“I started off from a user’s perspective in a Business Intelligence role, then Data Warehousing, then Data Engineering before getting into Data Architecture. I’ve had visibility into the end-to-end of data, and I’m passionate about guiding people to get the most value out of data, processes, people, and frameworks."

“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 …

“The big difference now is that we are confident as a team when we’re talking about a data asset.”

“The first major change we did in tooling was an enterprise data science environment. We ended up buying Dataiku, and that made a huge difference. We stopped throwing spreadsheets around and were storing tables for intermediate transformations."

“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.”

"Something that we’re currently working on, hence where all this change is coming from, is that we’re trying to standardize and centralize the Data Analyst function. At the moment, they all form part of each one of the business units. But we want to standardize all the tools that they …

"Data is an important part of measuring where we are now, and what we need to do to grow further. We have initiatives like optimizing the parts we use and being more sustainable, and that’s where my team, directly and indirectly, contributes to the whole company.”

“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.”

"All other products in this space have been developed keeping the technical user in mind. Our vision of data democratization went beyond the technical user to touch every business user. With Atlan’s design-first approach and intuitive product, we were able to drive more adoption in a few months than we …

"Implementing a data catalog is about adoption. After taking a look at the best catalogs on the market, I chose Atlan, and I would choose Atlan again if I had to. It’s the best UX, best experience, and best adoption.”

"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.”

"We used to have a data catalog. We had Informatica EDC. The motivation to look for a different solution came from some difficulties in implementing certain features like lineage, a business glossary. It was kind of frustrating, and it came to a point where we felt like the technology was …

“As it grew, almost all of our data was inserted into it, and it really changed how we work. The one sense that is prevailing in every interaction I have with the tool is ‘Wow, I can do this by myself.’ That’s a freeing sensation."

“We are truly impressed with the ample collaborative features Atlan brings to help the analysts across our organization feed and maintain information.”