🎉 What's new

With this update, we’ve introduced several improvements to the workflow experience:

• Users can now add a custom name to workflows.
• We now display the user who has stopped a workflow for better traceability.
• The Run Workflow button will be disabled if a workflow is already running, preventing overlapping executions.

These changes enhance your workflow management and improve overall usability.

✨ Let's dig deeper

• Improved Workflow Management: Allowing users to add custom names to workflows provides better organization and easier identification of workflows, especially in complex processes.
• Enhanced Traceability: Displaying the user who stopped a workflow increases accountability and helps track the source of any interruptions, making it easier to troubleshoot and manage workflows.
• Prevention of Overlapping Executions: Disabling the Run Workflow button when a workflow is already running prevents accidental overlapping executions, ensuring smoother operations and preventing potential errors.

Together, these enhancements streamline workflow management, improve collaboration, and reduce the risk of operational issues.

👏 Give it a shot

Check out these enhancements and let us know what you think!

🎉 What's new

We have added a metadata popover to input and output nodes to give you additional context about them. To get the full context about the asset, you can still view it all in the sidebar.

In a previous release, we improved the navigation experience between technical and pipeline lineage. With this release, enjoy access to more information about your input and output nodes.

🎉 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

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

As an Atlan admin, you can now permanently remove users from your Atlan instance and transfer asset ownership to a fellow team member. Note that removing a user from your Atlan instance is a permanent and irreversible action.

With the remove user capability now available, Atlan admins can:

• Remove other users from Atlan.
• Transfer assets from the removed user to another user within the same flow.

Learn more: How to manage users

🎉 What's new

You can now use the display name of your custom metadata attributes to update your dbt assets in Atlan!

Atlan now supports two ways to enrich custom metadata for your dbt assets programmatically:

• businessAttributes — supports the existing method of using hashed-string names.
• businessAttributeNames — accepts display names for custom metadata in a human-readable format.

Enjoy additional flexibility to collaborate with key stakeholders as you enrich your dbt assets in Atlan.

Learn more: Change custom metadata on assets

🎉 What's new

Raise and track data access and revocation requests with ease using the brand-new ServiceNow integration! Once requests have been approved, tickets will be auto-created in ServiceNow, and you will be able to track their status directly in Atlan — ensuring full visibility without manual creation.

Here's how it works:

1. You must have the governance workflows and inbox module enabled in your Atlan workspace.
2. Your Atlan admin needs to set up the ServiceNow integration while working with a System Administrator of your ServiceNow instance with a security_admin role.
3. Once set up, you can use ServiceNow to request or revoke data access for governed assets in Atlan or any other data source!

✨ Let's dig deeper

Managing data access and revocation requests across multiple systems can be time-consuming and error-prone, often resulting in incomplete details or unnecessary back-and-forth.

Atlan makes this easy with the ServiceNow integration:

• Raise data access requests — ServiceNow can now be configured as an action within Atlan’s data access governance workflow. After approval, ServiceNow tickets are automatically generated with all the required details.
• Revoke data access — Atlan admins can now raise data access revocation requests for any user on a source, directly from Atlan. Once initiated, a ServiceNow ticket for the revocation request will be automatically created, streamlining the process.
• Real-time tracking — track the status of your ServiceNow requests in real time and right within Atlan, reducing delays and increasing transparency.

👏 Give it a shot

Ready to integrate ServiceNow with Atlan? Say goodbye to fragmented workflows and switching between different tools. Use the ServiceNow integration in Atlan to raise requests and work with your data, all in one place!

Learn more:

• How to integrate ServiceNow
• How to link your ServiceNow account
• How to automate data governance
• How to create governance workflows
• How to revoke data access

🎉 What's new

Introducing a new user role in Atlan — Workflow admin! This role helps your users manage connector workflows while having member-like access to other areas of the product. You can delegate workflow management duties without giving users access to the rest of the governance center or any part of the admin center.

✨ Let's dig deeper

The workflow admin subrole allows for:

• Enhanced delegation — you can delegate connector workflow management to specific users without giving them access to other admin capabilities.
• Improved security — a workflow admin will not be added to the “All admins” group on connections. This means that you have the ability to add a workflow admin to a connection only if you want them to manage the connection. With member-like access required for other areas of the product, your existing persona configurations will work seamlessly.

👏 Give it a shot

As an Atlan admin, you can head straight to the admin center and change the role of an existing user to that of a workflow admin or create a new user as a workflow admin. And as you try it, let us know what you think!

Learn more: How to delegate administration