🎉 What’s New

Atlan now supports concatenation of multiple tag values for Snowflake objects when reverse sync is enabled.

✨ What’s in Store

• Multiple tag values can now be concatenated and reverse-synced to Snowflake, which are propagated via hierarchy or lineage. 
• Tag values are automatically sorted alphabetically.
• Concatenated into a single string using a configurable delimiter.

👏 Give it a Shot

Enable tag value concatenation in Atlan now  — and let us know what you think!

📘 Learn More

• Manage Snowflake tags
• Manage tag values and concatenation

🎉 What’s new

Request Access to Data Products is live!

You can now configure governance workflows in Atlan to manage access requests for data products, bringing the same powerful approval capabilities you know and love to your most valuable, curated assets.

✨ Let’s dig deeper

Data products are increasingly central to how organizations deliver trusted, business-ready data. With this update, you can now apply the same access control workflows to data products that were previously available for SQL and BI assets.

🔓 Request Access with a Click

You can now bring data products in your list of assets when you configure a data access governance workflow.

Once you configure a governance workflow for a data product(s), users will see a "Request data access" button on the data product profile—just like for other governed assets. Clicking this initiates a data access workflow.

⚙️ Powered by Governance Workflows

These requests are handled by governance workflows, where you can:

• Define approval conditions
• Set manual or auto-approval paths
• Route requests through teams or individuals for review
• Fulfill access via external tools like JIRA, ServiceNow, or webhooks

This ensures that access to sensitive or business-critical data products is tightly governed and auditable.

👏 Give it a shot

Set up a data access Governance Workflows on a data product and get your consumers to request access to it!
With this update, you're one step closer to fully governed, self-serve access—from raw tables to curated data products! And while you try it, please let us know what you think!

🎉 What’s new

Say hello to Enhanced Metadata Policies in Atlan! You can now create dynamic, rule-based metadata policies inside personas—making governance more scalable, flexible, and precise than ever before.

✨ Let’s dig deeper

With this update, you no longer need to manually select individual assets when setting up metadata access controls. Instead, you can build policies using dynamic filter rules—based on asset metadata like tags, schema, database, or qualified names.

Here’s how it works:

🧩 Create metadata policies using flexible rules

• Each rule filters assets based on metadata fields such as:

  • ✅ Tags (with support for tag values as well)
  • ✅ Schema Qualified Name
  • ✅ Database Qualified Name
  • ✅ Asset Qualified name
• These rules are composed inside personas, directly from the “Metadata Policies” section.

➕ Use up to 3 rules per policy

• You can combine up to three rules to define asset access.
• This makes your policy both powerful and targeted—no manual asset selection needed.

🌐 Requires connection selection first

• Before adding any rules, you must select a data connection.
• This ensures your filters are applied within the right context and metadata scope.

Why this matters: Dynamic rules let you govern entire categories of assets with just a few clicks, supporting governance at scale while staying maintainable and auditable.

Note- This feature won't work today if you have data quality turned on for your Atlan instance.

👏 Give it a shot

Try building your first rule-based metadata policy inside a persona today! Whether you're granting access to all Snowflake assets inside a connection tagged “PII” or restricting access to specific schemas, this new system makes it faster and smarter to govern access dynamically.

Let us know how you’re using it—we’re excited to hear what you think!

🎉 What’s new

The Atlan MCP Server is a powerful way to bring AI into your metadata workflows (such as managing your assets or glossaries), without sacrificing control or context.

With this update, you can use our remote MCP servers instantly in your IDE (think Cursor or Windsurf) or AI workflow tool of choice (like Claude or n8n) with no local overhead and authentication managed securely via Atlan.

✨ Let’s dig deeper

Here’s what this means for you in practice:

• Connect your IDEs or AI workflow tools to a remote MCP server using just the server’s URL and credentials
• Manage access with OAuth (SSO) or API keys
• Use MCP powered capabilities inside tools like Claude, n8n, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Windsurf, or Cursor without local setup
• Switch between multiple servers easily, helpful for dev, staging, and production environments
• Collaborate seamlessly, since teammates can connect to the same remote MCP without replicating installs
• Keep your local machine clean while still tapping into full MCP functionality

👏 Give it a shot

Read the setup guide for step-by-step instructions.

And be on the lookout for what's next with Atlan's MCP, from new actions to integrations with Slack, Teams and beyond

🎉 What's new

Access requests just got better!
You can now request access to BI assets directly within Atlan—just like you do for tables, views, and other data assets. Whether it's a dashboard in Power BI or a workbook in Tableau, this update helps streamline how users gain access to governed BI assets in your workspace.

✨ Let’s dig deeper

Here’s what this means for your data consumers and stewards:

🔓 Request Access on BI Assets

Users can now initiate access requests from:

• BI dashboards
• Reports
• Workbooks
  All these assets now show a "Request Access" button in Atlan, making governed BI assets part of the self-serve experience.

