"In a proof of concept, unless you look at it, feel it, and use it with your own organization’s data ecosystem, which can be messy and brings its own challenges, you can’t see how the tool adapts to that. You need to ultimately give your sponsors and users, who will …

“I had to deal with a vast array of challenges, starting from understanding where data governance could help in such an organization.”

"If you are starting your data governance journey, Atlan is the tool and team to partner with to help you achieve your goals."

“We played around with custom metadata yesterday, I think this is some of the coolest stuff we’ve ever seen in a data catalog especially since it’s backed by APIs to ingest data from our DQ tool.”

"It was an obvious choice when I saw Atlan, if only because of how well it integrated with the tools we have. It was Fivetran, it was dbt, you connected to MySQL databases and to Salesforce, and there were exciting things coming with the Monte Carlo partnership. It gave that …

“Okay, any descriptions we put in our dbt layer will automatically be exposed in Atlan.”

“Flow is a magical feeling. Time melts away. Your fingers dance across the keyboard. You're driven by boundless energy and a wellspring of creativity — you are completely absorbed by your task. Flow turns work into play.”

“Being able to refer to written definitions of our data elements has made it so much easier to create accurate, up-to-date reports that our users actually trust.”

“I don’t have a technical background, and I started as an Executive Assistant. I got into Sands Capital working for the CTO as a Technology Coordinator, and was exposed to developers and tools, Our CTO thought I’d be a great fit, and that’s how I got into the Data Initiatives …

“After a few years of being the sponsor bank for a FinTech offering, our founders decided we could build this kind of thing ourselves. So we started building our own digital banking products division, which is where Credit Strong was born.”

“Our data maturity has really grown over the years, and that led to the idea that we need to be looking at our own data platform and capabilities, and using that as a launchpad for backing up the services we provide to clients, and enabling us to build and power …

“Even before COVID, Elastic was distributed and remote. It’s important to realize that when we think about how we operate as a company. You’ll see that in our source code, and you kind of think of that as a kind of culture statement."

“I express my gratitude by saying, Atlan has not only been a vendor. It's like a partnership, but it's almost like a family. They create this family environment, like they truly care about your success and they want you to succeed as much as we want to succeed.”

"As data teams, we’ve painted ourselves into a corner. On one hand, no data team wants to be a help desk or dashboard factory, resolving Jira requests for data pulls or cranking out ghosted dashboards. On the other hand, as much as we might resent it, this is some of …

“We said, yes, we want to be building reusable, scalable products. We want to iterate and improve, we want to be trusted by our customers, we want to add value to them, we want to be able to have our customers self-service, we want to enable better data discovery.”