Atlan Reviews & Product Details

What I appreciate most about Atlan is how it transforms working with data into a truly collaborative and seamless experience. By bringing together people, data, and context in a single platform, it enables teams to genuinely understand and trust their data. I find it incredibly easy to locate what I need, document my work, and maintain organization without the usual confusion. Atlan is clearly designed to make data serve people, rather than forcing people to adapt to data. Its smooth integration with modern tools allows teams to work more efficiently, and it makes the entire data process feel more human, transparent, and enjoyable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One aspect I find challenging about Atlan is that it can sometimes feel overwhelming due to the sheer number of features and configuration options. For newcomers, the learning curve is quite steep before you can fully appreciate its value. There are also times when performance slows down, especially when handling very large datasets or complex integrations. Additionally, I would appreciate more flexibility in some customization options to better accommodate specific team workflows. However, these concerns are relatively minor compared to the overall experience—once you become familiar with the platform, Atlan proves to be both powerful and enjoyable to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product stands out for its ease of use, making it accessible even for those who are not very tech-savvy. Implementation was straightforward, and I appreciated how the features were both comprehensive and practical. Integration with other tools was smooth, which made the overall experience even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The AI capabilities are limited, and the automation feels quite rigid. Additionally, it lacks features for managing tasks across multiple teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It significantly enhances productivity, streamlines workflow, and makes implementation across the business remarkably easy, almost like magic! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The customer support isn't particularly impressive, but it is still an improvement over what I've experienced with other competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Standardized data contracts using YAML templates

- Compatibility with open source frameworks like Apache Spark, Airflow

- Great technical catalog for data engineers

- Lineage packages and libraries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Not user friendly for line of business users

- UI / UX was perceived to be too technical

- Great technical catalog but doesn't cover business governance requirements like CDEs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our experience with Atlan has been exceptionally positive, from initial exploration and technical evaluation to implementation and ongoing operational support. We included Atlan as part of our data infrastructure due to its intuitive user interface, robust product features, and forward-looking vision. Atlan's compatibility with the rest of our modern data stack (Snowflake, dbt, Sigma Computing) and other enterprise tools such as Slack, Google Workspace, and Chrome was a key factor, too. The Atlan team provided ample opportunity to carry out a Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Value (POV), which included live demonstrations of functionalities to the various data stakeholders. Additionally, Atlan's pricing and support model were both reasonable and adaptable.

Setting up the platform was swift, with a few hours of onboarding calls spread over a week. We could quickly run scans on our Snowflake instance and set up integrations with other platforms like dbt. Later, when support for Sigma Computing was introduced, we could integrate the same on our own. Features such as web search of metadata and detailed column-level lineage for root cause and impact analysis were an instant hit with our data power users.

The Atlan customer success team was meticulous in providing us with the necessary support to improve the adoption and engagement on the platform. They consistently strive to understand our specific use cases, deliverables, and business outcomes to provide optimal support. We appreciate how the Atlan team has supported us so far with active metadata management and helping improve the governance of our data and machine learning products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A strong product roadmap backs the vision, but the communication regarding the upcoming features and releases can be better. The concepts of Personas and Purpose overlap, and explaining them to most stakeholders is difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its user friendly data catalog and it is very supportive and collaborative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Limited customization for UI components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to apply definitions and tags for almost any data asset is useful, especially the feature to attach existing documentation as a resource. Great search feature, and ability to propagate tags downstream from objects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI is sometimes difficult to navigate, and there are some screens that may be more suitable to view as a table. There's also sometimes a steep learning curve to go from basic read-only use (or single asset management), to enabling mass-tagging/documentation efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atlan is easy to implement and integrate with existing systems. It can ingest data schemas from various systems and provides a clean user interface to add metadata such as tags. Atlan enables data and compliance teams to easily identify ownership, and sensitive or private data objects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Atlan supplied tooling to ingest schema from PostgreSQL databases could use some dependency management as many of the dependencies contained vulnerabilities at the time of use. This tool was also only available for download by requesting a link and not available as a container image enabling automated updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With Atlan we are able to connect across a breadth of systems that we rely upon to easily see where our data resides and identify which teams manage it. Connecting to systems was fairly straightforward and it has made searching for data artifacts much easier. This has helped in onboarding new data team members. Multiple new hires have commented on how simple it is to use and they frequently reqly upon it as a key tool in their toolbox. It has also assisted in bringing more of the organization into leveraging data more effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No really strong downsides to the product. Like many products Atlan tries to encourage a degree of product lock in but they are still open enough to allow for documentation and management to live in other tooling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having used other tools in this space Atlan has a much better administrative and user experience than other tools.

•It was easy to set up and integrate with our tech stack.

•Navigating it feels intuitive which is critical to a metadata management system you need to put in front of multiple user personas.

They are also developing at a rapid pace which features getting releases each week and an eagerness to hear/respond to feedback. Some of the newer features aren't perfect but they are generally equiavalent to competitors and at the pace of development I see they pulling ahead.

Support has been great - we actually get responses from people that want to help instead of it going into a black hole. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would like to see usage reporting built into the product to help tell the story on its value and ensure we are positively driving adoption. Right now this is only available from a 3rd party source which wasn't mentioned to us and we'd have to get approval to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.