We’re excited to share that Forrester has named Collibra as a Leader in the latest Forrester Wave™ for Data Governance Solutions. For us, this latest recognition from Forrester reinforces our ongoing leadership for Data Governance Solutions.
The Forrester Wave™ assessed 13 data governance solution providers, evaluating vendors across 28 criteria based on Current Offering and Strategy. Collibra received the highest scores possible in the following criteria:
- Innovation
- Partner ecosystem
- Community
- AI governance
- Data sharing and commercialization
- Lineage analysis and management
- Data usage monitoring
- Data observability
- Lineage acquisition and visualization
For organizations that demand a mature, metadata-centric governance platform to navigate their governance journey, we believe Collibra continues to demonstrate its position as a market leader.
Evolving data governance
According to the Forrester report, “Recently announced acquisitions in the industry reflect the growing importance of this shift — leading technology providers are prioritizing data governance as a cornerstone for enabling AI readiness and advancing agentic AI capabilities.”
As a data governance pioneer, the Collibra platform offers organizations a single command center to observe, track, protect and democratize data access across all data sources, for every user, and for any data or AI use case.
Collibra: A unified platform for data and AI governance
Collibra recognizes that every organization is different. That’s why Collibra’s platform is designed to adapt to your unique governance needs with a highly configurable operating model. Forrester notes, “Its knowledge graph and customizable operating model remain core differentiators, supporting its vision to unify and enable access to data across platforms and roles.”
Collibra’s platform is also designed to help ensure compliance by quickly creating audit trails. Forrester reports that Collibra “excels in classification, data observability, and policy modeling, supporting complex regulatory frameworks. Its lineage and impact analysis features suit audit and compliance use cases, and its workflow engine supports granular role-based responsibilities.” This deep configurability, all in one platform, is precisely what complex enterprises need.
The verdict: The right fit for sophisticated needs
According to the Forrester report, “Collibra is best suited for enterprises with complex governance requirements and that require deep configurability.”
Collibra is designed for enterprises with sophisticated governance requirements and a need for in-depth configurability. Our unified approach for data and AI governance empowers organizations to not only tailor governance to their unique needs, but also execute all the critical tasks of governance from data classification, data lineage, data quality and data marketplaces in a single platform.
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