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    Srinivas Sivadasu

Can be used for governance-related tasks like building business glossaries and creating policies

  • January 05, 2024
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We mostly use Collibra Governance for governance-related tasks like building business glossaries and creating policies.

What is most valuable?

Collibra Governance comes with a lot of features, and we have used it in one of our projects for metadata management and data lineage. I have used the solution to create governance rules and a centralized repository for business glossaries.

What needs improvement?

The solution's metadata management is pretty novice and could be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Collibra Governance for around one year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate Collibra Governance a nine out of ten for stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Collibra Governance is more suitable for medium-level and enterprise businesses.

I rate Collibra Governance a nine out of ten for scalability.

How are customer service and support?

The solution's technical support was good, but there was a delay in their response time, possibly because of the time zones.

How was the initial setup?

The solution’s initial setup is simple.

What about the implementation team?

The solution's deployment will not take more than a week and can be done in five working days.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution's pricing is moderate and not very expensive.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Informatica is coming up with some level of data governance. erwin Data Modeler is quickly emerging as a competitor for Collibra in the coming days.

What other advice do I have?

Collibra Governance is deployed on the cloud in our organization.

Overall, I rate Collibra Governance an eight out of ten.


    Ankush_N

Customizable platform with efficient cataloging features

  • November 06, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We use the product for classification based on the different regulations and compliance requirements.

What is most valuable?

The platform is customizable. In comparison, Informatica Axon has predefined facets. Meanwhile, Collibra lets us create custom assets. It helps us build a powerful workflow mechanism where there can be any stewardship, including issue management governing assets using policies, regulations, or business rules. They are integrated very well. It has a lot of connectors with different source systems and efficient cataloging features.

What needs improvement?

There could be more integration similar to Snowflake, for instance. They do support integration, but complete lineage is not possible. Certain implementations, including lineage maps, could be user-friendly. At the moment, there needs to be more lineage between data sources. It needs improvements in terms of attribute connectivity during data transformation.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Collibra Governance for seven or eight years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable platform.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Collibra Governance is suitable for enterprise businesses. It is a SaaS product. Thus, the end users don’t have to maintain scalability or maintenance.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support team is responsive.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have worked with Informatica Axon and Data Catalog. In comparison, Collibra has better workflow management features. I recommend it for technical usage as well. However, Axon is more user-friendly for creating lineage diagrams. It has ready-to-use templates for deployment.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup process is complicated. However, once you get good training and understanding of the system, it is very straightforward. Some of the configurations require support. It takes around a week or two to complete all the configuration for the existing ecosystem.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

For Informatica, we have to buy cataloging and governance separately. Meanwhile, Collibra offers one structure for both. We purchase its annual license. There is an extra cost for additional users.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Collibra Governance an eight out of ten.


    Davy Michiels

User-friendly solution that provides centralized and collaborative framework

  • September 07, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

There are different use cases, including integration with other applications, setting up operating models for specific business domains, such as finance or manufacturing, defining domain structures, and implementing data quality rules and scorecards. The specific use cases can vary from client to client, but they generally involve leveraging Collibra's capabilities to establish a strong governance framework and improve data management across the organization.

What is most valuable?

I appreciate its user-friendly interface. It facilitates explaining and handing over the data between the teams. It enables a linear view of the data assets across different levels, providing a comprehensive understanding. While other tools may offer similar features, Collibra Governance stands out for its integration capabilities, particularly with platforms like Google Cloud. It is also well-regarded for its modern and cloud-based approach, which aligns with the needs of clients that utilize multiple cloud solutions.

What needs improvement?

There are certain limitations and difficulties regarding the migration of complex data quality rules, as the tool may struggle with lengthy calculations and longer loading times. Our clients reported that they have experienced runtime errors in those scenarios, Also, setting up the tool and seeing real results can take a significant amount of time and manual effort. Many clients struggle to find experienced consultants due to the tool's extensive features, and this shortage impacts the deployment process and overall value realization. The pricing structure is significantly expensive and not affordable for all the clients. I would suggest that Collibra consider offering a lighter version of the tool for small companies. Currently, the main focus of their strategy lies in targeting medium and large enterprises.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for a year now.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It provides good stability. We didn't have many complaints about it. There have been some challenges with complex rules, particularly about data quality.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It offers good scalability that is suitable for medium to large companies.

