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5 Essential Business
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Contents
Executive Summary 3
- Value Opportunity One: Improved Productivity
of Data Governance Team 5
- Value Opportunity Two: Reduced Effort by Data Consumers
Searching for and Interpreting Business Data 6
- Value Opportunity Three: Reduced Effort by Data Specialists
Responding to Routine Requests and Emergency Escalations 7
- Value Opportunity Four: Faster Time to Value for
Data-Intensive Acquisitions and Projects 8
- Value Opportunity Five: Reduced Expected Exposure
from Compliance or Breach Event 9

A Representative BVA 10

Cash Flow 13

Appendix 16

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Executive Summary
Organizations everywhere generate business-critical data. This data
is a crucial asset that can help the organization achieve its objectives.
Sometimes — as with customer, supplier, partner and employee data
— it’s internally generated operational data. In other situations, it may be
data about the organization’s industry, competitors, regulators and financial
environment. The data may have been acquired at great cost and effort.
Regardless of its source and application, this data can provide critical insight
for driving successful business outcomes.

It’s a missed opportunity when the organization is not able to leverage its
data. This may happen for a number of reasons. Data may be lost, misused,
unknown or not perceived as valuable to data consumers. There are times
when the organization cannot trust the data because it is inaccurate
or incomplete. Not being able to leverage data is an ongoing drain on
operational efficiency and reduces productivity. It represents no less of a
waste than when any other assets might be lost, forgotten, poorly leveraged,
abused or stolen.

There is a way to empower organizations to get the most from their high-
value and hard-to-acquire data assets. Informatica Cloud Data Governance
and Catalog is a cloud-native solution designed to enable data consumers to
find, understand, trust and access their data. It helps create the foundation
of data intelligence that modern organizations need to make smarter, more
effective data-led decisions that drive successful business goals.

While the business improvement opportunities of effective data governance

are significant, they are not always obvious. This means that chief data
officers, enterprise architects and other data leaders must persuasively
communicate the value of those opportunities in language that business
stakeholders use and understand. This paper details five value opportunities
of effective data governance based on business value assessments (BVAs)
Informatica has done with clients.

In this paper, we’ll illustrate how a representative organization — a property

and casualty insurance provider — would benefit from improved data
governance practices. We will also explore expected financial returns for
other enterprises.

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Yearly CDGC Value Opportunity (Medium Scenario)

Cumulative Value Opportunity $7,310,820

Faster Time to Value for Data-Intensive

Acquistions and Projects $2,520,000

Reduced Expected Exposure from

Compliance or Breach Event $2,100,000

Reduced Effort by Data Consumers

Searching for and Interpreting Business Data $1,552,500

Improved Productivity of Data

Governance Team $594,000

Reduced Effort by Data Specialists Responding to

Requests and Emergency Data Issues. $544,320

In the sections that follow, we will provide additional details regarding the
assumptions, data and calculations used to quantify the business value
for each category as depicted in the chart above. We’ll note here that we
use three scenarios — low, medium and high — to estimate the ranges of
potential outcomes.

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Value Opportunity One:

Improved Productivity of Data
Governance Team
Data governance professionals are responsible for documenting and
controlling data assets. They can use manual tools such as Excel
spreadsheets and SharePoint sites, but these tools are not transparent,
operate within silos and do not scale very well. This not only impacts their
productivity and efficiency, but also affects their ability to quickly and
consistently answer critical questions for the business.

Improved Productivity of Data Governance Team

The governance team manages and controls the organization’s data assets. They’re currently using a
variety of manual solutions to document and control data assets.

As these tools are not built to support data governance, they do not offer helpful capabilities such as:

• Enterprise-level search across all assets on-premises and in the cloud

• Lineage tracking into data movement and transformation
• Data provisioning
• AI-powered metadata management
• Integrated data quality functions
• Business glossary and data dictionary maintenance
A solution that offered these capabilities would reduce the amount of time that data management
professionals would spend on critical governance tasks.

