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Atlan Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Metadata Management Solutions

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Atlan recognized for completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Atlan, the active metadata platform for data and AI governance, today announced that it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Metadata Management Solutions. This recognition follows Atlan’s earlier placement as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms, which we believe underscores its expertise in powering the metadata foundation for enterprise AI.

According to Gartner, “Production AI requires metadata management maturity.” The 2025 report marks the return of the Metadata Management Magic Quadrant after a five-year pause, which for us reaffirms metadata as the single greatest determinant of AI success.

Metadata as the Context Layer for AI

To us, Atlan’s position as a Leader reflects its role as the context layer for AI—a foundation for accuracy, trust, and explainability in production AI systems. Atlan’s Metadata Lakehouse unifies technical, business, and operational metadata into a single, active layer that fuels AI use cases across discovery, governance, quality, and analytics.

This architecture powers “talk-to-data” analytics, governance automation, and Atlan’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, which enriches AI models and agents with real-time context.

Atlan’s Approach: Active Metadata for the AI Era

Atlan delivers the metadata intelligence layer that modern enterprises need for AI readiness. Key differentiators include:

  • Breadth of context for AI applications: A single metadata layer connecting structured and unstructured data, operational systems, and AI workloads.
  • Future-proof, open platform: APIs and an app framework that extend metadata intelligence into any data or AI use case, preventing vendor lock-in.
  • Adoption beyond technical teams: Conversational search, embedded interfaces, and context-rich data products drive enterprise-wide usage in weeks, not years.
  • Fast time to value: Automation-first workflows, DIY connectors, and advisory-led onboarding accelerate measurable business outcomes.

“In our opinion, Atlan’s recognition as a Leader validates what our customers are already experiencing every day,” added Prukalpa Sankar, Co-Founder of Atlan. “Our Metadata Lakehouse isn’t theory—it’s working in production for enterprises modernizing for AI. To us, being named a Leader by Gartner is proof that the future of metadata, and accurate enterprise AI, is already here.”

Access the Report

Read the full 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions report at https://atlan.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-metadata-management-solutions-2025/

Trusted by AI-Forward Enterprises

Atlan powers the metadata foundation for data and AI teams at enterprises like General Motors, Workday, GitLab, Unilever, Nasdaq, Mastercard, Dropbox, and Fox — enabling trusted data products, AI governance, and context-aware analytics at scale.

“Atlan is much more than a catalog of catalogs. It’s more of a context operating system,” said Sridher Arumugham, Chief Data & AI Officer at DigiKey. “Atlan enabled us to easily activate metadata for everything from discovery in the marketplace to AI governance to data quality to an MCP server delivering context to AI models.”

Customers on Gartner® Peer Insights™ note that:

"The entire experience with Atlan has been amazing from start to finish. They were incredibly easy to work with and transparent during the initial sales and contract negotiation period. They have lived up to everything that was promised and more, including the product itself as well as support from Atlan staff."

“The flexibility and ease of use is a huge plus, and the open API enables us to plan for more advanced functionality beyond what is available in the base product. Data lineage, impact reports, and mass data tagging in particular have been particularly impactful.”

"Atlan has significantly improved the way we manage and discover data across the organization. The lineage and documentation features have helped improve trust in data and accelerate onboarding for new team members. Overall, it's an excellent product that continues to evolve in the right direction.”

“Easy to use. Comprehensive in its scope of features. Gives insights into our data that we previously did not have. Helps bring together our data and the people working on the data. Has become the one-stop shop for searching across our entire data ecosystem.”

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About Atlan

Atlan is the leading metadata platform powering data & AI governance. It is a context layer that stitches together a business’s disparate data & AI infrastructure, cataloging data and enriching it with business context and security. Data practitioners spend 30–50% of their time finding and understanding data; Atlan’s platform cuts that time by 95% and sets a new standard for an AI-native future. With Atlan, data and business teams, and AI agents, can easily find, trust, and govern data across the entire enterprise. Backed by top investors including GIC, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital India, and Salesforce Ventures, Atlan features deep integrations across the modern data stack and is trusted by leading global enterprises to enable major AI and data democratization initiatives. To learn more, visit atlan.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

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