As organizations are confronted with growing datasets leveraged by multiple silos, managing the complexity of data requirements becomes increasingly important—and significantly more challenging. At a time when regulatory mandates, customer demands and budgetary pressures are only increasing, organizations need to derive value from high-quality data in a way that optimizes information analysis, improves transparency and drives decision-making.

Sapient Synapse is a centralized platform that helps organizations efficiently manage and capture data requirements and metadata using a series of highly visual, web-based tools. By enabling closer collaboration across organizational silos, Synapse offers a more effective way for many users to track, view and analyze data usage and understand how user actions affect other systems and processes:

› Sales, Trading & Marketing: Perform data discoveryactivities and understand the meaning of data within the context of a specific project

› Operations, Compliance & Risk: Track and visualize how data flows and is used throughout the organization

› Data, System & Business Analysts: Define datarequirements for a specific project via a shared platform

› Technology: Manage data requirements within DevOpsthrough a centralized platform with JIRA integration

Synapse helps organizations improve data governance, business processes and regulatory compliance management by leveraging custom-built tools and relevant content integration for specific areas of focus.

Through an intuitive user interface (UI), Synapse empowers any user to define data concepts and examine its relationships to simplify data management and analysis. Synapse’s off-the-shelf tools enable you to create, link and edit information to connect or establish its lineage, and explore where data elements are consumed and stored. It also offers advanced charting for more effective research, reporting and reconciliation.

Multiple teams of users can work together through the web UI to link and update datasets with complete audit and permission functionality, fostering greater collaboration and filling knowledge gaps between organizational silos.

MANAGE DATA RELATIONSHIPS

KEY CAPABILITIES

Sapient Synapse is a comprehensive platform with sophisticated tools to help address the following key data management disciplines:

› Information Mapping—Connect multiple datasets together through an intuitive UI

› Data Requirements—Simultaneously manage datarequirements during change programs

› Transparency & Lineage—Efficiently track, view andanalyze how data is used within your organization

› Metadata—Research and manage the meaning of data

› Impact Assessment—Understand how user actionsaffect other processes and systems

› Data Mapping—Perform data mappings across sourcesefficiently using visual tools

Functional architecture: The platform is based on

scalable cloud technologies and provides a variety of connectivity applications

to enable multiple users to simultaneously manage data requirements and metadata,

allowing for connections to specific standards, policies,

regulations and people across the organization.

Data Discovery Transparency Metadata Impact AssessmentData Standards

Secure Access: Secure web-based access to the application and the ability to run Synapse as a Virtual Private Computer within your existing environment

Data Services API: Hardened data services API and accompanying SDK to allow for easy integration with your current infrastructure

Scalable Technologies: Stores data securely using graph-based technologies, enabling scalability and efficient performance

Cloud Architecture: Default deployment on cloud technology for low-cost setup and support

Managed Service: Supported by application management services to ensure high availability

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Business UsersSales & Customer Services

TechnologyProgrammers

OperationsRisk & Compliance

AnalystsBusiness Analysts

Importer Utility Data Integration SDK Application Adapter

Metadata Harvesting Module

Content Correlation Module

Documents & Content Static Metadata Application Integration DevOps Tools Physical Infrastructure & Technology

Unstructured and Structured contentTools to manage work items as part of

an IT change program Technology Architectures (e.g.,

database, messaging and custom code) Vendor and ProprietaryAnalysis or Provided Content

Data Dictionaries Data Mappings Database API / Services Feeds

To evolve your data management capabilities, Synapse has a partnership program and “App Store” that allow you to build out your Synapse platform, adding functionality to meet your specific needs. These include but are not limited to:

Content Correlation—Quickly load unstructured content (e.g., PDF, Visio, text) into Sapient Synapse and correlate with the data requirements and metadata being managed

Data Governance—Leverage a best practice template to perform the data requirements aspects of a data governance program, from process, people, technology, policies, standards to data

Regulatory Requirements—Integrate the taxonomy of the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) and Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) to accelerate regulatory project analysis and transparency

Discover the Impact of Data› Integrate content with metadata and data requirements to

quickly investigate queries and improve customer service› Leverage powerful visualization tools to enable data

exploration across multiple data sources for greater insight, research and reporting

Enhance Compliance and Controls› Quickly access data lineage required by regulators to reduce

compliance risk› Accelerate regulatory programs by connecting its

relationship to people, process, controls and technology for efficient reconciliation and auditing

Minimize Cost› Lower infrastructure costs through a secure hosted

environment› Simultaneously manage multiple data requirements related

to the same concept on a single platform

KEY BENEFITS

See where your data originates, how it links to specific information

and where it is stored within your organization through an

interactive lineage chart.

Establish data relationships with expandable and collapsible features to visualize how your data interconnects with people, documents, regulations, systems and processes.

Create, manage and centralize your data requirements across multiple projects in one easy-to-use platform.

LEVERAGE ACCELERATORS

Interested in learning more? Contact synapse@sapient.com to schedule a demo or visit SapientSynapse.com to register for your free 30-day trial of Sapient Synapse.

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