Atlan Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data & Analytics Governance Platforms

Atlan is now a Leader in all four independent reports from Gartner and Forrester focused on the industry.

San Francisco, CA, January 14, 2026 – Atlan, the AI-native metadata and governance platform, today announced its recognition as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data & Analytics Governance Platforms. Atlan’s success comes on the back of a wide range of enterprise customers successfully leveraging its platform as the context layer for analytics and AI.

The recognition also comes just weeks after Atlan was named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions. Atlan has also been named a Leader in the latest Forrester Wave for Enterprise Data Catalogs and a Leader and Customer Favorite in the latest Forrester Wave for Data Governance Solutions.

The 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data & Analytics Governance Platforms, released on January 6, 2026, evaluates vendors’ ability to execute and completeness of vision in a rapidly evolving market. In our view, Atlan’s recognition as a Leader reflects its proven execution of an AI-native governance vision, validated by rapid customer adoption, product innovation, and ecosystem momentum.

Governance platforms must now go beyond documentation and static controls to support policy automation, enforcement, and trust models that scale with modern data architectures, unstructured data, and AI-driven decision-making. This includes governance across policy setting, analytical and AI governance, and execution with data platforms.

Gartner also notes that by 2028, 80% of S&P 1200 organizations will relaunch a modern D&A governance program, based around a trust model. To us, Atlan’s placement as a Leader reflects its alignment with this direction, as well as consistent execution across the full set of governance use cases enterprises require to support analytics and AI at scale.

Several differentiators set Atlan apart in the market:

• Future-proof architecture: Atlan’s metadata lakehouse, built on Apache Iceberg, enables scalable, unified metadata cataloging for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Agentic governance and policy orchestration: The platform supports automation-first, real-time policy enforcement, allowing organizations to define, store, and manage policies as code across all data and metadata assets.
• Ecosystem-led approach: The Atlan App Framework acts as a marketplace for connectors and agents, accelerating collaboration and automated governance across AI-native enterprises.
• Broad adoption: Atlan’s platform is designed for both technical and business users, delivering measurable outcomes in weeks, not years.

Atlan is perceived “as a modern, innovative, advisory-oriented organization, which has enhanced its market presence and sales momentum.”

The recognition is especially significant for Atlan, as organizations face mounting pressure to enable safe, accurate AI, meet regulatory and internal control requirements, and maintain delivery speed. Atlan’s approach — agentic governance, policy orchestration, and a metadata lakehouse foundation — turns governance into an active system that scales with AI use cases.

Atlan’s customers reiterate the company’s commitment to delivering best-in-class data and analytics governance. “Atlan’s metadata lakehouse is configurable across all our tool sets and is flexible enough to get us to a future state,” said Andrew Reiskind, Chief Data Officer at Mastercard at Atlan Re:Govern in November. “Atlan’s been partnering with us and giving us feedback on how to actually implement data products and data governance.”

The full Gartner report is available to download here.

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for D&A Governance Platforms, Anurag Raj, Guido De Simoni, Sarah Turkaly, 6 January, 2026. © 2026 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner and Magic Quadrant are registered trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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About Atlan

Atlan is the leading context layer for modern data and AI, unifying how humans and intelligent agents understand data, meaning, and policy. Its Iceberg‑native Metadata Lakehouse brings together technical, business, and operational metadata to power trustworthy analytics, governance, and agentic AI from a single, open foundation.

Analysts recognize Atlan as a Leader in two Gartner Magic Quadrants and two Forrester Waves. Global enterprises such as General Motors, Cisco, Autodesk, Unilever, Ralph Lauren, FOX News Corp, Plaid, and HubSpot trust Atlan to safely democratize and scale data products and AI. Atlan is backed by top investors including GIC, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital India, and Salesforce Ventures.

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