Atlan Reviews & Product Details

Atlan is the context layer for enterprise AI. It continuously reads your warehouses, databases, pipelines, BI tools, and business systems to reverse construct an enterprise data graph that captures assets, lineage, entities, metrics, policies, and relationships. On top of that graph, it enriches and curates machine-readable semantics — descriptions, popular joins, KPI and metric definitions, ontologies, and business rules — and organizes them into governed, versioned context repos: bounded bundles of context that reflect how your company defines key concepts and makes decisions. These context repos are then exposed through open interfaces (SQL, APIs, SDKs, OSI/MCP-style protocols) so that agents, copilots, and AI applications can call the same trusted context in real time, rather than each team hard-coding its own logic. Human-on-the-loop governance workflows for conflict resolution, deprecation, feedback, and certification keep that context trustworthy as the business, data, and models evolve.

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All-in-One

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Mark Manning

Used by AutoCAD and 2 others

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Time to Implement

3 months

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Atlan Integrations

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Nevenka P.

Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/12/2024

"A promising Data Catalog with a great Customer Support"

4/5

What do you like best about Atlan?

Customer Support is very helpful and happy to find work arounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Atlan?

No downsides - the platform is still being developed. Perhaps a bit more Data Quality features and native connectors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/5/2023

"Atlan: A New Cornerstone In Our Data Management Journey"

5/5

What do you like best about Atlan?

Atlan seamlessly integrated into our modern data stack, with Snowflake and Sigma at its core. The integration with Sigma, empowered by the Chrome Plug-in, emerged as a standout feature for us, elevating user experience and adoption. With the Chrome extension, all users in our BI environment have an enriched experience with Atlan providing data definitions and lineage while also enabling users to submit Jira tickets without leaving Sigma. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Atlan?

The Atlan University is a great resource and training tool. However, the format of the short videos without seamless transitions could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Atlan solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our initial use case was finding a tool that could enhance our Data Governance strategies. However, when evaluating the product we found feature after feature that could either enhance user experiences, increase efficiency, or identify cost optimization opportunities. Atlan quickly solved our Data Governance use case, but it also became a cornerstone for creating an enriched data environment through the creation of data glossaries, adding content and tags to objects via automated playbooks, and creating an opportunity to explore data and where it comes from through the lineage functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tom W.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/30/2023

"Next Generation Data Governance"

5/5

What do you like best about Atlan?

Clean, user friendly interface. Was relatively painless to get all of our data sources added in quickly and we had all of our sources supported right out of the box. Beyond the obvious usefulness of end to end lineage, that mining features are also great for understanding what tables and columns are most used, and even helps identifying slow or expensive queries. Chrome extension allows users to get to information without switching applications and Teams integration helps keep questions centralized and front of mind for the org. Support and Customer Success have been great to work with. Upcoming AI features will make managing the platform with minimal staff even easier, and should also help drive user adoption through ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Atlan?

One function I would like to see added is the ability as an admin to see the application as a particular user does. With personas and purposes you can deeply customize what a user can see and do and having the ability to quick validate that instead of needing test accounts would be a timesaver.

Additionally the text editing in the Glossary is extremely basic and needs simple functions like Undo added. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Atlan solving and how is that benefiting you?

Atlan is making it easier for business users to understand exactly how metrics are being calculated, where that data is coming from, and if there are any known issues with it. Combination of the data lineage and glossary removes all of the mystery behind where numbers are coming from and will increase confidence in the accuracy of what they are seeing. This also frees up the data team to focus on future enhancements instead of spending so much time answering questions and chasing down issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kelsey C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/16/2024

"Easy to use"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Atlan?

The tool is very intuitive to navigate, making it so we don't have to do a lot of training for new users. Implementation was also easy and their customer support has been great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Atlan?

The lack of flexibility around custom fields. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Atlan solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a way for business users to easily document tribal knowledge, link business terms to technical assets so people can self-serve on knowing where in the database to get data and knowing the definitions of the data they are using. Allows our technical teams to have a diagram of how lineage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kate O.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/12/2023

"Data Cataloging Simplicity"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Atlan?

Atlan is great for our data stakeholders to be able to easily find data in our data lake. There is data that some stakeholders didn't know existed. In addition, their Insights feature makes it very easy for someone with limited SQL experience to query data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Atlan?

One of the downsides is a feature that we haven't been able to use yet. They have the ability to create data lineage from your metadata. Unfortunately, our data is stored in Athena which isn't currently supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Atlan solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used to keep our data dictionaries in an Excel spreadsheet and our data engineers had to make modifications to the sheet every time a table was modified. With the introduction of Atlan, our stakeholders were able to access the data and we were able to have it automatically update the metadata when tables were modified. This meant our data engineers could focus on creating new pipelines and doing the transformations we needed. It increased productivity because the data support questions could often be answered by Atlan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

lawrence g.

