Zeenea Data Governance
Master data management (MDM) tools
Data governance tools
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€18,000 per year
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- Banking and insurance
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What is Zeenea Data Governance
Zeenea Data Governance is a data governance platform centered on an enterprise data catalog and metadata management. It supports data discovery, business glossary, lineage/impact analysis, and stewardship workflows to help organizations document and govern data assets across analytics and operational environments. Typical users include data governance teams, data stewards, data owners, and analytics/engineering teams that need shared definitions and traceability. The product emphasizes automated metadata harvesting via connectors and a business-facing catalog experience rather than master data mastering.
Strong catalog and glossary
Zeenea provides a business glossary and cataloging capabilities to document datasets, reports, and other data assets with ownership and definitions. It supports linking business terms to technical assets to reduce ambiguity in reporting and analytics. This aligns well with governance programs that need a shared vocabulary and searchable inventory.
Metadata harvesting via connectors
The platform includes connectors to collect technical metadata from common data platforms and BI tools, reducing manual catalog population. Automated ingestion helps keep documentation closer to the current state of systems. This is useful for organizations with many sources where manual stewardship does not scale.
Lineage and impact analysis
Zeenea supports lineage visualization to show how data moves across systems and transformations. This helps teams assess downstream impact when changing schemas, pipelines, or definitions. Lineage also supports governance controls by improving traceability for audits and incident response.
Not an MDM mastering tool
Despite sometimes being evaluated alongside MDM tools, Zeenea primarily focuses on cataloging and governance rather than creating golden records. It does not typically provide core MDM functions such as survivorship rules, match/merge, and operational mastering workflows. Organizations needing customer/product mastering usually require a dedicated MDM solution in addition to Zeenea.
Connector coverage varies
Connector availability and depth can vary by source system, especially for niche applications or custom platforms. Some environments may require custom integration work or reliance on APIs to ingest metadata. This can affect time-to-value if key systems are not supported out of the box.
Governance adoption requires process
The product’s value depends on consistent stewardship practices such as assigning owners, maintaining glossary terms, and curating critical data elements. Without defined governance roles and operating processes, catalogs can become incomplete or outdated. Organizations should plan for change management and ongoing stewardship capacity.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Data Discovery (starter example) | €18,000 per year (starting price example published by Zeenea) | Example configuration cited on Zeenea: 5 data stewards, 50 data consumers, 3 types of connectors. Onboarding/deployment program ~€3,000 (3–6 weeks). |
| Basic Data Discovery (POC offer) | Contact Zeenea for quote (price not published) | Official offer includes POC with up to 2 connectors, up to 2 data stewards, up to 20 data explorers, and customer support (pricing: request a quote). |
| Enterprise / Custom | Custom pricing — contact sales | No public list pricing; enterprise deployments and additional connectors/services are sold via contact/sales. |
Seller details
Zeenea
Paris, France
2017
Private
https://www.zeenea.com/
https://x.com/zeenea_data
https://www.linkedin.com/company/zeenea/
