Global Data Intelligence with Lightning IQ
Lightning IQ makes the impossible, possible, with its revolutionary design and performance - capable of transforming your organization's data ecosystem from barely contained chaos to high-quality intelligence.
Fast Changes Everything
From data chaos to data quality - at Lightning speed.
In today’s data-driven world, organizations are inundated with information - but few truly harness its full potential. The journey from scattered, chaotic unstructured data stores to a unified, intelligent data ecosystem is both critical and transformative.
This maturity model outlines five distinct stages that organizations typically progress through as they evolve their data capabilities.
Escape the dark with Lightning IQ.
Data is siloed, unstructured, and unmanaged. There’s little to no visibility, governance, or security. Teams struggle to find or trust data.
Lightning scan to the rescue.
Lightning IQ begins by scanning unstructured repositories (e.g., shared drives, email archives) to identify data sprawl. It flags redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data and surfaces unknown data risks. Kick-off your journey with the basics:
- Start with Discovery: Deploy Lightning IQ to scan all data repositories - structured and unstructured - to identify where data lives and what types exist.
- Prioritize High-Risk Areas: Focus first on departments or systems with the most sensitive or least governed data (e.g., legal, HR, marketing).
- Establish a Baseline: Use Lightning IQ’s indexing and metadata tagging to create an initial inventory of data assets.
Time-required: 1 week.
Scan, classify, take action.
Initial efforts to inventory and classify data. Some policies and tools are introduced, but coverage is partial and inconsistent.
Lightning remediation begins.
The platform indexes discovered data, applies metadata tagging, and begins basic classification. It helps teams understand what data exists, where it resides, and who has access. Keep your team small, and move fast:
- Define Classification Policies: Work with stakeholders to define data categories (e.g., PII, confidential, public) and apply them using Lightning IQ’s auto-classification engine.
- Implement Access Controls: Use insights from Lightning IQ to restrict access to sensitive data and enforce least-privilege principles.
- Begin Compliance Mapping: Align data handling with regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) using Lightning IQ’s compliance modules
Time Required: 1-3 weeks depending on your team.
You are now in the driver's seat.
Data is increasingly structured and governed. Classification, access controls, and compliance measures are applied more broadly.
Proactive replaces reactive.
Lightning IQ enforces policy-based controls: auto-classification, retention tagging, and access governance. It integrates with compliance frameworks and supports defensible deletion.
- Integrate Across Systems: Connect Lightning IQ with CRM, ERP, and collaboration platforms to unify data visibility.
- Automate Workflows: Set up automated alerts and remediation actions for policy violations or unusual data activity.
- Enable Real-Time Dashboards: Use Lightning IQ’s analytics to monitor data flows, risk exposure, and usage patterns.
Time required: 1 week for LIQ configuration.
When real-time becomes a real thing.
Data is integrated across systems. Real-time monitoring, automated classification, and advanced analytics begin to drive decision-making.
Data is refined, visible and secure.
Real-time dashboards and analytics provide insights into data usage, risk exposure, and compliance posture. Lightning IQ automates remediation workflows and supports cross-platform data orchestration.
- Expand Globally: Extend Lightning IQ’s scanning and classification to all regions and cloud environments.
- Leverage AI & Predictive Analytics: Use built-in intelligence to detect anomalies, forecast risks, and recommend actions.
- Institutionalize Data Governance: Establish a data governance council and embed Lightning IQ insights into strategic decision-making.
Time required: Varies by size of organization and numbers of data sources.
More than a finish line - a new beginning.
You've achieved global data intelligence - a state where data is continuously scanned, classified, secured, and made available in real time to drive strategic decisions across the enterprise. What next?
Expand, innovate, grow.
Lightning IQ delivers a unified, real-time view of all scanned, classified, and secured data across the enterprise. Your organization can now focus its resources on innovation and growth across all of your data driven projects - from AI initiatives to new products and services for new markets.
Built for today and the future.
Lightning IQ was purpose-built to tackle the rapidly evolving petabyte-sized data challenges found in every organization. From AI readiness to cyber security assessments to PII identification - only Lightning IQ can give you real-time insights into your petabyte world.
Fast changes everything.
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