Sales guide that clearly answers Why Dawiso

Sales guide that answers the question: "Why should we choose Dawiso over the competition?"

Dawiso is a Data Catalog Designed for Everyone (for the use in the entire organization).

When choosing a data governance platform, you need a solution that’s powerful, flexible, and truly usable across your entire organization—not just for a few expensive licenses. Dawiso is built differently.

1. Is the platform designed for both business and technical users, or just governance teams?
   → Ensures usability across the organization, not just for specialists.

2. Can the solution scale affordably or will licensing costs limit broader adoption?
   → Avoids expensive per-user fees that restrict access to key contributors.

3. Does the platform go beyond traditional governance to support business metadata, structured documentation, and data modeling?
   → Ensures it doesn’t just handle compliance but also helps teams understand, document, and model data effectively.

4. How customizable is the platform to match our specific workflows, terminology, and governance needs?
   → Ensures flexibility, so the tool adapts to your organization—not the other way around.

Why Dawiso? The reason number…

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1. Built for People - Built Also for Business Not Just IT

Many data cataloging tools are designed primarily for technical users, making them difficult for business teams to adopt. Dawiso prioritizes usability for both business and technical users, ensuring that data knowledge is easily accessible and well-documented across the entire company.

• Business users get seamless experience and can actively contribute.

• The platform can be fully configured to match how your teams work.

• Unlike rigid enterprise tools, Dawiso adapts to your organization’s structure and processes, not the other way around.

• Great for maintaining business metadata (which leads to the second point…)

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2. Enterprise-Level Data Knowledge & Business Metadata Management

Most technical catalogs focus on scanning and organizing databases but fall short when it comes to business context. Dawiso fills this gap by seamlessly integrating:

• Data modeling, business knowledge blueprint, and technical know-how

• Enterprise-grade business glossaries that align with real-world business processes  

• Harmonization of business metadata across teams and departments

Dawiso is also highly focused on the analytical process—Dawiso allows for data modeling, including logical, conceptual modeling and semantic layers, alongside technical know-how. This is something many purely technical catalogs struggle to incorporate. We excel at business metadata management, enabling enterprise-level business glossaries and harmonizing technical and business perspectives into a unified framework.

With Dawiso, your business and technical teams can collaborate efficiently, ensuring both the data and its meaning are well-documented and accessible.

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3. Unmatched Customization

Knowing the competition well, we can confidently say that Dawiso offers the highest level of customization available.

• Everything in Dawiso is configurable—from terminology to workflows.

• We can quickly tailor the platform for any customer, ensuring everyone in the company can understand and use it effectively.

• Customization using low code – packages and patch packages.  

This flexibility ensures a perfect fit for your data governance needs, whether you’re a small startup or a multinational enterprise.

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4. Revolutionary Pricing: Making Data Governance Accessible

Traditional data governance platforms—like Alation and Collibra—are prohibitively expensive, often starting at least at minimum €100,000 per year. These tools price their offerings based on technical factors like the number of scanned databases, creating barriers to company-wide adoption.

Dawiso breaks this outdated model by offering:

• User-based pricing: You only pay for active contributors.

• Scalability: Start with a minimalist license and grow as needed.

• Affordability: Our standard plan starts at €245/month for 25 users (5 active contributors).

• Corporate plan: Designed for full-scale enterprise adoption, so the entire data community can contribute without hidden costs.

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“We’ve seen first-hand how restrictive traditional pricing models can be. In one case, a customer’s data architect couldn’t even add a simple description because contributor licenses were too expensive. In another case, a large enterprise with significant revenue had employees asking whether they could get just a few licenses for a proof of concept—highlighting how restrictive and costly traditional data governance pricing can be.”

Dawiso removes these roadblocks and ensures data governance is a company-wide effort, not just a privilege for a select few.  

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5. Get Value Fast—No Matter Your Size or Maturity Level

Unlike other platforms that require months of setup and consulting, Dawiso is designed for rapid deployment and adoption.  

• Pre-built applications and configurations help you get started quickly.

• Blueprint methodology guides teams that are unsure how to structure governance.

• Enablement tools help companies move from low data maturity to an established data culture quickly.

• Flexible scaling ensures both small and large organizations get value fast, without needing a massive upfront investment.

With Dawiso, you don’t need to be a large enterprise or have a mature data governance strategy to start seeing real benefits. Whether you’re just beginning or scaling up, Dawiso helps you get value quickly and grow at your own pace.

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Dawiso vs. Collibra – Why Dawiso is the Better Choice?

Collibra is the most well-known player in the data governance space, but bigger doesn’t always mean better. While it offers strong governance capabilities, it falls short in areas that matter most for organizations looking to scale data accessibility, improve collaboration, and reduce costs.

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Key questions to ask when choosing the right fit?

1. Is the use case solely data governance or is there a data accessibility aspect as well?

2. Can the customer afford Collibra’s pricing to fully support data democratization trend (hundreds of editors)?

3. Are there other linked areas to be improved like governed documentation and business/logical/semantic modeling?