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Collibra Platform pros and cons

Vendor: Collibra
3.9 out of 5
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PROS

Collibra Platform excels in its data lineage capabilities, enabling comprehensive mapping of data flows and visualizations.
The collaboration and business term approval features within the business glossary and data dictionary are highly effective.
Collibra Platform provides exceptional automation for metadata management, reducing the need for manual input and saving time and resources.
The Java and REST API interfaces make Collibra Platform remarkably developer-friendly.
Collibra Platform supports diverse integration options and scalability, making it suitable for extensive enterprise data governance needs.

CONS

Connectivity with different applications and data sources is challenging, especially when dealing with firewalls and older technologies.
The metadata ingestion connectors of Collibra Platform need enhancement, as they struggle with various ETL tools and transformations.
There is a lack of intuitive integration options, including limited support for custom integrations and specific data and metadata ingestion.
The documentation and support for Collibra Platform are lacking, creating challenges for users seeking effective guidance.
Pricing and licensing options for Collibra Platform are expensive, making it less affordable for many organizations.
 

Collibra Platform Pros review quotes

TK
President at The Consultants Company
Aug 13, 2020
Rules and policies on workflows are really strong.
TK
President at The Consultants Company
Nov 26, 2020
The ability to collaborate and approve business terms for the business glossary data dictionary is excellent.
IS
Consultant II at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 10, 2020
It's not a complicated product.
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reviewer1466991 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Finance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 6, 2020
From the perspective of a data user, the solution has a great search capability.
MK
Business Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 7, 2020
I find the metadata feature valuable because it replaces the coding.
GA
Data Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Dec 7, 2020
The diagram showing the limits is absolutely magnificent.
reviewer1469259 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 9, 2020
The catalog feature is definitely valuable because it makes ingesting the metadata of any application quite simple. You don't have to do things manually. You can just schedule an import, and it will just refresh the metadata of whatever application you want. That's what I like. I usually work on the technical side, and other than that, I usually create integrations. I integrate Collibra with different environments or applications. I'm a developer, so I cannot vouch for the business, but for me, it is quite developer-friendly with the Java API interface and the REST API interface that they have provided. It is good for creating dashboards based on the needs of each and every role. It can be user-specific or group-specific. We usually create dashboards and give them to our business users, and they are quite happy with that.
AA
Data Governance Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 10, 2020
The end-to-end solution itself is great. The most valuable is the workload feature that Collibra offers. There is a vast amount of flexibility in terms of how much we can customize. It gives us a lot of options to implement for a lot of purposes.
reviewer1471359 - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 13, 2020
In terms of data governance, as I mentioned, it can be a one-stop solution for all of your data governance needs.
AR
Data Governance Manager at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
Dec 13, 2020
The customization and the dashboards are pretty good.
 

Collibra Platform Cons review quotes

TK
President at The Consultants Company
Aug 13, 2020
Connectivity with different applications could be improved.
TK
President at The Consultants Company
Nov 26, 2020
The connectors for metadata ingestion need to be improved.
IS
Consultant II at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 10, 2020
While connecting with the data source, it's not very easy. If there's a firewall, it is difficult to connect with the database. It's not easy when you are configuring on the database.
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reviewer1466991 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Finance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 6, 2020
No easy way to connect to different data sources.
MK
Business Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 7, 2020
If someone changes the metadata, we can't see who changed it.
GA
Data Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Dec 7, 2020
The workflows and the language they use needs to be improved.
reviewer1469259 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 9, 2020
It should have more integrations with things like CyberArk because its main purpose is GDPR implementation. We have to have more scope for things that implement more privacy. CyberArk makes sure your credentials are vaulted and your things are secure when you're creating your integrations or connecting to an application. I do believe that they are working on this feature.
AA
Data Governance Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 10, 2020
One problem is the data lineage, especially extracting the ETL transformation from different ETL tools and identifying how the data is getting changed from one layer to different layers and how the transformation is applied. It doesn't support all the ETL tools for extracting the transformation logic. It supports some of the tools, but there are still some tools that need to be supported. There is also a small pain point in terms of integration. There is a little bit of change in their strategy from Collibra's end. Earlier, they used to offer two solutions. One was out of the box, and one was a custom-built solution for which they used to provide a dual connector. Now the focus from the Collibra side is more on using the out of the box connector. They are discouraging doing the custom integration. That leaves us with two problems. The first problem is that the out-of-the-box connecter is not yet enabled for a lot of systems, and the second problem is that the out-of-the-box connecter has certain limitations. If we want to tweak those as per our needs, it is not possible. However, the custom-built is still supported, and you can still build a custom integration by using the API, but it is not very encouraged by Collibra. Its dashboard also needs to be improved. There are options to use the HTML code to customize your dashboard, but it has a lot of limitations.
reviewer1471359 - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 13, 2020
Recently, I find that the default process of issue management in Collibra is really complex — It wasn't really helpful to us.
AR
Data Governance Manager at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
Dec 13, 2020
It would be better if there was a way to import all data and metadata in an automatic way in one block form.