Snowflake Horizon
+ Atlan
Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides built-in context and governance for AI in Snowflake. Atlan extends that context and governance across your entire data stack to drive future-proof AI use cases for both technical and business teams.
"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
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Atlan adds capabilities, extends them to more systems and user types
Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides governance foundation within Snowflake. Atlan extends trust, context, and control across your entire data stack for comprehensive governance.
Enable federated, interoperable, multi-platform control plane
Horizon catalog governs Snowflake, and Atlan extends that controls across the heterogenous stack of cloud platforms, BI tools, ETL tools and SaaS solutions
Make data usable for everyone
Horizon data catalog serves technical users, while Atlan brings a consumer-grade experience to every persona—engineers, analysts, stewards, business users, and AI agents.
Trace the end-to-end data journey
Horizon catalog delivers lineage in Snowflake, and Atlan extends that visibility across sources, transformations, and dashboards for column-level, end-to-end trust.
Advanced governance for enterprise needs
Horizon data catalog offers tagging and access controls, and Atlan adds governance workflows, policy manager, and rule-based playbooks to power enterprise-wide governance.
What Snowflake Horizon Catalog and Atlan deliver together, at a glance
| Capability | Snowflake Horizon Catalog | Atlan | Combined Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery | Across Snowflake and limited sources with a technical-first interface | Across 100+ systems with persona-based interfaces | Complete discovery across technical and business users |
| Lineage | Column-level lineage and impact analysis within Snowflake | Column-level end-to-end & proactive impact analysis across all systems | Full data journey visibility with impact analysis |
| Governance | Access control, auto PII detection & propagation | PII tagging & masking across systems, policy center, stewardship workflows | Consistent governance enforcement across systems |
| User Adoption | Optimized for data engineers and technical teams | All organizational personas including business users | Organization-wide data culture transformation |
| Data Product Marketplace | External data products from third-party providers | Business-ready products grouped by domains | Self-service data consumption at scale |
| Data Quality | Monitoring capabilities within Snowflake | No-code DQ rules by business, integration with best-of-breed observability tools | Comprehensive quality management |
| AI Governance | AI asset management and lineage within Snowflake | AI asset management & AI lineage across all platforms | Complete AI governance lifecycle |
Why is Atlan the best universal catalog for Snowflake Horizon?
What Snowflake customers
achieve with Horizon data catalog and Atlan
Several organizations have successfully integrated Atlan and Snowflake to transform their data operations:
Adoption, ROI, Impact:
stories from the field
Governance Built For Scale
Read the full story →$1.4M/yr
savings
700%
↑ tagged assets
200%
↑ Sigma adoption
"After partnering with Atlan, it took probably a couple of hours before we were integrated with Snowflake and Sigma, connecting to over 225,000 assets. Atlan started getting us this immediate value through data discovery. For us, Atlan became Google for Data."
Daniel Dowdy
Vice President, Data Analytics & Governance
North
Build a future-ready data estate for AI
Combine Snowflake Horizon data catalog and Atlan to provide comprehensive context and governance to drive future proof data and AI use cases for the business
FAQs about Atlan + Snowflake Horizon data catalog
What is the primary difference between Snowflake Horizon data catalog and Atlan?
Does Atlan replace Snowflake Horizon data catalog?
Can I get end-to-end lineage with the Snowflake Horizon data catalog alone?
How does governance work between Atlan and Snowflake Horizon data catalog?
How do Atlan and Snowflake Horizon data catalog integrate without creating conflicts?
How does this affect our existing Snowflake investment?
What's the implementation complexity and timeline?
Does Atlan support Snowflake Open Semantic Interchange?
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