Collibra
Audit & Repair
Have experts look inside your Collibra and tell you exactly what’s working, what isn’t, and what needs attention first. And then fix it for you.
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25 Collibra Experts on board
including 18 Collibra Rangers, the most for any Collibra-certified company worldwide.
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Over 70+ Collibra projects
delivered across the US and Europe.
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Over 9 years of experience
across sectors such as banking, insurance, pharma, retail, and big tech.
Your Collibra should be working harder for you
First-time Collibra implementations are often suboptimal, to say the least. We know what to do to get them back on track. After 70+ Collibra implementations – and the audits, rescues, and takeovers that followed – we have systems and workflows in place to quickly deliver the value you’ve been missing.
If your organization is stuck with Collibra, with licenses burning, workflows that don’t seem to work at all, and users who’d rather do things manually than log in to Collibra, time to do something about it. You’ll find out exactly what’s not working – and the best part, you can instantly pass it on to a capable, experienced technical team who will implement it.
When to consider Collibra Audit & Rescue
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You have low Collibra adoption, with only a handful of people using it.
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You’re paying for many more licenses than are actually used.
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You have multiple open workflow tasks that nobody wants to touch.
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Everything was built custom, so nothing is easy to maintain or upgrade.
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You bought Collibra for a specific regulatory need, and don’t have a plan beyond that.
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It’s impossible to find anything in Collibra, and search only returns noise.
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The team that built Collibra left and left a mess behind.
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Using Collibra feels slow and just too complicated.
The audit
This is where we take a deep dive into your Collibra and come up with strategic recommendations.
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Executive Summary
A crisp, board-ready summary of platform health, top 5 risks, and recommended investments.
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Collibra Health Check
A 0–100 composite score across six audit dimensions, benchmarked against our cross-client dataset of 70+ implementations.
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Findings Report
Full audit findings with root cause analysis, severity rating, and business impact description per finding.
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Workflow Review Summary
Inventory of all workflows: design quality, stuck task analysis, user task naming assessment, and redesign recommendations.
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Asset Model Review
Custom vs. out-of-the-box analysis, complexity assessment, lifecycle review, asset page layout audit, and simplification blueprint.
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UX Findings Report
Landing page assessment, search config findings, Marketplace UX review, view consistency report, and user survey synthesis.
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License Optimization Report
Active vs. inactive user analysis, floating license review, role rationalization findings, and cost-saving recommendations.
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Low-Hanging Fruit Pack
Top 10 Quick Wins with owner, effort estimate, time to value, and expected impact. Designed to start delivering ROI within 30 days of delivery.
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Improvement Backlog
Prioritized list of all identified improvements, ranked by business impact and implementation effort – ready to load into Jira or your delivery tool.
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Strategic Roadmap (90/180/365)
A phased improvement plan with effort, ownership, and business KPI linkage for each initiative. Sequenced by impact and dependency.
The repair sprint
What a typical repair sprint looks like
Sprint Planning (Day 1–2 post-Audit)
- Findings triaged into three tracks
- Sprint backlog created and loaded into your delivery tool
- Sprint team confirmed: typically 1–2 Murdio Rangers + support resource
- Client-side Product Owner identified and onboarded
Quick Wins implementation (Days 1–10)
- All identified Quick Wins implemented and validated in non-production first
- License optimization actions
- Backup schedule confirmed and tested
- Search and Marketplace quick-config improvements
- Communities, Domains, and asset page layouts updated
- Quick Win completion report on Day 10
Platform Stabilization
(Days 10–30)
- UUID consistency remediation across all environments
- Stuck workflow tasks investigated and cleared
- EDGE connections renamed and documented
- Role rationalization blueprint implemented
- Floating license workflow validated and optimized
- Stabilization sign-off on Day 30
Strategic Improvements
(Days 30–90)
- Asset model simplification implemented per the Audit blueprint
- Workflow redesigns built, tested, and promoted to production
- Dashboards redesigned and deployed
- Role-based training content created and published in Collibra
- Search relevance and Marketplace UX rebuilt
Handover & Knowledge Transfer
- Full technical documentation of all changes delivered
- Handover sessions for client platform admin and governance lead
- Updated Health Score issued (before and after comparison)
- Backlog of deferred items transferred to client roadmap
- Optional: transition to Murdio managed service
We can also take over Collibra after the previous team left
Our Rescue and Takeover service includes:
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A full Collibra Audit & Assessment technical debt inventory (weeks 1-4)
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Stabilization with critical issues remediated before any new development begins (weeks 4-8)
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Platform Reset (Weeks 8-16)
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Forward Roadmap Execution (Month 4+)
What you get when you hire Murdio
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Business outcomes
- License costs go down
- People re-engage with Collibra
- Regulatory reporting is faster
- Executive confidence is restored
Most clients reduce annual license spend by $50K–$300K within 60 days of acting on Quick Win findings.
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Operational outcomes
- Workflows actually work
- Support overhead is reduced
- Ownership is clearer
- Training fits your teams
25-50% reduction in platform-related support tickets within 90 days of implementing Quick Win recommendations.
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Platform outcomes
- Asset model is cleaner and smaller
- Search just works
- You can rely on the infrastructure
- The environment is upgrade-ready
Findability scores typically improve by 40-70% after implementing search configuration recommendations.
Why do it with Murdio
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We’re the original Collibra geeks. And we can rescue even the seemingly hopeless cases.
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We have 19 Collibra Rangers on board (and counting). You won’t find a team like this anywhere else.
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We’ve implemented, rescued, and scaled Collibra for international enterprises across eight industries over the past eight years.
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We bring both the governance design perspective and the deep platform configuration knowledge.
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We don’t make recommendations we can’t implement. If we identify it as a problem, we can fix it.
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