Case Study: Nasdaq reduces data discovery time with Atlan

How Nasdaq Uses Active Metadata to Evangelize their Data Strategy

Nasdaq, a global financial technology company operating over 30 exchanges, faced significant data challenges due to the immense complexity and scale of its trading data. Its legacy tools were rigid and could not keep up with demand, creating friction between data producers and consumers and preventing business users from self-serving their needs. To address this, Nasdaq partnered with Atlan to implement an active metadata management solution.

By adopting Atlan's platform, Nasdaq provided a single source of truth for its modern data stack, dramatically improving data discovery and context. This solution reduced the time power users spent on data discovery by one-third, reclaiming two hours per week for these employees. Atlan enabled a common understanding of data across the organization, with users describing it as "like having Google for our data," and increased executive confidence in the data strategy.

Nasdaq

Michael Weiss

Product Manager