Every month, the Atlan engineering group goes via the method of prepping new options, testing them out, and ensuring they’re JUST RIGHT earlier than feeding them to hungry prospects and prospects.
Final month was no completely different. With new methods so that you can entry metadata context, enrich your metadata panorama, and glean insights out of your information, there was lots to be glad about this November.
Range is a characteristic
Range is the one actuality in the case of information groups, from enterprise customers, to information analysts, to information engineers and extra. Every has a various set of instruments they use, from BI dashboards and CRM techniques to information pipelines and cloud information warehouses. Wouldn’t it’s simpler for customers to get the context they want proper within the instruments they spend most of their time in? At Atlan, we predict so!
Atlan Chrome Extension
Get with the circulation? No, extra like keep within the circulation! That’s precisely what the brand new Atlan Chrome extension permits customers to do — get the context you want, the place you want it.
Think about you’re taking a look at a dashboard and need to know who owns it and what a metric means. How would you go about it?
Effectively, you’ll most likely have to determine who the proprietor was. Then you definately would almost certainly take a display screen seize of the dashboard, electronic mail or Slack it to that proprietor, and ask your questions. Not anymore!
Now you’ll be able to skip all these steps by merely clicking on the Atlan icon in your browser. It’ll open the Atlan Chrome extension proper in your dashboard, supplying you with all of the context you want proper whenever you want it.
Leverage the Atlan Chrome extension in Looker, Tableau On-line, Snowsight, Mode, Energy BI, BigQuery, and Salesforce, with extra instruments on the best way.
November is a time to attach together with your (meta)information household
It’s the time of the yr to attach with household and buddies. That’s why Atlan continues to make connecting to extra information instruments, previous and new, a high precedence.
A brand new SAP HANA connector package deal
For a lot of corporations, ERP techniques are the lifeblood of their group — for accounting, procurement, compliance, and extra. Producing reviews on these firm metrics may help with higher decision-making.
And guess what? No one needs to overlook the celebration! That’s why we’re excited to announce a local connection to SAP HANA, the preferred ERP system.
Shortly configure the connection to your SAP HANA occasion from the Atlan Market and convey your SAP HANA property into Atlan, enabling governance, lineage, and — with direct connectivity — querying.
Help for Microsoft SQL Server
Atlan doesn’t maintain any grudges in the case of information. Whereas we’re all about leveraging the facility of the cloud, we understand that discovering information property in on-premise techniques has been a giant problem. Our prospects and prospects have spoken, and we hear you. Provided that quite a lot of legacy information property are likely to reside in these on-premise techniques, it’s crucial to catalog and construct governance round these property.
Now you’ll be able to ingest Microsoft SQL Server on-premise databases and see them in Atlan. This may assist in fixing main use instances like on-premise system discovery and migration to cloud information warehouses.
Bulk replace metadata with Google Sheets
We all know that documenting metadata is difficult. Whereas we will’t fully eradicate the method of manually documenting metadata, our Google Sheets integration will velocity up the metadata documentation course of for information groups.
The brand new integration with Google Sheets permits you to doc descriptions, certifications, and bulletins for columns in Google Sheets and sync all of it again to Atlan with a single click on.
Queries, queries, and extra queries
Info and motion are what information queries are all about. Atlan needs to make it straightforward for customers to discover and analyze all the tables they need to question, no matter their skillset, via written queries or the Visible Question Builder. We deliver the facility of metadata into the querying expertise to create a novel strategy to construct and perceive queries.
Introducing the first-ever metadata-enriched question editor
Atlan’s core goal is to create context and allow highly effective information discovery by activating metadata. Why? As a result of we will! However severely, we need to change the best way information groups are capable of work with and perceive information throughout their complete information property. With this launch, we’re enriching our Insights question editor with metadata!
When hovering over columns and tables utilized in a question, customers will see a popup with metadata like descriptions, classifications, and homeowners. This popup permits all customers, even those that are unfamiliar with the SQL question, to grasp and get context on each information asset used.
