Case Study: Sands Capital improves data governance and self-service with Atlan

Sands Capital - Customer Case Study

Sands Capital, an investment firm managing over $45 billion in assets, struggled with data discovery and governance as they modernized their data stack with Snowflake. Their data team faced a high volume of repetitive questions from business users, lacked a single source of truth for their data assets, and needed to mitigate compliance risks associated with being a regulated entity. They recognized a need for a metadata management tool to provide transparency and accessibility.

By implementing Atlan, the vendor's data catalog and governance platform, Sands Capital integrated their data sources like Snowflake and Salesforce to create a centralized hub for data discovery. This empowered business users to find and understand trusted data themselves, drastically reducing the burden on the data engineering team. Atlan also improved data quality monitoring through automated alerts and enhanced cross-team collaboration via integrations with Jira and Slack, driving a new culture of data fluency across the firm.

Sands Capital

Akriti Shrestha

Business and Data Associate