Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud

What differentiates Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud from other similar products?

Collibra still maintains its independence as a vendor, so it broadly supports integrations/connectors from across the industry. The Collibra University is a great differentiator too, since it provides excellent and easy-to-understand training for every Data Governance role, as well as opportunities for certification. The tool was very install as a SaaS application and required minimal configuration. The metadata operating model hierarchy has 100+ asset types already but is also very easy to customize. The out-of-the-box characteristics (attributes or relationships) are very easy to apply to any asset type.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favourite aspect is simply having a quality tool that is capable of inventorying and governing ALL the data assets of our organization. Whether a column, a business process, a system, a business term, a report, or anything else, the characteristics of every data asset can be easily documented, bring visibility and transparency of data to everyone. Even when a business term is defined differently by two different business units, Collibra supports that and lets the business units decide whether they wish to standardize on a definition or not. The core modules, business lineage, technical(data) lineage, and search feature are easy to use.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The out-of-the-box dashboards/UIs are not the greatest. Organizations should create custom dashboards, however the out-of-the-box widgets are limited in graphics and design, so the best recommendation is to set up an HTML dashboard page for your organization with links to the glossary, reports, data dictionary, systems, policies, rules, etc. As Collibra has integrated separate modules (Collibra Data Lineage and now Collibra Data Quality), the UI is only getting a bit more unwieldy. It will need a larger redesign soon. The individual asset pages were redesigned in the past year, but didn't improve the experience much.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

You 100% need C-Level executive sponsorship or DG will fail at your organization. You need the authority and mandate to act in your role for collecting metadata and enforce collaboration (much like an internal audit team). The entire company needs to provide data access in order to reach completeness, which is essential, since documenting only one part of your company's metadata is much less valuable. Since Collibra collects mainly metadata that only describes and documents your data assets, there is no reason for business units to withhold data access. Most business units will need a designated steward as a resource.

What differentiates Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud from other similar products?

Collibra is a powerful platform for your data that has great features and easy metadata management. It gives the organization a better decision and improves operational efficiency. It gives the end-users great data quality with regularity compliance. Overall a great and action-packed platform for your organization.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The main features are: 1) Excellent compatibility 2) Data governance framework 3) Easy workflows for users 4) Centralized dashboard 5) Easy configuration

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing to say about its dislikes as the solution has all the features a user might need. However, license cost can be improved along with support to the data discovery, and data profiling shall also be optimized. The company also needs to focus on improving customer services.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

You can go ahead with this solution. Collibra platform provides business-centric concepts with a high level of graphical user interfaces which is very user-centric.

What differentiates Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud from other similar products?

Collibra is ahead from its peers specially when it comes to ease for adoption for business users. It enables data governance and stewardship for enterprise business users in true sense. Needless to say that along with intuitive user interfaces it has all the necessary features line data catalog, glossary, stewardship etc.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Data Catalog capability which has unique data shopping & certification feature, Ease of integration using JDBC connectors, Business lineage.

What do you dislike most about this product?

To some extent lacks in Technical data lineage capabilities. But it has been drastically improved over the period of time. And bit more pricey as compared to its peers.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend go for Collibra if you need a tools which can ease data governance enablement in your organization in very effective manner. Always opt for Collibra training programs as those can be a very good starting point for business & technical users.