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Admin & IntegrationsNew
3 months ago

Streamline data access with ServiceNow integration

🎉 What's new

Raise and track data access and revocation requests with ease using the brand-new ServiceNow integration! Once requests have been approved, tickets will be auto-created in ServiceNow, and you will be able to track their status directly in Atlan — ensuring full visibility without manual creation.

Here's how it works:

  1. You must have the governance workflows and inbox module enabled in your Atlan workspace.
  2. Your Atlan admin needs to set up the ServiceNow integration while working with a System Administrator of your ServiceNow instance with a security_admin role.
  3. Once set up, you can use ServiceNow to request or revoke data access for governed assets in Atlan or any other data source!

✨ Let's dig deeper

Managing data access and revocation requests across multiple systems can be time-consuming and error-prone, often resulting in incomplete details or unnecessary back-and-forth.

Atlan makes this easy with the ServiceNow integration:

  • Raise data access requests — ServiceNow can now be configured as an action within Atlan’s data access governance workflow. After approval, ServiceNow tickets are automatically generated with all the required details.
  • Revoke data access — Atlan admins can now raise data access revocation requests for any user on a source, directly from Atlan. Once initiated, a ServiceNow ticket for the revocation request will be automatically created, streamlining the process.
  • Real-time tracking — track the status of your ServiceNow requests in real time and right within Atlan, reducing delays and increasing transparency.

👏 Give it a shot

Ready to integrate ServiceNow with Atlan? Say goodbye to fragmented workflows and switching between different tools. Use the ServiceNow integration in Atlan to raise requests and work with your data, all in one place!

Learn more:

  • How to integrate ServiceNow
  • How to link your ServiceNow account
  • How to automate data governance
  • How to create governance workflows
  • How to revoke data access
Admin & IntegrationsNew
3 months ago

Delegate workflow management with workflow admins

🎉 What's new

Introducing a new user role in Atlan — Workflow admin! This role helps your users manage connector workflows while having member-like access to other areas of the product. You can delegate workflow management duties without giving users access to the rest of the governance center or any part of the admin center.

✨ Let's dig deeper

The workflow admin subrole allows for:

  • Enhanced delegation — you can delegate connector workflow management to specific users without giving them access to other admin capabilities.
  • Improved security — a workflow admin will not be added to the “All admins” group on connections. This means that you have the ability to add a workflow admin to a connection only if you want them to manage the connection. With member-like access required for other areas of the product, your existing persona configurations will work seamlessly.

👏 Give it a shot

As an Atlan admin, you can head straight to the admin center and change the role of an existing user to that of a workflow admin or create a new user as a workflow admin. And as you try it, let us know what you think!

Learn more: How to delegate administration

AssetsNew
3 months ago

View metadata for partial assets in sidebar

🎉 What's new

New year, new sidebar for partial assets! View metadata for partial assets in a brand-new sidebar with three available tabs: Overview, Lineage, and Properties. This allows you to gain additional context on your partial assets beyond the lineage graph.

AssetsImprovement
3 months ago

Enhancements to Power BI dataflow lineage

🎉 What's new

Announcing a revamped lineage experience for Microsoft Power BI dataflows!

Data teams rely almost exclusively on Power BI dataflows to pull data into Power BI from upstream sources such as Snowflake, Oracle, and more. Dataflow lineage is critical for helping data teams trace root cause or impact analysis efficiently through Atlan. This made us go back to the drawing board to ensure a smoother experience for our users.

✨ Let's dig deeper

With this release, you can explore the following updates:

  • Power BI dataflows cataloged as native assets.
  • Power BI dataflows represented as assets on the lineage graph instead of being represented as processes.
  • Nested dataflows represented on the lineage graph.
  • Introducing a new asset type, dataflow entities. These will be represented as column assets in Atlan.
  • Support for column-level lineage from upstream sources. This includes dataflows and dataflow entities, thus providing greater visibility on the lineage graph and impact analysis report.

👏 Give it a shot

Explore the enhancements to Power BI dataflows that were built with you in mind!

Learn more: What does Atlan crawl from Microsoft Power BI?

