Collibra Governance Valuable Features

Mike Butler - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Program Manager at Johnson & Johnson

It is a big library. It has a long list of data assets and their descriptions and lineage. It's fairly two-dimensional. For my use, it just has lists of things. There might be others in my organization who are tying the data elements, metrics, and other things together, but I don't rely on that, and I don't leverage that. For me, it is a fairly flat library for information.

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Gazi Salauddin - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate at Cognizant

The solution's most valuable features are its scalability and how it can be integrated to any other intakes.

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Davy Michiels - PeerSpot reviewer
Company Owner, Data Consultant at Telenet BVBA

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.

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Collibra Governance
March 2024
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Narsimha Desidi - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Univision Communications Inc.

The ability to pull together data lineage is one of the most valuable aspects of the product. 

The transparency was great. the business was able to come in and see the data and what exactly was happening in a way they couldn't before. The company could see job roles, data sources, and policies. 

The quality and visibility of the data links are great.

They used to rely on third parties, however, now, for example, they've brought in their own data quality tool. 

The beauty of the solution is that you can customize it quite a bit.

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Kriti Trigunayat - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Service Design Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The feature I like most in Collibra Governance is the lineage. It lets me do lineage that you can set up, for example, technical lineage and business lineage. The solution lets me associate the right people with the right assets, so anybody who has to look at end-to-end instances can use Collibra Governance and figure it out in terms of who to contact, what to do, and where to find what you need.

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RM
Knowledge Manager at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

I like Collibra's flexibility. I like to be able to modify things for our own use. For example, we've chosen to use Collibra also as a knowledge management tool, even though it is not designed to be a knowledge management tool. That's the beauty of it. It can serve as a knowledge management tool by creating some custom assets specifically for knowledge management. I have a knowledge base domain and a knowledge base article asset type- along with a few other things. I really like the flexibility to be able to extend it in those non-traditional ways.

On the flexibility side, I've created some really nice and very useful custom workflows that have really helped with work processes and productivity. They've really helped us do things easier, faster, and better.

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DC
Consultant at WDS

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.

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BHUSHANDEOKAR - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Quality & Data Governance Developer at Accenture

Collibra's lineage is a very powerful feature. We have integrated Collibra with Azure and ADLS storage and we create lineage diagrams using the two tools.

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GS
Senior Collibra Consultant at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Collibra is evolving their connectivity towards all programs across the IT landscape. The solution has good workflows and they now offer nine dimensions of data quality and provide a lot of features. The solution is based on AIML, Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning so that even if you don't know SQL, you can operate Collibra Data Quality. Collibra Workflows, Collibra Data Quality, are two good aspects that I would highlight from Collibra. Governance provides a user access mechanism, where you have all the data assets cataloged in Collibra. Not everyone can access all the data which is where the governance process comes in. They are constantly coming up with new features, and provide a monthly release.

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KF
Sr. Systems Analyst, Master Data Governance at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We learned some lessons on a past implementation, and with the new implementation, we're going beyond the data catalog and looking at the OwlIQ, data quality, as well as data lineage. We're really selecting some of the best modules within Collibra's toolset.

Right now, we're just implementing it. We're still in the purchasing process, however, having experience with it, I would say a great feature is its usability on the engagement with enterprise functionality. The crowdsourcing and just making it very accessible is foundational. At the end of the day, it always comes down to terms. For example, we might be saying the same exact term, however, have completely different meanings. It brings to light just the nuances, especially within a larger enterprise organization, a global organization. In organizations of this size, we've realized just how different our terminology views are. It sheds a good light on this and helps clarify. 

The data lineage piece is very useful for us. The ability to understand data flows, where systems and changes originate, is great. A lot of time you might have something on paper that isn't necessarily working in real life. This product brings about the right visibility to have the right conversations between business and IT.

There is a good community setup around the solution that can provide insights. 

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NR
Manager - Finance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The interface itself is very useful. I think what I find most useful about the tool, if I'm looking at it from the perspective of a data user, would be the search capability. The fact that I can search for any data elements that are in the table and there will be a pretty comprehensive list that are either identical or very similar to one another in the tables where they are found. I think in terms of sourcing, it's really valuable. I also think that the ability to connect your business metadata with your technical metadata, is something that's very valuable from the perspective of the business. People on the business side need to understand where data is coming from, how it's connected. Doing that through one centralized repository, or document, is useful.