Low Medium High Notes

Total number of data
12 Per HR reports
governance professionals

Estimate by data
Avg. % of time engaged 90% governance leadership
management team

Total FTE level of effort 10.80 Calculation

Benchmark based on
Expected reduction of level
40% 50% 60% past BVA
of effort
engagements

FTEs saved / year for other

4.3 5.4 6.5 Calculation
value-added work

Average annual fully

burdened compensation of $110,000 Per HR report
impacted team members

Annual associated value $475,200 $594,000 $712,800 Calculation

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Value Opportunity Two: Reduced Effort

by Data Consumers Searching for and
Interpreting Business Data
Business users become frustrated by the amount of time they must spend
just getting the qualified data they need. Then they need more time so they
can make sense of it. In many organizations, the process is slow and lacks
transparency. Users often request data by submitting a ticket and must wait
an indefinite amount of time to get the data. Once they have the data, they
must assess whether the data is relevant and trustworthy for their purposes
and determine whether they will need additional help interpreting the data.

A solution that offers enterprise-level search, self-service tools and

automated mechanisms to provide context to data would allow users
to take appropriate, informed and immediate action.

Reduced Effort by Data Consumers Searching for and Interpreting Business Data

For business users, the mere act of finding data may take an inordinate number of wasted cycles.
Enabling enterprise data discovery through a Google-like search function that discovers data assets
located on-premises or in the cloud — and providing self-service data provisioning functionality to avoid
bottlenecks — would address much of this opportunity cost.

Even once users find the data, they can find it challenging to understand the context of that data.
What does it mean? Can I trust the source of the data? Is the data considered relevant for my purposes?

Automated tools such as a collaborative business glossary would provide that context. A visualization
of data lineage would help users gain a complete understanding of what the data signifies through its
movement and transformation.
The chart below illustrates how these capabilities would allow users to spend less time finding and
interpreting the data assets, and more time acting upon relevant information to achieve their
business goals.

Low Medium High Notes

Number of employees 11,500 Per annual report

% of personnel in data- Estimate by

5.0%
intensive roles engagement sponsors

Number of affected
575 Calculation
personnel

Avg. % of time spent

Estimate by
searching for and looking 5%
engagement sponsors
for data context

Total FTE effort by

consumers searching for and
28.75 Calculation
understanding context of
business data
Benchmark based on
Time freed by solutions
50% 60% 70% past BVA
under consideration
engagements
FTEs freed for other value-
14.4 17.3 20.1 Calculation
added work

Average annual fully

burdened compensation of $90,000 Per HR report
impacted team members

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Annual associated value $1,293,750 $1,552,500 $1,811,250 Calculation
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Value Opportunity Three: Reduced Effort

by Data Specialists Responding to Routine
Requests and Emergency Escalations
As we saw in the previous value opportunity, data consumers and business
users often waste significant time and effort acquiring relevant and
trustworthy data. We can also expect that IT personnel waste time and
effort when provisioning data for multiple (and sometimes redundant)
requests. They are also likely to spend cycles on explaining data to those
business users. These challenges can be addressed with an automated,
self-service solution.

Reduced Effort by Data Specialists Responding to Routine

Requests and Emergency Escalations

An automated, self-service solution should reduce the volume of requests for IT personnel.

For one, the business self-service capabilities can help diminish the frequency of tickets, including
routine requests to access data.

Second, improved data context and lineage insights will minimize user requests for interpretation,
explanation and clarification.

Third, improved data lineage and impact analysis should reduce the frequency of cases where changes
to the data have unexpected and undesired results that question its trustworthiness.

By reducing the volume of requests and support tickets, we expect that data specialists will be able to
focus more on value-added activities.

