#213 Building Trust Through Data with Prukalpa Sankar, Co-Founder of Atlan

Jun 6, 2024

Prukalpa Sankar, Co-founder of Atlan and previously co-founded the data-for-good initiative SocialCops, discusses the evolution of data management. She highlights challenges data professionals face in locating and understanding information, and how Atlan's solutions enhance discoverability. The conversation also emphasizes the importance of data catalogs and automated lineage systems for ensuring data integrity. Lastly, Prukalpa addresses the critical role of data governance in building trust and empowering data-driven decision-making in organizations.

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INSIGHT

Data Discoverability Challenge

Data professionals often spend excessive time searching for and interpreting data.
This issue hinders business progress as less time is available for analysis.

ANECDOTE

Fragile Data Team

Prukalpa Sankar's team faced a crisis when their lead analyst quit before a crucial project.
This analyst possessed unique data context, highlighting the team's fragility.

ADVICE

Data Asset Profiles

Create data asset profiles similar to GitHub for code or Salesforce for leads.
These profiles should detail data origins, meaning, ownership, lineage, and changes.

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In the fast-paced work environments we are used to, the ability to quickly find and understand data is essential. Data professionals can often spend more time searching for data than analyzing it, which can hinder business progress. Innovations like data catalogs and automated lineage systems are transforming data management, making it easier to ensure data quality, trust, and compliance. By creating a strong metadata foundation and integrating these tools into existing workflows, organizations can enhance decision-making and operational efficiency. But how did this all come to be, who is driving better access and collaboration through data?

Prukalpa Sankar is the Co-founder of Atlan. Atlan is a modern data collaboration workspace (like GitHub for engineering or Figma for design). By acting as a virtual hub for data assets ranging from tables and dashboards to models & code, Atlan enables teams to create a single source of truth for all their data assets, and collaborate across the modern data stack through deep integrations with tools like Slack, BI tools, data science tools and more. A pioneer in the space, Atlan was recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in DataOps, as one of the top 3 companies globally. Prukalpa previously co-founded SocialCops, world leading data for good company (New York Times Global Visionary, World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer). SocialCops is behind landmark data projects including India’s National Data Platform and SDGs global monitoring in collaboration with the United Nations. She was awarded Economic Times Emerging Entrepreneur for the Year, Forbes 30u30, Fortune 40u40, Top 10 CNBC Young Business Women 2016, and a TED Speaker.

In the episode, Richie and Prukalpa explore challenges within data discoverability, the inception of Atlan, the importance of a data catalog, personalization in data catalogs, data lineage, building data lineage, implementing data governance, human collaboration in data governance, skills for effective data governance, product design for diverse audiences, regulatory compliance, the future of data management and much more.

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