Gartner praises Collibra as 'cool vendor'

Two years ago Collibra was categorized as 'major player' by PricewaterhouseCoopers', then it was chosen as one of the winners of the Plug & Play program of IBBT and this year it is indicated as 'cool vendor' by Gartner.

Collibra

Collibra is a spin-off of the 'Vrije Universiteit van Brussel' that is supported by venture capital. It builds software that clarifies the meaning of data and messages to make these data usable and reusable in a business context.

Cool vendor

In a recent report on the increasing complexity of information management Collibra was named 'cool vendor' by Gartner. In the Gartner report Ted Friedman, Anne Lapkin and David newman focus on the increasing complexity of information management and the lack of control and effective use of business information by the business. Collibra offers a solution for that kind of problems.

The study that is called 'Cool Vendors for Enterprise Information Management' contains a list of recommendations for CIO's, enterprise architects and information managers. This study identifies Collibra as one of the rising vendors that provides technology for information governance.

In the list only three companies were listed, the list also mentioned Asana, that is the new start-up of the cofounder of Facebook: Dustin Moskovitz.

Collibra has already had quite some heights and the future is looking bright!