Low Medium High Notes

Avg. number of data
requests made by business 900 Per ServiceNow report
per month

Per assessment of
Expected reduction in
30% 40% 50% historical IT
requests ticketing trends

Avoided data requests

3,240 4,320 5,400 Calculation
per year

Average hours required /

2.0 Estimate by IT
request

Total hours saved / year 6,480 8,640 10,800 Calculation

Average hourly
compensation of $63.00 Per HR reports
affected personnel

Annual associated value $408,240 $544,320 $680,400 Calculation

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Value Opportunity Four: Faster Time to Value

for Data-Intensive Acquisitions and Projects
Having access to data that is reliable, trustworthy and complete is critical to
successfully execute both small and large-scale projects.

For many organizations, the time required to inventory, assess and

standardize data can significantly extend a project’s timeline, and
compromise their ability to successfully execute the project. In the best
case, it only adds to the delay before the company realizes a return on its
investment. And in the worst case, the organization never fully realizes the
value of the project because the data never rises to the level of minimum
reliability and quality.

Automating the process of managing data that is critical to successful

project conclusion accelerates time to value and even optimizes the value
to be realized. Solutions that are cloud-native offer added agility and speed
time to value. With no deployment or infrastructure to manage, you can get
started and drive value quickly.

Faster Time to Value for Data-Intensive Acquisitions and Projects

We expect that the organization will continue to pursue its strategy of acquiring promising businesses
in related markets and engaging in other data-intensive initiatives. In previous initiatives, projects were
executed slower than desired and forecasted. These delays were largely due to difficulties with data-
related tasks, such as finding data assets across the enterprise, scanning associated metadata, profiling
assets, understanding their lineage and cleansing and standardizing data.

These delays in execution can be addressed with a single, integrated solution specifically designed for
efficiency with metadata connectivity that integrates across the industry’s widest range of data sources.

With this solution, the organization should expect a faster time to value in data-intensive projects,
realizing value in production when projects might otherwise still be in testing.

Low Medium High Notes

Avg. number of data-
14 Estimate by PMO
intensive events / year

Average months required Per project planning

12
/ project report

Expected reduction in
20% 30% 40% Projection by PRO
average project timeline

Additional months of
33.60 50.40 67.20 Calculation
business value created

Average business value /

$50,000 Estimate by PMO
initiative / month

Annual associated value $1,680,000 $2,520,000 $3,360,000 Calculation

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Value Opportunity Five: Reduced Expected

Exposure from Compliance or Breach Event
In many enterprises, data security breaches and other privacy abuses or
policy noncompliance events represent a constant risk. There are a variety
of practices and controls that organizations should apply to minimize the
associated risk exposure. However, these practices may not be as effective
for organizations with disparate, sometimes unknown data assets spread
across a range of repositories. This is particularly true with data assets
acquired through acquisition.

With tools that enhance the organization’s ability to find critically sensitive
data, such as PII, IP, and more in official and unofficial sources, they would be
better equipped to control data assets for responsible use. This can
help avoid unauthorized internal and outside personnel from acquiring,
misusing and / or abusing the assets and mitigate the risk of a breach of
sensitive data.

Reduced Expected Exposure from Compliance or Breach Event

As with other major insurance providers, there have been several successful attempts at acquiring
customer data. We expect that a further breach or other security-compromising incident would be
devastating to the company’s reputation and would likely be accompanied by a significant financial cost.

With a solution that provides automated data classification capabilities along with enterprise-scale
search, the organization can enhance their ability to find, inventory and tag sensitive data where it
resides. Additional controls and access rules to data would further limit the risk that access is granted to
unauthorized personnel.

This benefit estimates the value of reducing the risk of a data security breach event (and of the costs
associated with each event), thereby reducing expected damages to be assessed in a given year.

Low Medium High Notes

Expected number of
2.0 Per InfoSec
compliance events per year

Average number of records Average activity per

10,000
compromised per event InfoSec

Expected number of records

20,000 Calculation
compromised per year

Reduction in risk with Estimate per internal

20% 35% 50%
solutions in scope assessment

Extra records protected

4,000 7,000 10,000 Calculation
per year

Average cost
Expected cost /
$300 experienced in
breached record
past events

Annual associated value $1,200,000 $2,100,000 $3,000,000 Calculation

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A Representative BVA
Benefit calculations like the ones above may be leveraged in the construction
of a business value assessment (BVA). A business value assessment is
a financial model built by a project manager or analyst to help make an
informed decision as to whether a proposed investment in a more reliable,
automated solution for data management and governance is in the best
financial interest of the organization’s owners and other stakeholders.

