Atlan - Metadata Management
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My team uses Atlan to define a flexible set of metadata - including measuring the quality of said data. Atlan is also a partner of ours so we use it to integrate with our own tool. It also enables the team to automate manual and high-risk tasks to make them error-free as much as possible. In terms of scope, I only know that our sales, CSM, and CX teams use it for similar uses. Our business may use it to a larger scope than that.
Pros
- Extensive and seemless integrations
- Tons of automation (in a good way)
- Extremely user-friendly and intuitive to navigate
Cons
- API documentation could be improved
- Support team could be quicker in their response
- Not a lot of "help" type information users can self-access
Most Important Features
- Ingtegrations
- Dashboards
- UI design
Return on Investment
- Atlan has certainly saved time and money by consolidating our metadata sets
- Integrations with Amazon and Tableau have definetely sped up our time to value
Alternatives Considered
Informatica Application ILM and Talend Data Catalog
Other Software Used
Salesforce CMS, Tableau Server, Amazon Redshift
