Collibra Reviews & Product Details

What I like most about Collibra is its ability to bring Data Governance, the Data Product Store / Marketplace, and Data Quality together in one integrated platform. It provides transparency, clear ownership, and a structured approach to managing data across the organization, while also supporting collaboration between business and IT. This makes it easier to trust data, improve data quality, and scale governance in a consistent way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. While Collibra is a powerful platform, some configurations and workflows can feel complex at first and require a learning curve, especially for new users. 2. There is a learning curve in the beginning, particularly when working with advanced governance and data quality use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Collibra has improved a lot over the past few years. I really like it as a unified data intelligence platform that brings together Catalog, Governance, Lineage, Quality, and AI Governance. It’s very helpful for CDO teams to align Business and IT in a single platform and speak the same language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The things I don’t like about Collibra are the pricing and the adoption challenges. The learning curve is steep —especially when it comes to using the platform, setting up hierarchies, and configuring lineage diagrams. Sometimes having too many flexible options becomes a headache for end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

manage and govern their data assets, making them more trustworthy and accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NA, we are still using it so yet to confirm on the dislikes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's impressive how easily you can describe your data products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verifying the code is quite challenging and not straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

Good software services deliver reliable, efficient, and user-friendly solutions tailored to client needs. They ensure seamless integration, robust security, timely support, and continuous innovation, enhancing productivity and customer satisfaction across industries and platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing at the moment implies no current tasks, updates, or concerns requiring attention, indicating a temporary pause or state of readiness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.