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Collibra

Data Intelligence Cloud combining catalog, business glossary, governance workflows and lineage for regulated enterprises.

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Collibra's Data Intelligence Cloud is a catalog-and-governance platform built around a business glossary and formal workflow engine: stewards define terms, policies and approval chains, and those policies attach to the tables and reports discovered across the data estate. It ties catalog entries to lineage, data quality signals and privacy/risk classifications so a single record shows what a dataset means, where it comes from and whether it is safe to use. Collibra is delivered primarily as a SaaS product, with modules for data governance, data quality, privacy and data marketplace that can be licensed separately. It is most often chosen by large, heavily regulated organizations - banks, insurers, healthcare and pharma - that need auditable, workflow-driven governance rather than a lightweight, engineer-first catalog.

At a glance

Vendor Collibra
Pricing model Quote only
Free tier No
Deployment Cloud
Open source No
Best for Heavily regulated enterprises needing auditable, workflow-driven data governance.

Pricing

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Features

  • Business glossary and data dictionary
  • Workflow-based governance and policy approvals
  • Automated data lineage
  • Data quality and observability module
  • Privacy and risk classification
  • Data marketplace for self-service access
  • AI governance capabilities

Integrations

Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

Head to head

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Alation Enterprise data catalog with AI-assisted search, lineage and stewardship workflows for finding and trusting data. Atlan API-first, AI-assisted metadata catalog with automated lineage and Slack-style collaboration for data teams. data.world Cloud data catalog built on a knowledge-graph model with built-in SQL querying and a business glossary.

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Terms to know

Data governance The policies, roles and processes that determine how data is defined, owned, accessed and kept compliant. Data catalog A searchable inventory of an organization's data assets, with descriptions, ownership and usage attached. Data lineage A traceable record of where data came from, how it was transformed, and where it is used downstream. Master data management (MDM) The discipline of maintaining one authoritative, consistent record for core entities like customers or products. Business glossary A controlled list of business terms and their agreed definitions, kept separate from the technical fields that implement them. Data dictionary A structured reference listing every table, column, and field in a database along with its type, meaning, and constraints.

Related guides

How to choose a data catalog Pick a data catalog by who has to document it, how lineage gets built, and whether your organization needs governed workflow or fast, automated discovery. How to establish data governance A minimum viable governance programme — ownership, a catalog, access rules and stewardship — before you need it for a compliance request.