1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a request to create a collaboration group around a first complex data structure; retrieving, by the computing device, the first complex data structure, and metadata associated with the first complex data structure, from an external system; determining, by the computing device, an object consumption definition for an object type corresponding to the first complex data structure; applying, by the computing device, the object consumption definition to the metadata for the first complex data structure to determine one or more complex data structures having a relationship to the first complex data structure; and creating, by the computing device, a collaboration group around the first complex data structure, the collaboration group including the determined one or more related complex data structures, wherein the collaboration group is associated with a collaboration environment.