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title: "Practical Ways to Use Atlan: Real Examples and Everyday Solutions"
url: "https://atlan.com/resources/practical-examples/"
description: "Real-world Atlan extensibility use cases where APIs, Eventbridge integration, metadata orchestration, and custom connectors power automation at scale."
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> 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 designed to be open, flexible, and extensible, so teams can go beyond out-of-the-box features and build workflows tailored to their business. This guide shows real-world extensibility use cases where Atlan's APIs, Eventbridge integration, metadata orchestration, and custom connectors power automation at scale.

## About this guide

Featured use cases:

- Real-time metadata change alerts.
- Automated lineage and quality checks.
- Programmatic data deletion to meet compliance requirements.
- Tagging sensitive data in dbt models for dynamic access policies.
- Surfacing anomaly detection alerts directly in BI tools.

Other extensibility opportunities listed:

- Allocating compute resources dynamically.
- Automatically assigning freshness statuses.
- Managing certification queues.
- Alerting BI users of upstream failures.