Atlan is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™
for Metadata Management Solutions
Gartner evaluated 15 platforms across use cases like data usability, data governance, and AI readiness. The evaluation reveals why metadata is becoming the control plane for analytics and AI — and what separates leaders like Atlan
"D&A Leaders must improve metadata management maturity or risk AI failure." - Gartner
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What Gartner's evaluation reveals about metadata for the AI era
Gartner assessed 15 vendors across five critical use cases as metadata evolves from passive documentation to active orchestration.
Key findings from the report:
- Metadata maturity is critical for AI success
Gartner warns that D&A leaders must improve metadata management maturity or risk AI failure. By 2027, adoption of active metadata practices is expected to increase by more than 75%. - Vendors are expected to deliver across five use cases
Gartner evaluated platforms on data usability enablement, data governance, data engineering, AI readiness, and enabling modern data architectures. - Technical capabilities underpin modern metadata platforms
Data lineage and impact analysis, semantics, and orchestration and automation were identified as essential capabilities for AI-ready data and architectures such as data mesh and data products. - The market is moving toward "metadata anywhere"
Metadata platforms are evolving beyond catalogs into orchestration layers that enable analytics, governance, and AI across the data ecosystem.
Atlan powers cutting edge use cases at AI-forward companies
"Atlan's metadata lakehouse is configurable across all our tool sets and is flexible enough to get us to a future state."
Andrew Reiskind
CDO @ Mastercard
"All of the work that we did to get to a shared language amongst people at Workday can be leveraged by AI via Atlan's MCP server. And as part of Atlan's AI Labs, we're co-building the semantic layer that AI needs with new constructs like context products."
Joe DosSantos
VP of Enterprise Data and Analytics @ Workday
"Atlan is much more than a catalog of catalogs. It's more of a context operating system…Atlan enabled us to easily activate metadata for everything from discovery in the marketplace to AI governance to data quality to an MCP server delivering context to AI models."
Sridher Arumugham
CDAO @ DigiKey
"We need partners who move fast...Atlan has moved at light speed for us."
Kiran Panja
Managing Director @ CME Group
Build the metadata context your AI needs
Traditional, documentation-based metadata tools can’t support AI at scale. Learn why active metadata is essential for trustworthy AI from the Gartner® MagicQuadrant™ for Metadata Management.
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