Collibra Governance Reviews

The main use case for our organization was to collect and collate information for our business users, such as definitions, business rules, etc. 

The customers' names were stored in a data warehouse on Oracle, and with this product, you could insert information related to the customer. You could use Excel, for example, to add in data. You'd have all the information you collected from other places on one tool that users could navigate across to see all of the information.

One of the projects that we had with a client, was to collect and add all the information related to the HR functions. We collected technical information and data quality checks and so on. We inserted this information into Collibra. Once we did that, the user could enter in and read the collected information. That way, they didn't have to go to IT to pull queries for them. They were empowered to do it themselves. This solution basically reduced the search time. They no longer had to go to IT to open a ticket, or to go to an external supplier to recreate some already captured information.

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.

Collibra, as far as I know, does not have a connector like Oracle, or a mainframe. It's important to have a connector so that you have access to up-to-date information. Sometimes the data can be out-of-date as the updates are not automatic. Users could be looking at obsolete information.

You need to be precise about the names of the field and you have to develop them yourself.

It's my understanding that they are working on a solution where you can import all the information that you need from a data validation too, or from a CRM. It's something they really need to get better at.

It would be better if there was a way to import all data and metadata in an automatic way in one block form.

I used the solution for one year.

The stability was very good. We never struggled with any downtime at all.

I'm not sure if the solution is scalable. I never really tested it. We only really handled a few areas of the data log analysis. For three functional areas it seemed to be pretty good, however, I couldn't say for sure if that would be the case if there was six or ten functional areas.

I've been in touch with technical support in the past and I found them to be quite helpful and knowledgeable. I've been satisfied with the assistance I've received.

I previously used Informatica as a data governance solution.

Informatica is better from a technical point of view. For example, in Informatica, you can buy these connectors which are very complete. You can import a lot of information from tables, names, matrices, and so on, from, for example, Data Visualization Tool, from Qlik, Tableau, from everything. You do not have to write code either in order to develop an API or to upgrade connectors by yourself. In Collibra, there are connectors, however, you have to upgrade them, if you, for example, need more information, more metadata, and so on. It's just not as easy. Informatica is more mature from a technical point of view. You get a complete data lineage and can see the data life cycle of all of your metadata.

The initial setup was not so complex. It was pretty straightforward. Collibra has, for example, workflows and other features that help you to import information. It's all very simple to understand and to use. You sort-of knew what to do from the outset and setting everything up was pretty easy as you just followed along.

The deployment doesn't take long. It's a matter of days or maybe weeks. It certainly doesn't take months.

I started the initial phase with the development of all the information. We got the metadata that we needed from the business user. Then we added the information to the data model. The data model related to Collibra was done by the Collibra administrator. We added this information to the data model. After that, we deployed everything by exporting metadata that we inserted into an Excel format, and then we deployed this information to the production environment by loading the Excel details into the new environment. 

I was never the administrator of the solution, and therefore, I don't know too much about ongoing maintenance and what might be involved with that. I do not believe there to be a lot of technical maintenance needed.

I handled the deployment myself. I didn't need the assistance of an integrator or consultant.

If you compare the solution to Informatica, it is much cheaper.

The licensing for this product is on a yearly basis and you have to pay for the type of users that access the platform. For example, if you want to have a user in read access mode, you don't have to pay for them. 

However, if you want a write access user, for example, to insert information, to upload data, and so on, you have to pay for that license. Therefore there are two main charges. You have the license cost of the tool and the cost of the users that have write access. Beyond that, it's my understanding that there are no other costs.

We're just customers. We're end-users of the product.

If a company wants to implement a solution more focused on the business aspects, this solution works well. However, if a company needs to, for example, have a solution that covers a 360 overview of a data governance implementation or a project where you have to collect business information, and also need to connect that business information to technical information, to create a data lineage and so on, there are other solutions that cover this part better. That said, Collibra is really user-friendly. It's really easy to use. For a non-technical business user, it's easy to access, to navigate information, and so on. Typically business users don't want to have an interface or don't want to use technical tools, so a company should be mindful of that.

Overall, I would rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

We have a client that was planning to do a digital transformation. They came up with the use cases and they have a couple of departments. They are mainly based on legal systems including corporate trust, etc., that they want the data to govern. Their requirement was basically if any new person is hired, they would have everything in Collibra, including all of the business glossary or the tables or the reports. Basically, everything for their onboarding process was available there. It was also necessary to give that to anyone that wanted to know about their department.

We only just started with this project and have only started learning Collibra.

On the client-side right now, any onboarding or any seminars or any training they are conducting, they can just pull the data from Collibra and show it to anyone. Every single data source, we can connect with the Collibra and we can pull out any data. We can create our traceability diagrams or trace any connections, like end-to-end connections, and link the data to the report. Some will be encrypted data, however, we will know which is related to each business term.

