My professional journey has always been driven by a deep passion for data and its transformative impact on businesses. It began in the BI space, where I immersed myself in the nuances of various industries, helping data teams deliver dashboards and reports that their end users cherished. As cloud migration became mainstream, I reconnected with a childhood friend, Taylor Brown, co-founder of Fivetran. Taylor, alongside George Fraser, had developed a fully automated pipeline for the modern data stack, positioning the company at the forefront of the data revolution. I joined Fivetran as the head ..read more

Major Drumroll: We’re excited to welcome Jim Smittkamp as our Chief Revenue Officer as we embark on the next phase of our growth journey! Jim joins us from Fivetran, one of our esteemed partners, where he was their Chief Revenue Officer and notably helped scale the company’s ARR from $5 million to $250 million. His profound impact at Fivetran underscores his exceptional capability to drive substantial revenue growth and foster significant strategic partnerships.  But that’s not what makes Jim special.  And in this blog post, we want to share with you what does. As founders, this migh ..read more

The Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando, Florida, recently concluded after three intense days filled with deep discussions and insightful revelations! In the current era, data and analytics (D&A) are crucial in shaping our work processes. The Summit serves as a key meeting point for chief data analytics officers (CDAOs) and D&A leaders. At the Summit, we surveyed over 600 data leaders to delve into their views and priorities for 2024. They shared their enthusiasm, visions for the future of D&A, strategies for adopting Generative AI (GenAI), and much more. Here’s a summar ..read more

The Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando, Florida, recently concluded after three intense days filled with deep discussions and insightful revelations! In the current era, data and analytics (D&A) are crucial in shaping our work processes. The Summit serves as a key meeting point for chief data analytics officers (CDAOs) and D&A leaders. At the Summit, we surveyed over 600 data leaders to delve into their views and priorities for 2024. They shared their enthusiasm, visions for the future of D&A, strategies for adopting Generative AI (GenAI), and much more. Here’s a summar ..read more

Supporting a World-class Documentation Strategy with Atlan The Active Metadata Pioneers series features Atlan customers who have completed a thorough evaluation of the Active Metadata Management market. Paying forward what you’ve learned to the next data leader is the true spirit of the Atlan community! So they’re here to share their hard-earned perspective on an evolving market, what makes up their modern data stack, innovative use cases for metadata, and more. In this installment of the series, we meet Tina Wang, Analytics Engineering Manager at Tala, a digital financial services platform&nb ..read more

Launching an Internal Data Marketplace with Atlan The Active Metadata Pioneers series features Atlan customers who have recently completed a thorough evaluation of the Active Metadata Management market. Paying forward what you’ve learned to the next data leader is the true spirit of the Atlan community! So, they’re here to share their hard-earned perspective on an evolving market, what makes up their modern data stack, innovative use cases for metadata, and more. In this installment of the series, we meet Cristina Perez Martinez, Data Engineer and Architect, and Ezequiel Barbero, Market & ..read more

Breaking Down Information Silos with Atlan The Active Metadata Pioneers series features Atlan customers who have recently completed a thorough evaluation of the Active Metadata Management market. Paying forward what you’ve learned to the next data leader is the true spirit of the Atlan community! So they’re here to share their hard-earned perspective on an evolving market, what makes up their modern data stack, innovative use cases for metadata, and more. In this installment of the series, we meet Pranav Gandhi, Head of Data & Analytics at Signifyd, a leader in eCommerce Fraud Protection t ..read more

100 new features. 20 new integrations. 2 massive product launches. A first of its kind customer conference. At Atlan, 2023 was the year of building the future, with data teams that are envisioning it. And we couldn’t be more excited to recap the year, so let’s get started. The First AI Copilot for Data Teams Generative AI changed the technology landscape in 2023 and every data team started thinking about the ways in which they could use AI to become more productive. Armed with learnings from when we were a data team, we seized the opportunity to make the lives of humans of data better with Gen ..read more

Unlocking Fast, Confident, Data-driven Decisions with Atlan The Active Metadata Pioneers series features Atlan customers who have completed a thorough evaluation of the Active Metadata Management market. Paying forward what you’ve learned to the next data leader is the true spirit of the Atlan community! So they’re here to share their hard-earned perspective on an evolving market, what makes up their modern data stack, innovative use cases for metadata, and more. In this installment of the series, we meet Prudhvi Vasa, Analytics Leader at Postman, who shares the history of Data & Analytics ..read more

Legendary Consumer Brand Improves Data Discoverability, Impact Analysis, and Business Collaboration on Data At a Glance Dr. Martens, an iconic global footwear brand with a six-decade heritage, evaluated the data catalog space in order to drive self-service atop their quickly modernizing data stack. Choosing Atlan, their data team quickly implemented a self-service catalog to provide context around their most critical data assets. Atlan’s implementation has accelerated time-to-insight for Dr. Martens’ internal data consumers, and is reducing time spent on impact analysis from four to six weeks ..read more