Atlan Reviews & Product Details - Page 4

It is one of the best data catalogs in the market and I would say it has the best UX. It is easy to adopt and is designed to be close to where your users are looking at data (It has a plugin), which makes adoption a lot easier.

We are still rolling out all the features, but so far we have seen a lot of value, specially using the lineage functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be great if they had an easy way to add assets they have no connectors for. While the APIs are great, one of the reasons we selected them, there are tools where using engineering resources is too expensive or the tool we want to connect to does not have APIs. I understand we would not have all the features the API or the connector gives us, but it will not stop us from adding ALL data related reports in Atlan. Right now, we found a hack using Glossaries, but it would be ideal if they could make that available without hacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Customer Support is very helpful and happy to find work arounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No downsides - the platform is still being developed. Perhaps a bit more Data Quality features and native connectors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atlan seamlessly integrated into our modern data stack, with Snowflake and Sigma at its core. The integration with Sigma, empowered by the Chrome Plug-in, emerged as a standout feature for us, elevating user experience and adoption. With the Chrome extension, all users in our BI enviornement have an enriched experience with Atlan providing data definitions and lineage while also enabling users to submit Jira tickets without leaving Sigma. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Atlan University is a great resource and training tool. However, the format of the short videos without seamless transitions could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clean, user friendly interface. Was relatively painless to get all of our data sources added in quickly and we had all of our sources supported right out of the box. Beyond the obvious usefulness of end to end lineage, that mining features are also great for understanding what tables and columns are most used, and even helps identifying slow or expensive queries. Chrome extension allows users to get to information without switching applications and Teams integration helps keep questions centralized and front of mind for the org. Support and Customer Success have been great to work with. Upcoming AI features will make managing the platform with minimal staff even easier, and should also help drive user adoption through ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One function I would like to see added is the ability as an admin to see the application as a particular user does. With personas and purposes you can deeply customize what a user can see and do and having the ability to quick validate that instead of needing test accounts would be a timesaver.

Additionally the text editing in the Glossary is extremely basic and needs simple functions like Undo added. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool is very intuative to navigate, making it so we don't have to do a lot of training for new users. Implimentation was also easy and their customer support has been great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The lack of flexibility around custom fields. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atlan is great for our data stakeholders to be able to easily find data in our data lake. There is data that some stakeholders didn't know existed. In addition, their Insights feature makes it very easy for someone with limited SQL experience to query data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the downsides is a feature that we haven't been able to use yet. They have the ability to create data lineage from your metadata. Unfortunately, our data is stored in Athena which isn't currently supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Usability and UI really stands out

2. Alignment with the modern data stack and brilliant integartions with tools like Snowflake

3. Support team with a wealth of knowledge

4. A Wealth of capabilities and features with customisation through playbooks which is really helpful for things like classification tags.

5. Out of the box reporting with customisation

6. Speed to delivery, innstance was setup in less than 48 hours

7. AI and Machine learning capabilities for automation curation, speeds up defitions anf approvals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some improvement areas would be:

1. Improvements to integartions with Excel which is coming soon.

2. Customisable profiling rule, OOTB capabilities dont allow you to customise profiles, although this can be worked around through querying.

3. More customisation with reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atlan has built-in first party integrations with Snowflake, PowerBI, Sigma, Fivetran, and dbt.

Instead of relying on engineering teams to spend months at a time to integrate to Atlan, we can get quickly up and running in weeks, if not days.

Atlan has one of the strongest data lineage parsing mechanisms out there that creates a comprehensive data lineage view of data assets from Snowflake database tables / views to the models that transform them, and even exposes through to PowerBI.

The interface is easy to use and bridges the gap between technical metadata and business contexts of datasets with the glossary of the organization.

Its true strength is enabling a single collaboration area between engineers, analysts, and business users alike to empower organizations to become data centric. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although Atlan is expanding into various integrations across the ecosystem, there needs to be a way to accelerate the first party integrations to other strong ecosystem partners like Coalesce and Soda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atlan provides not only a robust product for metadata management, but also a great customer experience in terms of both UI as well as implementation support.

I especially liked the seamless integration with our data assets hosted in BigQuery and Looker.

Our Customer Success Manager and his team were extremely helpful during the rollout and provided various practical advice on how to engage the relevant teams in my company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As the product is complex and dynamic (improvements keep on coming), there were a few cases where it did not work perfectly. Fortunately, all operational issues were rather quickly (hours-days) resolved by the helpful support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atlan's integration capabilities have impressed our data engineering team, providing a seamless setup experience.

The user experience (UI) of Atlan deserves special mention. Its intuitive interface simplifies navigation and usage, making it a powerful tool for metadata management.

Additionally, the considerable engagement demonstrated by the Atlan Account Executive and Engineer contributed to a seamless tool evaluation process. The Customer Success Management program played a crucial role in effectively planning and executing the rollout process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Depending on a company's maturity level, the multitude of features provided by Atlan can be overwhelming. While these features hold significant potential, their abundance might prove to be overpowering for new users, potentially hindering their ability to fully leverage Atlan's capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.