Used For

• +**Your Power BI reports break every time someone changes a database field** → Collibra shows you exactly which reports will break before you make changes
• +**You're spending hours tracing why finance reports don't match marketing dashboards** → Visual maps show the exact transformation steps where data diverges
• +**Compliance teams can't find where customer data flows for privacy requests** → Automatically scans and tags sensitive info across all your databases
• +AI generates descriptions for thousands of data fields - saves weeks of manual documentation
• +Connects across moving data tools, BI platforms, and cloud warehouses in one view

Best For

• >Your M&A deals break because nobody knows which customer ID fields connect to what
• >Finance and marketing reports show different numbers and it takes days to figure out why
• >You're facing compliance audits and can't trace where sensitive data flows through your systems

Not For

• -Teams under 500 employees — you're paying for enterprise complexity you don't need
• -Companies without dedicated data governance staff — this requires someone willing to become a full-time data steward
• -Anyone wanting quick wins — setup takes weeks and lineage mapping across complex systems takes even longer

Pairs With

• *Snowflake (where your data lives but Collibra shows you how it got there and where it's going)
• *Power BI (Collibra traces your DAX calculations back to source tables when reports break)
• *dbt (handles data transformations while Collibra maps the bigger picture across your entire stack)
• *Informatica (for the heavy data movement while Collibra focuses on governance and compliance)
• *Slack (where your data team gets alerts when new tables appear or sensitive data is detected)
• *Tableau (another BI tool that Collibra connects to show end-to-end data journeys)

The Catch

• !Lineage tracking only works in the cloud edition, limiting on-premise setups
• !You'll need to manually stitch together lineage across complex systems — the "automatic" part has limits
• !Custom integrations for specialized tools add significant costs on top of already high subscription fees

Bottom Line

Enterprise-grade data detective that costs enterprise prices even for mid-sized teams.