Overview

Atlan is an active metadata platform that centralizes, enriches, and personalizes data discovery, governance, and collaboration for modern data teams. It provides a single, AI‑enhanced source of truth for metadata across an organization’s data and AI ecosystem, enabling users from analysts to engineers to find, trust, and use data efficiently. Atlan’s personalization and curation features ensure tailored experiences by role, business domain, and project context to accelerate insight and adoption.

Features and Capabilities

• Discovery & Search:
  • Google‑like search across metadata using synonyms, business context, or SQL syntax.
  • Customizable filters and browsing tailored to user workflows.
  • Personalized metadata views based on user preferences and roles.
• Personalization & Curation:
  • Personas: Create distinct experiences for different user types (e.g., analysts, engineers, business users).
  • Personalized homepages: Each persona sees a customized dashboard relevant to their tasks.
  • Metadata preferences: Display only metadata most relevant for a user’s role.
  • Curated assets: Context‑specific data asset groupings for business domains and projects.
• Project‑based Curation:
  • Define Purposes to group and serve data assets by project or domain.
  • Examples include curated views for marketing segmentation, financial KPIs, and PII protection workflows.
• Context & Trust Signals:
  • Companion sidebars show trust indicators such as usage data, data quality, stewardship, and lineage signals.
  • Enables confident data selection backed by context and verification.
• Metadata Enrichment & Management:
  • Custom metadata schemas across technical, business, and personal dimensions.
  • AI‑assisted enrichment and automated lineage generation.