Data Governance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/22/2023

"Industry leader in data cataloguing through active metadata."

5/5

What do you like best about Atlan?

1. Usability and UI really stands out

2. Alignment with the modern data stack and brilliant integrations with tools like Snowflake

3. Support team with a wealth of knowledge

4. A Wealth of capabilities and features with customization through playbooks which is really helpful for things like classification tags.

5. Out of the box reporting with customization

6. Speed to delivery, instance was set up in less than 48 hours

7. AI and Machine learning capabilities for automation curation, speeds up definitions and approvals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Atlan?

Some improvement areas would be:

1. Improvements to integrations with Excel which is coming soon.

2. Customizable profiling rule, OOTB capabilities don't allow you to customize profiles, although this can be worked around through querying.

3. More customization with reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gu X.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/3/2023

"Modern Catalog with E2E Visibility"

5/5

What do you like best about Atlan?

Atlan has built-in first party integrations with Snowflake, PowerBI, Sigma, Fivetran, and dbt. Instead of relying on engineering teams to spend months at a time to integrate to Atlan, we can get quickly up and running in weeks, if not days. Atlan has one of the strongest data lineage parsing mechanisms out there that creates a comprehensive data lineage view of data assets from Snowflake database tables / views to the models that transform them, and even exposes through to PowerBI. The interface is easy to use and bridges the gap between technical metadata and business contexts of datasets with the glossary of the organization. Its true strength is enabling a single collaboration area between engineers, analysts, and business users alike to empower organizations to become data centric. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Atlan?

Although Atlan is expanding into various integrations across the ecosystem, there needs to be a way to accelerate the first party integrations to other strong ecosystem partners like Coalesce and Soda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Atlan solving and how is that benefiting you?

In our organization, our analysts and engineers are spending an outsized amount of time answering questions about data. This is due to a combination of different factors where ultimately, we lack the ability to have visibility and transparency across the data assets in our organization. Atlan will be solving this by providing a holistic view of our datasets from source to reports that will then empower our business users to self service their own questions across data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ondřej C.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/23/2023

"Atlan as the ideal interactive business metric catalog product"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Atlan?

Atlan provides not only a robust product for metadata management, but also a great customer experience in terms of both UI as well as implementation support.

I especially liked the seamless integration with our data assets hosted in BigQuery and Looker.

Our Customer Success Manager and his team were extremely helpful during the rollout and provided various practical advice on how to engage the relevant teams in my company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Atlan?

As the product is complex and dynamic (improvements keep on coming), there were a few cases where it did not work perfectly. Fortunately, all operational issues were rather quickly (hours-days) resolved by the helpful support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vidmantė .

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/24/2023

"Next generation data cataloging, discovery and governance"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Atlan?

Atlan's integration capabilities have impressed our data engineering team, providing a seamless setup experience.

The user experience (UI) of Atlan deserves special mention. Its intuitive interface simplifies navigation and usage, making it a powerful tool for metadata management.

Additionally, the considerable engagement demonstrated by the Atlan Account Executive and Engineer contributed to a seamless tool evaluation process. The Customer Success Management program played a crucial role in effectively planning and executing the rollout process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Atlan?

Depending on a company's maturity level, the multitude of features provided by Atlan can be overwhelming. While these features hold significant potential, their abundance might prove to be overpowering for new users, potentially hindering their ability to fully leverage Atlan's capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Atlan solving and how is that benefiting you?

Atlan helps to address a range of data management challenges:

1. Search and Discoverability: Atlan's robust features enable effortless search and discovery of data assets. This enhanced accessibility facilitates data-driven decision-making.

2. Data Lineage: Atlan's capabilities in providing data lineage offer a comprehensive view of data journeys, contributing to better understanding and analysis.

3. Ownership, Governance, and Access Management: Atlan's features ensure clear ownership and governance of data assets.

4. Reducing Dependency on Data Personnel: By serving as a comprehensive repository of information about data assets, Atlan results in improved work efficiency and accessible data-related context. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sagar S.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/15/2023

"Incredible tool for data-curious users"

5/5

What do you like best about Atlan?

I love how easy it is to get access to find the answers I need using SQL. Before Atlan, I would have needed to jump through many loops to access our data. With Atlan, I can access all tables, which are organized and described clearly so that I can discover data efficiently. Atlan also makes crafting, saving, sharing, managing, and reusing SQL queries simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Atlan?

Nothing - even when I have had issues in the past, Atlan's team would work to resolve them quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Atlan solving and how is that benefiting you?

Atlan helps teams answer questions quickly. They provide the tools needed to get into your data and come out with a clearer understanding of what you need to be answered. They make this process as seamless as possible, ensuring the user can focus on the decisions they need to make instead of messing with data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.