How are customer service and support?

They provide excellent support, and there is positive feedback in the market regarding their support services. The collaboration between Collibra Governance and their clients fosters mutual learning and improvement.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I previously used other solutions, like Azure and Informatica, but Collibra Governance offers the best experience regarding the user-friendly nature of the interface. While the other tools have their strengths, Collibra stands out for its compatibility features. It is a competitive solution that offers a variety of comprehensive capabilities.

What about the implementation team?

Configuring is relatively easy with the right training and materials, which is essential for users to understand and utilize the tool effectively. The complexity of the configuration itself depends on the scope of the project, with smaller use cases typically taking one to two months. For larger projects, a team of three to four people, including a developer, engineer, and governance specialist, may be required for deployment. The maintenance is straightforward. Overall, it is a user-friendly tool for administrators.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Generally, it is a rather expensive solution compared to some other tools in the market, but I found it to be fair-priced for its capabilities. The cost barrier often causes potential clients, especially small companies, to opt for other choices. I saw many clients coming back to Collibra after realizing that other tools have significant limitations. The cost factor also varies depending on the size of the company, as larger organizations have a bigger capital to invest in multiple tools.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend considering it, as it provides valuable features. It may be advisable to evaluate and assess the requirements and preferences of the client before making a final decision. I would rate the solution eight out of ten.


    LarsLerpold

A user-friendly for those who are not technically inclined and useful for cataloging various reports

  • August 31, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

I use Collibra Catalog for cataloging various reports, data elements, and tables, along with schema, associated with all the various attributes of the element itself, like business rules and sensitive data.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of the solution are the ability to PnP with all the various DBs in the background and to ensure that the Tableau is updated and any changes are visual while notifying about the integration to various business rules, data rules, data quality rules, and systems.

What needs improvement?

The tool's overall functionalities need to improve since, nowadays, many tools, from a business perspective, are easy to use.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have experience with Collibra Catalog. I am an end-user of the tool. My company is a customer of the product.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability-wise, it is a good solution. I rate the solution's scalability a seven and a half or eight out of ten.

Collibra Catalog is continuously being used in our company in as many ways as we can incorporate from various partners on the data elements and data landscaping, so we are slowly building it out.

How was the initial setup?

Though unsure, I feel that the initial setup of Collibra Catalog is pretty complex over the system.

What other advice do I have?

I think Collibra Catalog is one of the better products out there. The ability to PnP in the back-end and get all the updates is amazing in the solution. Collibra has its own rules engines and has incorporated other rules engines as well.

Collibra Catalog is simple to use and user-friendly for those who are not technically inclined since it is easy to find while also easy to see data lineage diagrams.

I rate the overall product an eight out of ten.


    Deb C

A useful solution with a great range of features

  • August 31, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution to organize data. The IT team has access to the data and knows where it is stored, but when it comes to legal compliances and various regulations, the business itself does not have control over where the data is stored and how it is stored. Typically, the business wants to have control over where the data is stored, the various data classifications, and data sensitivity. That is the main reason why we use Collibra Governance.

What is most valuable?

I appreciate the range of features it has. Based on the reviews of some of the other tools we use, we find that the other tools lack in certain areas. If I had to choose a comprehensive tool across all the fields of data governance, I would opt for Collibra Governance.

The most valuable feature is the Technical Lineage. The fact that you can trace the auditability of a particular field or attribute across various systems is very useful.

What needs improvement?

There are a few things that need improvement. From a usability perspective, customers usually find some areas of the solution a bit complex. It takes a long time for the customers to get used to the UI and the interface. Another thing that the customers complain about when they opt for Collibra is the pricing. There are fees for additional features which mess with the customers' overall budgets.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using Collibra Governance for about two and a half years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a very stable solution. I would give it a nine out of ten. It works very well compared to other solutions on the market.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of the solution is good. I give it an eight out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

The response time of technical support is typically high.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Nowadays, most customers are looking into Microsoft Stack, so we use Microsoft Purview as well, although Calibra Governance is our preferred choice since it's much more stable than Purview.

