The assets dashboard in the reporting center has some new things up its sleeves!

Here are the new features that you can explore:

• README metrics — track metrics for assets with READMEs, directly from the reporting center.
• Has readme filter — filter out assets that do not have any READMEs to ramp up documentation efforts.
• Custom date picker — filter metrics for your assets within a custom date range.

These enhancements to the assets dashboard can help you monitor your asset metrics at a more granular level and customize the reporting center to better fit your needs. 

Explore the latest additions to the reporting center and keep an eye out for more to come!

View a quick count of assets that have READMEs attached

Filter metrics for your assets within a custom date range

Introducing hierarchical discovery patterns for your Tableau, Power BI, and Looker assets! Atlan now supports a hierarchy-based discovery experience for data source fields and calculated fields for Tableau data sources, columns for Power BI tables, and fields for Looker explores and views. 

The following enhancements are currently supported for the above BI assets:

• A new Fields tab in the asset sidebar — similar to the Columns tab for SQL assets.
• A new Field Preview section in the asset profile — similar to the Column preview section for SQL assets.
• Opening a BI field asset in a new tab will lead to a view of the parent asset profile with the child asset displayed in the sidebar.

With these enhancements, users will now be able to view logical parent-child relationships for their BI assets as well as easily discover field assets for their BI data sources for documentation and lineage analysis in Atlan.

Get more context for your BI assets with this enhanced discovery experience — and don't forget to share your feedback!

Atlan's GitHub Action places impact analysis right into your pull request. However, as our users have shared, the GitHub comments can often be too long to read — especially for dbt models with hundreds of downstream assets.

To ensure a better user experience, the impacted assets in the comment are now displayed in a collapsible section. Click the arrow in the comment for a detailed view of all your impacted assets in Atlan.

We are excited to introduce usage and popularity metrics in the lineage graph for your Snowflake and Google BigQuery assets in Atlan! 💥

Having the ability to analyze asset usage metadata and popularity scores right from lineage can help you discover assets that may be least queried or without any downstream usage. For example, these metrics can be especially useful to know when you're figuring out whether to deprecate certain assets in your data estate.

Usage and popularity metrics in asset lineage views can help you get one step closer to efficiently optimizing your operations and gaining the most value-driven insights from Atlan.

Tell us what you think about this new feature and stay tuned for more updates.

Understanding the changes to an asset and their impact are critical to building trust in your data assets. For instance, changes to an upstream asset can impact downstream data pipelines and dashboards, potentially causing disruption in an organization.

With this release, we bring to you the following enhancements:

• The option to download upstream assets, downstream assets, or both in Google Sheets.
• The ability to document metadata for impacted assets in Google Sheets and sync the changes back to Atlan. Atlan currently supports documenting descriptions, certificates, announcements, and owners for impacted assets.

Note: The Download Impact Analysis button has been renamed Download Lineage.

Atlan playbooks help data teams create rule-based automations for asset enrichment, such as attaching classifications. With this update, users will now have increased flexibility in controlling how classifications are propagated for their assets.

As we continue to enhance playbook capabilities, we've now added the option to control propagation when attaching classifications as an action. This gives admin users the ability to control how classifications are propagated.

• Existing playbooks — default propagation setting is set to false. When editing an existing playbook, users will have the option to change the propagation rules.
• New playbooks — default propagation setting is set to true.

Before the Chrome extension for Sigma was available, users had to switch to Atlan for additional details about a data element — for example, who owns it and whether it is certified or not. With the Chrome extension support for Sigma release, all of this and more is now possible without leaving your favourite Sigma workspace.

Atlan’s Chrome extension for Sigma opens up a sidebar within the Sigma workspace and provides you with all the context you need without having to switch tools.

Descriptions are one of the most important metadata for any asset. Our users love the metadata sync from their sources to Atlan, and this upgrade will power sync capabilities even further.

Our users often use rich formats like Markdown when adding documentation to their assets — for example, through dbt. Such text formatting was not carried over in Atlan, resulting in poor readability.

We've enhanced Atlan’s description editor to support Markdown syntax. Descriptions in Markdown will now be retained in Atlan and appear in the asset sidebar, asset profile, and other areas — significantly improving readability.

Tableau supports nested project hierarchies, which were not visible as asset metadata during asset discovery. This led to ambiguity around project hierarchy, especially when multiple projects with the same name had different hierarchies.

Nested project hierarchy metadata is now available in Atlan!

• View nested project hierarchy on the project search card and Overview sidebar for easy identification.
• Click on the project name in the hierarchy to get details on the parent folders for quick discovery and context.

For example, if there are multiple projects with the same name Product Analytics nested within the Website, Mobile-iOS, and Mobile-Android project hierarchies, a user searching for Product Analytics in Atlan will now have additional context with the project hierarchy metadata available during discovery.

Based on the feedback received, we will continue making other enhancements — such as adding nested hierarchies for Tableau dashboards — to create an even better discovery experience for BI assets.

Whether it is a table or dashboard, model or metric, columns, and glossaries, every data asset is a first-class citizen in Atlan with its own unique 360° profile.  From a unique URL for each asset down to the business metadata like a description, owners, business terms, and more.

While the Atlan sidebar has always been the go-to place for editing the metadata for each asset, we wanted to extend that functionality to the asset overview section.  Now, users can add/update a description, certification, or owner directly in the asset overview and all of the changes will instantly translate to the asset profile in the Atlan sidebar.