As organizations rapidly expand their artificial intelligence initiatives, the need for reliable data governance and security has become more critical than ever. Addressing this growing demand, BigID and Atlan have announced an enhanced integration designed to unify structured and unstructured data discovery, classification, lineage, and cataloging within a single AI-ready control plane. Through this collaboration, the two companies aim to help enterprises manage, protect, and govern the data that powers modern analytics and AI ecosystems more effectively.
With this integration, BigID and Atlan bring together powerful capabilities from both platforms to create a comprehensive foundation for data security and governance. As a result, organizations can now gain deeper visibility into their data environments while ensuring stronger protection and compliance across their AI workflows.
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Most importantly, the combined solution introduces the first catalog integration capable of delivering automated classification across all data types. This advancement allows enterprises to identify and categorize both structured and unstructured data more efficiently. In addition, the integration establishes a unified AI governance foundation that enables data security and governance teams to work from a shared framework.
Furthermore, the solution embeds real-time policy signals directly into the data catalog experience. This feature allows users to monitor governance rules and security insights within the same environment where data is managed and accessed. Consequently, organizations can respond more quickly to risks and maintain stronger control over their data assets.
Another key benefit of the partnership is the strengthened collaboration between Chief Data Officers (CDOs) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs). By providing a common platform for governance and security insights, the integration encourages closer coordination between these leadership roles, ultimately accelerating responsible AI adoption across enterprises.
At the same time, organizations gain end-to-end visibility and control over the data that fuels analytics and AI pipelines. This capability becomes particularly important as AI initiatives continue to expand across industries.
However, despite the growing momentum behind AI adoption, many companies still struggle with limited visibility into unstructured and sensitive data feeding their AI models. While business units push forward with innovation, security and governance leaders often face rising compliance risks, exposure to sensitive data, and the emergence of shadow AI initiatives.
Without a unified view of both structured and unstructured data and without embedded security intelligence inside the catalog organizations frequently encounter difficulties when attempting to safely move AI projects from experimentation into production.
The enhanced BigID and Atlan integration directly addresses these challenges. By bringing together security intelligence, governance capabilities, and contextual metadata, the solution aligns CISOs and CDOs on a single trusted platform for secure and governed AI-ready data.
“Every successful AI initiative starts with context. Atlan is the context layer for data and AI the place where technical metadata, business meaning, and governance all come together. By bringing BigID’s DSPM risk signals directly into that context layer, we give our joint customers a single view of where sensitive data lives, how it flows, and which analytics and AI experiences depend on it and then automate the right guardrails at scale. Together, we’re helping enterprises move faster on AI with the confidence that their data is understood, governed, and trusted end to end.” Marc Seifert, Head of Global Alliances, Atlan
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Alongside this integration, the companies introduced several new capabilities designed to strengthen governance and visibility across enterprise data environments. These include automated discovery and classification of both structured and unstructured data using BigID, as well as seamless ingestion of classification tags and policy alerts directly into Atlan’s data catalog.
Additionally, sensitive data context can now flow across end-to-end data lineage, enabling organizations to track how critical information moves throughout their systems. Security and governance teams also benefit from unified visibility across the entire data estate.
Moreover, the solution delivers advanced policy intelligence directly to business users and AI stakeholders. By providing this information within everyday data workflows, the platform empowers teams to make smarter and safer decisions regarding data usage and AI deployment.
“AI innovation depends on trusted data,” said Ian Williamson, SVP, Alliances at BigID. “By embedding BigID’s deep data discovery and classification capabilities directly into Atlan’s modern catalog, we’re giving organizations the unified visibility and control they need to protect sensitive data while accelerating AI initiatives. Together, we’re enabling security and governance teams to move from friction to alignment – and from experimentation to production.”
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