Collibra Lineage vs erwin Data Intelligence by Quest comparison

Collibra and erwin by Quest are both solutions in the Data Governance category. Collibra is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.0, while erwin by Quest is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3. Collibra holds a 3.0% mindshare in DG, compared to erwin by Quest’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Collibra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of erwin by Quest users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Erwin Data Intelligence by Quest and Collibra Lineage compete in the data management and governance category. Erwin holds an upper hand due to its strong automation features and competitive pricing, but Collibra is favored for its flexible governance capabilities.

Features: Erwin Data Intelligence offers automation scripts for metadata and mapping, integrated data catalogs, and a centralized business glossary. Collibra Lineage provides extensive data lineage visibility, flexible integration with various tools, and custom self-service governance processes.

Room for Improvement: Erwin Data Intelligence needs enhanced backend SDK and API functionality and a more intuitive menu structure. Connectivity improvements and more out-of-the-box connectors are areas where Collibra Lineage can improve, along with addressing its pricing model complexities and module costs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Erwin Data Intelligence supports on-premises and cloud deployments, with improved but inconsistent customer service. Collibra Lineage allows hybrid cloud environments, backed by proactive support meeting SLAs, offering reliable customer experiences.

Pricing and ROI: Erwin Data Intelligence is competitively priced, providing substantial ROI from automation efficiencies. Collibra Lineage, while potentially costly for small businesses, offers strong ROI through quick implementation and standardized processes development.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Collibra Lineage

Ranking in Data Governance

15th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

erwin Data Intelligence by ...

Ranking in Data Governance

6th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of Collibra Lineage is 3.0%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest is 2.4%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Governance

Featured Reviews

Prabhjyot Singh

Data and Analytics Manager at BMO Financial

Faster and more efficient than manual methods or other tools like Informatica

The main differences between Collibra Lineage and Informatica are significant, particularly for small to mid-sized organizations. First, Informatica requires a dedicated team, which incurs a huge cost, making it less suitable for smaller organizations. Second, Informatica's tools are very scattered. For instance, to create a domain, you need to use Axon, and then for lineage, you must use EDC. For profiling, Informatica Developer or Analyst is required. These different tools are not well-connected to display everything on one screen. While Informatica is trying to improve with its cloud version, not many users have adopted it yet. These are the two main areas where Informatica lags.

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Roy Pollack

Advisor Application Architect at CPS Energy

The solution provides more profound insights into legacy data movements, lineages, and definitions in the short term.

We have loaded over 300,000 attributes and more than 1000 mappings. The performance is slow, depending on the lineage or search. This is supposed to be fixed in the later versions, but we haven't upgraded yet. The integration with various metadata sources, including erwin Data Modeler, isn't smooth in the current version. It took some experimentation to get things working. We hope this is improved in the newer version. The initial version we used felt awkward because Erwin implemented features from other companies into their offering.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The diagrams are good for data visualization."

"It shows how the data was transformed on the way and how the solutions were derived. This is the essence of the tool and why it is so powerful."

"The solution allowed us to quickly and efficiently implement our data governance operating model, including accountabilities, regulatory lineage, and data dictionaries. This was much faster and more efficient than manual methods or other tools like Informatica. I prefer Collibra Lineage for its self-service capabilities."

"The most valuable features of Collibra Lineage are the multiple options for automation. Additionally, if you have a scenario where automation does not work, you have the option to manually create the lineage. The solution does not force you to always go through an automated way where you have broken lineage and you are stuck without a lineage."

"The solution has very good online assistance."

"The solution makes data more discoverable and transparent."

"We find the most valuable feature of this solution to be the lineage aspect."

"Data Intelligence has provided more profound insights into legacy data movements, lineages, and definitions in the short term. We have linked three critical layers of data, providing us with an end-to-end lineage at the column level."

"The biggest impact for us is that erwin generates DDL extremely quickly. We're able to pull in metadata, map it to a target, generate DDL to create the tables, and generate SSIS packages. Previously, especially going back 10 to 15 years ago, hundreds of hours had to be spent to manually perform these tasks. This solution completely automates it and gets it 90% done. We can then pass it off to a developer to create the items in SSIS."

"Overall, DI's data cataloging, data literacy, and automation have helped our decision-makers because when a source wants to change something, we immediately know what the impact is going to be downstream."

"The solution gives us data lineage which means we can see an impact if we make a change. The ability for us to have that in this company is brilliant because we used to have 49 data stewards from some 23 different groups within six major departments. Each one of those was a silo unto itself. The ability to have different glossaries — but all pointed to the same key terms, key concepts, or key attributes — has made life really simple."

"We always know where our data is, and anybody can look that up, whether they're a business person who doesn't know anything about Informatica, or a developer who knows everything about creating data movement jobs in Informatica, but who does not understand the business terminology or the data that is being used in the tool."

"The data management is, obviously, key in understanding where the data is and what the data is. And the governance can be done at multiple levels. You have the governance of the code sets versus the governance of the business terms and the definitions of those business terms. You have the governance of the business data models and how those business data models are driving the physical implementation of the actual databases. And, of course, you have the governance of the mapping to make sure that source-to-target mapping is done and is being shared across the company."

"There is a wide range of widgets that enables the user to find the proper information quickly. The presentation of information is something very valuable."

