Collibra

Collibra is a Belgian software company that provides data governance and data catalog software used by enterprises to manage and steward their data assets. Founded in 2008 in Brussels by Felix Van de Maele and Stijn Christiaens, Collibra began with metadata management and evolved into a broader platform designed to enable collaboration between business and IT and to enforce governance policies across an organization.

The Collibra platform combines a data catalog, a business glossary, data lineage, and workflow-driven governance capabilities. It supports data quality rules, policy and privacy management, impact analysis, and stewards' task management. The platform emphasizes collaboration, enabling business users and data stewards to annotate and validate assets, define data ownership, and track compliance with internal and external requirements.

Deployment is available as a cloud-based software-as-a-service and can be deployed on-premises or in managed cloud environments, depending on customer needs. It integrates with a broad ecosystem of data sources and tools, including data warehouses, data lakes, and BI platforms, and connects to major cloud providers to support data discovery and governance across an organization's data landscape.

Collibra is used across industries such as financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing to improve data quality, enable regulatory compliance (for example GDPR and related privacy requirements), and enable data-driven decision-making through trusted data assets. It operates within a partner ecosystem that includes system integrators and technology vendors, offering professional services and support to implement and scale governance programs.