Collibra Launches Semantic Data Integration Solution at SemTech ʻ09

San Jose, California - 17 June 2009 - Collibra, a VC-backed spin-off from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, has launched a new solution suite that will enable enterprises to better manage their data using semantic technology. The Semantic Data Integration Solution suite consists of a Business Semantics Management methodology and the Collibra Studio and Collibra Information Enabler software components.

Business Semantics Management (BSM) is a business-oriented metadata management solution. It acts as the glue that brings people and systems together. BSM provides the same advantages for information as Business Process Management (BPM) provides for processes. BSM increases the insight, agility and efficiency of organizations, and helps to reduce complexity, risks and costs.

Collibra Studio is a product suite that enables IT professionals and business analysts to work together to reconcile and apply the semantics of existing information sources. Collibra Studio allows the creation of business semantics that provide unambiguous definitions, identifications and mappings on existing data sources in a way that is both very simple and very powerful. The user simply writes his or her business semantics in sentences close to natural language. This approach enables any stakeholder to easily capture and verify the meaning and relationships of relevant concepts. The export of business semantics to formats such as CSV, XML, UML, RDF and OWL is supported.

Collibra Information Enabler operationalizes business semantics by automatically generating semantic-aware data services. It automatically translates data because it ‘understands’ what is inside. The software automatically takes care of the low-level technical details, removing the cost of error-prone, inefficient processes.

Collibra Semantic Data Integration Solution represents a commercialization of more than 100 person years of research. Its launch takes place within the framework of the SemTech 2009 Conference, the industry’s largest conference on semantic technologies. Collibra is a Gold Sponsor of the event, which takes place at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California, 14-18 June. The company will be presenting industry use cases and announcing new products at the conference.

ABOUT COLLIBRA

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.

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 delivering heterogeneous information assets across the extended enterprise.

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