🎉 What's new

Introducing a new toggle in the admin center that allows Atlan admins to:

• Limit the view of all glossaries via glossary policies in personas 
• Unlock the ability to switch personas while viewing glossaries for their users

✨ Let's dig deeper

As an Atlan admin, you can turn on the Persona switcher for Glossary toggle from Labs in the admin center. This will allow your users to switch between personas while viewing glossaries. 

Once you have restricted glossary visibility:

• If a glossary policy has been configured for a selected persona, a user belonging to that persona will only be able to view the glossaries curated through glossary policies.
• If a user is not part of any persona, they will be unable to view any glossaries in Atlan.
• If a user is part of a persona that does not have any glossary policies or any policies configured, the user will be unable to view all glossaries.
• The restriction will be applicable to the Assets page, glossary tree, terms filter on the Assets page, terms in an asset sidebar, linked assets, and related terms.

👏 Give it a shot

Switch to better curation of your glossaries today by turning on the Labs toggle. And as you try it out, let us know what you think! Learn more: How to restrict glossary visibility.

🎉 What's new

Atlan’s browser extension opens up a sidebar within your IBM Cognos Analytics workspace and provides you with all the context you need, without having to switch tools.

Previously, users had to switch to Atlan for more information about their IBM Cognos Analytics assets — for example, who owns them or to analyze downstream impact. Now, you can use Atlan's browser extension to learn more about your folders, dashboards, packages, explorations, reports, files, data sources, and modules right from your IBM Cognos Analytics workspace.

🎉 What's new

Introducing announcement notifications on Slack and Teams! Your ability to share any announcement — information, issue, or warning — now goes beyond Atlan to informing your users directly on Slack or Teams. Easily broadcast your asset announcements on your favorite chat platforms and keep everyone seamlessly in the loop.

Learn more:

• How to create announcements
• How to integrate Slack
• How to integrate Microsoft Teams

🎉 What's new

Installing the Atlan browser extension is now a breeze with no more multi-step processes. Admins can now preconfigure custom domains for data sources, eliminating the task for each team member. This improvement ensures a smoother onboarding process and greater ease for all our extension enthusiasts!

🎉 What's new

Admin users can now configure the Atlan browser extension for managed browsers! As an admin user, if your organization uses a managed browser, you can configure, bulk install, and deploy the Atlan browser extension for all users in your organization.

Atlan supports bulk installing the browser extension for the following:

• Operating systems: macOS and Microsoft Windows
• Browsers: Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge

Bulk install the Atlan browser extension for your organization to streamline deployment and enhance productivity!

Learn more: How to configure the extension for managed browsers

Picture this: colleagues urgently needing to log JIRA issues for critical assets. In the past, it was a headache! Selecting the right project and issue type was like finding a needle in a haystack. Hours wasted navigating through the JIRA projects list in Atlan, trying to align tickets correctly.

But fear not! We've rolled out enhanced JIRA issue creation! Admins now wield the power to specify allowed projects and issue types, simplifying the entire process. No more guessing games. You can effortlessly pick the right options, ensuring spot-on ticket creation every single time.

Say goodbye to confusion and hello to seamless JIRA issue creation! ✨🎉

Introducing Starred Asset Notifications! 🌟🔔

Stay on top of activity happening for the assets you care about with our latest feature! Now, you can receive timely notifications on MS Teams for changes in your starred assets. Whether it's for governance, project impact, or routine updates, we've got you covered.

🌟 What will I get notified about?  🌐

1. 🏷️ Name
2. 📝 Description
3. 🏆 Certification
4. 👤 Owners
5. 📢 Announcement
6. 🔖 Tags (including propagation)
7. 📚 Readme
8. 📋 Terms

🌈 Get Notified Your Way!

• Select All Updates 🔄 - Receive notifications for all changes.
• Custom Updates 🎨 - Choose specific generic attributes you want to be notified about.

🎉 What's new

We’ve got some big news to share with all our Excel lovers out there — Atlan now integrates with Microsoft Excel!

Here’s what you can do with the Excel integration:

Enrich metadata in bulk

The new integration with Excel allows you to document descriptions, certificates, owners, tags, and announcements for your column assets directly in Excel and sync the metadata updates to Atlan with a single click.

Import and analyze impacted assets

Import your impacted assets to Microsoft Excel for lineage analysis. You will be able to assess the downstream impact of any changes made to an upstream asset for impact analysis.

Ready to integrate Atlan with Microsoft Excel? Learn more here:

• How to integrate Atlan with Microsoft Excel
• How to configure custom domains for Microsoft Excel
• How to update column metadata in Microsoft Excel
• How to download impacted assets in Microsoft Excel

🎉 What's new

You can now set up Teams notifications for glossary changes in Atlan! With real-time alerts sent to the Teams channel you configure, you'll be able to stay informed on the latest changes to your glossaries. You can either choose to receive alerts for all updates or limit notifications to specific types of updates.

You will need to be an admin user in Atlan to enable Teams notifications for glossary updates. Once enabled, anyone in the selected Teams channel will be able to view these alerts directly in Microsoft Teams.

Set up Teams notifications for glossary changes in Atlan!

Not a Teams user? No problem — Atlan also supports Slack notifications for glossary updates!

🎉 What's new

You can now set up Slack notifications for glossary changes in Atlan! With real-time alerts sent to the Slack channel you configure, you'll be able to stay up-to-date on the latest changes to your glossaries. You can either choose to receive alerts for all updates or customize the type of change alerts you want to receive.

You will need to be an admin user in Atlan to enable Slack notifications for glossary updates. Once enabled, anyone in the selected Slack channel will be able to view these alerts directly in Slack. From the addition of a new term or category to description, announcement, certificate updates and more, you can now stay informed on all the activity directly in Slack!

Set up Slack notifications for glossary changes in Atlan, and stay tuned for upcoming enhancements!