Collibra Reviews & Product Details

Collibra Product Details

Try Collibra for free @ Collibra.com/tour Collibra is for organizations with complex data challenges, hybrid data ecosystems—and big ambitions for data and AI. We help organizations who are trying to accelerate data and AI use cases while ensuring compliance, but are struggling with fragmented governance and visibility across the whole hybrid data ecosystem. Collibra unifies governance for data and AI across every system, data source and user—to create safe autonomy and a foundation for scaling AI and data use cases. With Collibra, you can accelerate all your data and AI use cases, safely and with well–understood data. That’s Data Confidence.

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Product Description

Unlike other data and AI governance solutions, Collibra offers a complete platform, powered by an enterprise metadata graph, that unifies data and AI governance to provide automated visibility, context and control—across every system and use case—and enriches data context with every use. The platform lets your people trust, comply and consume all your data while the enterprise metadata graph accumulates context with every use. Collibra’s automated access control safely puts data in your users’ hands without manual intervention, bringing more safety and more autonomy to every user to accelerate innovation. And Collibra AI Governance is the only solution that creates an active link between datasets and policies, models and AI use cases — cataloging, assessing and monitoring every AI use case and associated data set.

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6 months

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Easily search for data using Collibra Data Catalog

View detailed technical lineage diagrams, which describe the physical data movement across assets at the application physical layer

View summary lineage diagrams, which describe how data transforms and flows as it’s transported from source to destination

Monitor the quality and completeness of data assets and business processes in the Data Maturity dashboard

Discover and classify sensitive data within your organization

Track the development of your organization's data and progress towards compliance with specific regulations in the Privacy & Risk Readiness dashboard

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Stephen M.

Senior Business Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/18/2022

"Collibra has offered a great insight in understanding our data"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Collibra?

Collibra has recently introduced major upgrades like workflow versioning, workspace organization, enhanced lineage for platforms like Databricks and Azure, and AI-powered features such as automated asset descriptions and rule generation. These updates improve data governance, quality, and transparency—making it easier for businesses to manage complex data ecosystems and responsibly scale AI initiatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Collibra?

Collibra could be easier to work with in some areas—setting up data ingestion and workflows can take more effort than expected, and mapping specs still feel pretty manual. It’d also help if tools like Edge were a bit more stable and the APIs more consistent, just to cut down on the back-and-forth for technical teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Insurance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/18/2025

"Data Management Consultant working on the configuration and roll out of Collibra."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Collibra?

I find the Customer Support is responds in a very timely manner.

I find it is very easy to relate the core offerings of the platform to key business issues and propose Collibra as the tool that can solve these issues and thus generate value through cost savings.

The documentation makes it very easy to understand what is required for the technical implementation of the platform and integration of it with multiple different data sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Collibra?

1. Inaccessible Language

- I find some of the language used within the Collibra tool adds a barrier to rolling it out successfully as it doesn't seem particularly intuitive to me.

]2. Navigation UI/UX

- I find that the biggest barrier to target consumers on site being satisfied with Collibra is navigation. Countless times I hear employees have entered the tool and it has not been intuitive enough for them to find what they want, thus they leave. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Collibra solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping users find data faster by themselves.

- Reducing reliance on Colleagues.

- Increasing available analytics time.

- Enabling faster data access requests.

- Reduction in duplicate request for analytics (power bi)

Impact assessment (downstream lineage)

- enabling staff to understand the downstream impacts of their actions without having to rely on support from IT support.

- reduction in unintended consequences

Data Quality investigations (upstream lineage)

- enable staff to understand where DQ issues may have come from.

- reduce reliance on IT staff to reverse engineer stored procedures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AH

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/2/2025

"Collibra Is Great… But…"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Collibra?

Business Term, Metrics and Reporting Catalog. We can now house this info in one platform vs our previous way of keeping data in Excel, Sharepoint slides, multiple areas. Our business users are pleased with the fact that they can now have one place to search for reports vs asking other business users - was very time consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Collibra?

The technical lineage views and diagram views are very confusing for users. It’s hard to view the end to end because of how many nodes there may be.

Confusing for users to understand business lineage vs technical lineage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Collibra solving and how is that benefiting you?

Business units were struggling to find data and information. Collibra has helped by decreasing time between DG and business answering these questions since catalog is now available.

Developers would use metrics incorrectly because of different calculations but now have information available in Collibra on how and when to use metrics.

Users had to spend so much time searching for reports but can now search in catalog.

Lineage is helpful for developers when trying to understand source of information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AC

Verified User in Chemicals

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/25/2025

"DQ Lead from an international corporation reviewing the Collibra DQ Rapid Start Experience"

4/5

What do you like best about Collibra?

Scalability. Previously my organisation used stored procedures automatically triggered on a pipeline to analyse the DQ of data entering the data lake. This meant for every new rule we need to write a new stored procedure each time. Now I can create jobs with multiple rules (and use template rules) which is far quicker than before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Collibra?

