Collibra Platform serves as the central place to document, govern, and understand our data assets.
I use Collibra Platform in my day-to-day work to build out a business glossary and the data catalog to describe our key data assets.
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Centralized governance has streamlined data cataloging and reduced manual documentation work
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The Data Catalog feature stands out most to me because it is organized, faster, and there are good integrations with other tools.
Collibra Platform has positively impacted my organization as we save a lot of time. We have saved up to 30% of manual work as a specific process or workflow became faster.
What needs improvement?
Collibra Platform can be improved by adding more connectors to the ecosystems.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Collibra Platform for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Collibra Platform is stable.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment, with relevant metrics being time saved.
We achieved 30% of time saved, and the platform is easy to use.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using Collibra Platform is to use it in cloud because that is the best solution.
I give this review a rating of 10 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Empowers Data Management and Boosts Trustworthiness
What do you like best about the product?
manage and govern their data assets, making them more trustworthy and accessible.
What do you dislike about the product?
NA, we are still using it so yet to confirm on the dislikes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collibra is used in Dell Data Lake (DDL), its used in Peer-to-peer data sharing and Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) is the platform to support Marketing Digital Transformation
objective
P&S = right message, for the right customer, through the right channel, at the right time…delivered at scale
To make it happens, Dell needs a platform that can activates data and content for all customer engagements
Pine is the place where we centralized Data and make it available
objective
P&S = right message, for the right customer, through the right channel, at the right time…delivered at scale
To make it happens, Dell needs a platform that can activates data and content for all customer engagements
Pine is the place where we centralized Data and make it available
Essential for Managing Compliant and Ethical AI Use Cases
What do you like best about the product?
Helps manage AI use cases, ensuring they are compliant, ethical, and trustworthy.
What do you dislike about the product?
High license cost and complexity and some challenges for the installation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collibra solves problems related to data governance, quality, and accessibility
Effortless Data Product Descriptions
What do you like best about the product?
It's impressive how easily you can describe your data products.
What do you dislike about the product?
Verifying the code is quite challenging and not straightforward.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It addresses the issue I faced when people interested in purchasing my data product would repeatedly have to ask me how to request it and what the tables mean, among other things.
Excellent Software Services with No Drawbacks
What do you like best about the product?
Good software services deliver reliable, efficient, and user-friendly solutions tailored to client needs. They ensure seamless integration, robust security, timely support, and continuous innovation, enhancing productivity and customer satisfaction across industries and platforms.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing at the moment implies no current tasks, updates, or concerns requiring attention, indicating a temporary pause or state of readiness.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collibra solves key data governance challenges by providing a centralized platform for managing data quality, lineage, and compliance. It helps ensure trusted data across systems, enabling better decision-making, reducing risk, and improving operational efficiency.
Cumbersome system with limited practical value for HR and policy work
What do you like best about the product?
Collibra centralizes information and provides a structured approval process. It helps ensure that policies are visible to multiple stakeholders and keeps an auditable trail of changes. The idea of having one shared platform for governance is good in theory
What do you dislike about the product?
The system is cumbersome and often slows down work instead of streamlining it. Roles and responsibilities are unclear, so too many people are pulled into reviews, which dilutes accountability. Approvals get stuck in bottlenecks, and integration with other systems is inconsistent. Policy reviews feel like box-checking rather than meaningful discussions, and all comments are treated equally—so SMEs don’t have enough weight. Notifications are excessive, which encourages quick clicks instead of thoughtful engagement. Technical issues (like PDF upload restrictions) are constant frustrations, and user support is limited when problems arise.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collibra is being used as a central governance tool to manage policies and approvals across HR and other functions. It creates an audit trail and gives visibility to multiple stakeholders, which in theory helps with compliance and accountability. It ensures documents are reviewed in a consistent way and keeps everything in one place.
Provides an end-to-end perspective of data usage and assists in identifying sensitive data across the enterprise
What is our primary use case?
I use the Collibra Lineage visualization features. The solution helps me understand data flows effectively. Collibra Lineage impacts my data analysis by helping to identify where data is used, making it significantly useful. The solution facilitates compliance by defining where sensitive data is located, helping to trace sensitive data.
What is most valuable?
One of the best features of Collibra Lineage is that it provides an end-to-end perspective of where data is used in the enterprise.
The positive benefit from using Collibra Lineage is that it provides an end-to-end perspective of data usage in the organization.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in Collibra Lineage as it could incorporate automation features which would allow it to find data lineage across a data stack independently.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Collibra Lineage for approximately four or five years.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
I don't have much experience with Collibra Lineage, so I cannot comment on whether it is straightforward in terms of installation or if there are challenges when implementing.
I personally don't participate in the installation of Collibra Lineage.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Collibra Lineage is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Collibra Lineage is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
I did not communicate with their support for Collibra Lineage, so I would not know if they were helpful or responsive.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
What about the implementation team?
When it comes to implementing Collibra Lineage, three or four engineers are involved.
What was our ROI?
Using Collibra Lineage is beneficial in terms of finance.
The metrics I track to measure efficiency improvement after using Collibra Lineage include integration and analytics. The time spent to identify data usage is reduced significantly.
What other advice do I have?
Because I have not used Collibra Lineage extensively, I will not comment on future updates, improvements, or features I would like to see, such as more customization, more AI features, a refreshed interface, or a lower price. I rate Collibra Lineage 8 out of 10.
Facilitates enterprise data management with strong governance and collaboration features
What is our primary use case?
Implementing Collibra Governance is definitely something that all organizations having data need. It's the kind of tool especially for large enterprises where data is distributed across multiple data stacks, bringing rigor for both data management and data engineering.
