Collibra

Collibra helps you understand, govern and leverage your data. We do with information what business process management does with processes.

Commercializing over 10 years of academic research, Collibra's patent-pending technology glues people and systems together. It identifies and solves the semantic gap between different systems, between people and systems and between people themselves.

Together with our partners, Collibra helps IT organizations to reduce complexity, risk and costs. At the same time, our approach increases the insight, flexibility and efficiency of the organisation.

Collibra aims to be the leading software provider for the semantic alignment of information between business and IT. We want to enable any organization to better understand, govern and deliver information across the extended enterprise.

Collibra was founded mid 2008 as a spin-off from STARLab at the Free University of Brussels. The company is backed by venture capital, including the Brussels Imagination, Innovation and Incubation Fund, Brustart (GIMB), and business angels.

Collibra was founded on a vision that business ecosystems have evolved from rigid value chains towards agile, globalized value networks. In this reality, the need for the exchange, integration and understanding of heterogeneous information has become of strategic and competitive importance. Despite its technological success story, the ICT enterprise as we know it is hampered by a rampant growth of metadata and a massive dump of scattered legacy data.

Collibra is convinced that architecting the next-generation enterprise requires a paradigm shift that goes beyond technical excel. Main drivers behind the dynamics of this so-called Enterprise 2.0 are the strategic and meaningful reconciliation of disparate data assets by describing them with so-called business semantics, and the pervasiveness of these processes in the daily workflows of business and IT. In other words, Collibra envisions semantics as the key enabling technology for governing and deliverying heterogeneous information assets across the extended enterprise.