The tool is quite buggy. I am not an infra expert but it seems every 2-4 weeks I have to engage premium support and my infra department to figure out why jobs are not running. Additionally I find when new releases happen there are often times bug fixed but also bug introduced, especially the most recent 2025.02 release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Collibra solving and how is that benefiting you?

The DQ problem at my organisation was that we had no central system to use for DQ. There was no central process and all DQ activity was essentially reactive and ad hoc. However, now with Collibra this is not the case. We can proactively monitor DQ, have a central system where the datasets, rules and results are all in one place, I can provide access to different jobs and rules to different people.

The benefit to me is ease of use. As I mentioned we use to use stored procedures which required new stored procs being written for every new rule we wanted. Now I can do all of the above in one system which is scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Pierre S.

Directeur Data / Chief Data Officer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/26/2025

"Collibra in Practice: Governing Data at Scale"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Collibra?

Centralized data governance: everything is consolidated in one place, which makes search, documentation, and traceability much easier.

Business glossary: extremely useful to align technical and business teams around a common language.

Customizable workflows: practical for managing validation steps and governance processes.

Integration with other tools (ETL, BI, technical catalogs, etc.): helps build a real ecosystem around data.

Customizable Metamodal: relationships between objects (datasets, reports, rules, policies, etc.): provides good visibility into the data value chain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Collibra?

Apparent complexity in onboarding: significant improvements have been made with the new interface (the previous one was clearly outdated)

Configuration: extremely powerful, but can quickly become technical and somewhat rigid without expertise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Omansh K.

Trainee Decision Scientist - 3

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/30/2023

"Best Project Management tool for beginners and professional"

5/5

What do you like best about Collibra?

Data Governance and Data Quality capabilities have improved since we first we used it, AI-powered options have come up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Collibra?

Security wise we found it could've been better but since our org have started it for Data Governance usage it has slowly built the trust Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Vaibhav M.

Associate Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/18/2021

"Excellent Data Governance enabler"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Collibra?

Data Products

New Business diagram UI

New user interface

New integrations

Data profiling capability

Workflow designer user interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Collibra?

License model

Professional services in APAC

Customizations in Catalog application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Nazem B.

Senior Procurement Manager

Sports

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/13/2024

"Data management made efficient and effective for our team members"

4/5

What do you like best about Collibra?

What I appreciate the most about Collibra is how it can enforce data governance policies. With the platform we can define and monitor our data stewardship practices, that helped us enormously in improving data quality across our organization. Also very valuable is the customizable reporting, which provides us with details on how data is being used and if compliance is occurring. This also provides us with a level of control which allows us to stay on top of our regulatory requirements and data governance is more efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Collibra?

Sometimes, Collibra’s customization of workflows can be tricky, specifically when you need to change some process according to your needs. There’s leeways, but not always enough to the level of leeways that we need to get. Furthermore, there is also an awkward amount of manual steps to do when managing large datasets, that don't move too quickly. However, these challenges have sometimes curbed our workflow, but we are getting used to taking a different approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Collibra solving and how is that benefiting you?

Among the solutions challenged with the inconsistent data, across departments, Collibra has shined. It also enabled us to set clear data governance rules that all teams are forced to adhere to, to ensure consistency in the data. The platform also allows for tracking and enforcing compliance making audits far easier and less time consuming. This has allowed Collibra to improve our data management process overall, and make sure we're complying with regulations much better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Hana R.

HR Priorities, Projects & Operations Coordinator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/3/2025

"Cumbersome system with limited practical value for HR and policy work"

0.5/5

What do you like best about Collibra?

Collibra centralizes information and provides a structured approval process. It helps ensure that policies are visible to multiple stakeholders and keeps an auditable trail of changes. The idea of having one shared platform for governance is good in theory Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Collibra?

The system is cumbersome and often slows down work instead of streamlining it. Roles and responsibilities are unclear, so too many people are pulled into reviews, which dilutes accountability. Approvals get stuck in bottlenecks, and integration with other systems is inconsistent. Policy reviews feel like box-checking rather than meaningful discussions, and all comments are treated equally—so SMEs don’t have enough weight. Notifications are excessive, which encourages quick clicks instead of thoughtful engagement. Technical issues (like PDF upload restrictions) are constant frustrations, and user support is limited when problems arise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Collibra solving and how is that benefiting you?

Collibra is being used as a central governance tool to manage policies and approvals across HR and other functions. It creates an audit trail and gives visibility to multiple stakeholders, which in theory helps with compliance and accountability. It ensures documents are reviewed in a consistent way and keeps everything in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AF

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/2/2025

"Great overall data cataloging tool"

4/5

What do you like best about Collibra?

The search capability. It is so nice having the capability of global search and being able to find exactly what I’m looking for. It saves so much time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Collibra?

Data classification is not as sophisticated as I was led to believe. It appears to be column name and regex based. I thought it was more sophisticated and used AI to identify patterns, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.