Atlan - Context Layer for AI

What do you like best about the product?

The support and enablement team has been excellent throughout the journey, and the platform is continuously evolving with new capabilities and improvements. It is a highly collaborative, user-friendly tool that makes it easy for both technical and business users to work together effectively.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some connectors that would be necessary for us are still missing, as well as some workflow and policy capabilities that would help us automate governance processes more effectively. While the platform’s continuous evolution is certainly a positive aspect, it also creates additional effort to assess, test, and adopt new features, which can sometimes make it difficult to stay focused on the original objectives. In addition, the platform is not yet able to automatically detect certain types of information, such as PII and other data classifications, which increases the manual effort required for governance and compliance activities.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Atlan solves our lack of visibility into what data exists, where it lives, and whether it's trustworthy, previously that knowledge lived only in a few people's heads. It gives us searchable data discovery, end-to-end lineage, and clear ownership/documentation in one place. This has cut down repetitive "where do I find X" questions, sped up root-cause analysis when reports break, and reduced our dependency on a handful of key people. Overall, it's made data more self-service and trustworthy across both technical and business teams.

What do you like best about the product?

Atlan has become much more than a catalog for us. It acts as a central metadata platform that helps connect technical assets, business context, ownership, and lineage in a way that is accessible to both engineers and business users.

The lineage capabilities provide valuable visibility into how data flows across our ecosystem, while the business context and stewardship features help improve trust in enterprise data. We have also seen significant value from Atlan's AI-assisted metadata capabilities, which helped accelerate documentation activities across a large number of assets.

Another differentiator has been the vendor partnership. The Atlan team has been highly engaged, responsive to feedback, and willing to collaborate on emerging use cases involving Snowflake, semantic models, and AI-driven data experiences

What do you dislike about the product?

The platform is evolving quickly, which is generally positive, but to realize the full value of Atlan, you need well-defined stewardship processes, ownership models, and standards.

Some of the more advanced capabilities require organizational change management and process maturity to be successful. However, we found that these challenges were more related to governance adoption than limitations of the platform itself.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Atlan has helped us establish a trusted metadata foundation for our Snowflake environment by improving visibility into data assets, lineage, ownership, and business definitions.

The platform has supported our efforts to enable self-service discovery, improve onboarding, and prepare for AI-powered use cases. The goal is for teams to spend less time searching for information or relying on tribal knowledge and more time focusing on delivering business value.

It has also become an important component of initiatives involving Snowflake Intelligence, semantic modeling, data products, and AI-driven data experiences by ensuring that trusted metadata and context are available wherever users need it.

What do you like best about the product?

Great lineage and data cataloging functionality. Easy integrations, competitive pricing with good support.

What do you dislike about the product?

The platform can feel sluggish at times. The UI is bland. The initial AI features were incomplete.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had a lack of data knowledge across the company. None of our data was AI ready. Atlan is helping us solve both of those problems.

What do you like best about the product?

Great service, great product, easy to use

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing jumps out to me overall very intuitive and accessible

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

UNderstanding lineage and how data is flowing and how calculations are performed

What do you like best about the product?

The product support and the ease of adoption for users.

What do you dislike about the product?

The sales process could be a bit smoother, but overall no issues

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Data Product Marketplace is critical to our Data & AI Strategy, a one stop shop to search, discover, learn, contribute and request access

What do you like best about the product?

What I like most about Atlan is how intuitive and userfriendly it feels. I didn’t have to spend much time learning the tool the interface is clean, and locating the datasets I need is very straightforward.

What do you dislike about the product?

One thing I don’t like about Atlan is that it can feel a bit overwhelming at first, especially if you’re new to data governance or catalog tools. It offers a lot of features, and it takes some time to get familiar with everything and understand how to use those features effectively.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem Atlan solves for me is data discovery and trust. Before using it, it was often hard to find the right dataset, understand what it actually meant, and feel confident that it was reliable. A lot of time used to be spent asking different teams for context or manually verifying data sources.

What do you like best about the product?

It have a good startup vibes with a break fat and move fast approach. The organisation is very agile and adaptive to the industry trends.

What do you dislike about the product?

The are moving so fat that you don't get time to settle up. Testing is very poor.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

They are cataloging metadata of the difference data sources that a customer have. But recently they have shifted there focus from data cataloging to AI based remediation and RCA as they already have a huge amount of client's data sources metadata which can assist in a RCA of any issue

What do you like best about the product?

Deep metadata, lineage, and ownership—finally governance that enables teams.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some advanced features require ramp-up, but docs and support help.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Modern, metadata‑driven governance that teams actually want to use. Clearly compiling the enterprise data intelligence related to metadata cataloging, ownership, lineage, quality, and more.

What do you like best about the product?

We value the strong partnership with Atlan's Product and Engineering Teams, their innovative roadmap and the ease of the UI. The team is highly responsive, open to feedback, and willing to collaborate with us to deliver new capabilities we want. We have regular and easy communication with Atlan employees. Atlan's new AI features are outstanding, built on their extensible and easy integrations.

What do you dislike about the product?

Mostly we are very happy but one feedback would be the focus on innovation can often come at the expense of prior features and fundamental needs that make the support and maintenance easier. Atlan does have some features that don't get much attention and would benefit from better defined roadmaps.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data Quality features embedded in the data catalogue. The new Context Agents Studio is amazing and will scale enrichment incredibly fast but with quality. Overall they allow us to maintain a very small data Governance team.

What do you like best about the product?

Atlan makes it easy to manage metadata, build a data catalog, and create a semantic layer of the company's data.

What do you dislike about the product?

There aren't really any downsides of Atlan besides some small functionality and features that would be nice to have.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Atlan is helping us manage our data estate, make data discoverable, and helps provide a single platform to understand data and the business.