--- title: "Our Newsroom | Atlan" url: "https://atlan.com/newsroom/" description: "All the news and updates in the Atlan ecosystem now on your fingertips with the Atlan newsroom." keywords: "newsroom atlan" --- > 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/ **Welcome to the Atlan Newsroom: your source for everything Atlan.** Featured analyst recognition and announcements, press releases, community and partner events, podcast appearances (mostly co-founder Prukalpa Sankar), and resources, as listed on the page. ## Featured - [Atlan is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance 2026](https://atlan.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-data-governance-2026/): Gartner recognized Atlan's metadata lakehouse architecture, ecosystem-led innovation, and fastest customer adoption in the category. - [Atlan is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions](https://atlan.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-metadata-management-solutions-2025/): Gartner assessed 15 vendors across five critical use cases as metadata evolves from passive documentation to active orchestration. - [Atlan Named a Leader and Customer Favorite in The Forrester Wave: Data Governance Solutions, Q3 2025](https://atlan.com/forrester-wave/): highest possible (5.0) scores in 15 criteria, alongside the only inaugural Customer Favorite designation. - [A Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for D&A Governance](https://atlan.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-data-governance-2025/): Atlan stood out as a Visionary among traditional data governance platforms and garnered the highest customer rating on Gartner Peer Insights. - [Atlan Raises $105M Funding to Power Data and AI Governance](https://atlan.com/atlan-raises-105m-funding/): a $105 million Series C round led by GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, with co-investor Meritech Capital. - [Atlan unveils Atlan AI, ushering in the future of working with data](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230516005578/en/Atlan-Unveils-Atlan-AI-Ushering-in-the-Future-of-Working-with-Data): the first-ever copilot for data users, helping them discover, understand, and use data faster. - [Atlan is the first data catalog validated as a Snowflake Ready Technology Partner](https://humansofdata.atlan.com/2023/09/snowflake-atlan-two-way-tag-sync/) (28 Sept 2023): with this certification, Atlan joins a list of prominent companies approved under the program. ## Press releases | Date (as shown) | Release | | --- | --- | | 06 Jan 2026 | [Atlan Named a Leader in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms](https://atlan.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-data-governance-2026/) | | 09 Jun 2025 | [Atlan Named a Leader and Customer Favorite in The Forrester Wave: Data Governance Solutions, Q3 2025](https://reprint.forrester.com/reprints/the-forrester-wavetm-data-governance-solutions-q3-2025-83ccec50) | | 09 Jan 2025 | [Atlan Named a Visionary in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250115160686/en/Atlan-Named-a-Visionary-in-2025-Gartner%C2%AE-Magic-Quadrant%E2%84%A2-for-Data-and-Analytics-Governance-Platforms) | | 08 May 2024 | [Atlan's Control Plane to Power Data and AI Governance Attracts $105M, Elevating Valuation to $750M](https://atlan.com/atlan-raises-105m-funding/) | | 28 Sept 2023 | [Atlan launches Tag Management, becoming one of the first Snowflake data governance partners to enable bi-directional tag sync](https://humansofdata.atlan.com/2023/09/snowflake-atlan-two-way-tag-sync/) | | 7 April 2023 | [Atlan debuts as a Leader in 3 categories (Data Governance, Machine Learning Data Catalogs, and Data Quality) in the G2 Spring 2023 Grid reports](https://humansofdata.atlan.com/2023/04/g2-leader-grid-reports-spring-2023/) | | 18 Oct 2022 | [Atlan becomes dbt Semantic Layer launch partner and announces integration](https://humansofdata.atlan.com/2022/10/dbt-semantic-layer-launch-partner/) | | 22 Sept 2022 | [Atlan partners with Fivetran and launches integration with Metadata API](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220922005362/en/Atlan-Partners-with-Fivetran-and-Launches-Integration-with-Metadata-API) | | 28 Jun 2022 | [Atlan launches integration with Databricks Unity Catalog to provide column-level lineage](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220628005109/en/Atlan-Launches-Integration-with-Databricks-Unity-Catalog-to-Provide-Column-Level-Lineage) | | 23 Jun 2022 | [Atlan named a Leader in Enterprise Data Catalogs for DataOps evaluation by independent research firm](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220623005435/en/Atlan-Named-a-Leader-in-Enterprise-Data-Catalogs-for-DataOps-Evaluation-by-Independent-Research-Firm) | | 18 Jul 2022 | [Atlan pioneering active metadata with a brand new look and features](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220718005321/en/Atlan-Pioneering-Active-Metadata-with-a-Brand-New-Look-and-Features) | | 14 Jun 2022 | [Atlan to present and exhibit at Snowflake Summit 2022](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220614005541/en/Atlan-to-Present-at-and-Exhibit-at-Snowflake-Summit-2022) | | 14 Jun 2022 | [Atlan the first data catalog validated as a Snowflake Ready Technology Partner](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220426005590/en/Atlan-the-First-Data-Catalog-Validated-as-a-Snowflake-Ready-Technology-Partner) | | 26 Apr 2022 | [Atlan raises $50M Series B to build the future of metadata in the modern data stack](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220309005103/en/Atlan-Raises-50M-Series-B-at-450M-valuation-to-Build-a-Collaboration-Hub-for-Data-Teams) | | 03 Aug 2021 (Market Guide) | [Atlan named in Gartner's inaugural