The second brain for your business
“Our idea was to build more than a data catalog. We don’t only want to have the tables, the columns, and the documentation, we want to expand our domains to go beyond data literacy.”
Danrlei Alves
Senior Data Governance Analyst
Organize your glossary
the way you want
A Term is the fundamental unit of your glossary. It can be a KPI definition, metric formula, or business taxonomy — it’s up to you. The special part? Group collections of Terms into Categories, and create multi-level hierarchies that mimic the way you work.
Mimic business domains
Mimic data
domains
Mimic data
sources
The connected semantic layer
for your business
In Atlan, the glossary is more than just a dictionary. It’s an activated knowledge network for your business, where you can create relationships between definitions, metrics, and assets.
Related terms
Link related definitions and metrics to create a connected organization.
Linked assets
Find glossary context in every asset, every time you search.
Search by terms
Find assets faster by searching for terms like MQL, not table names.
Rich documentation for rich context
Crowdsource READMEs
Assign users to pull tribal knowledge right into your README.
Embed documentation
Make your documentation come to life with powerful, native embeds.
Fast, beautiful formatting
Type / for Notion-like commands and powerful formatting.
360° context for every term, category, and glossary
Add owners
Know who’s responsible for every term and who you can reach out to.
Certify terms
Trust your business definitions by seeing the certified icon.
Track activity
See how a metric formula has changed over time and why.
Announcements
Get updates on major changes to terms and glossaries.
Everyone suggests, you approve
Get rid of tribal knowledge with Requests. Anyone with view access to data can suggest owners, missing terms, or a change to the description. It’s in your hands to approve.
Members suggest
See something missing? Make a suggestion by sending a Request.
Admins decide
Approve or reject a Request from your personalized home.
“We needed something that could help bridge the gap between publishers and consumers, so we adopted a data catalog. Atlan is the layer that brings a lot of the metadata that publishers provide to the consumers, and it’s where consumers can discover and use the data they need.”
Mark Kidwell
Chief Data Architect, Data Platforms
Pick up where you left off
Upload a CSV file
Magically populate your glossary with a simple CSV file.
Monitor with Upload History
Learn about the status, owner, length, and results of your Bulk Uploads.
“Each engineer was answering questions 10 to 20% of their time. And then you multiply that over a certain number of employees across the team, that’s hundreds of hours per month that you’re losing in terms of productivity. Atlan reduced it really, really significantly.”
Alex Bendix
Data Product Manager
