🎉 What’s new

Atlan now enables cataloging of Entity–Relationship (ER) models, helping teams bridge the gap between business and technical users. With ER model metadata in Atlan, organizations can enhance collaboration, streamline change management, and reinforce data governance.

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Ingest ER models with ease
You can now bring your ER models into Atlan using an Excel template:

• Data model ingestion – Use Atlan’s custom package to ingest ER models via an Excel template.

Unlock new capabilities with ER models

• Foster collaboration – Business and technical users can now share a unified view of data relationships across systems, breaking down silos.
• Simplify impact analysis – Visualizing entity relationships helps assess the downstream impact of technical changes with confidence.
• Strengthen governance – Define access controls, retention policies, and governance rules based on entity relationships, ensuring trust and accountability.

Visualize and map your data

• Entity Diagrams – Navigate entities, attributes, and relationships visually to simplify understanding and communication.
• Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Models – Map ER models across different abstraction levels to align business concepts with technical implementation.
• Link ER Entities to crawled assets – Link entities to actual data assets in Atlan (e.g., an ‘Order’ table in Snowflake).

👏 Give it a shot

Reach out to your CSM to enable the ER model ingestion package. Upload ER assets via Excel and let us know what you think! Refer to these docs for more information.

🎉 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

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.

🎉 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.

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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?

🎉 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.

🎉 What's new

You can now search and discover data products from the Assets discovery page! If you have enabled the products module as an Atlan admin, turn on the Show products in asset discovery toggle to allow your users to search for data products on the assets page or using the search bar.

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When you publish a new product in Atlan today, you will be able to find that product right from the Assets page. The filters for owners, domains, terms, and more work for products just like assets. The data products returned in the search results sport product-specific metadata such as product score and output ports.

This feature helps your users discover data products from wherever they are in Atlan, just start typing in the search bar!

👏 Give it a shot

Enjoy a more powerful discovery experience on the assets page for your data products. And while you try it out, let us know what you think!

Learn more:

• What are data products?
• How to create data products
• How to search and discover assets

🎉 What's new

Atlan now empowers you to set a custom landing page for your personas! This helps you curate a personalized and focused experience for your users.

For the Navigation preference in personas, you can select the Custom option to specify a path to the page in Atlan you want your users to land on. For example, you can set the URL to point your users to a specific data domain or a group of assets in a particular connection, take your pick! Quick note, please ensure that the landing page is accessible to users in the persona.

Learn more: How to create a persona

🎉 What's new

We've enhanced the speed and performance of impact analysis reporting in Atlan! 60x speed improvement? Try it yourself to feel the difference!

You'll also notice two new columns, Immediate Upstream and Immediate Downstream, in the impact analysis report. These can help you better understand the flow of data, making it easier to distribute and manage data update dependencies across your teams. You can also use this information to create a lineage summary report, opening up endless possibilities.

We’d love to hear how you’re using these new features — please feel free to share your use cases with us!

Learn more:

• How to download and export lineage
• How to download impacted assets in Google Sheets
• How to download impacted assets in Microsoft Excel

🎉 What's new

Atlan now supports native integration with Azure Data Factory! This release empowers data teams to catalog and discover their Azure Data Factory assets in Atlan.

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You can set up the Azure Data Factory connector to:

• Seamlessly discover and document your Azure Data Factory assets — pipelines, activities, datasets, data flows, and linked services.
• Use service principal authentication for fetching metadata from Azure Data Factory.
• Get excited about future upgrades like graphical view of pipelines.

👏 Give it a shot

Integrate Azure Data Factory to catalog and discover your ADF assets in Atlan!

Learn more:

• How to set up Microsoft Azure Data Factory
• How to crawl Microsoft Azure Data Factory
• What does Atlan crawl from Microsoft Azure Data Factory?
• What lineage does Atlan extract from Microsoft Azure Data Factory?
• Troubleshooting Microsoft Azure Data Factory connectivity
• Preflight checks for Microsoft Azure Data Factory

🎉 What's new

Behold a revamped search experience with key UI enhancements to make your asset search in Atlan faster and more intuitive! Now you can open the search page from anywhere in Atlan, enjoy a more focused asset discovery experience, and explore context-driven filters.

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Here are all the cool new things you can do:

• Quick access — use the search bar in the header or the Ctrl/Cmd + K shortcut to start a search from anywhere within Atlan, cutting down the time spent in navigating to the search page.
• Improved asset type selection — easily select one or multiple asset types to focus on the most relevant search results. This enhancement streamlines your workflow, boosting both accuracy and efficiency.
• Efficient filtering — explore the refreshed filter section and check out the new domain-specific filters. These allow you to refine your search results, helping you find exactly what you need with minimal clutter.

👏 Give it a shot

Enjoy the new and enhanced search experience in Atlan! And as you try it out, let us know what you think.

Learn more:

• How to search and discover assets
• How to use the filters menu