🎉 What's new

For all our Excel enthusiasts, Atlan now supports exporting assets to Microsoft Excel! This enables our passionate community of Atlan users to find the perfect spreadsheet match for their needs — Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel online, take your pick.

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Once your Atlan admin has integrated Microsoft Excel, you will be able to export your assets and asset metadata to spreadsheets. Note that you'll require read permission on the assets you want to export.

Here's what you can do:

• Assets tab: Filter and export assets and asset metadata based on your filtering criteria.
• Asset profiles: Export child assets and associated metadata from the parent asset profile.
• Glossaries: Export terms and categories within glossaries, nested terms within categories, and linked assets for terms.
• Reporting center: Export crucial metadata for assets tied to specific reporting metrics.

Just like with exporting assets to Google Sheets, you can easily monitor the live export status directly in the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and stay informed about the number of exported assets. Plus, review your previously exported sheets in the export popup in Atlan for quick reference!

Note that Atlan currently does not support updating asset metadata in the spreadsheet and syncing exported assets back to Atlan.

👏 Give it a shot

This release heralds exciting times ahead for spreadsheet enthusiasts! Learn more here: How to export assets.

And keep an eye out for upcoming enhancements — updating and syncing metadata back to Atlan!

🎉 What's new

Atlan now supports filtering assets by Snowflake tag values in playbooks! You can filter assets at the granular level of Snowflake tag values and run playbooks to update metadata in bulk.

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To set up filters for your playbooks, you can use the following Snowflake tag values:

• Allowed values — you can select values from a list of predefined values imported from Snowflake.
• Tag values — you can select values from a list of custom values added in Atlan while attaching or editing imported Snowflake tags on an asset.

👏 Give it a shot

Filter your assets with precision using Snowflake tag values in Atlan playbooks!

Learn more:

• How to set up playbooks
• How to automate data profiling

🎉 What's new

Atlan now brings to you advanced filtering capabilities, enabling you to select multiple options for supported filters. Say goodbye to being limited to selecting only one option for a specific filter!

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This release empowers you to do the following:

• Select multiple filter options — users can multi-select filter options, enabling simultaneous filtering based on various criteria. For example, whether filtering for a failed Airflow run OR an aborted Airflow run, you can now perform both actions in a single step and more!
• Checkbox-like filtering for more filters — custom metadata options, asset/source-specific filters, and the announcement filter under properties now support a checkbox-like filtering experience, allowing you to select multiple values based on OR/AND/NAND conditions. This is currently not supported for owner and tag filters.
• Introducing new logical operators — these can be applied to all multi-select filters:
  • For properties that only allow a single value per asset, such as the certificate and announcement filters, Atlan now offers three operators: Or, Not empty, and Empty.
  • For properties that allow multiple values per asset, such as terms, custom metadata options, and more, users can choose from five options: Or, And, None of, Not empty, and Empty.

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Upgrade your discovery experience in Atlan with these advanced filtering capabilities!

🎉 What's new

Power your discoveries in Atlan with a more intuitive interface for sorting search results and a sparkling new sort option — star count! These enhancements will help increase the visibility of sort options available to you while making them more user-friendly.

Here's how these enhancements can help you find the assets you're interested in:

• All sort options are now neatly contained within a dedicated dropdown menu located next to the search bar.
• The applied sort option will be prominently displayed for greater visibility.
• Granular sort options are now grouped into submenus, making them easily scannable!
• Display preferences and export capability have been consolidated into one menu for quick access. Psst... more enhancements to this menu are coming soon!

And there's more — introducing the star count sort option! ✨ 

Sort your assets by star count and arrange your search results based on the number of stars on assets. This gives you a quick ticket to finding the most-loved assets in your organization. For both new and existing users, it's not just a sort option but a trust signal for all your adventures in Atlan! 🚀

🎉 What's new

Querying data and viewing sample data with SSO credentials is now open to all non-guest users! 🚀 Say goodbye to shared service accounts — introducing bring your own credentials (BYOC) SSO in Atlan!

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Data access control is in your control with BYOC SSO:

• Users can bring their SSO credentials to querying data and viewing sample data in Atlan, ensuring a secure and personalized experience. Each user's permissions in the data store will be seamlessly applied to every query, unleashing the power of granular controls without the hassle.
• Already defined access controls in your data stores? Leverage them effortlessly in Atlan, saving you time and effort.
• Atlan currently supports the following connectors for SSO authentication — Amazon Redshift with Okta, Google BigQuery, and Snowflake OAuth.

👏 Give it a shot

Learn more:

• How to enable SSO for Amazon Redshift
• How to enable SSO for Google BigQuery
• How to enable Snowflake OAuth
• Troubleshooting connector-specific SSO authentication
• Authenticate SSO credentials to query data
• Authenticate SSO credentials to view sample data

Upgrade your data access experience today with BYOC SSO — where security meets simplicity!

