66 Atlan Testimonials

"Atlan isn’t just a data catalog. It is really a place for data people to collaborate, to discuss things, to join together. It’s a home for your data team."

“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 Team.”

“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 a load of products we can offer to clients and run ourselves.”

“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."

“My initial impression was the user interface and the thought put into every element — making it searchable, easy to navigate. When you have thought through small things like icons, it paints a good picture.”

"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 kind of blocking us from reaching where we wanted to go. And that was the spark to look into the market for new technologies and platforms.”

“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."

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

"A data platform today needs to have a number of core features. It needs to be multi-domain, and it needs to support data from many different parts of the business across many different subject areas. It needs to be multi-tenant, and we have to enable multiple teams to work on the platform, securely and in isolation, only sharing when they choose to, which leads to security. The platform has to protect data, especially our most sensitive customer data. It is compliant, meets privacy requirements, supports discovery, and has high velocity and high quality tooling for common extract, load, and transform operations.”

“The legal team rarely spoke with the engineering functions. It was a bit isolated."

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

"Atlan is a great product and one that we would definitely recommend! Compared to other products in the marketplace, the combination of features, a pay as you go pricing model, and access to the product team is unmatched."

"Atlan is our way of solving problems without having to ask three of your teammates a navigation question, a data lineage question, or an ownership question."

"Since Atlan is virtualized on Snowflake, we don’t have to worry about security and HIPAA sensitivity."

“It’s allowed us to fully automate reporting without any engineering resources and become self-sufficient. So it’s definitely removed a big bottleneck in our process. When I put in a request to the data engineers, it would take a week to get it into their sprint, and then it would take another week or two to actually produce it. So a three-week waiting period is just not scalable. So this definitely cut that down to a half an hour, maybe less, to set up.”