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title: "Customer Stories - Data Leaders Trust Atlan | Atlan"
url: "https://atlan.com/customers/"
description: "Discover how Mastercard, Workday, Virgin Media O2, and hundreds of enterprises use Atlan to govern data, accelerate AI, and build trusted data products at scale."
keywords: "data governance, AI governance, enterprise data catalog, data mesh, data observability, data lineage, metadata management, data discovery, data quality, active metadata, atlan customers, customer stories, data platform, data catalog tools, data trust"
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> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

**The most trusted enterprise context layer.** Atlan's customer page: video stories from data leaders at Mastercard, Virgin Media O2, Workday, CME Group and DigiKey, testimonials from the companies making AI useful with Atlan, and the full library of case studies.

## Customer videos

The hero plays five customer videos:

- **How Mastercard Designs Context on Atlan**: Andrew Reiskind, Chief Data Officer, Mastercard.
- **How VMO2 Powers Analytics Agents with Atlan**: Mauro Flores, Executive Vice President, Data Democratization, Virgin Media O2.
- **How Workday Connects Context on Atlan**: Joe DosSantos, Vice President, Enterprise Data and Analytics, Workday.
- **Why CME Group Partners with Atlan**: Kiran Panja, Managing Director, Cloud and Data Engineering, CME Group.
- **How DigiKey Uses Atlan as a Context Operating System**: Sridher Arumugham, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, DigiKey.

## Making AI useful for hundreds of leading businesses

Customers shown: Mastercard, HubSpot, Zoom, Dropbox, Autodesk, Nasdaq, Fox, PPG, GitLab, Virgin Media O2, Unilever, Workday, Elastic, NHS, Affirm, General Motors, easyJet, Medtronic, New York Life, Grainger.

What they say:

- **Mastercard.** "AI initiatives require more context than ever. Atlan's metadata lakehouse is configurable, intuitive, and able to scale to hundreds of millions of assets." Andrew Reiskind, Chief Data Officer. [Watch Mastercard's story](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/mastercard-context-by-design/)
- **HubSpot.** "Atlan's open and extensible foundation helps our technical team build applications to improve customer experiences in the AI era." Ashfaq Mohiuddin, VP, Enterprise Data & AI.
- **Fox.** "We have Atlan as the metadata plane across our tech stack, independent of where technology is. We have one place to define the data, understand what it means, and where it comes from." Oliver Gomes, VP, Analytics & Strategy. [Read Fox's story](https://atlan.com/customers/fox-governance-atlan/)
- **Virgin Media O2.** "Atlan has been a partner since day 1 in our journey in just one year, we have onboarded 6,000 people. Conversational analytics will go even further to reach every employee." Mauro Flores, Executive Vice President, Data Democratization. [Watch VMO2's story](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/virgin-media-o2-context-for-all/)
- **Workday.** "Atlan captures Workday's shared language to be leveraged by AI via its MCP server. As part of Atlan's AI labs, we're co-building the semantic layer that AI needs." Joe DosSantos, VP, Enterprise Data and Analytics. [Watch Workday's story](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-context-as-culture/)
- **Elastic.** "We're focused on how we can scale context development as much as possible, and where can we leverage Atlan AI to build the most robust definitions across our data estate and make sure we're propagating it upstream and downstream." Takashi Ueki, Head of Enterprise Data & Analytics. [Watch Elastic's story](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/hidden-strategies-behind-ai-ready-tech-pioneers/)
- **General Motors.** "Atlan has been a really good partner in helping us figure out how to register AI models and applications, and what metadata to put in place to meet the transparency requirements that [AI Governance] legislation asks for." Sherri Adame, Data Governance Lead. [Watch General Motors' story](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/contracts-context-and-cars-general-motors/)

## See how the world's best teams use Atlan

- [Inside Mastercard's Context Agents Rollout](https://atlan.com/context-in-practice-mastercard-recording/) (9 min video) - Zhenni Hu, Manager of AI and Data Governance at Mastercard, shows how AI documented 30,000 assets in two weeks and why stewards trust the result.

The rest of the carousel is featured customer videos, loaded on the page at https://atlan.com/customers/.

## Explore customer stories

- [How Dropbox Built a Context Layer for Federated Data Ownership](https://atlan.com/customers/dropbox-governance-atlan/) (case study)
- [How Fox Unified Context Across Every Part of Their Tech Stack](https://atlan.com/customers/fox-governance-atlan/) (case study)
- [How General Motors Uses Atlan For Transparent AI](https://atlan.com/customers/general-motors-governance-atlan/) (case study)
- [How Elastic Scales Context Across Their Data Estate with Atlan](https://atlan.com/customers/data-governance-at-elastic-explained/) (case study)
- [How Porto is Building an Encyclopedia of Context with Atlan](https://atlan.com/porto-data-governance/) (video)
- [How Autodesk Powers a Context Layer Across Their Data Mesh on Snowflake](https://atlan.com/customers/autodesk-data-mesh-snowflake-atlan/) (case study)
- [How Postman Found the Missing Context Layer in Their Data Stack](https://atlan.com/customers/how-postman-fixed-a-missing-layer-in-their-data-stack/) (case study)
- [How Nasdaq Built a Context Layer to Drive Their Enterprise Data Strategy](https://atlan.com/customers/nasdaq-active-metadata-strategy/) (case study)
- [How Dropbox Scales Context with Federated Ownership and Trusted Data Products](https://atlan.com/virtual-event/masterclass-data-governance/) (webinar recording)
- [How Dr. Martens Built Context for Global Data Transparency with Atlan](https://atlan.com/customers/dr-martens-modern-data-catalog/) (case study)
- [How Zip Made Context a Company-Wide Practice](https://atlan.com/customers/zip-gamifies-data-governance/) (case study)
- [Why a $3 Billion Healthcare Provider Chose Atlan as Their Context Layer](https://f.hubspotusercontent30.net/hubfs/6880682/Scripps%20Health%20Case%20Study%20(2).pdf) (case study, PDF)
- [How Porto is Building an Enterprise Context Layer for Their Data Platform](https://atlan.com/customers/porto-data-catalog/) (case study)
- [How Aliaxis Created a Shared Context Layer for a Worldwide Team](https://atlan.com/customers/aliaxis-worldwide-glossary/) (case study)
- [How Tide Embedded Privacy Context into Automated Data Processes](https://atlan.com/customers/tide-gdpr-automated-privacy/) (case study)

Join hundreds who are shipping AI that's useful, with context: [Book a Demo](https://atlan.com/forms/talk-to-sales-contact/) / [See Product Tour](https://atlan.com/context-layer-demo/)