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How is Calibo different from traditional DevOps or data platforms?
Unlike traditional DevOps or data platforms that focus on isolated stages of the development lifecycle, Calibo unifies the entire ecosystem (applications, data, and AI/ML) into a single orchestration layer.
It connects and abstracts your existing tools, technologies, and environments to eliminate silos, reduce complexity, and streamline collaboration across teams.
Who is Calibo designed for?
Calibo is built for modern enterprises looking to accelerate and de-risk the delivery of digital and data products. It supports teams responsible for platform engineering, cloud architecture, data engineering, DevOps, and MLOps—especially those under pressure to move faster without compromising governance or interoperability.
From standing up a secure, scalable cloud ecosystem in days to launching production-ready data pipelines or AI use cases in weeks, Calibo serves developers, data teams, and platform owners alike. Whether you’re enabling self-service infrastructure provisioning or orchestrating complex data workflows, Calibo equips your teams with a unified, self-service platform that simplifies every phase of the software, data, and AI/ML lifecycle.
What is Calibo?
Calibo is a unified orchestration platform designed to help enterprises accelerate and de-risk key cloud initiatives. It supports two critical use cases: building a secure, scalable cloud platform in days instead of months, and rapidly turning digital and data ideas into production-ready solutions. Calibo integrates your preferred tools, people, and processes into one orchestrated environment, helping teams move faster without compromising on governance, access control, or visibility.
Whether you’re standing up a cloud foundation or deploying a machine learning use case, Calibo replaces fragmented, manual workflows with pre-built templates, dynamic orchestration, and real-time oversight. From infrastructure provisioning and policy enforcement to sprint planning and FinOps dashboards, the platform simplifies complexity and gives developers, data teams, and platform engineers the ability to deliver business value in weeks—not quarters.
How can Calibo help Data Engineers?
Calibo streamlines the end-to-end workflow for data engineers, enabling them to build, test, and scale data products faster with greater reliability and control. Using Calibo, data engineers can quickly ingest data from a variety of sources via out-of-the-box connectors, then cleanse, transform, and integrate that data across lakes and layers using prebuilt components or their own custom logic.
The platform supports both batch and streaming pipelines and allows engineers to schedule jobs or chain them together to manage complex dependencies. Proven, production-grade components ensure fault tolerance and operational resilience. With environment promotion capabilities, pipelines built in development can easily be moved to test and production with full policy enforcement and minimal rework.
Calibo also provides complete traceability across tools, environments, and cloud storage layers, allowing teams to track changes, debug issues, and ensure data lineage from source to consumption. By reducing the operational friction of stitching together disparate tools, Calibo empowers data engineers to focus more on delivering insights and less on managing infrastructure or glue code.
Who is Calibo for? How will it change the way I work?
Calibo is built for platform, data, and digital engineering teams that need to move faster without sacrificing governance.
Whether you’re building a secure cloud platform or rapidly launching data and AI use cases, Calibo gives you a pre-integrated, self-service environment to accelerate delivery, reduce manual overhead, and improve team productivity.
With built-in templates, orchestration, and governance, teams can shift from multi-month setup cycles to production-ready execution in days.
It fundamentally changes how you work by unifying tools, teams, and processes into a single platform. Instead of managing scattered environments, ad hoc access controls, or fragile proof-of-concepts, Calibo lets you focus on outcomes.
Is Calibo an integrated development environment (IDE)?
Calibo is not an IDE. It is an internal developer platform (IDP) that integrates with and orchestrates around development tools such as code repositories, IDEs, ticketing systems, CI/CD tools, and more. Rather than replacing an IDE, Calibo complements it by streamlining how teams build, manage, and deliver software, data, and AI products across their existing toolchain.
Calibo acts as a unified control plane that abstracts complexity and enables self-service orchestration for development teams, while maintaining governance, visibility, and efficiency for platform and operations teams. It provides integration, automation, and oversight around the entire delivery lifecycle—spanning infrastructure provisioning, environment management, access controls, pipeline orchestration, and production deployment—while allowing developers to continue using their preferred IDEs and workflows.
This orchestration-centric model empowers teams to move faster without compromising consistency, compliance, or operational control. More info in our article here.
Can we put existing development projects into Calibo?
Yes – absolutely! We integrate with your favorite cloud platforms and tools in your technology ecosystem. We don’t directly host those platforms and tools. Therefore, you only need to connect the Calibo platform to your own platform and tool instances, including source code repos and you can start benefiting from Calibo’s guardrails out-of-the box. Check out our offering here.