Up until now, Collibra Governance has been the market leader and is always the first one to add new features. Purview tries to bring out a lot of features as fast as possible, but those features are not very stable and have a lot of bugs. Purview has the upper hand when it comes to the usability of the app system. It is easier for customers to understand the feature list while using Purview. For example, after using both solutions for a few weeks, they usually have a better grasp of Purview than Callibra Governance.

How was the initial setup?

Since it is a SaaS platform in a way, the solution is deployed on Collibra cloud. The deployment is pretty straightforward since Collibra deploys it on its own. It takes about a week to get the core of the system up and running. After, we configure it to fit the specific needs.

On a scale from one to ten, the simplicity of the setup would be an eight.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Collibra Governance's pricing is based on its features. You get what you pay for. There are other solutions that are cost-effective but lower quality. With Collibra, you get a fair-value product if you pay a bit more.

What other advice do I have?

I would not recommend using the Big Bang approach with Collibra Governance. You should understand the bigger picture of what you want to do. Start off with a few systems and four small modules. Get feedback from the business and then continuously evolve it. It is better to have the implementation spread out over a one-year period than have it crammed down within three to six months while trying to implement everything at once.

I would say that Collibra Governance is suitable for small to medium businesses.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.


    Consumer Electronics

Robust and flexible solution, with steep learning curve and potential deployment challenges

  • August 24, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

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.
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.
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.


    Saikat Ghosh

A reasonably stable tool requiring a straightforward deployment phase that ensures a return on investment for its users

  • August 14, 2023
  • Review from a verified AWS customer

What is our primary use case?

In my company, we use Collibra Governance for data catalog.

What needs improvement?

Pricing policy of the product is an area with certain shortcomings that needs improvement. I would like to see better pricing in future releases of the product. Collibra Governance needs to develop some new technology, like Atlan, that has been incorporating AI in the automation area of its products.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Collibra Governance for five years. I have ensured that one of my company's customers uses the solution's latest version. My company has a partnership with Collibra.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Around 30 people in my organization use the solution.

How are customer service and support?

The solution's technical support is helpful and responsive. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have probably worked with most of the products in the market related to data governance and data catalog, including products like Informatica Axon. I still do work with Informatica Axon at times.

How was the initial setup?

The product's deployment phase was straightforward.

The solution is deployed on an AWS Cloud, which is a private cloud.

What about the implementation team?

The deployment process is carried out by Collibra Governance's technical team.

What was our ROI?

There is definitely a return on investment from using the product, especially if you associate it with a data catalog tool. The return on investments is in terms of optimizing the process of development, data quality improvement, and having a single repository source of information for the metadata of the entire organization.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I don't know the licensing costs of the product since it is a SaaS solution.

I rate the pricing a three on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive, and ten is cheap.

What other advice do I have?

The maintenance is something that is carried out automatically by Collibra Governance.

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

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?


    Aakash P.

About Collibra

  • June 06, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Collobra is a software which is used to help to understand better way to shoe your data and read the data and we can share our data to one computer to another and easy to read data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some time the collibra not provide the security system because when you trnasfer data from one system to another system, so it's not be secure some of the attack may be cause the data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collibra provide more easy to read and write the data, it will allow to do machine learning data and when you want to access data so, we can read data very easy manner.


    Aleksandr P.

Collibra Features Review

  • May 15, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Collibra provides an automated data catalog and data lineage features to enable transparency and traceability. It helps us trace the data from source to target and publish a data catalog for self service consumption.
What do you dislike about the product?
Data integrations are challenging to set up depending on the availability of connectors. This could be made better to ensure the connectivity can be established easily.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collibra enables a self-service data catalog, data lineage and traceability for reporting and self-service data discovery. Our self-service performance has imporvoed.


    Bhavuk J.

Collibra Great tool to use for Metadata Documentation

  • May 13, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
We are using Collibra for metadata documentation across the enterprise. It helps in maintaining documentation and getting it validated by proper owners
What do you dislike about the product?
Collibra is a good tool but it can learn from other collaborating tools and can have smoother approval process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collibra is solving Data governance and metadata maintenance for the Enterprise.