Collibra

What is Collibra?

Collibra is a?data catalog ?platform and tool that helps organizations better understand and manage their data assets.?Collibra helps create an inventory of data assets, capture information (metadata) about them, and govern these assets.?At its core,?the Collibra tool is used for helping stakeholders understand what data assets exist, what they are made of, how they are being used, and if they are in regulatory compliance.

What Are Collibra's Capabilities?

Collibra has four major functional areas:

• Data catalog – This module provides an inventory of data assets and allows users to find and discover the right assets to use for different purposes.?Users can search across several different facets of the data assets.
• Data governance ?– The governance capabilities help create a common understanding of and sharing information about data assets.?This includes both technical metadata and user-added information.
• Data lineage – Allows users to see how data assets are created and molded as they move from system to system.?Lineage helps data owners track what makes up a data asset for compliance and users to see where an asset comes from and how it is shaped.
• Data privacy ?– The privacy module allows privacy and security teams to create, manage and run policies to ensure data privacy and compliance.?Policy workflows can be initiated and compliance data and reports are captured.

How is Collibra Used?

Organizations typically use Collibra as a tool for IT, data owners, and officers in charge of data protection and compliance to inventory and track how data is used.?Their primary objectives are to protect data, ensure it is properly governed and used, and eliminate potential fines and risk from a lack of general regulatory compliance (GDPR ,?CCPA , etc.) and industry-specific ones (HIPAA ,?AML , etc.).

Although Collibra maintains an inventory of data assets, this inventory’s primary focus is to help these teams automate processes around this data to ensure it is protected and tracked for regulatory compliance.?The primary ROI customers get from Collibra is eliminating the cost of potential fines and ensuring data is protected.

Where Collibra is often NOT used is for analytics data management and analyst discovery.?This is because Collibra is not integrated into their analyst workflows and forces analysts to jump around between multiple tools and data platforms to work with data.