We can create our own policies, and we can link with the data quality rules. Collibra can even provide some validation rules. If there is a business term that exists without a description, the validation result will show as false. It is pretty customizable and pretty user-friendly so far.

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. 

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.

Right now, the client is decommissioning the MuleSoft integration and they're moving to APIs. Collibra Connect and MuleSoft integration were there before, however, now there's a move to API. Within a year or two, they will all move to API. Whoever is using it now with MuleSoft and Collibra Connect needs to find another way for connecting with the API. 

I don't think they are providing additional software for MuleSoft integration. Primarily, they are telling us, okay, we will decommission this and move to API. The only thing that's lacking in terms of the change is when connecting to database. Sometimes the connection causes issues if the data is breaking the firewall and ingesting the data.  

I'm currently using the solution. I've been working with the solution since March of 2020.

The stability has been good. We haven't had any complaints. It seems to be quite reliable. We've deployed into production and until now we haven't had any page loading issues or refresh issues.

We had around 100s of business users using collibra, we never faced any performance issue. And we had SSO configuration enabled for all users. Performance wise collibra is stable. 

The scalability is good. If a company needs to expand, they should be able to quite easily.

In terms of technical support, they have documentation from Collibra University. They have subcategories that you can search through. That can help with a lot of troublshooting.

However, if we are facing an issue in production, they will reply in a short span of time, usually within half an hour or 15 minutes. They will connect with us to resolve the issue.

If it is in our working environment, it will lag by four or five hours. They try to prioritize service and get to you as quickly as they can only in critical situations.

Our client has taken some Collibra hours as well. We can schedule some sessions with the Collibra team to learn the system. We have taken around 36 hours approximately and have utilized the service alongside purchasing the product.

While I've seen Axon, I haven't worked much with it. From the look and feel, and from my navigation, I find it's very difficult compared to Collibra, which seems to be rather straightforward.

I was involved in the initial setup and I did not find the implementation overly complex.

Once we started setting up the Collibra tool, they provided a pretty detailed user guide. Along with that, there are so many videos available in Collibra University, which is pretty self-explanatory. We just needed to go through that and understand it all. 

You will get all end-to-end details of what software can connect, what data sources it accepts, etc. Lately, they have changed a lot of the certification levels. Earlier, it was level one, level two, level three. Now, they changed in each area. There are certifications for solution architect, business analyst, workflow manager, etc.

We had three people from our organization that assisted with the initial setup. One person was the cloud administrator. He set up everything with the cloud. Another person was doing the console setup, it was a single sign-on, so he was adding all the AD directory. We had two environments, actually, one production and one dev. The third setting up the environments. In the console only, we needed to mainly set up all these things, add all the data sources, JDBC drivers, SSN configuration, email configuration, all these things needed to be done in the console. That was the primary setup.

Deployment took, in total, about two weeks. Post-deployment, there really isn't any maintenance necessary. We can schedule backup, either on a weekly or daily basis. Whatever changes we make, we can take to the backup. If we make a mistake the backup will be available to override it.

The client is pretty happy with the Collibra work so far. They have achieved their digital transformation goals for 2020 and therefore they were pretty satisfied with the tool. We can connect with IDQ or anything we need to. It's been a successful project.

There are two license types - author and consumer. The author has all of the rights. He can edit and catalog anything. The consumer has limited access. We have around 10,000 consumers and 40 author licenses.

Professional training costs are in addition to licensing costs.

The pricing is pretty high if you compare it to other governance tools. 

We didn't evaluate other options before choosing this product.

We are Collibra Partners. We have a business relationship with the organization.

If we have a Collibra expert on your team, it will be easy. Otherwise, new users should expect a bit of a learning curve. ANyone working closely with it should take some Collibra training alongside the product purchase. Professionals will help you and guide you in creating an organization level or department level unit with a glossary and everything. They can give you more insight. I'd also advise users to try to take the certification, which is free of cost in Collibra University, or try a partner training certification.

Overall, I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Around 30 people in my organization use the solution.

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

Positive

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.

The product's deployment phase was straightforward.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

I have been working on Collibra for a data governance assignment. Along with that, we also use Ataccama for data quality purposes. It is a Collibra/Ataccama mixture that we use.

We would like to have out-of-the-box automation. We have leveraged some of the out-of-the-box workflows. Collibra does have the workflows such as the creation of business assets. We designed tools to tag the sensitivity information in Collibra and embedded scripts into the workflow. We then deployed that workflow so the user can upload a sheet with metadata and the tags will get tagged across those columns.

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.

This solution does not have an out-of-the-box connector for the cloud platform. If a client does not want their data sent out of their own server, it will be very difficult to ensure this. You can install Collibra Jobserver and DGC on your machine, but you cannot install a newer solution. This is a restriction for us. 

We have been using this solution for one and a half years.

