Data Governance Platform Selector
Seven questions, then a personalized shortlist from the same six-platform, six-criteria matrix behind our 2026 platform rankings. The scores stay fixed — your answers change the weights, and the math is shown. No email, no vendor placement, runs in your browser.
Answer for how your organization actually operates today — not the program you hope to have. Two minutes.
Comparing just two finalists? The Collibra vs Alation buyer's guide goes deeper than any quiz can.
Your shortlist
Full board with your weights
Same scores as the published matrix — only the weights changed. Your weights:
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Computed locally in your browser. Nothing is transmitted or stored.
How the selector works
Every platform-comparison quiz hides a ranking model; this one publishes it. Six platforms — Atlan, Microsoft Purview, Informatica CDGC, Collibra, Alation, and Databricks Unity Catalog — each carry six criterion scores from our 2026 scoring matrix: governance depth, catalog and lineage coverage, steward adoption, cost transparency, automation (API/IaC), and analyst validation. Your seven answers adjust the weights on those criteria, the weighted totals are recomputed, and the shortlist is whatever the arithmetic says — including fit warnings where a high scorer is wrong for your specific estate.
Why the scores don't change with your answers
Because that's where comparison tools quietly cheat. A quiz that adjusts vendor scores per respondent can steer anyone anywhere. Keeping the scores fixed and public — each one defended line-by-line in the rankings article — means the quiz can only do what a good consultant does: help you decide what matters more, not rewrite the facts. If you disagree with a score, that's a productive disagreement, and the score-by-score reasoning is where to have it.
What to do with your shortlist
Treat the top result as a hypothesis, not a decision. Take your top two into demos with your own data and your own stewards — adoption scores in any matrix are about typical organizations, and yours isn't typical. Before you book vendor calls, run the maturity assessment: platforms amplify a governance program, they don't create one, and a Level-1 program buying a Tier-A platform is the most expensive way to stay at Level 1. For budget conversations, the ROI calculator frames what the spend should return.