An introduction to Collibra

Founded mid 2008, Collibra is an enterprise software company and spin-off from STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Valorizing 10 years of application-oriented research on semantic technology, Collibra is in the unique position to realize the next paradigm shift in enterprise IT.

Collibra was founded mid 2008 as a spin-off from STARLab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Collibra is backed by venture capital, including the Brussels Imagination, Innovation and Incubation Fund, Brustart (GIMB), and business angels.

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 compeitive 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 heterogeneous information assets across the extended enterprise.