🛠️ Flexible Fulfillment Options

Once a request is raised, access can be granted using one of the following methods:

• ✅ JIRA ticket generation
• ✅ ServiceNow ticket generation
• ✅ Webhook with a customizable payload
  This ensures your existing IT and approval workflows remain fully in control.

⚠️ SQL + BI Assets? Here’s the catch.

If a request includes both SQL and BI assets, then:

• SQL assets may be fulfilled automatically via Atlan’s Insights module (if enabled)
• BI assets, however, will follow the external fulfillment process (JIRA/ServiceNow/Webhook)

This ensures compliance and auditability, while allowing flexibility in how access is granted across asset types.

Note: Fulfillment for BI assets does not currently support direct access provisioning inside Atlan.

👏 Give it a shot

Start exploring governed Access Requests on BI assets today—streamline how business users access dashboards, reports, and visualizations while keeping governance workflows intact. We can’t wait to hear how this simplifies your access management!

🎉 What's new

You can now get a complete picture of all your assets and products within a domain—including those in subdomains! This enhancement to the domain overview makes it easier than ever to understand how your data is structured and distributed at a glance.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Navigate to any domain in Atlan, and you’ll notice an updated Overview tab. Alongside metrics like total assets and total products, you’ll now see a breakdown of where those assets live:

• In domain – Assets and products directly housed in the current domain.
• In all subdomains – A combined count from all nested subdomains.

This enhancement provides greater clarity and visibility into your domain architecture, helping you answer key questions like:

• How many assets are centrally owned vs. distributed?
• Are there hidden data silos in subdomains?
• What’s the full footprint of this business domain?

Tip: Click into each section to explore the specific assets or products that contribute to the count.

👏 Give it a shot

Jump into your domain overview now and explore the new breakdown of assets and products! Whether you’re streamlining ownership or planning a cleanup, this enhancement gives you the visibility you need. Let us know how it helps!

🎉 What's new

Introducing Persona Activity Logs in Atlan! You can now stay on top of everything happening within a persona—including updates to navigation preferences, policies, and more. This new feature helps you maintain visibility, track changes, and ensure consistency across your personas with a complete audit trail of actions.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Inside any persona, you’ll now see a brand-new Activity tab alongside Overview, Policies, and Preferences. This tab surfaces a chronological timeline of all recent activity tied to that persona—whether it’s:

• A navigation preference being updated
• A metadata policy being created or changed
• A persona itself being modified

Each entry clearly shows:

• What was changed
• Who made the change
• When the change occurred

This enables better collaboration, smoother reviews, and accountability across your data teams.

Note: Activity logs are automatically maintained—you don’t need to take any action to enable them.

👏 Give it a shot

Explore the Activity tab in your personas to track updates in real-time and never miss a beat! Have feedback or ideas? We’d love to hear how this helps you work better with personas in Atlan.

🎉 What’s new

Atlan now supports a new tag propagation mode - lineage only 

✨ Let’s dig deeper

You can now propagate tags:

• Hierarchy & lineage allows tag propagation to child and downstream assets.
• Hierarchy only (no lineage) allows tag propagation to child assets only.
• [new] Lineage only (no hierarchy) allows tag propagation to downstream assets only.
• No propagation disables any tag propagation.

👏 Give it a shot

Ready to use propagation? Get started today:

• Tag propagation

As you explore the improvement, please feel free to share your feedback!

🎉 What’s New

A smarter way to request access! Users can now raise access requests at the database or schema level—eliminating the need to submit individual requests for each table or view. This makes access management faster, easier, and more scalable across large datasets.

📍 Request Access at a Higher Level

• Raise access requests at the Database or Schema level instead of individual assets
• Once approved, access is automatically granted to all child assets

⚙️ Configurable Access Management Workflows

• Admins can set up workflows to:

  • Grant access directly in Atlan
  • Or trigger external access flows via Jira, ServiceNow, or Webhooks

🛠 Approvals & Controls

• Approve or reject access requests at the database or schema level
• Any user assigned as an approver—whether Admin, Member, or Guest—can take action
• Admins can revoke access directly within Atlan or trigger revocation through connected source systems

🔔 Notifications & Tracking

• Automated alerts for access and revoke events via Inbox or Slack
• Full visibility into request status, who approved it, and when

👏 Give it a shot

This capability is now live in Public Preview for all organizations using Governance Workflows. Admins can immediately start using it in Access Management templates to speed up and simplify data access.

📘 Learn More:

• How to automate data governance

🎉 What’s new

You can now define asset scope in policy rules using either:

• Match All (AND condition): Assets must meet all selected criteria.
• Match Any (OR condition): Assets can meet any of the selected criteria.

✨  Let's dig deeper

This enhancement eliminates the need for duplicating policies when asset selection requires OR logic—making policy management faster, simpler, and more flexible.

• Save time: No more creating multiple policies for similar use cases.
• Simplify configurations: Handle complex asset selection within a single policy.
• Increase flexibility: Curate the exact asset scope you need with Match Any or Match All.

👏 Give it a shot

All users using the policy center, currently in public preview, can check out this feature! Join the conversation and help shape the future of policy center.