Picture this: colleagues urgently needing to log JIRA issues for critical assets. In the past, it was a headache! Selecting the right project and issue type was like finding a needle in a haystack. Hours wasted navigating through the JIRA projects list in Atlan, trying to align tickets correctly.

But fear not! We've rolled out enhanced JIRA issue creation! Admins now wield the power to specify allowed projects and issue types, simplifying the entire process. No more guessing games. You can effortlessly pick the right options, ensuring spot-on ticket creation every single time.

Say goodbye to confusion and hello to seamless JIRA issue creation! ✨🎉

Introducing Starred Asset Notifications! 🌟🔔

Stay on top of activity happening for the assets you care about with our latest feature! Now, you can receive timely notifications on MS Teams for changes in your starred assets. Whether it's for governance, project impact, or routine updates, we've got you covered.

🌟 What will I get notified about?  🌐

1. 🏷️ Name
2. 📝 Description
3. 🏆 Certification
4. 👤 Owners
5. 📢 Announcement
6. 🔖 Tags (including propagation)
7. 📚 Readme
8. 📋 Terms

🌈 Get Notified Your Way!

• Select All Updates 🔄 - Receive notifications for all changes.
• Custom Updates 🎨 - Choose specific generic attributes you want to be notified about.

Do you use Atlan's Airflow and OpenLineage integrations?

All distributions of Airflow rely on a push-based mechanism to move Airflow metadata into Atlan. Validating the setup while creating an Airflow connection may not be straightforward given Airflow and OpenLineage setup happens outside of Atlan.

We've streamlined the process for setting up and validating the Airflow connection with Atlan. Recognising the complexity of validating connections due to external setups of Airflow and OpenLineage, we're introducing in-context documentation and a test Airflow DAG to verify the connection. This improvement ensures the Airflow and OpenLineage integration is configured correctly for Atlan to catalog lineage metadata.

🎉 What's new

Atlan's SAP HANA connector now supports cataloging calculation views! Data teams, get ready to discover and document your calculation views in Atlan and gain meaningful insights into the modeling layer of your SAP HANA database. Atlan also supports upstream lineage to source tables for calculation views.

✨ Let's dig deeper

In SAP HANA, calculation views serve as powerful tools for data modeling and analytics. With calculation views now discoverable in Atlan, data teams will be able to understand the structure, dependencies, and usage of data and how data is modeled within their SAP HANA ecosystem.

Here's the metadata available for SAP HANA calculation views:

• View definition — information about the structure and logic of the calculation view, including underlying tables.
• Column definitions — details about each column in the calculation view, including data types and descriptions.
• Dependencies — information about the objects on which a calculation view depends, such as other calculation views and tables.
• Documentation — descriptions about the calculation view to help users understand its functionality.
• Versioning — information about the different versions of a calculation view, including when it was created, modified, and by whom.

👏 Give it a shot

Set up the SAP HANA connector to catalog, discover, and document your calculation views in Atlan!

Learn more:

• How to set up SAP HANA
• How to crawl SAP HANA
• What does Atlan crawl from SAP HANA?
• Preflight checks for SAP HANA

We are excited to announce that we’re launching Atlan AI in preview for all data teams today.

Reach out to your customer success manager to have this enabled.

Curate descriptions using Atlan AI ✍️

Curating descriptions is a manual task and can take a lot of time, with Atlan AI - you can generate descriptions. Today we support documenting your Tables/Views, Columns, BI assets, Terms and Salesforce Assets → you can read more about it here

Explain lineage transformations using Atlan AI 🕸️

Tired of reading through 100s of lines of SQL to understand what it is doing? - Not anymore, as Atlan AI can explain lineage transformations in a click. Learn more here

and much much more to come

Please note that this feature will be a paid addition.

🎉 What's new

Atlan now makes it easier for you to explore your linked queries right from the asset profile! While checking out sample data in the asset profile, you will notice a Linked queries tab where you can view all the saved queries linked to the asset, if any. You will also be able to quickly glean important metrics related to the queries and jump to running them directly in Insights.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Linked queries in the asset profile can help you:

• Easily find and analyze key queries for your assets.
• Supercharge your data exploration in Atlan and enable faster analytics.
  

Note that if you do not have access to query data in Atlan, the linked queries will be displayed with a lock icon.

👏 Give it a shot

Enjoy enhanced visibility for your linked queries and dive into your data with ease!

🎉 What's new

Introducing four powerful enhancements to your view of data lineage in Atlan:

Improved navigation

Enrich your overall navigation experience of lineage in Atlan with data flows represented by horizontally and vertically streamlined data paths. Explore one path or the complete flow with an easy-to-navigate layout.

Contextual actions

From leveraging sort options in column search to downloading impact reports directly from the columns, context is key. Gain faster insights into usage, change impact, or root cause analysis from where you are on the lineage graph.

Personalization options

Focus on the most important aspects of your data lineage and maintain full control over your experience and insights. Set display preferences for which metadata to view throughout your exploration of lineage in Atlan.

Guidance controls

Utilize advanced controls to download entire lineage for a comprehensive overview or specific impact analyses tailored to your needs. The ability to refocus and reset your path on the lineage graph will help ensure a smoother exploration. 

With the new and improved lineage experience in Atlan, explore your data ecosystem with ease!

🎉 What's new

Introducing a brand-new preference for personas and purposes in Atlan — asset types!

While setting preferences for a persona or purpose:

• Asset type — admins can now limit specific asset types for personas and purposes, ensuring a curated asset discovery experience for your users. For example, a business analyst persona can now skip technical asset types like Tableau data sources and solely focus on dashboards relevant to their needs.

Stay tuned for even more personalization options coming soon!

.🎉 What's new

It's time to upgrade your playbook experience in Atlan — admin users can now create playbooks directly from asset discovery! We've streamlined the playbook creation process to make it more accessible and closely integrated with your asset discovery experience in Atlan.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Here's how this can help you:

• Improved user experience — go from discovering assets to updating metadata in bulk in one go by launching playbooks from the Assets page. Apply any asset filters and then proceed to creating a playbook for your filtered assets.
• Power of choice — whether you want to create playbooks from the Assets page or governance center, Atlan gives you the power to choose your starting point!

👏 Give it a shot

Enjoy a smoother playbook creation experience with enhanced accessibility! Learn more here: How to set up playbooks.

And as always, try it out and let us know what you think.

🎉 What's new

Atlan's query editor Insights now supports cached query results for Google BigQuery tables, views, and materialized views! What does this mean for you? For repeated runs of the same query, Atlan will leverage cached query results from Google BigQuery, saving you the compute cost of rerunning identical queries.