This Valentine’s Season, we’re reflecting on all our desires that got here to life in 2024 and wish to take a second to rejoice the individuals who make these desires actual—the people of information. 💙
On the coronary heart of Atlan’s story is a wall—our dream wall. Since our earliest days, it’s been a practice the place our crew comes collectively annually to write down down our boldest ambitions. These desires are usually not simply in regards to the milestones we hope to succeed in—they’re guiding lights for the way we assist information groups do their lives’ greatest work.
Placing up our first dream wall in 2019
Our Desires on the Wall: A Imaginative and prescient for Information Groups All over the place
From changing into “the icon on the desktop for information groups in all places” to “serving to the groups fixing the world’s largest issues, like curing most cancers,” these desires have formed our journey. 2024 marked one other extraordinary chapter on this journey—a yr the place many extra of those desires took flight. Along with our prospects, companions, and the Atlan crew, we’ve seen the facility of those desires remodel into one thing actual and significant.
Re:Govern 2024: Creating the Way forward for AI Governance with the People of Information
Constructing on the success of our inaugural buyer occasion, Re:Govern 2024 grew to become the trade’s first of its type digital convention devoted to the brand new period of information & AI governance. With visionary keynotes from Zhamak Dehghani on distributed information architectures and Eric Falthzik on scaling enterprise AI, Re:Govern emerged as a cornerstone for shaping the way forward for governance.
Furthermore, information leaders from Patagonia, Dropbox, and Basic Motors joined us in sharing their transformative journeys, demonstrating how they’re reimagining governance within the AI period. The convention additionally marked the launch of Lively Governance—our groundbreaking method that transforms governance right into a collaborative ecosystem, constructed to adapt to at present’s quickly altering and various information panorama.
Buyer Journeys Shaping 2024
The yr introduced unforgettable moments at world occasions. At Databricks Information+AI Summit keynote, Brian Ames shared how Atlan remodeled governance inside Basic Motors as they pursue targets like zero emissions. We couldn’t assist however consider the dream on our wall—the one about Atlan powering groups engaged on local weather change.
At Snowflake Summit, we launched our new imaginative and prescient for governance alongside leaders from HubSpot and Grainger, bringing one other dream to life: “To construct the way forward for information governance.”
We additionally created an expertise to recollect with our Atlan-branded airplane hovering over 15,000 attendees, an NBA-style locker room expertise, and an modern AI readiness mini-golf course.
All year long, information leaders shared their transformative journeys:
- On the Gartner Information & Analytics Summit, Martina Ivaničová from Kiwi.com demonstrated how they’re democratizing information for 100 million journey searches day by day with Atlan.
- At dbt Coalesce, Cortney Worthy from Dropbox showcased how Atlan helped them scale to control information from 700M customers and 550B items of content material.
By every information crew’s transformative journey, we confirmed the info group that Atlan isn’t simply constructing the way forward for information and AI governance—we’re creating it along with the people of information.
Innovation Constructed with Empathy
We dreamed of tackling the most important challenges in information and AI – with empathy on the core. This imaginative and prescient drove our product innovation all through 2024. We constructed Coverage Supervisor and Transparency Middle, which remodeled insurance policies from static documentation to guidelines that reside inside the instruments the people of information use every single day. Information Merchandise grew to become a common translator, bridging the language hole between engineers, analysts, and stewards. And with Information Contracts, we embedded governance straight into the day by day workflows, serving to information groups shift governance to the left.
Our dedication to understanding customers’ wants took us throughout Europe with Information in Transit, visiting seven cities. By sitting down with information leaders, we gathered their sincere insights, refining our imaginative and prescient to proceed constructing instruments that really assist their evolving wants.
For detailed insights from every metropolis, try our Information in Transit collection: Hamburg | Geneva | Lausanne | Brno | Berlin | Paris
Recognition That Celebrates our Neighborhood
We dreamed of attaining “the best buyer score of any DataOps instrument,” and in 2024, this dream got here true in outstanding methods. Atlan was named a Visionary within the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Information and Analytics Governance Platforms and earned prime rankings in Gartner Peer Insights. To rejoice this milestone, we created a particular music video honoring the visionary information leaders shaping the long run.
Atlan was additionally named a Chief in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Information Catalogs for Q3 2024, receiving the best scores throughout all distributors in each “Present Providing” and “Technique” classes. Forrester described Atlan as “an unparalleled associate” for organizations pursuing information democratization.
With 79 badges earned on G2 all year long, these milestones weren’t simply recognition—they had been proof of a dream coming true.
Constructing the Way forward for Enterprise Information
Once we secured our $105 million Collection C funding spherical, led by GIC and Meritech Capital, alongside commitments from Salesforce Ventures and PeakXV Companions, we had iconic traders be a part of us within the mission of serving to the people of information and AI do extra, collectively. Take a look at A New Period (Atlan’s Model)—our first ever music video celebrating this milestone.
We’re now seeing these early desires materialize throughout industries by means of our rising buyer base—from GM revolutionizing automotive information practices, to Fox reimagining media analytics, Autodesk innovating in know-how, and Nasdaq shaping the way forward for monetary information.
Trying Ahead to 2025: Extra Desires, Extra Love
To our prospects who belief us, the companions who innovate with us, and the Atlanians who construct with a lot care – you made 2024 extraordinary. As we stay up for 2025, we’re excited to push boundaries, remedy challenges, and dream even greater collectively.
We are able to’t wait to see what new desires we’ll write collectively, and produce to life subsequent.
With love and gratitude,
Crew Atlan 💙
