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."The most valuable features of Alation Data Catalog are the simplicity in onboarding data sources, the security in securing the data sources, and the way the various users of Alation Data Catalog communicate with each other through a messenger."
"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."
"We can customize templates based on our use cases."
"The tool's metadata cataloging is the most valuable feature."
"The platform's most valuable features are workflow automation, automated business metadata tagging, technical metadata tagging, and data integration with data quality tools or platforms."
"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."
"We have folks in the field doing our clinical research operations, and they have the opportunity to refer to Collibra when they are examining a particular report. When they have a question about how something in that report is derived, they can pull a metric that is defined fully in Collibra. They have the opportunity to drill back into Collibra to see that."
"The solution has good workflows and is based on AIML."
"The ability to collaborate and approve business terms for the business glossary data dictionary is excellent."
"Provides a good view of the data and how it's being utilized, as well as calibration quality."
"It's not a complicated product."
"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."
"Workflow is very helpful and assessment are good features. I really like the structure of this solution and how it is compartmentalized."
"Collibra Governance is a stable solution."
"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."
"The product's data governance features need improvement."
"The tool's domain model needs to be changed."
"Alation Data Catalog does not provide end-to-end data lineage."
"The interface is not user-friendly."
"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."
"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."
"Many other tools like Collibra Governance give you the option to actually see the data in the tool, which is not an option in Collibra."
"Where it isn't great is on older technologies that you'll typically find in finance or insurance industries, such as older types of data with VSAM or ISAM, or those types of older technologies. It just doesn't connect with them very easily."
"No easy way to connect to different data sources."
"Occasionally we get little bugs that occur, however, this is typical."
"The solution's data lineage is a little difficult and will not support all the source systems on the database."
"The price of Collibra Governance could improve."
"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."
"I would like to see a feature using the runtime dashboard."
Alation Data Catalog is ranked 5th in Data Governance with 7 reviews while Collibra Governance is ranked 2nd in Data Governance with 41 reviews. Alation Data Catalog is rated 7.8, 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 "Transformed our cross-functional business teams into one enterprise-facing view". Alation Data Catalog is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Informatica Axon, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog, Atlan and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, whereas Collibra Governance is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Informatica Axon, BigID, Ataccama ONE Platform and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest. See our Alation Data Catalog vs. Collibra Governance report.
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