This Valentine’s Season, we’re reflecting on all our desires that got here to life in 2024 and need to take a second to rejoice the individuals who make these desires actual—the people of knowledge. 💙
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 put in writing down our boldest ambitions. These desires usually are not simply in regards to the milestones we hope to succeed in—they’re guiding lights for a way we assist knowledge groups do their lives’ finest work.
Placing up our first dream wall in 2019
Our Desires on the Wall: A Imaginative and prescient for Information Groups In all places
From changing into “the icon on the desktop for knowledge groups in every single place” 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 12 months the place many extra of those desires took flight. Along with our prospects, companions, and the Atlan crew, we’ve seen the ability of those desires rework 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 turned the business’s first of its type digital convention devoted to the brand new period of knowledge & AI governance. With visionary keynotes from Zhamak Dehghani on distributed knowledge architectures and Eric Falthzik on scaling enterprise AI, Re:Govern emerged as a cornerstone for shaping the way forward for governance.
Furthermore, knowledge leaders from Patagonia, Dropbox, and Normal 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 Energetic Governance—our groundbreaking method that transforms governance right into a collaborative ecosystem, constructed to adapt to right now’s quickly altering and various knowledge panorama.
Buyer Journeys Shaping 2024
The 12 months introduced unforgettable moments at international occasions. At Databricks Information+AI Summit keynote, Brian Ames shared how Atlan reworked governance inside Normal 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 knowledge governance.”
We additionally created an expertise to recollect with our Atlan-branded aircraft hovering over 15,000 attendees, an NBA-style locker room expertise, and an progressive AI readiness mini-golf course.
All year long, knowledge leaders shared their transformative journeys:
- On the Gartner Information & Analytics Summit, Martina Ivaničová from Kiwi.com demonstrated how they’re democratizing knowledge for 100 million journey searches each day with Atlan.
- At dbt Coalesce, Cortney Worthy from Dropbox showcased how Atlan helped them scale to manipulate knowledge from 700M customers and 550B items of content material.
By means of every knowledge crew’s transformative journey, we confirmed the info group that Atlan isn’t simply constructing the way forward for knowledge and AI governance—we’re creating it along with the people of knowledge.
Innovation Constructed with Empathy
We dreamed of tackling the most important challenges in knowledge 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 reworked insurance policies from static documentation to guidelines that reside throughout the instruments the people of knowledge use day-after-day. Information Merchandise turned a common translator, bridging the language hole between engineers, analysts, and stewards. And with Information Contracts, we embedded governance instantly into the each day workflows, serving to knowledge 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 knowledge leaders, we gathered their trustworthy insights, refining our imaginative and prescient to proceed constructing instruments that really help their evolving wants.
For detailed insights from every metropolis, take a look at our Information in Transit sequence: Hamburg | Geneva | Lausanne | Brno | Berlin | Paris
Recognition That Celebrates our Group
We dreamed of attaining “the best buyer score of any DataOps software,” 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 high scores in Gartner Peer Insights. To rejoice this milestone, we created a particular music video honoring the visionary knowledge leaders shaping the longer term.
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 companion” for organizations pursuing knowledge 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
After 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 part of us within the mission of serving to the people of knowledge and AI do extra, collectively. Try 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 knowledge practices, to Fox reimagining media analytics, Autodesk innovating in expertise, and Nasdaq shaping the way forward for monetary knowledge.
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 look forward to 2025, we’re excited to push boundaries, resolve challenges, and dream even greater collectively.
We will’t wait to see what new desires we’ll write collectively, and convey to life subsequent.
With love and gratitude,
Group Atlan 💙