"Being able to capture different business metrics and organize them in different catalogs is most valuable. We can organize these metrics into sales-related metrics, customer-related metrics, supply chain-related metrics, etc."

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Cons

"We would like this solution to be able to connect directly to the databases, so we can pull directly from Databank without manual intervention."

"Before you can use this solution, you have to make a lot of changes to how you measure your information in your organization, the data governance and policies, and the organizational structures that use them. Many companies believe that if they purchase the licenses for the tool that they have done the job, but this is far from the case with this tool."

"Collibra Lineage could improve connectively. If they can offer more out-of-the-box connectors, which come as in a package compared to you having to go and buy a lot in the marketplace for certain specific connectors."

"Collibra doesn't provide support for integration for SAP Info Steward directly with Collibra."

"The product must be cheaper."

"The workflow documentation must be improved."

"It would be better if features like the privacy module and AI-based Collibra DQ were included in one package instead of being separate and requiring additional costs. Currently, the basic package covers lineage and documentation, but the extra modules come at an extra cost."

"There are a lot of little things like moving between read screens and edit screens. Those little human interface type of programming pieces will need to mature a bit to make it easier to get to where you want to go to put the stuff in."

"The integration with various metadata sources, including erwin Data Modeler, isn't smooth in the current version. It took some experimentation to get things working. We hope this is improved in the newer version. The initial version we used felt awkward because Erwin implemented features from other companies into their offering."

"If we are talking about the business side of the product, maybe the Data Literacy could be made a bit simpler. You have to put your hands on it, so there is room for improvement."

"The fact that I sometimes have to go in and out of different applications, even though it's all part of the whole erwin suite, perhaps means it could be architected a little bit better. I think they do have some ideas for improvements there."

"The technical support could be improved."

"Everything about Data Intelligence is complex. Though we've used the tool for five years, we're still only using about 30 to 40 percent of its capabilities. It would be helpful if we could customize and simplify the user interface because there are so many redundant things."

"There may be some opportunities for improvement in terms of the user interface to make it a little bit more intuitive. They have made some good progress. Originally, when we started, we were on version 9 or 10. Over the last couple of releases, I've seen some improvements that they have made, but there might be a few other additional areas in UI where they can make some enhancements."

"We still need another layer of data quality assessments on the source to see if it is sending us the wrong data or if there are some issues with the source data. For those things, we need a rule-based data quality assessment or scoring where we can assess tools or other technology stacks. We need to be able to leverage where the business comes in, defining some business rules and have the ability to execute those rules, then score the data quality of all those attributes. Data quality is definitely not what we are leveraging from this tool, as of today."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are different licenses available for Collibra Lineage based on what kind of access you want. If you want, for example, a read-only license they have different ones to pick from."

"It's expensive, especially for small companies."

"You buy a seat license for your portal. We have 100 seats for the portal, then you buy just the development licenses for the people who are going to put the data in."

"erwin's pricing was cheaper than its competitors."

"erwin is cheaper than other solutions and this should appeal to other buyers. It has a good price tag."

"The price is reasonable and competitive. When you get into forward and reverse-engineering, the cost could go up. However, if you are a large organization, you would probably be able to access different packages. If, however, you don't need forward and reverse-engineering, then the price is relatively cheap."

"erwin was at a good price. The federal government wouldn't buy something if the pricing wasn't good."

"The licensing cost was very affordable at the time of purchase. It has since been taken over by erwin, then Quest. The tool has gotten a bit more costly, but they are adding more features very quickly."

"There is an additional fee for the server maintenance."

"We operate on a yearly subscription and because it is an enterprise license we only have one. It is not dependent on the number of users."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

22%

Insurance Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Government

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

13%

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Insurance Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Collibra Lineage?

The solution makes data more discoverable and transparent.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Collibra Lineage?

The licensing cost depends on our requirements.

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What needs improvement with Collibra Lineage?

It would be better if features like the privacy module and AI-based Collibra DQ were included in one package instead of being separate and requiring additional costs. Currently, the basic package c...

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What do you like most about erwin Data Intelligence by Quest?

The data mapping manager is the most valuable feature.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for erwin Data Intelligence by Quest?

The price is reasonable, and a subscription is required.

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What needs improvement with erwin Data Intelligence by Quest?

The data quality assessment requires third-party components and a separate license. I would like to have better integration around the data quality. I would appreciate the inclusion of a non-struct...

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Overview

Data lineage reveals how data transforms through its life cycle across interactions with systems, applications, APIs and reports. Collibra Lineage automatically maps relationships between data to show how data sets are built, aggregated, sourced and used.

Collibra

The erwin Data Intelligence Suite (erwin DI) combines data catalog and data literacy capabilities for greater awareness of and access to available data assets, guidance on their use, and guardrails to ensure data policies and best practices are followed. Automatically harvest, transform and feed metadata from a wide array of data sources, operational processes, business applications and data models into a central data catalog. Then make it accessible and understandable within context via role-based views. This complete metadata-driven approach to data governance facilitates greater IT and business collaboration.

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AXA XL, DNB, Adobe, PMI, Holland America Line, UC Davis Health, Cox Automotive

Oracle, Infosys, GSK, Toyota Motor Sales, HSBC

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