🎉 What’s new

Enhance your Access Management workflows with webhook support, enabling seamless automation of access provisioning and revocation. Now, once an access request is approved in Atlan, or a revocation request is raised, a webhook event can be triggered to launch external processes, ensuring efficient and automated access management.

• Trigger an event post-approval, for granting access, or upon a revocation request, for removing access
• Admins can now define actions for revoking access within the Access Management Workflow
  
  

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Organizations need a way to automate provisioning and revocation processes once access decisions are made in Atlan. Previously, approvals in Atlan had to be followed by manual actions in external systems to grant or revoke access. 

Webhook Support for Automated Provisioning & Revocation 

• After an access request is approved in Atlan, a webhook can be triggered to initiate provisioning in external systems.
• When a revocation request is raised in Atlan, a webhook can trigger external actions to revoke access from the source system without requiring further approvals.
  

Access Management Workflow Enhancements 

• The "Data Access Approval Workflow" template will now be renamed Access Management to better reflect its expanded capabilities.
• Admins can now define actions for revoking access within the Access Management Workflow. Once a revocation request is raised in Atlan, an action (Webhook, Jira, or ServiceNow) can be triggered to ensure access is revoked from the source system.

Important Note: The Access Management Workflow only supports revocation actions for access granted in the source system. Permissions granted through Governance Workflows in Atlan will continue to follow their default revocation process.

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🎉 What's new

With this update, we’ve introduced several improvements to the workflow experience:

• Users can now add a custom name to workflows.
• We now display the user who has stopped a workflow for better traceability.
• The Run Workflow button will be disabled if a workflow is already running, preventing overlapping executions.

These changes enhance your workflow management and improve overall usability.

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• Improved Workflow Management: Allowing users to add custom names to workflows provides better organization and easier identification of workflows, especially in complex processes.
• Enhanced Traceability: Displaying the user who stopped a workflow increases accountability and helps track the source of any interruptions, making it easier to troubleshoot and manage workflows.
• Prevention of Overlapping Executions: Disabling the Run Workflow button when a workflow is already running prevents accidental overlapping executions, ensuring smoother operations and preventing potential errors.

Together, these enhancements streamline workflow management, improve collaboration, and reduce the risk of operational issues.

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🎉 What's new

We have added a metadata popover to input and output nodes to give you additional context about them. To get the full context about the asset, you can still view it all in the sidebar.

In a previous release, we improved the navigation experience between technical and pipeline lineage. With this release, enjoy access to more information about your input and output nodes.

🎉 What's new

Announcing a few enhancements to improve your discovery of storage objects! This release helps you enrich your assets and gain better business context for decision making.

Here are the enhancements for you to check out:

• The object path of a storage object will now be available in the asset sidebar and metadata popover when viewing the lineage graph. This helps you distinguish between different objects with the same name but belonging to different storage locations.
• The container name will now be displayed in the asset preview card and sidebar to help you quickly discover and understand the relationship between your ADLS containers and objects.

🎉 What's new

By popular demand, we are now enabling teams to define compliance conditions on assets and ensure that governance policies are enforced.

With rules in the Policy Center, you now can: 

• Define compliance rules at a policy level — for example, a GDPR policy will be breached if an asset within the scope of the policy does not have a PII tag.
• Automatically create incidents when any changes to scoped assets violate these rules.

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Previously, while policies helped define governance guidelines, there was no way to define the specifications of what the assets in scope should comply to. The only automated incident triggers occurred when scope definitions were changed. With this change, organizations can now proactively define and enforce compliance conditions, ensuring automated governance across their data assets.

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Check this out in the Policy Center and help your organization comply with policies and build confidence with responsible governance and access management. 

Learn more:

• How to automate policy compliance
• How to create policies
• How to manage policies
• Troubleshooting policies

🎉 What's new

As an Atlan admin, you can now permanently remove users from your Atlan instance and transfer asset ownership to a fellow team member. Note that removing a user from your Atlan instance is a permanent and irreversible action.

With the remove user capability now available, Atlan admins can:

• Remove other users from Atlan.
• Transfer assets from the removed user to another user within the same flow.

Learn more: How to manage users

🎉 What's new

You can now use the display name of your custom metadata attributes to update your dbt assets in Atlan!

Atlan now supports two ways to enrich custom metadata for your dbt assets programmatically:

• businessAttributes — supports the existing method of using hashed-string names.
• businessAttributeNames — accepts display names for custom metadata in a human-readable format.

Enjoy additional flexibility to collaborate with key stakeholders as you enrich your dbt assets in Atlan.

Learn more: Change custom metadata on assets

🎉 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!

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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.

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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