Business Benefits

Integration is the basis of almost any IT inititative. Collibra provides a sustainable solution that will free up budget and reduce development time for new applications.

Problem

Traditional methods to solve the huge amount of integration necessary in any large enterprise have a lot of disadvantages. Current solutions are mere patchwork and become a constraint for the business instead of an enabler. Typical problems are:

1. Loss of money: Current solutions are mere patchwork and require more and more resources over time. Every integration creates legacy that has to be maintained and understood to solve the next integration problem. Therefore current solutions grow exponentially in complexity. This is the reason why many businesses still struggle with the problem.
2. Loss of opportunity: Because integration is so costly and requires so much time, it is more often a constraint to the business instead of an enabler. Because the current solutions scale exponentially in complexity, integrating companies after mergers and acquisitions become very difficult.

Advantages

1. Bottom-line efficiency: Collibra's semantic integration solutions adopts a much more efficient integration process. The semantics, the meaning of the information that needs to be integrated, is saved on the Collibra Platform, similar to interpreters first creating a dictionary before they translate. These semantics, or Business Semantics, as Collibra calls them, provide a well understood definition and model of the business. These business semantics can then be leveraged to automatically create the transformations. Consequences: the legacy problem is reduced instead of increased, less time and people are needed to do the actual integration, IT is much more flexible and faster to react on new market requirements.
2. Top line growth: Because Collibra's solution is more efficient and solves the legacy problem, more budget can be freed to develop new application for the top line. Furthermore, as Collirba's Semantic Integration solution automatically creates more and better insight into the information assets within the company, these can be leveraged to develop new application faster, work closer together with customers and partners and react quicker to changing market needs.