The new browser extension and enhanced data management capabilities feature the latest update to the Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud.
Vendor’s Data Intelligence Cloud is an end-to-end data management platform that automates the data preparation workflow and includes data scoring capabilities to measure data quality and data management capabilities to help customers comply with regulations. In addition, it connects to data lakes and data warehouses for data ingestion, and to analytics platforms to enable data analysis.
New capabilities
The latest update to the Collibra platform, released on March 9, adds new and improved capabilities designed to increase user productivity.
The Collibra Everywhere browser extension connects to multiple sources, including Tableau and Power BI reports, and allows users to quickly view their data’s underlying information so they can better understand and trust their analytics. .
The browser extension works with Confluence, Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Sharepoint and online query editors.
By allowing users to quickly view the underlying information, the new tool will save users the hassle of having to go back and forth between their data and a data management application to see such information as data lineage and determine data quality, according to Donald Farmer, founder and principal at TreeHive Strategy.
Ultimately, this will increase the speed and efficiency of users.
“This is not only a cool feature, but a really useful strategy for business users who may not want to constantly switch to management applications to better understand their data,” he said. “It’s ‘context to context.’ This allows users to quickly and effectively access information about the semantics and business context of the data they use. “
Improved data management capabilities will also lead to increased productivity, according to Mike Leone, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
The latest Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud update includes two additions to Collibra Data Quality & Observability.
One adds auto-validation capabilities that allow organizations to measure data discovery and data quality implementation measures to protect sensitive data and reduce risk. Another allows data managers to center and prioritize data quality requests within the Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud leading to faster remediate of data problems.
Meanwhile, the update also includes automation of data stewardship tasks, along with data curation.
“By combining new data quality and observation capabilities to automate managerial tasks, I think organizations can expect some eye-opening productivity gains,” Leone said.
He added that high quality data is critical as organizations make decisions based on data, but ensuring that data is reliable is complicated, especially if organizations provide more business users. of self-service tools.
“By expanding Collibra’s current automation capabilities to focus on areas such as sensitive data detection and protection, data quality enforcement and measurement data curation, data managers are armed with tools that they need to respond to business faster and with confidence, ”Leone says.
Beyond new browser extensions and new data management capabilities, Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud updates address productivity with enhanced visualization capabilities, These allow users to quickly see and understand interactions between data sets and include enhanced connectors in Tableau to better view metadata and in Matillion to improve visibility in the data line.
None of Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud’s new and improved update capabilities are revolutionary new tools or represent a significant overhaul of the platform, but they are a solid set of advances that will benefit customers, according to Farmer.
“This is not a big step for Collibra, but a useful update for users,” he said.
Teaching materials
In addition to updating its Data Intelligence Cloud, Collibra has introduced new educational learning pathways and services aimed at helping users plan, design and execute better data strategies. As with new and improved capabilities, their goal is to enable Collibra customers to become more efficient and accelerate time-to-value.
In fact, learning paths and services can prove as valuable to customers as new and updated data and analytics capabilities, Farmer says.
Pathways of learning and services include:
- The Foundation and Strategy Program to provide guidance as users create roadmaps, prioritize applications and implement Collibra services;
- the Resident Architect Program to support users with a dedicated architect to guide and strengthen their use of Collibra for one year; at
- the Data Quality Virtual Lab, a course that teaches users about data management tasks and allows them to practice management tasks such as running data quality audits, evaluating and evaluating reports and data scorecards, and configuring and managing rules and alerts.
“I’m excited to see new learning paths,” Farmer said. “The Community-the data citizens of its ecosystem-has always been critical to Collibra’s success. It’s good to see a company on the cutting edge that takes the day-to-day practices of its customers seriously.”
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