New AI-powered lineage features provide compact views, secure metadata extraction and pushdown profiling to help business users quickly audit, trust and act on their data
Boston, July 17, 2025 (Globe Newswire) – AtacamaData Trust Company today announced the release of Ataccama One V16.2, the latest version of the Unified Data Trust Platform. This release makes it easier for business users to understand data movement and change across the system without writing a single row in SQL. An intuitive, compact systematic view and improved performance allow teams to make better decisions with greater confidence and speed.
Most business teams can't see where the data came from or how it changed. Instead, they rely on technical experts to explain the logic behind key metrics that slow decision-making and put an organization at unnecessary risk. Forester The analytics tool reports that only 20% of business decision makers are self-sufficient. The results become a sustained trust gap that makes it difficult to move in the demands of data, scale analysis, or speed business.
Ataccama closes that gap by turning complex data logic into a plain language. Business users can now trace the origins of data points and understand how profiles or flags were created without relying on them. Ataccama shows how data flows through the system and provides a simple language explanation of the steps behind every number. For example, in a financial services setup, data stewards can quickly see how risk scores were derived, or how flagged transactions passed through a series of enrichment and quality checks. This kind of visibility shortens reviews, streamlines audits, and gives business teams the confidence to act on the data at hand.
“We see enterprise data projects kick off more and more in business, not just in business. Jessica SmithVice President of Data Quality at Ataccama. “The teams driving these initiatives need to understand where the data comes from, how it will change and whether it is reliable, so they are focused on creating profiling, high quality checks, lineage, lineage, and complex data processes that are clear and usable.
Ataccama will strengthen daily governance and lay the foundation for more scalable and compliant AI initiatives. The main features are:
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AI-equipped data system. It automatically generates easy-to-read explanations of how data is transformed both upstream and downstream, filtering, joining, and calculations to clarify, allowing business users to understand the logic behind each dataset without reading SQL.
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Compact system diagram. It presents a simplified, high-level view of data flow and provides the option to drill in detail on demand. This makes it easier to identify issues, answer audit questions, and coordinate stakeholders about how data flows within the organization.
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Safe system edge treatment. Enables metadata extraction from on-plame or restricted environments without moving sensitive data to the cloud. Organizations can maintain compliance, minimize risk and provide full visibility into their data pipelines regardless of where their data lives.
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Pushdown support and performance enhancements. Users can now perform profiling and data quality workloads in pushdown mode for BigQuery and Azure Synapse, minimizing data movement and improving performance for large workloads. This release also includes volume support for the Databricks Unity catalog, further optimizing your execution within modern cloud platforms.
