledge Structure, Dr. Martens
Bringing ELT & Orchestration Context to the Enterprise
Operational metadata can deliver highly effective context from pipeline processes for each enterprise customers and knowledge groups. In 2023, we invested in constructing native connectors to instruments that might assist reply this query: when a pipeline fails, how do you inform a enterprise person and assist a knowledge engineer discover the basis trigger quicker? 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, reminiscent of DAGs and duties.
- Monitor and monitor your pipeline in a single residence with real-time operational metadata like activity run particulars and statuses.
Perceive affect 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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