Since the rebranding of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud to the now famous SAP Datasphere, SAP has prioritized collaboration not just within this solution, but has also actively fostered partnerships with other vendors that would add value to SAP Datasphere. Out of these partners, Collibra is arguably the most valuable one. Let me explain why.

How does this all look in practice? Collibra offers a data governance solution that tailors to data quality, data lineage and AI systems through a comprehensive catalog that helps customers conform to (inter)national legislation, including the upcoming AI Act. By leveraging unique integrations with SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud, customers can govern and manage SAP assets within Collibra Data Intelligence Platform. Customers can utilize Collibra to track and trace their data through pipelines of views, tables, flows and source systems, all while keeping sight on the business semantics that accompany it (courtesy of the SAP Datasphere catalog). In practice, this means that users will be able to see what steps their data went through and what transformations were applied to it, all the way from the source to the target system. Moreover, Collibra is able to provide users with a single source of truth regarding their data and can be used to share specific data assets within a neatly authorized environment. With this new SAP Datasphere integration rolled out, Collibra is moving even closer to SAP, with a focus on AI governance and a roadmap that includes support for additional SAP data sources.

As a partner of Collibra, we at Expertum will be rapidly expanding our knowledge and expertise on the synergies that SAP and Collibra can realize for customers. We will be going hands-on with the integrations between Collibra and SAP Analytics Cloud, as well as SAP Datasphere, for which we will elaborate on the required configuration involving an Edge site soon. For more (technical) details on SAP’s partnership with Collibra, check out one of my previous blog posts here.
If you are curious on what the combination of these solutions can bring to your data landscape, or you need help with solving data governance challenges involving SAP data, please do not hesitate to contact us.