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2021 Gartner® Solution Scorecard for Collibra Data Catalog

With this report:

  • Evaluate the strengths, features and cautions of Collibra Data Catalog, and the best circumstances to deploy our product. 

  • Plan for the future with recommendations for metadata management and data governance implementation strategies in development or expansion.

Summary

What's Inside:

In the 2021 Gartner® Solution Scorecard for Collibra Data Catalog, In this report, discover why Collibra Data Catalog scored a 84% percent of Gartner Required Criteria and 75 out of 100 against the overall Gartner Solution Criteria for Data Catalogs Supporting Data Governance and Metadata Management.

 

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We’ve scored Collibra’s Data Intelligence Cloud and Data Governance Center On-Premises against our Solution Criteria for Data Catalogs Supporting Data Governance and Metadata Management. Collibra’s overall score of 75% makes it a great strategic option for data and analytics technical professionals.

Overview

Key Findings

  • Collibra meets 84% of Gartner’s Required criteria, 72% of Gartner’s Preferred criteria and 54% of Gartner’s Optional criteria for data catalogs supporting metadata management and data governance. Its overall weighted score on the solution scorecard is 75%.

  • Collibra’s strengths lie in its focus on data stewardship and other business-centric aspects of data governance. Collibra’s “active metadata graph” integrates technical metadata (e.g., physical schema descriptions) with business metadata (e.g., glossary terms).

  • Collibra is customer-extensible in two ways: through its extensible metamodel and through its fully documented APIs. Extensibility is generally a strength, although the company relies too heavily on its APIs in that some features are available only through customer programming via the APIs.