This is a stable solution. If you have data sources for which Collibra can provide an out-of-the-box connector, then it is stable. You can schedule your job to pull metadata or data out of your source system, with Collibra as a connector. However, if you have something out-of-the-box which Collibra does not support as a connector, that is a challenge. 

If you have Teradata or Oracle as a system, you can build that lineage into thw Collibra platform but if you want to build something on Azure, there is no direct way to do this because they don't support that.

This is a scalable solution. 

Collibra are very supportive. If you need anything, they have a customer support portal where you can raise a ticket and they reply immediately. 

Positive

Collibra does have its own university so when we started this assignment, we went through the courses. After that, it was quite easy to complete the setup. 

This is a very good tool and they have upgraded many features including an ADF connector and ADLS connector. You can write your own connector and customize it in the workflow.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

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

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.

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

I have been using Collibra Governance for around one year.

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

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

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

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

Positive

The solution’s initial setup is simple.

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

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

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.

Collibra Governance is deployed on the cloud in our organization.

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

Our primary use case of this product is for metadata information for our technology assets. We also use it for all the governance dictionaries, and for minutes as well.

The solution is very useful for IT people but it's also helpful for those not literate or knowledgeable in IT. The sales department, for example, can track where the information is coming from, where the transformation is happening and where they can find a report for any specific asset. It's very important for them to have it handy, and I believe that for the people who need to know that information, it's very good.

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.

The workflows and the language they use needs to be improved. Programming the needs for every user on the workflows is a key improvement that is required. In addition, they haven't updated their training solution in a while. We need to implement a lot of things ourselves and they want us to move to the cloud but there are a lot of glitches in the system. There are three environments - stage, development and production. Often things work well in the first two stages and then when you get to production, they don't work. It happens a lot and their response is slow. 

I've been using this solution for 18 months. 

I would say that stability is around 85%-90%. It's very stable compared to other solutions on the market. 

Scalability is very good, excellent. 

Collibra provides one-on-one technical support, which gives access to a very knowledgeable person and their customer service is amazing. The only problem is that sometimes they don't know the answer so they have to check it out and get back to us. Sometimes you reach a dead end and that's the main problem of their system. We also now get in-house support.

We didn't switch from another solution, but we were using other solutions to control metadata. We used Infomatica for our transformation things. It wasn't like a governance tool. We also used Spark IS, an information solution, to harvest the data we needed.

The initial setup took a week because our systems are tricky due to security considerations. Deployment throughout the company took about six months, but that's an internal issue because of training implementation and that adds to the time. It's our main governance system so we had to move carefully. We already have 2,100 people using it. Operations uses it a lot and sales uses it for everything. 

For now, only 60% of our company is using it, so there's no ROI yet. 

Collibra started at a very reasonable price and then they increased the cost significantly by about 150% and almost lost us as a customer. It was something that the people from procurement and from finance ask whether the solution is really necessary.

At the time we also evaluated Unify, which became Boomi after it was purchased by Dell. That's an amazing tool as is Informatica. The issue there was that the price was too high. We went with Collibra because of the price and what it gives the end user.

Sometimes the technical support is messy but the system is great. It's a very good tool and I would suggest speaking directly with the technicians who develop the tool, rather than customer service. It's a great tool for a medium size company. if you're in a larger company, I would recommend implementing team by team. It's a tool that the end user needs to understand so if you implement it all at the one time, people will have difficulties and you won't have the support. 

I would rate this solution a seven out of 10. 

Collibra Governance can be deployed on-premise and in the cloud. The solutions can be used for lineage data quality, business glossary, and data cataloging.

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

The price of Collibra Governance could improve.

I have been using Collibra Governance for more than two years.

We have approximately 30 business users. 

The technical support was good from Collibra Governance.

The intial setup for Collibra Governance is mostly straightforward except for the workflows. The workflows are not that straightforward. There is a learning curve.

The full implementation took approximately four months.

We have approximately four people for the deployment and maintenance of Collibra Governance.

There are different levels of licenses. For example, some users can only do read-only licenses, and others have the stewardship license where they can give access to users.

The license for Collibra Governance is expensive.

I would recommend this solution to others. However, I am trying out a new data governance tool very soon. Collibra has bought a new data quality solution, but it is not integrated yet. We are all waiting for the integration of the data quality solution. OwlDQ is the name of the solution they have bought.

All right, sir.

I rate Collibra Governance an eight out of ten.

I am part of implementing the workflow through it, setting up the glossaries, and importing the assets to Collibra Governance. 

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

I would like to see a feature using the runtime dashboard. As of now, we can create the dashboard using the snapshot of the report. But I would recommend having a dashboard that runs the data on the back end.

I have been using Collibra Governance for the past eight months.

I am finding that there is stability in Collibra Governance.

It is scalable and we have the ability to add more users.  Currently, we have one hundred and fifty users.

I was not involved during the setup.

I would say definitely worth the expense. Data governance takes time to see the output and results.

I would rate Collibra Governance an eight out of ten.