A BVA often takes the form of a return on investment (ROI) analysis. It may
be also known as a business case or a cost-benefit analysis (CBA). So that
there’s no confusion: our practice is to use the terms BVA, business case,
CBA and ROI interchangeably.

To illustrate how we construct a BVA, we consider a hypothetical

representative organization evaluating an investment in Informatica Cloud
Data Governance and Catalog. This BVA for the representative company,
Brooks-Wellesley Insurance Group (BWIG), leverages our experience
building actual BVAs on behalf of hundreds of actual organizations over the
past ten years.

In this example, BWIG began in the nineteenth century as a regional insurer

offering commercial marine insurance to boatyards and shipping concerns
across the U.S. northeast and mid-Atlantic. The organization was founded in
Portland, Maine, and gradually began doing business across the East Coast
and Great Lakes region. As time passed, it broadened its scope to write and
service a wide range of property and casualty policies.

BWIG has grown rapidly and has acquired several smaller competitors
throughout North America and Europe. In the most recent year, BWIG wrote
$2 billion in premiums.

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As BWIG has grown, IT leadership has called attention to their belief that
access to, and control of, its data assets are significant pain points for
the organization. BWIG operates in an environment where customers
have coverage options from a range of local and national competitors.
And with tight margins across the industry, there isn’t much room to win
business through aggressive pricing. To acquire and retain customers,
the organization hopes to leverage its long history and awareness of the
competitive environment to deploy its resources to the greatest effect.
That insight requires business leaders and internal data consumers to have
access to a variety of trusted data sources. Company leadership expects
that data governance challenges are preventing the organization from
achieving its full potential.

Among the many issues relating to data are:

• A lack of understanding of where data resides across on-premises

and online repositories

• The use of manual tools by IT to control and provision data

• A lack of understanding of where data comes from, its context

and its meaning

• Long lead times to find and provision data, which often results in
access to data being granted long after the window has closed for the
business opportunity

• Increased risk exposure to intentional and unintentional data breaches

from both internal and external actors

• Cloud initiatives demanding a range of cloud capabilities

and connectivity

• Increasing costs to meet audit and reporting regulatory requirements

• A lack of confidence by executive staff in reporting trustworthiness

Few at BWIG would argue that these represented real challenges to the
business, but it was unclear whether the costs of addressing these issues
would justify the cost of a solution. Isaac Schneiderman, the company’s
longstanding CIO, suspected that a solution like Informatica Data
Governance and Catalog would solve many of the issues challenging
the organization.

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Isaac turned to the organization’s project management team to conduct a

business value assessment to apply financial scrutiny before committing to a
technical evaluation. Sophie Randolph, a senior manager in that organization,
agreed to take on the project.

Sophie engaged in discussions with cross-functional solution stakeholder

leaders in several departments — IT, finance, procurement, vendor
management, marketing and sales, customer success, merchandising,
logistics and others. In those meetings, Sophie learned of several critical
weaknesses as well as opportunities for improvement as they related to
current practices in managing the insurer’s product data.

Based on those conversations and leveraging guidance from Informatica,

Sophie constructed five financial benefits, or use cases, as the basis of those
opportunities. We depict these benefits earlier in this paper.

