Collibra Customer Connect Amsterdam Edition

Published on: October 02, 2024

🚀 Key takeaways from Collibra Customer Connect -- Amsterdam Edition!

So much to take in after last week's Collibra Customer Connect! With four other key Collibra clients, Ikea, LEGO, ASML, and HEINEKEN we were kindly hosted by The HEINEKEN Company and shared some of our challenges and gains from using Collibra over the years.

First of all it was great to be back on the old green nest, even after some massive renovations and office refurbishments it was clearly still the HEINEKEN office I knew for 9 years. The Heineken Experience tour drove that home even more, and it was great to get the VIP tour (thx Emma ;-)) because that one I didn't have yet.

On the content side it was great to get some peeks into each others' kitchen. Because we all know how shiny the world looks on slides of suppliers and even shinier on the slides of consultants, there's little that beats talking with people face the same stuff you do in their organisation.

Some particular insights which I liked:

🗝️ Introduce key leverage to drive adoptions. E.g. for Data Catalogs make it the *only* place to get authorisation to access certain data sets. E.g. for Data Products, make it mandatory for any AI initiative to *only* use data provided as part of a Data Product. It might not deliver the short-term your consumers might want, but it will force adoption of technology which will deliver more value over the long run (i.e. the whole data management proposition).

🤖 Of course a lot going on in the space of AI governance, and governance being aided by (Gen)AI. Interesting to see the discussion oscillate between treating AI as just another use case, and AI changing the world every other day... though it seems for data people AI changes seem to be less spectacular than generally described.

🧱 A complete separation in the UX between the Data Marketplace offerings and the Data Governance back-end. It drives less people to the hardcore side of your data team's deliverables, but it does make it a lot easier for the entire company to actually find what they need. An interesting trade-off to consider.

But above all an amazing opportunity to connect and get inspiration from likeminded people doing cool s...tuff, also a great reminder about the richness of coming together physically as opposed to Zooming. 🎉 Thanks @Milan for organizing, and @Emma for hosting!

And how are you driving adoption of Data Catalogs in your organisation? Is AI the golden solution? Does it even help?