Will Calibo replace my existing tech stack?
No, but we are compatible with 150+ integrations so chances are, we’ll be compatible with your tech stack. If we’re not, there are potential ways around it. Speak to us, and we’ll be happy to clarify any questions you may have, contact us here.
Which stakeholders can benefit from Calibo?
Our solutions can be used for all types of roles; our platform is collaborative and acts as a one-pane-of-glass for a whole project team working together. Calibo allows product managers, platform teams, architects, data engineers, DevOps engineers, and software and citizen developers to move from ideation to market faster.
We provide an Internal Developer Portal, which allows you to standardize, automate, and accelerate application delivery by streamlining setup with pre-set templates for development environments and automatic source code repository creation with ready-to-go CI/CD pipelines. You can centralize data access, including CI/CD status and security logs, apply tech governance with flexible policies, and gain oversight of portfolios, products, and releases within a centralized framework for quicker, collaborative problem resolution.
We also provide a data acceleration solution called Data Fabric Studio. It’s the creation engine for actionable insights and smarter decisions in a complex data ecosystem. Calibo’s Data Fabric Studio (DFS) is an advanced solution designed to help businesses transform raw data into valuable insights through flexible and reusable data pipelines. With active metadata, knowledge graphs, integrated AI/ML and DataOps features, our solution not only maximizes the value of your existing systems but also embraces future technologies.
How does Calibo help with balancing governance and speed?
Calibo provides a self-service platform with security built into the heart of the product. When business teams ask to innovate through digital products, Calibo allows you to get started immediately instead of waiting weeks or months.
What is Product Release Orchestration (PRO)? How does it help with release planning and dependencies?
Calibo PRO brings portfolios, products, and teams together under a unified framework that connects strategy, execution, and governance. It replaces fragmented, manual release processes with orchestrated, repeatable, and agile operations—enabling faster, more transparent, and strategically aligned product delivery.
PRO also allows teams to model dependencies across products and features, automatically surfacing blockers and cross-team dependencies at the release level, helping eliminate surprises and accelerate decision-making. More info here.
Does the platform support agile planning tools (e.g. Jira)?
Calibo is designed around the principles of SAFe Agile and seamlessly integrates with Jira. Users can create or link Jira stories directly to releases and features within the platform, ensuring alignment between planning and execution. Calibo’s agility dashboards provide real-time visibility into key metrics from connected Jira boards, offering valuable insights into team performance and product progress.
How are roles, permissions, and custom workflows managed in Calibo?
Calibo uses Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to securely manage access across the platform, ensuring that only authorized users can perform specific actions on defined resources and processes. The platform provides a set of predefined roles with default permissions and also allows for the creation of custom roles tailored to organizational needs.
These roles, whether standard or customized, can be assigned to individuals or teams based on their responsibilities. Permissions are fine-grained, enabling precise control over what each role can do, from viewing resources to executing critical actions. This approach helps maintain governance while supporting operational flexibility across diverse teams.
Can you ingest SAP data? How?
SAP data can currently be integrated using existing ETL tools that land data into cloud storage services such as Amazon S3 or Azure Data Lake Storage, from where it can be seamlessly accessed and orchestrated within the Calibo platform.
Calibo’s Data Fabric Studio also supports REST API integrations. This can be leveraged to source data directly from SAP to landing zones in S3, Snowflake, Unity Catalog, or Azure Data Lake Storage.
Does Calibo support compliance and security frameworks?
Calibo offers policy-as-code, RBAC, audit trails, and centralized governance tooling, and supports GxP and HIPAA to help you meet enterprise-grade compliance.
How does the Calibo platform support a Data Fabric architecture?
Calibo supports a Data Fabric architecture through its Data Fabric Studio—a unified workspace that enables teams to build, orchestrate, and manage end-to-end data pipelines in a governed, self-service manner. It abstracts complexity by integrating data sources, pipelines, environments, and tooling into a seamless experience, allowing data engineers and domain teams to move from idea to production faster.
With built-in capabilities like role-based access control (RBAC), visual pipeline design, reusable components, and automated policy enforcement, Calibo’s Data Fabric Studio empowers organizations to deliver secure, traceable, and reusable data products. It enables cross-functional collaboration, enforces standards, and reduces time-to-value for critical data initiatives—all while maintaining the flexibility to leverage existing cloud and technology stacks.
Can I use Calibo without DFS?