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Cash Flow
Leveraging the five quantified benefits, Sophie built three projected cash
flows, one for each of the benefit scenarios (low, medium and high). For
the first year, she eliminated the realization of value during an expected
four-month deployment and adoption period. Sophie has not yet compiled
expected costs from internal resources and solution vendors. For now, she
has a benefit-only analysis. Results follow:

Low Scenario
Projected Benefits Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Total
Value Opportunity #1:
Improved Productivity of $316,800 $475,200 $475,200 $475,200 $475,200 $2,217,600
Data Governance Team

Value Opportunity #2:

Reduced Effort by Data
Consumers Searching $862,500 $1,293,750 $1,293,750 $1,293,750 $1,293,750 $6,037,500
for and Interpreting
Business Data

Value Opportunity #3:

Reduced Effort by Data
Specialists Responding to $272,160 $408,240 $408,240 $408,240 $408,240 $1,905,120
Requests and Emergency
Data Issues

Value Opportunity #4:

Faster Time to Value for
$1,120,000 $1,680,000 $1,680,000 $1,680,000 $1,680,000 $7,840,000
Data-Intensive Acquisitions
and Projects

Value Opportunity #5:

Reduced Expected Exposure
$800,000 $1,200,000 $1,200,000 $1,200,000 $1,200,000 $5,600,000
from Compliance or
Breach Event

Total Benefits $3,371,460 $5,057,190 $5,057,190 $5,057,190 $5,057,190 $23,600,220

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Medium Scenario
Projected Benefits Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Total
Value Opportunity #1:
Improved Productivity of $396,000 $594,000 $594,000 $594,000 $594,000 $2,772,000
Data Governance Team

Value Opportunity #2:

Reduced Effort by Data
Consumers Searching $1,035,000 $1,552,500 $1,552,500 $1,552,500 $1,552,500 $7,245,000
for and Interpreting
Business Data

Value Opportunity #3:

Reduced Effort by Data
Specialists Responding to $362,880 $544,320 $544,320 $544,320 $544,320 $2,540,160
Requests and Emergency
Data Issues

Value Opportunity #4:

Faster Time to Value
$1,680,000 $2,520,000 $2,520,000 $2,520,000 $2,520,000 $11,760,000
for Data-Intensive
Acquisitions and Projects

Value Opportunity #5:

Reduced Expected
Exposure from $1,400,000 $2,100,000 $2,100,000 $2,100,000 $2,100,000 $9,800,000
Compliance or
Breach Event

Total Benefits $4,873,880 $7,310,820 $7,310,820 $7,310,820 $7,310,820 $34,117,160

High Scenario
Projected Benefits Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Total
Value Opportunity #1:
Improved Productivity of $475,200 $712,800 $712,800 $712,800 $712,800 $3,326,400
Data Governance Team

Value Opportunity #2:

Reduced Effort by Data
Consumers Searching $1,207,500 $1,811,250 $1,811,250 $1,811,250 $1,811,250 $8,452,500
for and Interpreting
Business Data

Value Opportunity #3:

Reduced Effort by Data
Specialists Responding to $453,600 $680,400 $680,400 $680,400 $680,400 $3,175,200
Requests and Emergency
Data Issues

Value Opportunity #4:

Faster Time to Value
$2,240,000 $3,360,000 $3,360,000 $3,360,000 $3,360,000 $15,680,000
for Data-Intensive
Acquisitions and Projects

Value Opportunity #5:

Reduced Expected
Exposure from $2,000,000 $3,000,000 $3,000,000 $3,000,000 $3,000,000 $14,000,000
Compliance or
Breach Event

Total Benefits $6,376,300 $9,564,450 $9,564,450 $9,564,450 $9,564,450 $44,634,100

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Benefit Range Across Scenarios

$50

$40
Millions

$30

$20

$10

Project Year Year Year Year Year

Initiation One Two Three Four Five

Five-Year Aggregate Value Across Scenarios

$60
Value Opportunity 5
Reduced Expected Exposure from
$50 Compliance or Breach Event

Value Opportunity 4
Faster Time to Value for Data-Intensive
$40
Acquistions and Projects
Millions

Value Opportunity 3
$30 Reduced Effort by Data Specialists
Responding to Requests and
Emergency Escalation
$20
Value Opportunity 2
Reduced Effort by Data Consumers
Searching for and Interpreting
$10 Business Data

Value Opportunity 1
Improved Productivity of Data
Governance Team
Low Medium High

Demonstrating Results

An initial review of the five expected benefits included in the BVA resulted
in a post-implementation annual value between $5.1 million (low) and $9.6
million (high). If the costs of adopting Informatica Cloud Data Governance
and Catalog, inclusive of software subscription, professional services,
training and related costs, are lower than those of projected benefits, then
the investment would likely be accretive.

