Your data mesh has domains. It doesn't have governance.
Actian embeds contracts, lineage, and compliance rules directly into data products at runtime, so governance travels with the data across every platform, without rebuilding your stack.
One bank. 30 data sources. Zero IT support tickets.
Data sources connected natively
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Weekly active users
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Documented definitions
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Groupe BPCE replaced Collibra, connected 30 platforms natively, and scaled self-service data discovery to 1,000 weekly users. With zero IT support tickets.
Groupe BPCE is the second-largest banking group in France, classified as a Global Systematically Important Bank (G-SIB). They manage approximately $2 trillion in total assets and directly finance over 21% of the French economy.
Their governance problem was specific: Collibra’s TCO had become unsustainable. BCBS239 and GDPR compliance required strict, auditable lineage across dozens of cloud platforms. A data product initiative had stalled completely because there was no automated, executable way to enforce governance at runtime. And connecting to disparate platforms required heavy third-party middleware that slowed everything down.
The challenge
- Collibra’s subscription and implementation costs had created an unsustainable TCO across the bank.
- BCBS239 and GDPR compliance required strict lineage across a fragmented multi-cloud environment.
- A decentralized data product initiative stalled with no way to enforce governance automatically at runtime.
- Connecting to dozens of platforms required middleware dependencies that added cost and complexity.
What Actian did
- Deployed Smart Data Products that natively embed contracts, schemas, and regulatory policies directly at runtime, making them queryable via natural language.
- Implemented a federated metadata overlay that syncs lineage and compliance rules across 30 different platforms without requiring data centralization.
- Established deep ontology support through a semantic layer that scales alongside banking architectural complexity, well beyond what Collibra’s basic terminology lists could handle.
What BPCE achieved
Zero IT support tickets. 1,000+ unique weekly users navigate data products autonomously without creating a support bottleneck.
30 individual platforms connected instantly and natively, eliminating the third-party middleware Collibra required.
80,000 glossary definitions and 32,000 documented, compliant datasets in a fully populated semantic catalog.
Built for architectures that don't sit still
A metamodel that adapts to any topology
The flexible metamodel adapts to any architecture without a rebuild. Live connectors continuously harvest metadata across distributed domains without centralizing data. Your architecture can evolve, and the metadata layer keeps up.
Metadata that governs across every system in your stack
Bidirectional metadata exchange with third-party catalogs keeps your whole stack governed without rebuilding it. A federated semantic overlay syncs governance, lineage, and policies across distributed systems. Policy propagation triggers automatically when metadata changes.
Data products with governance built in from day one
Smart Data Products operationalize contracts, lineage, and trust signals at runtime. Governance ships inside the product from day one. Full ontology support means the semantic layer scales across domains, AI agents, and distributed architectures without breaking down at the edges.
Recognize any of these?
If your team is dealing with this… |
Actian addresses it with… |
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A data mesh initiative stalled at the design doc |
Smart Data Products ship executable governance at runtime, not after |
Collibra TCO growing faster than the value it delivers |
Federated metadata overlay that connects to your existing stack without a rip-and-replace |
Lineage that breaks the moment data crosses a domain boundary |
Smart Lineage traces transformations across distributed domains automatically |
Compliance audits that require manual lineage reconstruction |
BCBS239 and GDPR-ready lineage embedded in every data product at the point of creation |
Where modern data architectures connect to the bigger picture
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