Atlan Reviews & Product Details

Good interoperability with multiple data sources. Allows users to see what is available across all assets in a single spot. Reasonably easy to navigate for the data neophyte. Our support experience has been good. We use it frequently for small scale data consumption requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We would like to see a feature that would publish the results of a saved query on a set cadence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atlan provides detailed metadata on data platforms. It can connect to several data lakes and warehouses and fetch information like usage, lineage, table and column descriptions, number of queries, table level activities, etc. It enables data lake warehouse usage analytics to be easy and user-friendly. AI-generated suggestions for table and column description features are also useful. Integration with communication tools like Slack saves time in communicating and describing tables to users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes Atlan is a bit slow to load all information about a data asset, which can deter users. The role-based access mechanism is useful for user authorization, but sometimes it is confusing if you have access to multiple roles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, clean interface, search capabilities, lineage tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Search feature can get overwhelming if there are so many data assets to sort through. Having a data source filtering capability in the lineage tool would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atlan can be fast and simple to configure and integrate, while still enabling more complex use cases later on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Few downsides, though occasionally new features also contain bugs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Atlan is deeply committed to innovation. Its products, such as Atlan AI and Atlan Mesh, are redefining the concept of an Active Metadata Management tool, also known as a data catalog.

2. The customer support and customer solutions teams at Atlan are highly engaged in helping clients achieve their goals. They often create custom packages or solutions to meet specific needs.

3. Atlan’s Chrome extension is noteworthy. It offers the convenience of an embedded Atlan solution within Databricks, Power BI, Google Chrome, and other platforms, eliminating the need to switch between applications. This seamless integration enhances user experience and productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the product documentation is publicly available, some of it is outdated, which can sometimes lead to confusion among clients. Additionally, information about bugs and fixes is not readily available on the official website. Once a request is opened, it’s currently not possible to assign a priority level to it. This is an area that could benefit from improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data catalog and data lineage between the source and final reports is very helpful for all the users, both technical and non-technical folks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initial setup is time consuming and takes effort Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1.) Using lineage to conduct impact and root cause analyses to clean up our data. We were in the middle of a data re-architect before bringing in Atlan and now having it we can easily spot assets without queries or downstream attachments for clean-up and deprecation.

2.) Easy to use and intuitive UI, the browser extension is icing on the cake, end users can view information in Atlan without having to switch from their current screen to the platform, which is going to aid immensely in adoption. We've had users already solve issues using Atlan with little to no training.

3.) Customization features from personas and policies, to customizable messaging and scorecards to ensure integrity and accuracy the first time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1.) Some of the sublayers in licensing privileges are not clearly delineated and need to be specified at the persona level which could cause overages. A great example is insights licenses are not granted at the individual level.

2.) Atlan only goes to the tile level in Looker, it would be nice if they went all the way to the calculation for lineage and specificity without having to manually define it.

3.) The UI has basic spelling and grammar errors that could be cleaned up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use for admins, developers and business users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A couple of the critical support tickets took a long time to resolve, but normally they were processed in a timely fashion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its UX and its deployment added its data lineage and the easy integration with multiples sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its technical supports is too slow in the resolution and sometimes not very accurate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is one of the best data catalogs in the market and I would say it has the best UX. It is easy to adopt and is designed to be close to where your users are looking at data (It has a plugin), which makes adoption a lot easier.

We are still rolling out all the features, but so far we have seen a lot of value, specially using the lineage functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be great if they had an easy way to add assets they have no connectors for. While the APIs are great, one of the reasons we selected them, there are tools where using engineering resources is too expensive or the tool we want to connect to does not have APIs. I understand we would not have all the features the API or the connector gives us, but it will not stop us from adding ALL data related reports in Atlan. Right now, we found a hack using Glossaries, but it would be ideal if they could make that available without hacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.