Overview

Atlan Active Data Governance is a SaaS platform that transforms traditional, manual data governance into automated, policy‑driven, and proactive governance for modern data estates. It empowers data teams to discover, catalog, understand, enrich, and govern data assets with AI‑assisted automation and real‑time controls. The platform enables organizations to build trusted data products and enforce governance policies across metadata, lineage, quality, and access in a unified, extensible environment designed for the AI era.

Features and Capabilities

• **Data Products & Personalization: **Democratizes data access via personalized data marketplaces for different user roles, enabling curated data products and contextual insights.
• **Metadata‑Driven Intelligence: **
  • Automated Discovery: AI and rule‑based scanning that captures metadata, data relationships, and asset attributes with minimal manual effort.
  • Atlan AI: Enriches metadata with smart descriptions and classifications to improve visibility and searchability.
• Automation & Embedded AI:
  • Playbooks: Automates tagging, enrichment, and metadata management workflows.
  • Data Contracts: Embeds governance guardrails in production workflows.
  • Tag Management: Bi‑directional sync of tags to external systems like Snowflake.
• Policy and Compliance Engine:
  • AI‑Assisted Policy Creation: Drafts and applies governance policies with AI support.
  • Governance by Exception: Handles nuanced business rules and exceptions without rigid templates.
  • Transparency Center & Alerts: Provides real‑time visibility into policy coverage and incidents.
• **Approval Workflows: **No‑code policy approval processes that reduce governance bottlenecks and speed up compliance actions.
• **Open API and Extensibility: **Flexible, open architecture supporting integrations with data warehouses, transformation tools, BI systems, and AI pipelines.
• **Lineage & Trust: **Maintains automated, column‑level data lineage to understand provenance and impact across the data ecosystem.
• **Collaborative Governance: **Enables cross‑team collaboration with shared context, workflows, and in‑context discussions.