Calibo is a unified platform designed to deliver maximum value when its components work together. While you can technically use parts of the platform without actively building data pipelines through Calibo’s Data Fabric Studio, the underlying capabilities of DFS are still present and available.
There is only one Calibo product, and Data Fabric Studio is a core part of it—powering secure, self-service pipeline creation, orchestration, and governance. Choosing not to leverage it may limit the platform’s full potential, especially for organizations aiming to accelerate data product delivery or streamline complex data workflows.
In short, you don’t need to use every feature right away—but Calibo is built as an integrated system, not a suite of disconnected tools. The more you use, the more value and efficiency you gain.
What is the Internal Developer Portal in Calibo?
The Internal Developer Portal in Calibo is a unified, self-service interface that empowers developers, data engineers, and other builders to independently access everything they need to deliver digital and data products, without waiting on central teams. It abstracts complexity by integrating infrastructure provisioning, environment setup, CI/CD pipelines, access control, data tools, and policy enforcement into a single experience.
Unlike traditional portals that focus narrowly on app development, Calibo’s portal spans the entire software, data, and AI/ML lifecycle. It’s pre-integrated with 150+ technologies and tailored to role-specific needs, enabling faster delivery, reduced bottlenecks, and governance at scale—all while working with the tools your teams already use.
Can I use Calibo with my on-prem infrastructure?
Yes, Calibo is cloud-native but supports integrations with on-prem tools and data sources using APIs and hybrid-cloud configurations.
Does Calibo replace my current tools?
Calibo is designed to orchestrate and unify your existing technology ecosystem, not disrupt it. It integrates seamlessly with over 150 tools across cloud, DevOps, and data stacks, allowing teams to work with the technologies they already know while eliminating silos and manual handoffs.
That said, Calibo includes powerful native capabilities—such as infrastructure automation, role-based access control, data pipeline orchestration, and visual dependency mapping—that can reduce or even replace certain standalone tools over time. The goal isn’t to force replacement, but to reduce operational overhead and deliver faster outcomes through intelligent automation and full lifecycle visibility.
Why does Calibo feature its own data transformation studio when one of its primary selling points is integrating external products?
Calibo’s data pipeline and dataOps tool (Data Fabric Studio) is not a stand-alone tool.
It acts as the glue for existing data integrations you may have, such as SS3, Parquet, Rest API, CSV and allows you to control how the data moves, is transformed, and orchestrates these actions.
Learn more here.
I have data pipelines already, can you integrate them?
Yes, however, it depends on how they’re implemented. If your pipeline is built using an integration that we already support, Calibo can be used to orchestrate it. However, if you’re looking to import your existing pipelines into Calibo’s DFS, our team of Solution Architects can certainly help you do so. Contact us to discuss a solution!
I am on prem but want to move to the cloud, what can Calibo do for me?
We are a cloud-only solution supporting a cloud-first approach to tooling. We can integrate with on-prem solutions providing they expose their results in an network reachable format (e.g. via API). Learn more here about how Calibo works.
How can Calibo help Platform Engineering teams?
Building a Platform Engineering team doesn’t mean you must also spend 12–18 months building the platform.
Calibo gives your team a production-ready, self-service orchestration layer on day one—so you can focus on enablement and business outcomes, not stitching tools, pipelines, policies, and access control. Customers have reported up to 50% faster time-to-market and up to 40% productivity gains.
Instead of re-creating infrastructure orchestration, security automation, and developer workflows project by project, your engineers can adopt and extend implement Calibo’s pre-built foundation: one-click environment provisioning, centralized tech-stack catalogs, golden templates, governance guardrails, and integrated DevSecOps/MLOps pipelines. You configure; you customize; you govern. We supply the repeatable core.
Struggling with ticket queues, scattered scripts, and inconsistent security policies? Calibo standardizes policy-as-code, centralizes permissions, and applies guardrails across the lifecycle—infra, data, app, and AI.
Provision cloud resources, register services, enforce tagging/encryption, and route approvals automatically—no more hopping across consoles or redoing the same setup for each team.
Manage multiple business units from one control plane: track usage and spend, apply role-based access globally, templatize “golden paths,” and roll out updates everywhere. Calibo can also consolidate billing across clouds/tools and provides expert support when you need help getting unstuck.
What’s the difference between Calibo and other platform engineering tools?
Calibo is fundamentally different: it delivers a fully integrated, self-service orchestration platform that connects the entire software, data, and AI/ML development lifecycle, across teams, tools, and use cases.