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PalakKhaneja - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Data Management & Governance at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution's Data Stewardship part.

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MS
Sr. System Analyst at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

The most important feature in Collibra Governance is the ability to gather data or a collection of data into one repository. If a client creates a repository at his place, then it will get updated to the cloud automatically.

It's easy to operate and understand.

Also, you can have different views for business people and for technical people, and there are some helpful customizations in it as well.

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Aditya Pawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at DTSQUARED

Workflows is the most valuable feature of Collibra because we will typically use an interface for it and we can customize it as per our needs.

It is also a very user-friendly tool which is easy to navigate and understand right from the start.

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PrashastTripathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Collibra Governance's most valuable features are data lineage and stewardships.

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SM
Business Analyst at BNY Mellon

This solution is user friendly and offers multiple functionalities. It operates like a kind of a repository that allows you to find anything about a particular data set or field.

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CA
Technical Product Lead at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Out of box ingestions of technical metadata as well as ease of use for setting up new business metadata for users to represent their business terms

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AN
Solution Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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.

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SC
Sr Manager - Enterprise Data Office at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I like the lineage feature the most because I don't think there's any other tool that actually depicts the data flow from multiple sources and the connectivities between every data element inside those sources.

I don't think there's any other solution where you can view multiple systems and multiple sources and data places and you can just write it down. It's a lot of work to initially organize but there's no other tools to do lineage like Collibra does it.

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VB
Technology Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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SS
Senior Solution Architect at Intraedge

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.

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NR
Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The data security lineage is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization.

The product offers very good artificial intelligence capabilities.

The automation process is very strong.

The whole company can utilize the product. Once we ingest the metadata from the technical side and we enable the security, if any user wants to know anything from business asset information to which component it is been assigned where, et cetera, they can do so. They don't need to be technical or get a technician to pull the data for them. 

There is a lineage, which helps us to track down and drill down on details. It helps with data analytics and data science. 

Earlier we used to have a third party tool like MuleSoft for connectors. On the architecture side, they are introducing new features that allow us to phase out the third-party connector.

Collibra itself is building and providing some out of the box workflows. These features allow you to automate the process and strictly align the compliance of the company.

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SR
Sr Data Governance Architect at Mresult

Collibra Governance is a stable solution.

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AA
Data Governance Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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Celina Mary - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Governance Consultant at Information Asset

Workflow is very helpful and assessment are good features. I really like the structure of this solution and how it is compartmentalized.

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PK
Advisor Business Consultant at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

In general, this is a valuable solution for us. Collibra provides a good view of where my data is, the type of data we have across the landscape, how it's getting utilized, the quality in terms of correct calibration, and whether the integrity is uniform across the landscape. Everything is in sync and Collibra is a central repository that provides a good snapshot of understanding along with holding the integrity, confidentiality, and security of our data. 

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Taher Dungrawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery head at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

The most valuable features of Collibra Governance are that it is user-friendly and easy to use.

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KM
Member Of Technical Staff at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I would say customization is the most valuable. The workflow is very good and has been embedded. It also has a great user interface.

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TK
President at The Consultants Company

The most valuable aspect of the solution is its collaboration platform, which includes the workflows, the data lineage, and some of the communities. The ability to collaborate and approve business terms for the business glossary data dictionary is excellent.

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DP
Senior Consulting Analyst at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It's incredibly easy to use. As far as the user-friendly aspect is concerned, it's good. The search function within Collibra for desktop is pretty cool with many hotkeys, and especially for having to build a business glossary, if somebody's confused about a term, they can use the hotkey to pull it up on Collibra for desktop, wherever they are.

With the application installed, you don't necessarily have to go to Collibra to utilize it. 

I do like the workflow customization feature as we're able to customize workflows that give ownership to the stewardship organization rather than have to rely on out-of-the-box workflows. You make it an IT function. The IT department can set it up and then put it in the hand of the stewardship organization through customization and a feedback loop, with the stewards able to make it do what they need.

The tried and true features and functions are solid. These features develop in a very good direction as new releases come through.

The stability is good.

The scalability is there if a company would like to expand. 

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AR
Data Governance Manager at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

The solution is very user-friendly, especially in comparison to other tools. 

Even a business user, which no technical competencies can manage this product rather easily. 

