WGU reduces data curation and governance time from weeks to seconds

Western Governors University struggled to find or even know what data it had — "We could not get our arms around the data," said Head of Data Governance Garth Gehlbach — with data trapped in departmental silos, slowing report creation for its 140,000+ students. It deployed the Collibra Data Intelligence Platform as the foundation of a Data Governance Center, using flexible modeling for education-specific attributes and FERPA compliance, and populated it with over 1,400 glossary terms covering more than 850,000 assets (technical schemas plus business/governance context). Users now find answers "not just faster but often on their first attempt," searching by business concepts like student retention or drop rate, with one testimonial suggesting a user might not have left a previous job had they had a solution like Collibra there.

Collibra is a data-governance and catalog platform used to keep data trustworthy, traceable and compliant enough to support an AI initiative.

This sits in the Design & Stress-Test stage of the AI use-case lifecycle: Named examples from the tools pharma teams use to scope, prototype and benchmark an AI use case before committing to build it — data-catalog, sandbox and evaluation platforms.