Where others stop at infra-as-code or developer portals, Calibo unifies your SDLC from infrastructure provisioning and environment setup to access control, CI/CD, data pipeline orchestration, policy enforcement, and production deployment.
Unlike other PE tools, Calibo is built to power the end-to-end delivery of both data and digital products — including applications, analytics, and machine learning use cases — through modular templates, policy-as-code, and full-stack automation.
Key differences that set Calibo apart:
This translates to:
Calibo doesn’t just enable Platform Engineering — it unlocks its full potential.
How does Calibo balance user autonomy with IT governance in real time?
Calibo embeds governance directly into self-service workflows, enabling teams to move quickly while staying within secure and compliant boundaries. Role-based access control (RBAC) ensures users can only access approved tools, data, and environments, so they can operate independently without compromising policy.
Predefined policies, configurations, and approval workflows guide decisions and enforce standards without slowing progress. Real-time guardrails validate critical actions like deployments or artifact promotions, while audit logs provide full traceability across activities. This allows IT to maintain control and oversight, without limiting the agility of development teams.
How does Calibo support compliance and governance oversight?
Calibo ensures enterprise-grade compliance and governance through built-in automation, policy enforcement, and full visibility across the software, data, and AI/ML development lifecycle.
The platform enforces role-based access controls (RBAC) to ensure users can only access approved environments, data, configurations, and tools. It supports centralized policy-as-code, allowing platform teams to define and apply guardrails and organizational standards consistently across all self-service workflows — from infrastructure provisioning to CI/CD to data pipeline deployment.
Key governance features include:
Calibo helps you scale innovation safely — by enforcing security, compliance, and architectural standards without slowing down delivery. Read about our compliance here.
What typical use cases should we start with?
For example, we can help you to either:
Can non-technical users work with Calibo?
Calibo provides simplified UI workflows and dashboards for product managers, data analysts, and innovation leaders. We’re not just for developers!
How does Calibo support innovation teams?
Architects can define sandbox environments and enforce governance using configurable policy templates and resource settings. Development teams can then onboard quickly and provision the necessary resources through self-service workflows. With integrated CI/CD pipelines, outputs can be seamlessly deployed across environments. Using Calibo’s Data Fabric Studio (DFS), teams can rapidly build, test, and deploy data products and solutions with speed and consistency.
What use cases does Calibo support out of the box?
The platform supports a range of use cases, including building and deploying container-based microservice applications, provisioning microservices, orchestrating data engineering workflows such as data ingestion, transformation, and quality checks, managing data pipelines, deploying machine learning models, and managing the end-to-end product lifecycle.
What is the average implementation time for Calibo?
Most teams go live within 4–8 weeks, depending on environment complexity and integration needs.
How does Calibo help reduce cloud costs?
By enforcing policies, automating environment teardown, and enabling usage transparency, Calibo helps reduce cloud sprawl and optimize spend.
What ROI can I expect from implementing Calibo?
Calibo is designed to deliver significant and measurable return on investment by accelerating time-to-value, reducing operational complexity, and improving the success rate of digital and data initiatives. Organizations using Calibo report up to 80 percent faster platform activation and 40 to 60 percent faster delivery of digital and data products compared to traditional approaches.
By eliminating lengthy setup cycles, reducing tool fragmentation, and minimizing the need for manual orchestration, Calibo helps enterprises cut infrastructure and operational costs while freeing up resources to focus on innovation. Teams can rapidly move from idea to production using pre-integrated technologies, reusable components, and automated workflows—all governed within a secure, compliant framework.
This results in fewer delays, reduced risk, and improved productivity across platform, data, and application teams. Most importantly, more use cases reach production and start generating business value faster—turning innovation from a cost center into a competitive advantage.
How many and which third-party tools/technologies are integrated?
We integrate with most commonly used tools – see the full list here.
What programming languages and frameworks are supported?
Calibo is language-agnostic and works with most modern languages or frameworks—Node.js, Python, Java, Go, .NET, etc.
Does Calibo provide analytics or observability?
Calibo includes built-in platform intelligence that supports observability in the context of engineering productivity, resource management, and project oversight. Rather than offering general-purpose monitoring or analytics, Calibo focuses on actionable, use-case-driven insights that help teams deliver digital and data products more efficiently.
The platform features dashboards that track activity across teams, environments, and tools—surfacing real-time signals such as pipeline status, resource bottlenecks, and project velocity. FinOps dashboards monitor cloud resource utilization and cost, while role-based views help teams understand capacity and performance across initiatives.
