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With data spread across more systems than ever, and regulations tightening, organizations are under pressure to understand how their data moves – and whether it can be trusted. Recognizing the critical need for enhanced data trust and governance, Ataccama has released version 16.1 of its Ataccama ONE platform, adding new tools for lineage tracking, audit readiness, and cloud-native data processing.
This new version improves how data flows and connects across systems. According to Ataccama, its enhanced lineage tracking and connectivity capabilities provide businesses with a clearer view of their data movements. The platform includes improved visualization tools, making it easier to trace data origins and understand how information moves between systems.
Referencing the recent CIO Agenda 2025 report by Gartner, Ataccama highlights that less than half of digital initiatives achieve their business outcome targets. A key reason for this is that organizations struggle to find, understand, and trust their data, especially in complex environments.
While data lineage tools exist, they are often geared toward technical users, leaving business teams without the context they need to make informed decisions. The Garner survey reveals that CIOs who prioritize platforms that support both IT and non-IT users are nearly three times more likely to help business areas forecast their own technology needs and drive innovation.
Ataccama aims to change this with the updated Ataccama ONE platform. A key upgrade is the introduction of automated lineage and audit snapshots, which allow organizations to track how data moves across systems and export point-in-time diagrams for compliance and decision support.
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Users can also customize lineage diagrams and drill down into detailed monitoring dashboards through new enhanced visibility and collaboration capabilities. Troubleshooting capabilities have also been enhanced to allow for improved search ranking to pinpoint issues quickly.
“This release makes our lineage capabilities more actionable and enterprise-ready,” said Jessica Smith, VP of Data Quality at Ataccama. “Visualizing lineage in highly regulated and complex sectors like financial services, insurance, or manufacturing is not enough.”
“Organizations need capabilities that support audit readiness, migrations, and change control,” added Smith. “These updates allow teams to export diagrams for compliance reporting and manage metadata to promote environments and enforce governance policies. These enhancements help teams meet regulatory demands while staying agile across their data landscape.”
The latest update enhances cloud-native processing by expanding pushdown capabilities for platforms like Azure Synapse and Google BigQuery. Ataccama states that these improvements allow teams to analyze data where it is stored instead of transferring it between systems. This approach aims to reduce latency, lower cloud costs, and improve overall performance.
Support for Avro files stored on cloud systems has also been added, making it easier for organizations to process large datasets in their native format. According to Ataccama, this upgrade enhances efficiency in data profiling and analysis workflows, making it easier for organizations to process large-scale datasets in big data environments.
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Other enhancements aim to improve security and flexibility in enterprise deployments. Ataccama has introduced custom schema management for Snowflake pushdown processing, along with JWT authentication using HashiCorp Vault. These features are designed to give businesses greater control over their data while reinforcing security protocols.
The capabilities introduced in v16.1 suggest Ataccama is pushing toward a model of governance that’s less manual, more portable, and actually usable outside of IT. This release is less about new bells and whistles and more about maturing the foundations of data governance.
Over the last couple of years, Atamca has continuously evolved its platform to keep pace with the changing needs of the enterprise data team. Building on its strong foundation in data quality and master data management (MDM), the company has expanded its Ataccama ONE offering into a comprehensive data and analytics governance platform.
In October of last year, Ataccama introduced its Ataccama ONE AI Agent at the FWRD 2024 conference. The feature is designed to enhance autonomous AI-driven data management while assisting with decision-making across a range of applications. Same of the same thinking is driving the new v16.1 of its Ataccama ONE platform. The company wants to play a bigger role in how modern enterprises manage and trust their data, and with each update, it’s getting closer to that goal.
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