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Governance

Atlan's Governance capabilities enable you to establish and maintain data quality, security, and compliance standards across your organization. These features help you standardize terminology, manage access controls, automate stewardship, and ensure your data ecosystem meets regulatory requirements.

Key concepts

  • Data Governance: Framework of policies, processes, and controls that ensure data quality, security, and compliance
  • Stewardship: Management and oversight of data assets to ensure quality and appropriate use
  • Access Control: Mechanisms to manage who can view, edit, or use specific data assets
  • Compliance: Adherence to regulations and policies governing data handling and privacy

Core offerings

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Business Glossary

Create and maintain standardized definitions for business terms across your organization

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Access Management

Control and monitor access to data assets with fine-grained permissions and policies

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Automated Workflows

Streamline governance processes with automated workflows and approval systems

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Classification

Organize and categorize data assets with custom metadata, tags, and domains

Get started

1

Set up your framework

Define your governance structure with domains, glossaries, and classifications

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Configure policies

Create access policies, quality rules, and compliance requirements

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Automate processes

Implement workflows for approvals, reviews, and stewardship tasks

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Use the sidebar navigation to explore specific governance capabilities like Access Control, Glossary, Tags, Stewardship, and more.