We performed a comparison between Alation Data Catalog and Collibra Governance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Governance solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Given the relatively low level of maturity, Alation's most relevant feature at the moment is a user interface that's easy to navigate, which helps us find and understand the data. So while Alation has a lot more functionality, our pain point right now is being able to easily find, understand, and trust the information to use it."
"Alation Data Catalog's best feature is the SQL query publication."
"We had some of our data science engineers, who had built out some cloud-based data and data products for users. They were spending a lot of their time, up to 30 to 35% of their time, answering questions about the data and helping people understand how to use it. Once they were able to document that information within Alation, they were only focusing on around 5% of the high-value questions that really couldn't be solved through the catalog itself. It freed them up to be more productive, it made their end-users more productive, and it made the adoption rate of their data products rise more quickly because people were able to get to using them."
"The workflow is very good and has been embedded. It also has a great user interface."
"The automation process is very strong."
"Collibra Governance's most valuable features are data lineage and stewardships."
"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."
"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."
"In terms of data governance, as I mentioned, it can be a one-stop solution for all of your data governance needs."
"I find the metadata feature valuable because it replaces the coding."
"There is a good community setup around the solution that can provide insights."
"Alation Data Catalog needs to develop a lot in terms of data governance and would be improved with a built-in interactive data quality solution."
"Alation Data Catalog doesn't support end-to-end lineage. By that, I mean the ability to trace the movement of data from when it first comes into our organization to where it's consumed."
"I know that this has been on their roadmap and they're working on it, but as a whole, there's an untapped reservoir of capabilities within their article features that could be used and built upon."
"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."
"I'm fairly new to the product, however, what I generally hear from my clients is that the requirement around having ways to ingest more metadata."
"No easy way to connect to different data sources."
"Collibra is not very user-friendly in terms of lineage generation. The lineage generation process is quite tough, and it takes lots of time to understand it. Business staff are also struggling to generate lineages and to understand them. So, it is not very user-friendly."
"If someone changes the metadata, we can't see who changed it."
"There's a lot of things available in their Data Intelligence Cloud that are not available on-premise."
"When we are doing discovery for unstructured data sources, I would suggest a quality report of the data that would indicate what was unable to process."
"We would like to have out-of-the-box automation."
Alation Data Catalog is ranked 6th in Data Governance with 3 reviews while Collibra Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 28 reviews. Alation Data Catalog is rated 8.4, while Collibra Governance is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Alation Data Catalog writes "The catalog now provides an opportunity for people to come together, to share, and to find". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Collibra Governance writes "Offers many features for the best relative price". Alation Data Catalog is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Informatica Axon, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and Ataccama ONE Platform, whereas Collibra Governance is most compared with Informatica Axon, Microsoft Purview, BigID, Ataccama ONE Platform and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest. See our Alation Data Catalog vs. Collibra Governance report.
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