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Appendix
A. BVA Best Practices

Organizations often encounter opportunities to earn a potential benefit in the

future after committing funds today. Often these opportunities relate to the
potential acquisition of a technology. It can be difficult to determine whether
to move forward or to stay put. How can the organization evaluate the
technology investment opportunity in an analytical, dispassionate way and
increase the likelihood of making the right decision?

BVAs are routinely employed by companies that want to make informed

decisions about the deployment of their financial resources, particularly in
cash-constrained environments. Given that an enterprise likely cannot
fund every project under consideration, a BVA is a tool to aid in rational
decision making on investments of sufficient magnitude.

Over the course of producing several hundred BVAs at Informatica, we

have compiled several best practices that we recommend to organizations
considering a technology acquisition:

Best Practice #1: Be conservative in all projections and assumptions

The ethos of being conservative means making projections that represent

the highest likely costs and lowest likely benefits. A BVA that produces
impressive financial metrics despite a conservative mindset can be very
persuasive. A BVA that relies on aggressive assumptions is analytically
dubious and unlikely to withstand scrutiny. Aggressive projections undermine
the credibility of the analyst; there is no easier way for a financial gatekeeper
to reject a cost-benefit analysis than to declare that the projections are
aggressive.

Best Practice #2: Emphasize transparency in all values and calculations

If a reviewer evaluating a BVA cannot easily ascertain how an assumption is

determined, or how a calculation is derived, then the reviewer may become
concerned that an insufficiently conservative approach has been embraced.
Even if the reviewer does not harbor this suspicion, an opaque analysis
risks muddying “the story” of the project. The best practice is to generously
annotate the sources, assumptions and calculations which underlie
a cost-benefit analysis.

Because of its transparency, Excel is typically a better format than a

“black box” online calculator.

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Best Practice #3: Follow Up and Measure Post-Implementation Results

A commonly overlooked component of the business case analysis process

is to track actual project outcomes and financial impact. That this is rarely
accomplished is understandable; in a busy environment, the analyst often
moves to the next project assessment without tracking the outcome of
previously approved projects.

This is unfortunate: by tracking actual results, analysts can measure the

accuracy of initial projections. The analyst may change his or her BVA
methodology and practices as a result of those findings. The result
will be the production of BVAs that are more meaningful and reliable than
would have otherwise been the case.

Best Practice #4: Use Scenarios to Reflect Ranges of Potential Outcomes

Even if you have perfect clarity about the current state, and even if you have
relevant post-implementation results that you can reference, it is rare that
you can predict the future with absolute precision. It is far more credible (and
honest) to admit that inherent uncertainty when projecting the future state
across a range of potential scenarios.

Our practice is to show a future state across three potential scenarios: low,
medium and high. It’s been our experience that reviewers of BVAs appreciate
the opportunity to review a complete perspective of potential outcomes.

B. Value Grid for Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog

The representative BVA that we depict in this paper describes the process of
building a business case for an insurance provider considering Cloud Data
Governance and Catalog.

The benefits we illustrated may or may not be consistent with the ones
that your organization might experience or that is of greatest value to
your organization. At Informatica, we have seen this diversity of value
opportunities across the BVAs we’ve conducted over the last ten years;
there is a very broad range of potential impacts resulting from better data
management practices.

