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title: "Modern Data Catalog for BigQuery - Atlan"
url: "https://atlan.com/data-catalog-for-bigquery/"
description: "Democratize and centrally manage all your data assets on BigQuery. Connect seamlessly with BI tools like Looker and Sisense, auto-generate lineage, and maintain data quality checks with the Atlan data catalog."
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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/

Atlan's landing page for BigQuery teams. **Modern data catalog for BigQuery:** extremely fast and intuitive, Atlan is a cloud-first data catalog built for the BigQuery data warehouse, fully virtualized on BigQuery.

## Democratize all your BigQuery data assets (Data Catalog 3.0)

1. **Google-like search** - quickly find any data asset (tables, databases, BI dashboards or saved queries) in one place.
2. **Searchable business glossary** - correlate business terms with any data object (tables or columns, saved SQL snippets, reproducible queries) to build a common understanding of the data and how to use it.
3. **Lineage and impact analysis** - reveal how data has evolved through its lifecycle, where it came from, and which assets a change will impact.
4. **Easy governance** - manage data usage and adoption across your ecosystem, wherever your data goes, via granular governance and access controls.
5. **Collaborate with ease** - in-line chats and annotations; share data assets and queries with a single link.
6. **Visual query builder** - run Excel-like queries (filters, aggregations, grouping) on petabytes of data from your data lakes and warehouses, no coding required.

## Customer story: Funding Societies | Modalku Group

"With Atlan, we were able to discover and manage 2,500+ data assets from diverse data sources (i.e., the tables from Snowflake & Postgres, and BI dashboards from Sisense) with over 46,000 columns." - Manish Kumar, Head of Data Management & Engineering, Funding Societies | Modalku Group. Story: data governance at SEA's largest digital P2P lending platform ([read it](https://medium.com/fsmk-engineering/data-governance-journey-at-seas-largest-digital-p2p-lending-platform-part-2-ebaa098b6acf)).

## By role

- **Data scientists and analysts - save time in exploration and discovery.** Atlan's contextual metadata, documentation, and profiling save 95% of the time spent on discovery and exploration.
- **Data engineers - surface data issues via lineage.** Automatic lineage and impact analysis catch data issues before they catch you.
- **Business users - one search window for all data and dashboards.** An accessible, interconnected view of all your organization's data and assets for non-technical users.
- **IT and stewards - granular access control and governance.** Automated PII classification, granular access control, and usage tracking.

## Partners and recognition

Cloud-first technology partnerships; recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor; built on the best of open source.

## Delivered for agility

- **Quick deployment** - deploys on your VPC or as a managed service.
- **Open API architecture** - integrate data quality-based rules and SLAs into ETL tools, pipelines, and BI dashboards.
- **Auto-crawling of metadata** - ping your data source directly to use existing metadata.
- **Auto-classification of PII** - dynamically create classifications like PII and GDPR to protect sensitive data.
- **Built for non-tech users** - designed to be naturally intuitive for all users.
- **Monitoring and alerts** - alerts and notifications via Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email.
- **Approval workflows** - crowdsource metadata, request access to datasets, and more.
- **Downstream integrations** - out-of-the-box integrations with BI tools like Tableau, PowerBI, and Sisense.
- **Quick data snapshots** - previews of data sets, linked assets, associated classifications, and glossaries.

## Pricing: no heavy costs upfront, pay as you go

Customers report up to 60x speed to insight, 70% greater business engagement, and ROI realization within 2 weeks.

- No hefty upfront licensing fees
- Subscription-based pricing
- Enterprise-grade security

[Book a Demo](https://atlan.com/forms/talk-to-sales-contact/) / [See the product tour](https://atlan.com/context-layer-demo/)