Case Study: North American Bancard improves data governance and BI adoption with Atlan

North American Bancard - Customer Case Study

North American Bancard, a major electronic payment processor, sought to implement a robust data governance strategy and create a data glossary to support its modern data stack, which was centralized on Snowflake and served to business users via Sigma. The challenge was to reduce the effort analysts and engineers spent finding and understanding data while also enabling them to safely expand self-service analytics adoption across the organization.

The company chose Atlan as its active metadata platform. The solution provided a deep integration with Sigma via a Chrome plugin, allowing users to view data context and submit tickets without leaving their dashboards. This enhanced user experience and the platform's strong data governance capabilities, including lineage and cost optimization for Snowflake, gave North American Bancard the confidence to expand Sigma access. The result was a significant increase in analyst efficiency and a clear path to a strong return on investment from the time saved across the entire data team.

North American Bancard

Daniel Dowdy

Director, Big Data Analytics