--- title: "Atlan Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave Data Governance Solutions, Q3 2025" url: "https://atlan.com/forrester-wave/" description: "Atlan named a Leader and Customer favorite, earning the highest possible score in 15 criteria" keywords: "Forrester Wave, Data Governance, Active Metadata, Forrester Wave Leader, Forrester Wave Customer Favorite" --- > 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 was named a Leader and a Customer Favorite in The Forrester Wave: Data Governance Solutions, Q3 2025, earning the highest possible score in 15 criteria. This is the third time Forrester has designated Atlan a Wave Leader. The full report is gated behind a form: [download the Forrester report at https://atlan.com/forrester-wave/](https://atlan.com/forrester-wave/). Recognition shown on the page: Forrester Wave Leader 2025, Forrester Customer Favorite, Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice, G2 Spring 2025 Grid Leader. ## Atlan's highlights from the Forrester Wave Lead quote: "Atlan is a top choice for organizations seeking a modern, AI-native governance platform that blends intelligent automation with deep integration and broad user accessibility." - "The company's roadmap mirrors its vision to set AI-native governance, proactive policy execution, and role-based personalization at the core of an intuitive and intelligent governance engine." - "The solution enables seamless alignment with existing data environments, supporting fast deployments and embedding governance directly into daily workflows." - "Its superior adoption across customer organizations reflects its ease of use and commitment to data literacy." - "Atlan offers features that are among the best in class for policy management, stewardship, and collaborative governance." ## Highest possible scores in 15 criteria Atlan received the highest possible score in 15 criteria. The per-criterion table is shown on the page as an image; the full scores are in the report. ## From The Forrester Wave: Leading providers bet on agentic AI with a vision of self-driving governance Data governance has outgrown its compliance roots: in today's AI-fueled and data-saturated enterprise, it's the control plane for trust, agility, and scale. The next frontier isn't just about managing metadata, it's about activating it. Agentic AI is setting the pace for the market, promising self-driving governance systems that automate classification, policy enforcement, and remediation while keeping humans in the loop. Recently announced acquisitions in the industry reflect the growing importance of this shift: leading technology providers are prioritizing data governance as a cornerstone for enabling AI readiness and advancing agentic AI capabilities. As a result, data governance solutions customers should consider providers that: - Infuse governance workflows with automation and AI. - Empower business users and stewards with intuitive, intelligent experiences. - Align governance capabilities with business value creation. Report quotes: "Governance is evolving from a defensive posture to a strategic enabler." "The direction is clear: Governance is becoming self-steering." Forrester disclaimer: Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. See [Forrester's objectivity policy](https://www.forrester.com/about-us/objectivity/). ## Our story: the future of data governance Over the last 5 years Atlan has pioneered each governance category shift. This year, Atlan has been reimagining AI-native governance. Activate, Atlan's annual product showcase, covers why Forrester designated Atlan a Wave Leader for the third time: [watch Activate on demand](https://atlan.com/activate/). Timeline: | Year | Milestone | Linked piece | |---|---|---| | 2021 | Collaborative Data Governance | Press: [Data Governance Has a Serious Branding Problem](https://towardsdatascience.com/data-governance-has-a-serious-branding-problem-7925b909712b/) | | 2023 | Active Metadata & Data Governance | Article: [Active Data Governance: What It Is and How to Get Started](https://atlan.com/active-data-governance-explained/) | | 2024 | Metadata Control Plane | Press: [Atlan scores $105M for its data control plane, as LLMs boost importance of data](https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/08/atlan-scores-105m-for-data-control-plane-just-as-llms-increase-importance-of-data/) | | 2025 | AI-native Data Governance | Article: [Everyone's Building with AI. But How Many Are Actually Seeing Value?](https://atlan.com/know/ai-value-chasm/) | | 2025 | Atlan Activate: Reimagining Data Governance & Catalogs in the AI Era | Virtual event unveiling innovations in AI Governance, Data Quality, Talk to Data, and Metadata Lakehouse: [watch on demand](https://atlan.com/activate/) | [Book a Demo](https://atlan.com/forms/talk-to-sales-contact/)