Calibo’s patented visual dependency mapping and AI-powered signal engine provide enhanced visibility into delivery risks and team dynamics. These capabilities are purpose-built to optimize product delivery lifecycles rather than replicate traditional observability stacks. Teams can also integrate external tools like JIRA for unified insight without duplicating reporting infrastructure.
Can I import existing codebases or pipelines into Calibo?
Calibo supports onboarding some elements of existing environments, but not full pipeline imports. You can bring in infrastructure provisioning scripts—such as Terraform—as part of your setup. You can also connect to existing code repositories, currently limited to GitHub.
However, existing CI/CD pipelines or data pipelines must be rebuilt within Calibo using its native orchestration capabilities. This ensures alignment with Calibo’s governance model, guardrails, and self-service architecture. Support for Snowpark Python is planned, which will enable more direct reuse of Python-based data workflows in the future.
Calibo is built as an integrated platform rather than a plug-and-play layer over legacy setups. Rebuilding within the platform helps streamline operations, enforce consistency, and unlock the full benefits of unified orchestration, visibility, and automation.
Which cloud providers does Calibo support?
Calibo supports AWS and Azure with prebuilt blueprints and infrastructure orchestration for each.
Is Calibo available as a SaaS or self-hosted solution?
Calibo is a unified orchestration platform designed to help enterprises accelerate and de-risk key cloud initiatives. Calibo integrates your tools, people, and processes into one orchestrated environment, helping teams move faster without compromising on governance, access control, or visibility.
Get in touch to learn more about how we can support your set-up.
What kind of support does Calibo offer?
Calibo provides enterprise-grade support including onboarding assistance, integration help, and 24/7 technical support with dedicated account teams.
Get in touch to learn more.
Do you have something which helps me adopt Calibo faster?
Yes, Calibo offers onboarding workshops and professional services that enable faster onboarding and use case creation.
How does the licensing work with Calibo?
The Calibo platform is offered on a subscription basis and is licensed based on a combination of factors, including a base platform fee, the number of users, the number of integrations, and any additional services required.
Learn more about our offerings here.
What’s sandbox isolation like—separate environments for different teams?
Calibo provides isolated sandbox environments through dedicated tenants or subscriptions, offering teams a secure and governed space to explore, prototype, and build. These sandboxes function just like the full Calibo platform, with all orchestration, governance, and automation capabilities intact.
Access within a sandbox is managed using Calibo’s portfolio and product grouping system, combined with role-based access control (RBAC), ensuring teams only see and interact with the resources relevant to their projects. This allows multiple teams across the organization to operate independently and securely, while maintaining centralized oversight and policy enforcement.
Which roles or teams benefit most from the Innovation Sandbox?
Innovation and incubation teams in IT and Business who need to quickly and independently determine which use cases provide most business value.
Can prototypes built in the Sandbox be scaled to production?
Yes, securely and reliably promoting prototypes into production environments is a core capability of Calibo, supported by built-in governance, policy enforcement, and approval workflows.
How is pricing structured—by team size, modules, environments?
Learn more about our offerings here.
Or, get in touch to learn more about our pricing structure.
What is the Digital Innovation Accelerator (DIA)?
The DIA is Calibo’s flexible resourcing and delivery model that creates immediate capacity for innovation without long-term headcount increases. It safeguards RUN operations while giving organizations the ability to scale up specialized skills on demand. With DIA, you can test, deliver, and scale new initiatives faster, supported by the Calibo platform and subject matter experts to ensure governance, speed, and ROI.
Does DIA reduce costs or just add more people?
DIA gives you a predictable annual investment with flexible resourcing. You scale up when demand is high and scale down when it isn’t—so you avoid idle capacity while maximizing ROI.
What about knowledge loss when resources rotate in and out?
DIA keeps a retained core team and knowledge base. Documentation standards and embedded leads ensure smooth transitions, so expertise isn’t lost when the flexible pool is engaged.
Why invest in innovation roles now?
Most fixed teams are consumed by RUN activities. Our Digital Innovation Accelerator creates capacity for innovation without long-term headcount increases—so you can test and deliver new initiatives faster and prove value quickly.
Does Calibo have the vendor relationships and processes to support DIA?
Yes. DIA operates on a proven resourcing playbook with established partner networks—so onboarding, scaling, and offboarding happen without disruption.
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