Market Guide for Active Metadata Management](https://atlan.com/gartner-active-metadata-press/) | | 16 Feb 2022 (Research Report) | [Atlan recognized as a Top 5 Global Innovator by IDC in DataOps](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/prukalpa_dataops-dataengineering-agile-activity-6899706727919439872-HBzv) | | 28 Sep 2021 (Data Landscape Report by Matt Turck) | [Atlan featured in the Machine Learning, AI and Data (MAD) Landscape Report](https://mattturck.com/data2021/) | ## Community and partner events - [Supercharged automations for the modern data stack](https://atlan.com/atlan-activate-mds/) — by Atlan, Wed, 22 Feb 2023. Standardizing documentation and governance for the data creation process, featuring Snowflake, Fivetran and dbt Labs. - [Key Takeaways from Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2022](https://humansofdata.atlan.com/2022/08/key-takeaways-gartner-data-analytics-summit-2022/) — Atlan joined as a Silver Sponsor at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2022 in Orlando, Florida, in August. - [Weekly Product Showdown](https://events.atlan.com/product-showdown) — every Wednesday, 1:00 pm ET. In-house experts show how data teams use Atlan for data discovery and cataloging, data lineage, and governance. - [How Chargebee took self-service analytics from dreams to reality](https://events.atlan.com/masterclass-chargebee) — how Chargebee's team realized the vision of self-service data and analytics and escaped the "data as a service" trap. ## Podcast playlist - Nov 2022 — [Discussion: Why You Need Data Contracts](https://open.spotify.com/episode/65Hs5C3yAJI138ZAGPdHhd): Prukalpa joins Tristan and Julia (dbt Labs) and Chad Sanderson (Convoy) on data contracts. - June 2022 — [Data Engineering Podcast #299: Level Up Your Data Platform With Active Metadata](https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/atlan-active-metadata-episode-299/): pushing active metadata into the mainstream. - May 2022 — [Analytics Power Hour #193: The Modern Data Culture Stack with Prukalpa Sankar](https://analyticshour.io/2022/05/17/193-the-modern-data-culture-stack-with-prukalpa-sankar/). - March 2022 — [The Data Stack Show: Digging into Data Ops with Prukalpa Sankar](https://datastackshow.com/podcast/digging-into-data-ops/) (Eric and Kostas): selling SaaS, data teams, "agile data" and the metadata plane. - March 2022 — [DataStax S3 E3: Interoperability, Governance, and Divergent Teams with Prukalpa Sankar](https://www.datastax.com/resources/podcast/interoperability-governance-divergent-teams-prukalpa-sankar) (Sam): diversity as a data team's biggest strength. - Feb 2022 — [Finding Product-Market Fit: Sajith (Blume) and Prukalpa (Atlan)](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UiddTsqXDcPOmiSVWuxvG) (Ashish Sinha). - Dec 2021 — [Hashmap #101: Core tenets of a modern data workspace](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4BT96478ItbOZ5geH5c4cN) with Kelly Kohlleffel. - Dec 2021 — [Sequoia India and Southeast Asia: Leveraging founder-market fit to build a global SaaS brand](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1XY4pQ8Biv3caiLwEapkuG). - Dec 2021 — [How to build the right values for a multimillion dollar startup](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BXNHPeTJMyChTJ2EH6IKm). - Nov 2021 — [Modern data collaboration and social entrepreneurship](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6jjVjQUknMmoF593yk6QdM): the future of the Data-for-Good movement. - Oct 2021 — [The keys to good data quality](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2mim9rcDvAhFOkVK0F6lUX) (Travis Lawrence). - Jun 2021 — [EP 95: Building a hub for data teams](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0wRx4ZJ5QZUZcIX6ROj03F). - May 2021 — [E42: Growth as a constant](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4UzoN41bptTng37qRG86Oq) (Jivraj Singh Sachar). - Apr 2021 — [Put your whole data team on the same page with Atlan](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vxNVbn82NGGNrxroqKSM5). - May 2020 — [In conversation: Prukalpa Sankar, Co-Founder at Atlan, SocialCops](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YPNrXZeXLCfQe1GAGqiY0) (Shantanu Kumar). - Dec 2019 — [How to stop being bad at data and learn to trust it](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5fbuTLbmyx7kmleBf3MRpv). - Sep 2019 — [Prukalpa Sankar + big data](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0s1VrYDJs8Q7tmyGSVdsDI). ## Resources and blogs - Case studies — [Stories from the heroes of data](https://atlan.com/customers/): world-leading teams, from the Fortune 500 to startups, use Atlan to define the future of data collaboration. - Guide — [The Ultimate Guide to Evaluating Data Lineage](https://atlan.com/resources/data-lineage/): the 19 questions to ask when evaluating a lineage tool's depth, breadth, and utility. - Newsletter — [Metadata Weekly](https://metadataweekly.substack.com/): weekly, read by 5,000+ data leaders from companies like Amazon, Apple, and Spotify. - Blog, 10 May 2022 — [The future of data catalogs](https://humansofdata.atlan.com/2022/05/future-data-catalogs-active-metadata/). - Ebook — [Secrets of a modern data leader: The first 365 days inside a data team](https://atlan.com/resources/modern-data-leaders/). - Blog, 17 Aug 2021 — [The anatomy of an active metadata platform](https://humansofdata.atlan.com/2021/08/the-anatomy-of-an-active-metadata-platform/). - Ebook, 02 Feb 2022 — [Data Catalog 3.0: The rise of the active metadata platform](https://atlan.com/resources/data-catalog-primer/). - Blog, 25 Jan 2023 — [How to kickstart a data governance program](https://humansofdata.atlan.com/2023/01/how-start-data-governance-program/). 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