🎉 What’s new

Product lineage just got a 10x upgrade! Product lineage will now be generated even if the data products belong to different domains or have been modified after they are created or even archived. This release includes other improvements as well, making the depiction of dependencies between your data products automated and powerful.

✨ Let’s dig deeper

First, let's briefly revisit how product lineage works. If asset A is an output port in a data product A and a regular asset (not marked as an output port) is in data product B, then product lineage will be generated between data products A and B.

Data product lineage is now updated in the following conditions:

• Data products belong to the same or different domains.
• The asset selection in a data product is modified forming new links via output ports.
• Assets are marked as output ports OR previous output ports are unmarked.
• Data products are archived, thus removing them from product lineage.
• A data products asset list is updated when new assets satisfy the filter conditions (this is for data products created using filter rules).

Product lineage is now generated in an async manner. This means there is a time gap from the last action that can update lineage (like marking an asset as an output port) to the changes being reflected in the lineage. This time gap is around 30 minutes to an hour. Most importantly, product lineage will not be generated when any participating product has more than 30,000 assets.

Any past product lineage links that were not present due to products being in different domains will now fully reflect the updated lineage, and without requiring any action from you.

👏 Give it a shot

Visit your favorite data product today and explore a more powerful product lineage experience! Create new data products to build out and experience the new product lineage. If you do not have data products enabled, you can head over to Labs (as an admin user) and turn on the products module!

Learn more: What is business lineage?

And while you try it out, let us know what you think!

🎉 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.

✨ Let's dig deeper

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.

👏 Give it a shot

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

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!

🎉 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.

✨ Let's dig deeper

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

You can now save data products as draft in Atlan! Take the time you need to curate your data products before unveiling them to your data teams. 

✨ Let's dig deeper

When you create a new product in Atlan, you will now have the option to Save as draft on the very last step of the product creation flow:

• Save your changes in a draft version and publish it only when you're ready. Atlan recommends that you enrich your draft product with requisite documentation and certification status before publishing it.
• Only you and any other users you add as owners to the product will be able to search for, view, and edit your draft products, depending on their permissions. You can also archive a draft product, which would delete it entirely.
• Navigate to My drafts on the products homepage to view all your draft products. Only a draft product's lineage graph shows lineage with the draft product included, to help you envision the future state.
• A draft product will not show up in search, on the sidebar, or product lineage view for other products.
• You can also change the status of a published data product to Draft if you think it needs more work.

👏 Give it a shot

Enjoy the time and freedom to curate your products your way with draft mode. And while you try it, let us know what you think!

Learn more: How to create data products

🎉 What's new

We've enhanced how Atlan handles tag sync for modified workflow configurations. Previously, disabling tag import would remove any imported tags from your assets. Now, when you modify a workflow to disable tag import, Atlan will automatically preserve all previously imported tags while preventing future tag import. This improvement maintains data continuity and protects your existing tag attachments.

Atlan currently supports importing tags from the following data sources:

• Databricks
• dbt
• Snowflake

🎉 What's new

Introducing a brand-new Monitor tab that makes monitoring and managing your playbooks a breeze!

 ✨ Let's dig deeper

Here's what's new for you:

• Central monitoring hub: get a bird’s-eye view of all your playbook runs —Successful, Running, Scheduled, Stopped and Waiting to start — all in one place!
• Stop playbooks: we’ve brought the stop playbook button front and center, no more digging around.
• Handy activity widgets: these widgets aggregate helpful stats for your playbooks.  
  • Assets updated: quickly view the assets impacted by your playbooks, with easy-to-use date filters.
  • Playbook run history: track the frequency of your playbook runs over time.

👏 Give it a shot

Check out these upgrades to monitoring your playbooks and let us know what you think!

As a bonus, here's what's coming soon:

• A new status to differentiate playbooks that are actively executing actions from those still queued, replacing the generic In Progress label for clearer insights.
• Visibility into tag propagation tasks, so you’re never left guessing what's happening behind the scenes.

🎉 What's new

Atlan now supports using the Domains filter in playbooks to help you quickly select and bulk update all assets included in the selected data domains or subdomains. Previously, the domains filter only allowed you to filter for the domains themselves, not the underlying assets.

With this enhancement, you can filter for assets mapped to a specific domain and enrich metadata in bulk! You can bulk update certification status, attach tags, or even map the assets to a different domain using the domains filter. Curate assets quickly with the enhanced domains filter on playbooks!

Learn more: How to set up playbooks

🎉 What's new

Announcing the ability to turn on the products module only for admin users or select personas in Atlan! This release empowers you to have greater control over who views and uses data products, helping you curate access and fine-tune your rollout plans.

✨ Let's dig deeper

As an Atlan admin, head over to Labs in the admin center and locate the Products toggle:

• If the module is turned off, you can choose to open up the module to specific sets of users only or all users. Once you have made your selections, only the users or groups that you have specified will be able to view and use the products module in Atlan. You can currently open up the module to:
  • Only admins — enable the products module for all admin users in Atlan.
  • Selected personas with existing domain policies — enable the products module for specific personas with domain policies. Additionally, Include all admins is selected by default as a configurable fallback measure. If you keep the default selection, any admin user will be able to access the module irrespective of whether they belong to the specified personas.
  • All users and personas — enable the products module for all your Atlan users and personas.
• If the module is turned on, you will notice that it's turned on for all users and personas, visible below the toggle. You can change that to curate access for admins only or one or more personas with domain policies.

👏 Give it a shot

Enjoy fearless curation with selective opening of the products module! And while you try it, let us know what you think.

Learn more: What are data products?