Product Updates

See the latest new features, improvements, and product updates

12 months ago

Microsoft Excel — new integration alert!

🎉 What's new

We’ve got some big news to share with all our Excel lovers out there — Atlan now integrates with Microsoft Excel!

Here’s what you can do with the Excel integration:

Enrich metadata in bulk

The new integration with Excel allows you to document descriptions, certificates, owners, tags, and announcements for your column assets directly in Excel and sync the metadata updates to Atlan with a single click.

Import and analyze impacted assets

Import your impacted assets to Microsoft Excel for lineage analysis. You will be able to assess the downstream impact of any changes made to an upstream asset for impact analysis.

Ready to integrate Atlan with Microsoft Excel? Learn more here:

12 months ago

Enhancements to tag propagation user experience

🎉 What's new

Announcing some exciting updates to your view and understanding of tag propagation in Atlan!

Dedicated propagation tab for attached tags — check out the new Propagated tab in the tag popover to find out if a tag is being propagated from an upstream asset to the current one. This will help simplify the process of tracking and understanding tag origins and propagation modes.

Tag consolidation — we've consolidated identical tags into one tag, providing a cleaner view and adding context within the tag to indicate its multiple sources.

Comprehensive tag propagation overview — get the full picture of tag propagation for an asset, including the source, mode of propagation, user who attached the tag, and last configured.

Improved sorting and visibility for tags — we've implemented improved sorting of tags while you're attaching them to your assets. Selected tags will now appear at the top of the list by default, helping you focus on and manage priority tags more efficiently.

Enjoy greater transparency and visibility into tag propagation in Atlan! And as always, let us know what you think.

12 months ago

Airflow/OpenLineage — new connectors alert!

🎉 What's new

Connectors? Yes, you read that right! Announcing Atlan’s native integration with multiple Airflow distributions to enhance your data management and workflow capabilities! With this release, you can now connect Atlan to the following Airflow distributions:

This release marks Atlan's first-ever push-based integration leveraging the OpenLineage project. With near-real-time updates to your data estate in Atlan, your metadata will always be up-to-date and reflect the latest changes in the Airflow workflows.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Here's how these connectors can help you:

  • Discover and catalog Airflow assets in Atlan, such as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and tasks. This enables you to get a comprehensive overview of your Airflow workflows within Atlan.
  • Capture operational metadata like task run details and statuses in Atlan to help you track and monitor the execution of your Airflow workflows.
  • Track data lineage between Airflow tasks as well as cross-system lineage across your data estate. This allows data engineers to better debug and understand impact and dependencies.

👏 Give it a shot

Ready to jump in and integrate Atlan with your preferred Airflow distribution? Learn more here:

Get started today and let us know what you think!

12 months ago

Hide sidebar for glossaries

🎉 What's new

Would you like to have more space to work on or read your glossaries, categories, and terms? Well, we heard you! You can now toggle the sidebar for your glossaries in Atlan — keep it or make it go away, your wish! With the new collapsible glossary sidebar, you can focus on the work you need to do and cut out any noise.

12 months ago

Enable Teams alerts for glossary updates

🎉 What's new

You can now set up Teams notifications for glossary changes in Atlan! With real-time alerts sent to the Teams channel you configure, you'll be able to stay informed on the latest changes to your glossaries. You can either choose to receive alerts for all updates or limit notifications to specific types of updates.

You will need to be an admin user in Atlan to enable Teams notifications for glossary updates. Once enabled, anyone in the selected Teams channel will be able to view these alerts directly in Microsoft Teams.

Set up Teams notifications for glossary changes in Atlan!

Not a Teams user? No problem — Atlan also supports Slack notifications for glossary updates!

a year ago

GitLab — new integration alert!

🎉 What's new

If you have ever changed a dbt model only to find out later that it broke a downstream table or dashboard, Atlan now provides a GitLab CI/CD pipeline to help you out — mirroring our existing GitHub integration. This action places Atlan's impact analysis right into your merge request, so you can view the potential downstream impact of your changes before merging the request. 

Once you have set up the GitLab integration:

  • In GitLab, you’ll see this in your merge request.
  • In Atlan, you’ll see this relationship from the Resources tab.

a year ago

Explore Redshift usage and popularity

🎉 What's new

Atlan is expanding support for usage and popularity metrics to Amazon Redshift! This empowers our Redshift users to view their most or least frequently used assets and more with just a few clicks.

You can mine Redshift to:

  • Generate usage and popularity metrics for your Redshift tables, views, and columns.
  • Available metrics include popularity score, recent users, and slow and popular queries!
  • Track your Redshift asset usage from the reporting center in Atlan.
  • Expensive queries and compute costs for Redshift assets are currently unavailable due to limitations at source.

Set up the Redshift miner today to get meaningful insights and optimize your operations!

Please note that this feature will be a paid addition. Reach out to your customer success manager for more information.

a year ago

Filter tags by source

🎉 What's new

Introducing tag filtering options by source to help you quickly find and better manage your tags in Atlan! Use the tag source filters to swiftly locate your tags without having to search through a long list of tags or remember their exact names.

You can filter your tags by the following sources:

Note that if a tag is synced from both Snowflake and dbt, you can select either option to filter for it.

With lots of exciting updates on tags coming soon, stay tuned for more on tag management!

a year ago

Sisense — new connector alert!

🎉 What's new

Atlan now supports native integration with Sisense! This empowers our users to catalog and enrich their Sisense assets in Atlan.

✨ Let's dig deeper

You can set up the Sisense connector to:

  • Seamlessly discover and document your Sisense assets— data models, data model tables, folders, dashboards, and widgets.
  • Streamline your workflows with Sisense-specific filters like widget count, data model types, Sisense tags, and more for quick asset discovery.
  • Navigate to and view your assets directly in Sisense from Atlan. 
  • View lineage for your Sisense assets in Atlan — for example, source table (Snowflake, Databricks) ➡️ data table (Sisense) ➡️ widget (Sisense) ➡️ dashboard (Sisense).

👏 Give it a shot

Learn more about how to integrate Sisense with Atlan:

Get started with setting up Sisense today for a seamless BI experience!

a year ago

View user activity on asset profiles

🎉 What's new

Introducing recently visited users for your asset profiles in Atlan! If you always put a lot of effort into documenting your assets but have no idea whether anyone finds them to be useful — this one's for you! Atlan now displays user avatars for recently viewed users right in the asset profile.

Open any asset profile and then click the user avatars to:

  • View a list of recently visited users, total views on your asset, total number of unique visitors, and total views by user.
  • Use the days filter to filter for asset views and user activity in the last 7, 30, and 90 days.
  • This feature is turned on by default — admins can easily turn off user activity.

Go ahead, check out who's checking out your assets! 👀