Atlan — the First and Only Modern Data Workspace for Snowflake Data Cloud
Democratize your data with cataloging, governance, lineage & more
Atlan and Snowflake have been technology partners since 2021, but they recently made a big announcement — Atlan is the first and only data catalog to be validated as a Snowflake Ready Technology Partner!
Atlan is focused on collaboration, documentation, and usability so that data teams spend less time finding and understanding data and can focus on business outcomes and teamwork. Their “Modern Data Workspace” has been rapidly attracting Snowflake’s customer base with key components such as a Data Catalog, Data Quality/Profiling, Data Exploration, and Data Lineage.
“As Snowflake continues to help companies mobilize their data, Atlan makes it possible to find, use, document, and collaborate on this data. Our partnership with Atlan was a natural fit, given how its open approach, pay as you go model, and delightful user experience align with Snowflake’s own ethos.” — Tarik Dwiek, Head of Technology Alliances at Snowflake
Atlan + Snowflake = A Match Made in Data Team Heaven 💙 🤝💙
So what is so special about Atlan and Snowflake’s partnership? Together, they are constructing a joint roadmap to continue building the integration between their platforms.
“We generate lineage at an individual column level in Snowflake and can extend this to BI tools like Looker and Tableau — all as a native capability. We are making significant investments into our joint roadmap with Snowflake, and we can’t wait to usher customers into the data governance 3.0 era together.” — Prukalpa Sankar, Co-founder, Atlan
With Atlan, you can democratize your Snowflake Data Cloud with cataloging, governance, lineage & more.
- Data Catalog & Discovery for Snowflake: Make all of your data assets on Snowflake and other sources immediately discoverable. Atlan provides a self-service search and browse, easy access control, and a searchable business glossary.
- Data Lineage & Governance for Snowflake: Atlan’s data catalog for Snowflake simplifies governing and managing your data ecosystem. Atlan’s bots parse through SQL query history to auto-construct data lineage and auto-detect PII data — this allows you to create dynamic access policies & best-in-class governance.
- Data Exploration & Integrations with Snowflake: Non-technical users can directly query across multiple data lakes and Snowflake using Atlan’s Excel-like query builder. They have native integrations with tools like Tableau, PowerBI, and Jupyter.
You can also check out this webinar where Prukalpa Co-founder, Atlan, and Jeremy Maranitch Senior Alliance Manager, Snowflake, demystify the Modern Data Platform and talk about how to get up and running with your modern data platform in under two hours!
Atlan is unveiling a complete redesign and slate of new integrations, capabilities, and partnerships to help data teams activate their metadata. You can read more about these new features here and attend their Product Townhall 2022 for more info.
But . . . How Do I Know if Atlan is the Best Data Governance Tool for My Team?
At Hashmap, our job is to be the data experts. We research companies and solutions to make sure the right tools are used for the right projects. Our goal is to share as much of that research with the community to ensure you can make those same informed decisions and be able to easily filter through the noise. Connect with our team for a 1:1 review of the Data Governance Tools Comparative Analysis which features Atlan, Alation, and DataHub. This analysis will help you understand which tool is best for you to implement in your data pipelines.
Additional Resources to Help You Get Started
If you’re just getting started in the data governance space, I recommend you check out Kelly’s blog posts below where he dives into some of the most common data governance questions and provides some proven resources you can use to update yourself on modern technologies and approaches like Atlan.
Watch this Atlan and Snowflake demo where Lead Data/Cloud Engineer at Hashmap, Jalindar Karanda, demonstrates, step by step, how to integrate Snowflake with Atlan. You can also find our playlist of Atlan demos here and Snowflake demos here. We publish new videos every week so subscribe to keep up!
The DataOps Culture Code is part of Atlan’s documentation and they describe their process of creating it as, “We experimented for two years, across 200 data projects, to create our own viewpoint of what makes data teams successful. We’ve codified these learnings into what we call the “DataOps Culture Code”. Within their learnings, Atlan explains that there is no easy answer to making data teams successful and collaboration is key, “Data teams will always have a variety of roles, each with their own skills, favorite tools, and DNA. Embrace the diversity and create mechanisms for effective collaboration”. Find out more about Altan’s learnings here:
I also highly recommend subscribing to Atlan’s newsletter, Metadata Weekly. Each week, we look forward to reading the perspectives of Prukalpa, Co-Founder at Atlan. In the newsletter, Prukalpa curates her recommended reads and shares her thoughts on everything around the modern data stack and metadata.
You can even hear Prukalpa on an episode of our Hashmap on Tap podcast. Prukalpa takes us through her role at Atlan, the core tenets of a modern collaborative data workspace, and what it means to think about data as a product instead of a service. Listen to the episode here:
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Leah Hudson is a Senior Marketing Analyst at Hashmap, an NTT DATA Company, and co-produces the Hashmap on Tap Podcast.
