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title: "Building a Business Case for a Data Catalog | Atlan"
url: "https://atlan.com/downloads/ultimate-guide-business-case-data-catalog/"
description: "What is a data catalog and how can Atlan help you with it?"
keywords: "data catalog, data catalog business value, data catalog costs, data catalog value"
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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/

A free guide from Atlan on how to map the costs and efforts of setting up a data catalog to tangible business outcomes.

## The guide

- Title: Report: Building a Business Case for a Data Catalog
- Format: PDF, embedded on the page with a Download Now button
- Download: [Building a Business Case for a Data Catalog (PDF)](https://website-assets.atlan.com/docs/Atlan-Guide-Business-Case-Data-Catalog.pdf)