What is most valuable?
We use Collibra Governance for metadata management and access restrictions, as well as lineage.
We use Collibra's Data Stewardship features. In terms of role assignment and accountability, there are three levels of users: people who are data users, then there are data stewards, who are users of data enforcing compliance and rigor around data, and finally, the data governor who sets up policies and principles.
We have utilized Collibra's Business Glossary. It is good for reference of the data, understanding what the data is about, which helps maintain data accuracy.
Collibra's integration capabilities benefit our organization, although compared to the rest of the market, it is a bit cumbersome, but it's acceptable.
My experience with Collibra's collaboration tools in improving data literacy has been quite good. I think it is one of the best for helping people understand and discuss certain data sets and manage workflows.
What needs improvement?
In future updates, I would like to see more AI-based capability in Collibra Governance, wherein the data definitions can be auto-generated and lineage can be tracked down easier.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with it for probably 12 years.
How was the initial setup?
The installation process is quite straightforward, but for it to be adapted by the organization presents challenges based on the organization, so it's not a technical challenge.
For a basic installation, I spend just a few weeks, probably about two weeks on setup and configuration.
What about the implementation team?
Three to four people from my side usually take part in the implementation.
What was our ROI?
There are some benefits in the long run in terms of return on investment. While there are no direct cost reductions, there is significant indirect cost reduction. If I consider putting data governance in place without a tool like this, it's difficult, resulting in a significant cost improvement. If something else can be used instead and it's more expensive, that is a consideration.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Regarding licensing, I find it is one of the more expensive options, so it is not particularly affordable.
What other advice do I have?
The interface is very good, with no complaints.
I do work with other vendors as well. Some other vendors I work with include Informatica, Atlan, and Suchi.
On a scale of 1-10, I rate Collibra Governance a 9.
Data Management Consultant working on the configuration and roll out of Collibra.
What do you like best about the product?
I find the Customer Support is responds in a very timely manner.
I find it is very easy to relate the core offerings of the platform to key business issues and propose Collibra as the tool that can solve these issues and thus generate value through cost savings.
The documentation makes it very easy to understand what is required for the technical implementation of the platform and integration of it with multiple different data sources.
I find it is very easy to relate the core offerings of the platform to key business issues and propose Collibra as the tool that can solve these issues and thus generate value through cost savings.
The documentation makes it very easy to understand what is required for the technical implementation of the platform and integration of it with multiple different data sources.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Inaccessible Language
- I find some of the language used within the Collibra tool adds a barrier to rolling it out successfully as it doesn't seem particularly intuitive to me.
]2. Navigation UI/UX
- I find that the biggest barrier to target consumers on site being satisfied with Collibra is navigation. Countless times I hear employees have entered the tool and it has not been intuitive enough for them to find what they want, thus they leave.
- I find some of the language used within the Collibra tool adds a barrier to rolling it out successfully as it doesn't seem particularly intuitive to me.
]2. Navigation UI/UX
- I find that the biggest barrier to target consumers on site being satisfied with Collibra is navigation. Countless times I hear employees have entered the tool and it has not been intuitive enough for them to find what they want, thus they leave.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping users find data faster by themselves.
- Reducing reliance on Colleagues.
- Increasing available analytics time.
- Enabling faster data access requests.
- Reduction in duplicate request for analytics (power bi)
Impact assessment (downstream lineage)
- enabling staff to understand the downstream impacts of their actions without having to rely on support from IT support.
- reduction in unintended consequences
Data Quality investigations (upstream lineage)
- enable staff to understand where DQ issues may have come from.
- reduce reliance on IT staff to reverse engineer stored procedures.
- Reducing reliance on Colleagues.
- Increasing available analytics time.
- Enabling faster data access requests.
- Reduction in duplicate request for analytics (power bi)
Impact assessment (downstream lineage)
- enabling staff to understand the downstream impacts of their actions without having to rely on support from IT support.
- reduction in unintended consequences
Data Quality investigations (upstream lineage)
- enable staff to understand where DQ issues may have come from.
- reduce reliance on IT staff to reverse engineer stored procedures.
Users benefit from discoverability and marketplace features but seek automation for enhanced data access
What is our primary use case?
We have a data platform and we use Collibra Catalog as enterprise governance tools. We are using Collibra Catalog for basic functionality.
What is most valuable?
It has various features such as cataloging data products and data sets, and it also has a marketplace and edge connectors to scan metadata. All these are various features, and the data quality aspects are there as well.
Discoverability is one of the key things we are always looking into.
Lineage is also available, including both technical and metadata lineage.
What needs improvement?
One of the very key drawbacks is that automation for access provisioning is not available. If I discover a data set or data product in the marketplace and want to access the data, this feature doesn't exist at all.
This is the biggest problem because without access automation enabled, users cannot get access to the underlying data.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using it for 4 and 1/2 years now.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
Deployment issues exist; every time we do a deployment, it erases the data in its previous versions. We have highlighted this to Collibra Catalog and have raised a ticket. They are working on it.
We are not satisfied as it is not yet completed. We raised this issue a year ago, but there have not been any results yet.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Response time is the main issue.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We have multiple cataloging systems similar to Collibra Catalog.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing is not under my purview as I am an architect. The platform team handles the licensing aspects.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
The comparison shows that each tool has its own pros and cons.
Gartner identifies Collibra Catalog as the leader, which aligns with our observations.
What other advice do I have?
I have read reports about Collibra Governance and Microsoft Purview on the website. We are currently using Collibra Catalog. We also use Tableau. I work as a Collibra Catalog architect. The tech support rating is six out of ten. Overall, I rate this solution 8 out of 10.
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