There’s a fundamental tension in data governance between the need to manage comprehensive oversight across increasingly complex, distributed data ecosystems and maintain operational agility.
Traditional approaches often force teams to choose between robust governance capabilities and deployment simplicity, creating friction that slows strategic data and AI initiatives. The challenge, however, extends beyond mere technical implementation. From a business perspective, the capacity for data teams to focus on value creation, and ensure complete visibility into data flows across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, is no longer a nice-to-have.
Today, we’re addressing this strategic imperative through two complementary advances that strengthen the unified governance foundation of the Collibra Platform by introducing Collibra Cloud Sites and OpenLineage integration.
These enhancements support our core mission of accelerating every data and AI use case through unified governance, removing traditional barriers between infrastructure complexity and strategic capability deployment.
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Collibra Cloud Sites: Infrastructure-free governance
Collibra recognizes many of our customers might not have the extensive infrastructure or platform engineering expertise needed to manage an on-prem application connecting to their diverse data sources.
Collibra Cloud Sites represent a fundamental shift in how organizations deploy enterprise data governance. As a fully-managed SaaS offering, Collibra Cloud Sites eliminate the traditional infrastructure burden that often delays governance initiatives, offering these key benefits:
- Onboard faster: Get the full advantages of the Collibra Platform with a significantly reduced time-to-value, helping you achieve your data goals quicker
- Reduce infrastructure overhead: Avoid the complexities of managing servers and software. Enjoy a fully managed Collibra Platform deployment, with infrastructure upkeep handled by Collibra
- Simplify IT operations: Leverage our deep platform engineering expertise. We handle the security, reliability, and performance, so your IT team can focus on strategic initiatives
Collibra Cloud Sites simplify deployments, ensuring you can harness the power of the Collibra Platform with unparalleled ease and efficiency.
OpenLineage integration: Comprehensive data traceability
Data lineage is a sometimes underappreciated but integral part of data governance. In fact, if you want to make smarter decisions, ensure compliance and resolve data issues at lightning speed, understanding your data’s full journey is key.
At Collibra, we want to accelerate and strengthen every data and AI use case so everyone in your organization can trust, comply and consume data. That’s precisely why we’re thrilled to announce a significant enhancement to Collibra’s capabilities: a powerful new integration with OpenLineage.
OpenLineage: A leader in data lineage
OpenLineage is “an open framework for data lineage collection and analysis.” A new generation of powerful, context-aware data tools and best practices, OpenLineage enables consistent collection of lineage metadata, creating a deeper understanding of how data is produced and used.
Our integration with OpenLineage means Collibra customers will be able to capture and expose technical lineage from even more data sources.
As part of the launch we will use OpenLineage to bring technical lineage from jobs orchestrated in Apache Airflow and AWS Glue—and more in the future.
What does it mean for data and AI professionals? Well, here are four big benefits:
- Quickly trace your data: Get self-serve answers to “where did this data come from?” in minutes
- Boost compliance & auditing: Easily prove data handling and meet regulations like GDPR and the EU AI Act
- Simplify impact analysis: Understand what’s affected by changes, fast
- Streamline onboarding: New team members can visualize data flows immediately
By integrating with OpenLineage, Collibra continues to empower organizations with comprehensive data traceability. This new capability simplifies complex data environments, ensuring a more complete and accurate picture of your entire data ecosystem.
Take advantage of Collibra Cloud Sites and OpenLineage
While Collibra Cloud Sites eliminate deployment friction through fully-managed SaaS delivery, our OpenLineage integration expands technical lineage capture across modern data orchestration platforms. Together, they create a more comprehensive governance foundation that can scale with your organization’s ambition.
How to get started
Existing Edge users can seamlessly add Collibra Cloud Sites through platform settings, while new deployments can leverage the fully-managed option immediately. You’ll be able to request a Collibra Cloud Site directly from your settings with just one click, and the provisioning process will take up to 2 business days. Check out the Collibra Cloud Sites documentation.
Ready to integrate OpenLineage into your Collibra Platform instance? See our documentation on how to bring metadata from Airflow and from AWS Glue into Collibra.
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