🎉 What's new

With Slack notifications for metadata updates on starred assets, stay on top of all the assets you care about in Atlan! You will be able to receive timely notifications on your Slack account for metadata changes made to your starred assets. Data governance, evaluating project impact, or just routine updates? We've got you covered!

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You can either choose to receive notifications for all the changes listed below or customize your updates:

1. 🏷️ Name
2. 📝 Description
3. 🏆 Certificates
4. 👤 Owners
5. 📢 Announcement
6. 🔖 Tags and propagated tags
7. 📚 README
8. 📋 Linked terms

👏 Give it a shot

Before you can set up notifications for starred assets, you will need to:

• Integrate Slack and Atlan
• Link your Slack account to Atlan

Get started with setting up Slack notifications for metadata updates on all your starred assets! Stay tuned for support for Microsoft Teams coming soon.

🎉 What's new

Drumroll please, Atlan now enables you to easily export your assets to Google Sheets!

✨ Let's dig deeper

Once your Atlan admin has integrated Google Sheets, you will be able to export your assets and asset metadata to spreadsheets. Note that you'll require read permission on the assets you want to export.

Here's what you can do:

• Assets tab: Filter and export assets and asset metadata based on your filtering criteria.
• Asset profiles: Export child assets and associated metadata from the parent asset profile.
• Glossaries: Efficiently export terms and categories within glossaries, nested terms within categories, and linked assets for terms.
• Reporting center: Export crucial metadata for assets tied to specific reporting metrics.

From displaying a list of your previously exported sheets in the export popup to viewing the export status right from the spreadsheet, you'll never miss a beat! Note that Atlan currently does not support updating asset metadata in the spreadsheet and syncing exported assets back to Atlan.

👏 Give it a shot

Ready to get started with exporting your assets? Learn more here: How to export assets.

While you check out the new release, stay tuned for upcoming enhancements — asset export to Microsoft Excel, updating and syncing metadata back to Atlan, and more!

🎉 What's new

We've upgraded Atlan's search algorithm to improve the relevance and ranking of asset search results and supercharge your discovery experience!

Atlan's search algorithm takes into account asset names, descriptions, linked terms, certification status, starred count, and more to boost relevant assets in the search results. To learn more about how to ensure a high-quality search experience, see How to search and discover assets.

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Here are some cool things to look out for:

• If the keyword you're searching for is a glossary term linked to assets or present in asset descriptions, such assets will be boosted in search results.
• Whether your search query is incomplete or misspelled, Atlan's powerful search can still help you discover exactly what you need.
• When you enter two or more keywords, Atlan will find assets with asset names that partially match the keywords or a combination of them to narrow down the search results.
• Atlan's revamped search experience takes into account multiple factors, along with search relevance, to sort results — certification status, popularity, starred count, and more.

👏 Give it a shot

Why wait until the new year to do something new? Try out Atlan's new and improved search right now! Search improvements are turned on by default, but Atlan admins can turn them off from Labs in the admin center — simply toggle off Search relevance improvements.

Join Atlan in our quest to power your search and discovery experience to the next level, and let us know what you think!

🎉 What's new

Atlan now supports adding tag values for Snowflake tags! You can assign any value to a Snowflake tag in Atlan, and if reverse sync is enabled, the tag attachment will be synced back to source. You can also filter your Snowflake assets in Atlan based on tag values.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Atlan supports the following for imported Snowflake tags:

• Allowed values — you can select a value from a list of predefined values imported from Snowflake. For example, a PII Snowflake tag may have Name, Email, and Phone Number as allowed values that have been defined at source to ensure consistency of usage across the organization. Allowed values provide you with a clear set of options, reducing the possibility of any errors in tagging.
• Tag values — enter any value in Atlan while attaching or editing imported Snowflake tags on an asset. For example, if no values have been defined at source for the  PII Snowflake tag, you will be able to add custom values like Confidential, Highly Confidential, or Internal in Atlan to indicate data sensitivity. This provides flexibility for dynamic categorizations without predefined constraints.

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Get started with managing your Snowflake tags in Atlan:

🎉 What's new

Atlan now supports native integration with Amazon DynamoDB — a NoSQL data source! This empowers our users to catalog and enrich their Amazon DynamoDB assets in Atlan, including tables, global secondary indexes, and local secondary indexes.

✨ Let's dig deeper

You can set up the Amazon DynamoDB connector to:

• Seamlessly discover and document your Amazon DynamoDB assets — tables, global secondary indexes, and local secondary indexes.
• Learn more about the schema of Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes.
• View lineage between Amazon DynamoDB as a source to supported data warehouses as destinations, as enriched by Fivetran — column-level lineage is currently unavailable.
• Atlan currently only supports integration with Amazon DynamoDB through IAM user authentication.

👏 Give it a shot

Ready to integrate Amazon DynamoDB with Atlan? Get started today:

• How to set up Amazon DynamoDB
• How to crawl Amazon DynamoDB
• What does Atlan crawl from Amazon DynamoDB?
• Troubleshooting Amazon DynamoDB connectivity