Atlan Named Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management

Atlan, the active metadata platform for data and AI governance, 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.

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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.

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“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.”