Reference data is any kind of data that is used solely to categorize other data found in a database, or solely for relating data in a database to information beyond the boundaries of the enterprise. (Malcolm Chisholm)

Collibra's Reference Data Management solution keeps your reference data properly governed, linked, mapped, semantically defined, and available for other systems and applications.

Benefits

• Avoids proliferation: a centralized, managed environment keeps decentralized and uncountable local copies in various formats at bay.
• Improves findability: as a central, easily accessible resource you avoid the tedious, error-prone and frustrating search for that out-of-date spreadsheet stored in your colleague's drive.
• Improves trust: ownership and accountability as well as clarity of reference data values are essential ingredients to create trustworthy data.
• Improves interoperability: identify, manage, version and visualize mappings and crosslinks between various departments, systems and applications.

Features

• Business-friendly user interface: a smooth and efficient user interface, that engages a business audience.
• Easy search: the contents of the reference data manager increases in value as it becomes easier to find specific content relevant for your goals. Search is available everywhere in the environment.
• Easy report building: make use of the many built-in reports, or apply filters and various parameters to quickly construct your own reports.
• API for integration: an easy (web)services API allows for simple integration with other tools (e.g., Content Management Systems, Portals, Modelling tools, ...).
• Meaningful relations: capture links and mappings between reference data values and codes through meaningful relations
• Evolution support: easy to use versioning with audit trails and rollbacks, coupled with a variety of statistics and suggestions for content improvements.
• Business rules: immediately apply the reference data values to construct business rules Roles and workflow: customize the software with your own roles and workflows for validation, approval, rejection, decommission, ...
• Variety of imports and exports: start from what you have (UML, XSD, Excel, CSV, SBVR XMI, Word, Powerpoint, PDF, text files, databases, code tables, ...) and generate what you need (RDF/OWL, UML, XSD, Excel, CSV, ...).
• Publish / subscribe: publish reference data sets to target systems or applications (via services or SQL interfaces) and provide subscriptions for automated notifications and updates.