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Atlan vs Segment comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Atlan
Ranking in Data Governance
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Metadata Management (5th)
Segment
Ranking in Data Governance
12th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Web Analytics (5th), Customer Data Platforms (CDP) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of Atlan is 1.9%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Segment is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Governance Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Atlan1.9%
Segment0.8%
Other97.3%
Data Governance
 

Featured Reviews

Charles Mattison - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Analyst at Pfizer
Automation has transformed data quality workflows and now saves significant time and cost
A quick specific example of how our team uses Atlan to automate a manual or high-risk task is the robust functionality for the quality management of metadata sets. The most helpful thing here is all the dashboards that provide visibility in one place. We use this tool because it is very easy and integrable with other data sources, which is very convenient and time-saving. By switching to Atlan, we have increased our productivity and saved a lot of business time through automation. My team, whether technical or non-technical, adapted Atlan very quickly because of its simple and intuitive user interface. The best features Atlan offers include the ease to extract and modify the data. We can do very quick and smooth integration. It is an open-source framework that provides extension capability to the APIs it uses. Tons of automation help to automate tedious and time-consuming tasks, thereby reducing error and saving time and cost. It is extremely user-friendly and intuitive to navigate, especially the user interface. Atlan has positively impacted my organization by saving time and money while consolidating our metadata sets. Integration with Amazon and Tableau have definitely sped up our time to value. We have saved fifty-five percent of our time through the automation of tedious and time-consuming tasks. Extraction of data is easy. In this data catalog solution, data modification is really simple and easy. Integration with other software is very seamless and easy, thereby simplifying our workflow. Atlan is very scalable and helps to grow our organization while catering to our needs. It enables the team to automate manual and high-risk tasks to make them error-free as much as possible and save time and cost. It is a very cost-effective tool that should be highly adaptable and usable in any organization.
Thiago Vernizzi - PeerSpot reviewer
Engenheiro de Software at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Behavioral insights have powered personalized investor journeys and data-driven campaigns
I have not used Segment for more than a year, so I am not aware of its current evolution, but I know there was a migration from Segment to Adobe as a strategic decision by XP bank, which pointed out unified databases as an improvement area compared to Segment, where they effectively utilized AI for creative marketing campaign generation. The necessary improvements in Segment based on my experience focus on providing more tools for the marketing team, particularly using AI to create campaigns through images and short videos, enhancing communication with end customers via offer banners in a more automated and effective manner.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Overall, I rate Atlan a nine out of ten."
"By switching to Atlan, we have increased our productivity and saved a lot of business time through automation."
"As a senior analytics engineer, Atlan's ability to show end-to-end data lineage is the most important feature for me."
"Overall, I rate Atlan as a ten out of ten."
"The AI part is integrated for enriching metadata engagement, making it a comprehensive tool."
"By switching to Atlan, we have increased our productivity and saved a lot of business time."
"The interfaces and automated imports have helped me with transparency, as we have different sources from different techniques such as DBT, Snowflake, and other regular databases, making it effective to connect these sources and navigate through them, filter them, and enrich the data with additional meter information."
"Atlan has positively impacted the organization since it helps in discovering already available assets, allowing for reduction of redundant ingestion of external data and reduction of time to market for any project."
"Segment has positively impacted my organization by making working with customer data a lot easier for us, as well as improving the speed at which we can ingest from new data sources and push to different activation layers."
"Customer support is fantastic."
"On the one hand, Segment has saved marketing costs, which has allowed me to use that investment elsewhere, and on the other hand, it has allowed me to do much more personalization than I could do manually."
"Segment has improved our data quality and our ease of collection, and most importantly, it has saved us time by not having to maintain a custom tool for server-side tracking."
"One of the best features Segment offers is its ability to act as a centralized customer data hub."
"I really enjoyed working with Segment's partnerships team, as I did not implement Segment for myself but was a consultant that implemented it for others."
"Segment's scalability is amazing, and it's fully capable of handling all of the different use cases that we have in our company and we have a very complicated company."
"In the initial rollout of the campaigns, we definitely saw a 2% conversion rate, and the end-to-end return on average ad spend showed an improvement of 14%."
 

Cons

"The product could be improved by offering scheduled email reports for managed assets."
"There are some improvements. There is a feature called Playbooks, which basically allows me to automate certain activities that would otherwise be manual. It's a very interesting feature, but there is room to improve it because, depending on the task you automate, the playbooks seem to have a hard time handling the task. So, it could be improved there. Even though it's a great feature, it can evolve further."
"One area that could be improved is the capability to find duplicates of datasets."
"The challenge is in the lineage, where it requires improvement. Atlas needs to capture areas where organizations use less known applications."
"Certain UI changes could make Atlan more user-friendly."
"One of the main areas for improvement is its governance capabilities. Atlan supports only basic out-of-the-box workflows, and it becomes challenging to customize features like how data owners should approve access to data assets."
"Working with templates, Excel import, export, and running automations is not self-explanatory, and you always need help from Atlan support team."
"One of the main areas for improvement is its governance capabilities."
"The cost is very high, but it is worth it."
"Segment can be improved in the initial phase regarding data quality checks between different channels' attribution versus Segment itself."
"As data volumes, event tracking, and integrations increase, the platform can become expensive for growing organizations."
"Segment could be improved by allowing community-based integrations, particularly for integrations available only via webhook that are not natively available, such as those from attribution platforms."
"I have not used Segment for more than a year, so I am not aware of its current evolution, but I know there was a migration from Segment to Adobe as a strategic decision by XP bank, which pointed out unified databases as an improvement area compared to Segment, where they effectively utilized AI for creative marketing campaign generation."
"I think Segment can improve in terms of identity management, possibly in some of the protocols by adding more flexibility."
"Segment scalability is good when it comes to geographic enablement but it is not scalable in terms of data. As I mentioned before, when different streams of data change, it might not incorporate once the data is set up."
"Regarding Segment's AI capabilities, I think its accuracy and reliability of output were lacking."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay per-user license. It's a different classification model than with other solutions, where they usually charge you for resources. So, that was a better model for us. And because of this difference in models or classification, it was cheaper for us to go with Atlan."
"The pricing was on the higher side but it wasn't excessively high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Insurance Company
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
University
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Atlan?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the licensing cost is a bit flexible but not affordable for smaller organizations. It might be way out of their budget, but it is very ...
What needs improvement with Atlan?
Atlan can be improved by enhancing their support process by reducing the resolution time. They have really bad and incomplete documentation, so they should work on the documentation as well, especi...
What is your primary use case for Atlan?
My main use case for Atlan is to define a flexible set of metadata, including measuring the quality of said data. Atlan is also a partner of ours, so we use it to integrate with our own tool. It al...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Segment?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was smooth, though I did not know the total expense, estimated around 1 to 2 million per month, with licensing restrictions on access to Segme...
What needs improvement with Segment?
I have not used Segment for more than a year, so I am not aware of its current evolution, but I know there was a migration from Segment to Adobe as a strategic decision by XP bank, which pointed ou...
What is your primary use case for Segment?
My main use case for Segment is to share a practical experience about how we used Segment at XP Investimentos bank to transform behavioral data into business intelligence and high-impact marketing ...
 

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