A greater strategy to share context for saved queries
Saved queries are an integral a part of democratizing entry to information, however they want context-rich documentation to assist your group perceive and use them.
With this launch, we’ve made it simpler so as to add context to saved queries via accessible descriptions and bulletins. This may higher empower your teammates who need to use saved queries for analytics.
Question columns from the asset sidebar
Bear in mind when you might solely question a desk from the asset profile or from the desk sidebar? Wasn’t that so annoying? Particularly whenever you solely wished to question a column!
Effectively, this replace makes it doable to additionally question a particular column from the asset profile and the sidebar, via written SQL queries or the Visible Question Builder.
What does this imply for you? Now you may get to querying quicker, proper from the sidebar, and think about a particular column of information with out querying your entire desk, saving prices on working queries.
E mail notification for failed scheduled queries
Don’t you hate being the final to know and the primary one individuals complain to?
Now you’ll get an electronic mail notification at any time when a scheduled question fails, with the title of the question, so you’ll be able to troubleshoot and get it working very quickly.
Finer controls for scheduled queries
We all know that a few of you might be very explicit in the case of scheduling queries, so we wished to make it as granular as doable.
With this launch, now you can:
- Go right down to the minute for hourly and every day runs
- Choose a number of days for a weekly run
- Choose a number of dates for a month-to-month run
- Write your individual customized cron
That’s what we name finer controls round scheduling queries.
Obtain an affect evaluation report
Making modifications to information is the simple half, however what else will probably be affected whenever you change a column title or take away a discipline from a desk?
With this launch, you’ll now be capable to obtain your asset’s downstream and upstream affect as a listing. When modifications are made to your property, now you can get context on the modifications’ downstream affect.
This report will even assist with debugging points in an asset by making it simpler to carry out root-cause evaluation on upstream property.
Get your information elements proper with reporting and governance
Wouldn’t it’s nice if I might have a centralized place the place I can get a visible perspective of my complete information property? Someplace to see what information property are being utilized all through the organizations in a single browser primarily based expertise? What if I might see what property are lacking crucial metadata info, like descriptions or related enterprise phrases?
Fortunately that is all obtainable — you simply should click on the Reporting tab! And this month, now we have continued to enhance that have throughout a mess of capabilities.
Introducing an all-new Governance Dashboard within the Reporting Middle
We’re glad to introduce an all-new Governance Dashboard within the Reporting Middle. Consider this as your one-stop store for managing all facets of governance in Atlan, together with Personas, Functions, Classifications, and Requests.
You’ll now be capable to reply questions like: “What number of personas in Atlan have question entry?”, “What number of insurance policies are current in Atlan?” , “What number of property have been categorized by way of propagation?” and lots of extra! Governance doesn’t should be troublesome, and the brand new Governance Dashboard is right here to assist.
New updates to the Insights Dashboard within the Reporting Middle
Insights about insights? No means! Very similar to the Governance Dashboard, the Atlan Reporting Middle now has an Insights Dashboard to assist observe queries run in Atlan.
Discover the preferred queries, the customers who save probably the most queries, and observe their enrichment progress. This helps you perceive which queries are lacking essential metadata like certification, classification, descriptions, phrases and extra.
Monitor utilization patterns of insights in your group and perceive who makes use of it probably the most, in addition to how usually your sources are queried over time!
Implement consumer credentials to view a pattern information preview
“I’m sorry, however we don’t have you ever in our system. We will’t allow you to in.“
Isn’t this best? Now connection admins can drive customers to validate their credentials earlier than viewing pattern information previews, serving to you implement higher governance throughout your group.
At Atlan, we need to make sure that you get probably the most worth out of your metadata. We’re always searching for methods to enhance our prospects’ expertise with the Atlan platform. These options are only a subset of all the nice enhancements that now we have made not too long ago.
To study extra about all the newest options in Atlan, go to shipped.atlan.com. In case you don’t have entry to the most recent and biggest model of Atlan, attain out to your Buyer Success Supervisor.