There are great workflows and other features that really simplify various aspects of the product.

The log information is easy to navigate.

The customization and the dashboards are pretty good.

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IS
Consultant II at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature of this solution is mainly on the report side. They have a couple of reports in finance and we can connect with Tableau or Power BI, or even SSDT. We have connected with Power BI and Tableau right now. Once we connect with the source, we can pull all the data, and we can create a hierarchy based on that, and then we can link each attribute in the report with the table name and the column name. After that, we can link it with the business terms as well. It's like an end-to-end flow. We can create even traceability diagrams, views inside the system.

The reporting is very good. The solution offers a good business glossary. The diagrams are also pretty easy to understand for everyone. We had to link with the IT department, which had some difficult workflows, and they want to automate everything. The solution can do that for them. It's still a work in progress, however.

The solution is quite customizable. If I took a business term account, I could link it with the table account, and then I could link it with the account ID, and then there'd be some account receivables report. Each attribute in this report account ID, I can link to and create a linked diagram. This can be shown to the business users. The business users need to see the glossary and the attributes and if we can link anything we can create relationships with the data. There are some out-of-the-box attributes, which are present in Collibra, however, in addition to that, we can also create our own any.

If you compare the solution to something like Axon, it's pretty user-friendly. Anyone can come and understand the tool very easily. Axon isn't as user-friendly compared to Collibra. 

It's not a complicated product. Collibra also has Collibra DG and Collibra Console, but in Informatica Axon, everything is all together. Everything, including the backup schedule and all these things, has another web application in order to maintain all that information. 

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LK
Data Governance Analyst

You can tailor the solution to your needs. You can really create different office drives and different attributes or relations that you can customize for your needs, which is a great thing. 

The diagrams are really great due to the fact that there are validations. The search capabilities and the different filters are all great aspects.

It's a user-friendly tool, even for non-technical people. That was one of the reasons why we chose it. It has very good social adoption. There isn't much training needed.

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HJ
Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable features of Collibra are the workflows and the data lineage capabilities. They help improve the client's existing processes. You can map those into workflows and those processes can directly be done on Collibra. Basically, what happens is, you directly script the metadata for the process that is happening.

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DL
Data Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

It is user-friendly, and other companies use Collibra Governance as well.

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SS
Group Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Due to technological advancement and data becoming more critical for all reporting and analytics purposes, we are no longer restricted to primitive tools like Excel, etc. Earlier, we were leveraging these tools because we used to source data directly from data sources, but now, things have moved to the Azure platform and we have much more freedom in the cloud.

It's now really important for technical people to have some kind of lineage for these data sources because currently, we are not just leveraging data from the source and reporting it somewhere. We have thousands of reports with some transformation that occurs in between. Data is moving from one layer to another — all types, including raw, curated, and rich.

When our technical team works on it and our business demands new modifications, it becomes difficult for them to track that lineage and what impact it's going to have on the upstream and downstream system. This is one functionality of Collibra that we have leveraged extensively. 

We are in the process of migrating all our data sources towards the data lake — some has already been done and more is on the way. We want to connect all of our reports, which are either based on ClickView, Tableau, or PBA, directly to Collibra, as our data platform. If a business user wants to track down a KPI in a report to the rawest data from which we are sourcing it, there are a number of layers and transformations happening in between.

It is important for business users to track what is happening in the background. Are we leveraging the right thing? Are we applying the right kind of transformation or the right business-logic to arrive at a certain KPI? At the same time, the IT team needs to be able to know what kind of lineages there are. For example, If I make a change to one of these things, what impact will it have on the backend? This is one of the powerful functions of Collibra which we as an organization think is really useful — as an organization, we have been reaping the benefits thanks to this solution.

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EDGARNISHIYAMA - PeerSpot reviewer
Education Mentor - Data Science at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature is the discovery process for the data catalog because we get it in a visual format as a way to understand and classify it. It's good to generate insights and get the context of the data.

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GA
Data Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The diagram showing the limits is absolutely magnificent. It shows an end-to-end business term or any asset going from end-to-end. From a visual perspective on the diagram, it's simply beautiful.

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MK
Business Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I find the metadata feature valuable because it replaces the coding. The metadata creation happens via Collibra, and it reduces the code. 

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Buyer's Guide
Collibra Governance
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Collibra Governance. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.