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title: "Active Metadata Report | Atlan"
url: "https://atlan.com/resources/dataops-active-metadata-report/"
description: "How Active Metadata helps modern data organizations embrace the DataOps way"
keywords: "DataOps, Atlan, data catalog, metadata catalog, data management, metadata management, data discovery, data access"
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**Report: Data Can Be Chaos. Work Shouldn't Be.** How active metadata helps modern data organizations embrace the DataOps way. A free report, gated behind a form.

Get it: [download the Active Metadata Report](https://atlan.com/resources/dataops-active-metadata-report/)

## Today's data management doesn't work

75% of executives don't trust their own data, and only 27% of data projects are actually successful. DataOps and active metadata help data teams stop wasting time and money. The report breaks down where they came from, where they're going, and how you can start using them.

## What's inside

- **The Rise of DataOps** — how it went from unknown to the peak of the Gartner Hype Cycle.
- **What is DataOps?** — what it actually means and the four foundational ideas behind it.
- **The Culture Code** — a set of DataOps principles to help data teams work together better.
- **Operationalizing DataOps** — how to structure a central DataOps function and its two key personas.
- **Active Metadata for DataOps** — why activating metadata holds the key to the DataOps dream.
- **Active Metadata Platforms** — the three characteristics that define an active metadata platform.

## Meet the modern third-generation data catalog

Atlan is more than a modern data catalog. It's the leading active metadata platform, named a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Enterprise Data Catalogs for DataOps. [Learn more](https://atlan.com/forrester-wave/)

## More resources to kickstart your data transformation

- [The rise of DataOps](https://humansofdata.atlan.com/2022/08/the-rise-of-dataops/) — data is getting bigger and teams are struggling to keep up; DataOps promises to tame today's data chaos.
- [Free ebook: The third-generation data catalog primer](https://atlan.com/resources/data-catalog-primer/) — where data catalogs came from and where they're going.
- [What is active metadata, and why does it matter?](https://humansofdata.atlan.com/2022/05/what-is-active-metadata/) — what active metadata actually means.