What we solve

Every large organization has multiple data sources, in multiple systems, with multiple business definitions. Each residing in a different business context. Organizations are challenged to manage these definition in their respective business context.

The lack of uniform concept definitions on a business level leads to ambiguity at the business demand side, which leads to proliferation at the IT supply side, complex system integration, unreliable BI reports, data duplication, and lack of business / IT alignment.

As a result, organizations are confronted with hidden costs and risks, interpretation conflicts and unnecessary debate.

How we solve it

Collibra enables organizations to manage their business context.

Collibra's solution brings business and technical stakeholders together to govern business critical information. It defines the demand-side of IT, which results in better implemented and integrated systems.

It enables business stakeholders to define their business vocabulary, facts and rules using OMG's SBVR standard. The integrated semantic transformation engine automatically generates technical models and semantic data integration and validation services to leverage your SOA and Data Integration infrastructure.

Vision

Collibra was founded on a vision that business ecosystems have evolved from rigid value chains towards agile, globalized value networks. In this reality, the need for the exchange, integration and understanding of heterogeneous information has become of strategic and competitive importance. Despite its technological success story, the ICT enterprise as we know it is hampered by a rampant growth of metadata and a massive dump of scattered legacy data.

Collibra is convinced that architecting the next-generation enterprise requires a paradigm shift that goes beyond technical excel. Main drivers behind the dynamics of this so-called Enterprise 2.0 are the strategic and meaningful reconciliation of disparate data assets by describing them with so-called business semantics, and the pervasiveness of these processes in the daily workflows of business and IT. In other words, Collibra envisions semantics as the key enabling technology for governing and deliverying heterogeneous information assets across the extended enterprise.

Collibra aims to be the leading software provider for the semantic alignment of information between IT and Business. Collibra wants to enable any organisation to better understand, govern and deliver information across the extended enterprise.

History

Collibra was founded as a spin-off from the Semantic Technology and Applications Research Lab (STARLab) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel mid 2008.

Collibra is venture-capital backed by a strong consortium of venture capital funds.