Robust and flexible solution, with steep learning curve and potential deployment challenges
What do you like best about the product?
Comprehensive Feature Set: excels in providing a wide range of features to manage data governance. From data cataloging and lineage tracking to data quality assessment, it covers almost every aspect one could ask for a data governance/data management tool.
Flexibility: is both a blessing and a potential challenge. The ability to customize workflows, data dictionaries, and even user interfaces to align with specific organizational needs is a big plus. This adaptability ensures that the tool can cater to a variety of use cases.
User-Friendly Interface: Despite its complexity, Collibra manages to present its features in a user-friendly manner, especially in the last release. The interface is intuitive and offers easy navigation, helping users to grasp the tool's functionalities quickly.
Flexibility: is both a blessing and a potential challenge. The ability to customize workflows, data dictionaries, and even user interfaces to align with specific organizational needs is a big plus. This adaptability ensures that the tool can cater to a variety of use cases.
User-Friendly Interface: Despite its complexity, Collibra manages to present its features in a user-friendly manner, especially in the last release. The interface is intuitive and offers easy navigation, helping users to grasp the tool's functionalities quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning Curve: the flexibility that makes Collibra stand out can also be a double-edged sword. The initial learning curve for both users and deployment teams can be steep. Understanding how to harness the full potential of Collibra's features might require investing a significant amount of time in training and familiarization.
Potential for Confusion: With great flexibility comes the potential for confusion. The plethora of options and customizable features might overwhelm new users. It's essential for organizations to establish clear governance and training strategies to ensure users make the most of the tool without getting lost in its complexities. It is good to highlight that despite the complexity, Collibra uses really basic concepts that, once learned, speed up the implementation curve.
Deployment Challenges: Deploying Collibra across an organization can sometimes pose challenges due to its highly customizable nature. Ensuring that the tool aligns perfectly with existing processes and workflows might demand careful planning and customization, possibly adding some complexity to the deployment phase.
Potential for Confusion: With great flexibility comes the potential for confusion. The plethora of options and customizable features might overwhelm new users. It's essential for organizations to establish clear governance and training strategies to ensure users make the most of the tool without getting lost in its complexities. It is good to highlight that despite the complexity, Collibra uses really basic concepts that, once learned, speed up the implementation curve.
Deployment Challenges: Deploying Collibra across an organization can sometimes pose challenges due to its highly customizable nature. Ensuring that the tool aligns perfectly with existing processes and workflows might demand careful planning and customization, possibly adding some complexity to the deployment phase.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Decentralized data assets from across the organization are hard to discover, understand, trust, and access. Miss trusted data within the data marketplace, analysts lost a lot of time discovering it instead of delivering analysis and insights. Data engineers do not know which are the trusted data sources to build, manage and operationalize data pipelines.