--- title: "Atlan Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions" url: "https://atlan.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-metadata-management-solutions-2025/" description: "Atlan has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions. Discover why active metadata management is essential for powering enterprise AI." keywords: "Atlan, Gartner Magic Quadrant, Metadata Management, Metadata Management Solutions, Active Metadata, Data Governance, Gartner 2025, Metadata for AI, Atlan Leader Gartner" --- > 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 is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions, published 3 November 2025. Gartner evaluated 15 platforms across use cases like data usability, data governance, and AI readiness. The evaluation shows why metadata is becoming the control plane for analytics and AI, and what separates leaders like Atlan. Atlan also has top ratings in Gartner Peer Insights. The report is gated behind a form: [get the report at https://atlan.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-metadata-management-solutions-2025/](https://atlan.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-metadata-management-solutions-2025/). "D&A Leaders must improve metadata management maturity or risk AI failure." Gartner ## 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:** 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 Reviews from Gartner Peer Insights on why organizations like Nasdaq, General Motors, and HubSpot partner with Atlan: - "Atlan has significantly improved the way we manage and discover data across the organization... an excellent product that continues to evolve in the right direction." ([review](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/active-metadata-management/vendor/atlan/product/atlan/review/view/6162150)) - "The entire experience with Atlan has been amazing from start to finish. They were incredibly easy to work with..." ([review](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/active-metadata-management/vendor/atlan/product/atlan/review/view/6215752)) - "The flexibility and ease of use is a huge plus, and the open API enables us to plan for more advanced functionality..." ([review](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/active-metadata-management/vendor/atlan/product/atlan/review/view/6215752)) - "[Atlan] helps bring together our data and the people working on the data. Has become the one-stop shop for searching across our entire data ecosystem." ([review](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/active-metadata-management/vendor/atlan/product/atlan/review/view/6147540)) [Read more on Gartner Peer Insights](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/data-and-analytics-governance-platforms/vendor/atlan/product/atlan) Customer quotes: - "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 ## Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026 (Mar 9 - 11, 2026, as listed on the page) See the Context Layer powering AI at Mastercard, GM, Workday and CME. Atlan makes AI 5x more accurate by closing the pilot-to-production gap with a Context Layer that unifies metadata and governance. As a dual Gartner Leader in Metadata Management and Data Governance, Atlan helps enterprise data teams make AI systems production-ready faster and with confidence. [Meet Atlan at the Summit](https://atlan.com/gartner-meeting/) / [See all events](https://atlan.com/events/) ## Build the metadata context your AI needs Traditional, documentation-based metadata tools can't support AI at scale. The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management explains why active metadata is essential for trustworthy AI. Source and disclaimer: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions, Melody Chien, 3 November 2025. (c) 2025 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner and Magic Quadrant and Peer Insights are registered trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. The GARTNER PEER INSIGHTS CUSTOMERS' CHOICE badge is a trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. 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