Rolling out Atlan gave our data team a single source of truth that engineers, analysts and stakeholders all trust. The automated lineage, the column-level documentation and the clean API let us embed governance into our existing workflows instead of bolting it on. The onboarding support was responsive and clearly knew the modern data stack well. Couldn't recommend it more.
Single trusted source of truth with strong API
Atlan is the first metadata tool our analysts actually open daily. The Slack-style collaboration on assets and the automatic lineage pulled from our warehouse mean people can trust the numbers again. Onboarding new data scientists used to take weeks of tribal knowledge; now they self-serve from the catalog. Genuinely impressive active metadata platform.
Adoption-friendly catalog with automatic lineage
Atlan struck the balance we'd been chasing for years between control and usability. Setting up access policies, tagging PII and running data quality checks felt intuitive rather than a compliance chore. The Snowflake and BI integrations surfaced ownership and freshness right where our teams already work. Our data trust scores climbed noticeably within a quarter.
Intuitive governance with deep integrations
Atlan has become the front door to our data estate and the business glossary keeps definitions consistent across teams. The active metadata that pushes context into our tools is the standout feature. My one gripe is that searching the catalog sometimes surfaces stale or duplicate assets, so a bit more tuning is needed.
Great glossary and active metadata
Catalog search returns stale duplicates
We were sold on the column-level lineage, but in practice Atlan failed to parse a big chunk of our dbt and legacy SQL pipelines, leaving gaps right where we needed governance most. Support acknowledged the limitation but had no timeline. For a data governance platform, incomplete lineage undermined the whole reason we bought it.
Lineage parsing missed many pipelines