WorkflowsNew
3 months ago

Go deeper with AWS Glue nested columns

🎉 What's new

Atlan now supports nested columns 15 levels deep for AWS Glue! We've expanded our support from level 1 to level 15 for AWS Glue nested columns, empowering you to go deeper into your data.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Here's what you need to know:

  • Atlan retrieves raw STRUCT and ARRAY type objects for AWS Glue nested columns up to 15 levels.
  • You can search for and discover nested columns like any other column asset in Atlan.
  • You can view nested columns in the column preview and overview sidebar for your table assets.
  • You can enrich your nested columns with tags, certificate, description, and more.
  • Column-level lineage is supported, so you can view lineage for nested columns on the lineage graph.
  • Tag propagation is currently only supported from parent to nested columns.
  • Atlan currently does not parse MAP type objects for columns and nested columns.

👏 Give it a shot

Discover and document your nested columns from AWS Glue!

Learn more: What does Atlan crawl from AWS Glue?

WorkflowsImprovement
3 months ago

Say goodbye to stale lineage for Airflow assets

🎉 What's new

If you update or rename your Airflow tasks at source, Atlan will delete the old cataloged tasks and associated processes and then reflect the latest state on both the lineage and pipeline graphs. With your data estate always evolving, this release ensures that Atlan is always in sync with your latest updates. The processes created for the task will be updated to reflect these changes as well.

Reporting CenterNew
4 months ago

Use domain filters for asset reporting

🎉 What's new

There's a surprise waiting for you when you open your assets dashboard in the reporting center — the Domains filter! You can now use the domains filter in the reporting center to monitor your assets in Atlan at a domain or subdomain level.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Here's what you need to know:

  • From the Assets dashboard in the reporting center, click More filters and tada you'll see a new Domains filter!
  • You can filter assets by a single domain, multiple domains, or no domain at all. This helps you view enrichment metrics for your assets mapped to a specific domain or subdomain.
  • The Domains filter is currently only available in the Assets dashboard of the reporting center.

👏 Give it a shot

Gain insights into asset curation and enrichment mapped to a particular domain or domains!

Learn more: How to report on assets

Admin & IntegrationsNew
4 months ago

Customize user session settings

🎉 What's new

Introducing a new Authentication page in Atlan that allows admin users to customize user session settings! As an admin user in Atlan, you can specify parameters for session idle timeouts, session durations, and "Remember Me" options directly from this brand-new authentication page. This helps you:

  • Establish secure authentication protocols in Atlan.
  • Enjoy the flexibility to adjust session settings as per your organizational needs.

Managing session settings just got simpler!

Learn more: How to manage user authentication

AssetsImprovement
4 months ago

Explore pipeline details from lineage graph

🎉 What's new

Atlan now provides additional context for your Apache Airflow processes right from the lineage graph! The sidebar for Apache Airflow processes will now display DAG and task details. This can help you:

  • Get more context on the tasks and DAGs working behind the scenes to cause data flow.
  • Navigate to the pipeline graph to view your Apache Airflow pipelines.

GovernanceNew
5 months ago

Manage Google BigQuery tags in Atlan

🎉 What's new

Lead the charge on data governance with Google BigQuery tag management in Atlan! Atlan allows you to import your  BigQuery tags and policy tags and update your BigQuery assets with the imported tags.

Tag sync is currently one way — Google BigQuery ➡️ Atlan:

✨ Let's dig deeper

Tags created natively or sourced from Google BigQuery can now be imported to and managed within Atlan. You can also attach Google BigQuery tags, including tag values and hierarchies, to your Google BigQuery assets in Atlan.

To import Google BigQuery tags to Atlan, you can either:

  • Create a new Google BigQuery workflow and configure the crawler to import tags.
  • Modify the crawler's configuration for an existing Google BigQuery workflow to change Import Tags to Yes.

👏 Give it a shot

Learn more about Google BigQuery tag management here:

  • How to manage Google BigQuery tags
  • How to set up Google BigQuery
  • How to crawl Google BigQuery
  • How to attach a tag

Supercharge your active data governance efforts with Google BigQuery tag management in Atlan!