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The value grid below depicts selected benefits for organizations deploying
Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog across a range of scale:

Organization Revenue Productivity Compliance and

Cost Controls
Scale Enhancements Impacts Other Impacts
Up to $1B • Reduced costs • Improved reporting • Reduced • Improved ability
Organizations associated leads to improved IT effort to identify sensitive
with maintaining focus on top provisioning data across
duplicate customers data organization
repositories
• Reduced frequency • Reduced effort • Improved
• Avoided or of revenue- cleansing data awareness of total
reduced cost impacting data carbon footprint
of IT ticketing events and other
systems environmental
impacts

$1B-10B • Improved ability • Improved analytics • Reduced • Improved

Organizations to locate and awareness of effort managing consistency with
sources of emerging trends metadata organizational
spend cloud-first
• Improved • Faster training
strategies
• Reduced costs forecasting, to ensure
associated leading to better competency of • Reduced risk of
with employee capital allocation new staff a data security
attrition breach

$10+B • Improved spend • Faster integration • Improved • Reduced costs

Organizations transparency of acquired business associated
organizations / self-service with compliance
• Reduced data
M&A activity initiatives
migration- • Reduced effort
related costs • Improved data tracing data • Reduced cost and
quality leads to lineage effort spent
better customer securing and
service and protecting data
retention

State/Local • Reduced • Improved • Reduced effort • Improved

& Higher Ed/ IT incident collections through maintaining futureproofing
Public Sector management improved analytics business against unexpected
spend through / awareness of glossary technical
data impact economic activity requirements
• Reduced effort
analysis required by citizens
explaining
• Reduced cyber data context to • Improved likelihood
insurance costs consumers to meet legislated
data security
requirements

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C. Overview of Cloud Data Governance and Catalog

Informatica® Cloud Data Governance and Catalog is a cloud-native solution

that enables enterprises of all size and types to find, understand, trust
and access their data assets. It brings together data governance, data
cataloging and data quality capabilities as services on the Informatica Data
Management Cloud™ (IDMC) into a single, cloud-native tool for automating
data intelligence insights for data-driven decision-making. Organizations
deploying Cloud Data Governance and Catalog find they can support a wide
range of business initiatives that rely on accurate, accessible and controlled
data assets while accelerating time to value.

Cloud Data Governance and Catalog is a multitenant SaaS solution, built

for organizations that want to maximize their investments by deriving value
from their vast data assets in the cloud.

The solution delivers predictive data intelligence — recommendation-

driven insights through automated data classification, data curation and
relationship and sensitive data discovery powered by CLAIRE® AI and ML and
broad and deep metadata connectivity — allowing organizations to quickly
drive business value from trusted data. Cloud Data Governance and Catalog
enables efficient self-service analytics and data governance by unifying
the capabilities of data discovery, lineage, profiling, business glossary
creation and stakeholder and policy management — as well as the ability to
document and manage AI models and their implementations.

Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog scans hybrid sources,

including cloud data lakes and warehouses, analytics/BI systems, databases,
ETL tools and other enterprise systems to provide a unified view of data
across a broad range of data landscapes. Since the solution is cloud native,
infrastructure is available almost immediately and at the scale needed by
the organization.

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D. Product Specifications

Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog is a comprehensive data

governance solution expressly designed to help organizations leverage their
critical data assets for business value, while ensuring responsible use of
those data assets.

Among the capabilities of Cloud Data Governance and Catalog that enable
organizations to realize value are:

• AI-powered CLAIRE engine to drive insights from metadata and

automate metadata management

• Data lineage and impact analysis to track data origin in a

business-friendly context and UI

• AI model governance to provide organizational transparency

into data models

• Integrated data quality delivers data profiling statistics, rules

and scorecards

• Collaboration and social curation to easily find the most relevant

and trusted data

• Powerful natural language-like search and browsing capabilities

• Goal-oriented workflows providing summarized information and drill

downs to explore details as needed

• Automated workflows to ensure that stakeholders are creating and

modifying assets in compliance with data governance principles
within the organization.

This white paper was jointly written by Informatica and Blue Mesa
Consulting, LLC, a third-party provider of analytical services for the
technology industry. It depicts anticipated future benefits for an imaginary
organization but does not guarantee specific results that may be realized
in a particular environment. Your actual costs and benefits may vary.
Informatica and Blue Mesa Consulting make no representations that
results of any magnitude will be achieved by an organization acquiring
Informatica products.

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