Data Analytics Leaders Modernization Solutions

Rocket Software enables enterprise-wide governance, visibility, and control across your full information estate - so trust, evidence, and accountability are built into every decision.

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Summary

How do CDOs and CDAOs deliver outcomes the C-suite can trust?

Today’s data estate extends far beyond systems of record to include analytics, models, reports, and governed content across platforms. Modernization efforts are put at risk when meaning, lineage, access, and policy aren’t operationalized, leading to prolonged KPI debates, inefficient governance, and uncontrolled copies and exceptions.

Rocket Software helps CDOs and CDAOs standardize a repeatable operating model for trust using solutions like Rocket^® DataEdge^™ and Rocket^® ContentEdge^™. This approach embeds governance, evidence, and control into everyday delivery so progress is provable, scalable, and defensible to the C-suite.

How Rocket helps across your data estate:

Trust is embedded by default so KPIs, reports, and models are defensible with proof, not explanation.

Consistent access and retention controls across data and content—so approvals scale and audit surprises disappear.

Modernize in place across legacy, mainframe, and content systems - without breaking performance or creating exception debt.

Connect data to the documents and approvals behind it—so decisions stay traceable and defensible over time.

Critical data and content can be replayed and restored so failures don’t become credibility events.

Standardized patterns replace one-off solutions so success scales without sprawl or rework.

Make trust the default operating model for your data estate

The mandate you’re facing

Your mandate isn’t more platforms or more pilots, it’s trusted outcomes, delivered at enterprise scale. As the data estate expands across analytics, models, reports, and distributed content, maintaining consistency becomes more complex. Without a unified approach, gaps in meaning, lineage, access, and policy lead to prolonged decision cycles, fragmented governance, and increased exposure to risk.

What it takes to move forward

In an AI-driven, highly regulated environment, trust must be built into how information is accessed, governed, and evidenced from end-to-end. That requires a standardized, repeatable operating model for the data estate - one that embeds trust, evidence, and control into everyday delivery so progress is provable, scalable, and defensible.

The challenges facing data and analytics leaders

94 ^%

of businesses say their data is not trustworthy enough for decision-making

62 ^%

of IT leaders struggle with hybrid data quality

76 ^%

of IT leaders cite access and contextual data as the biggest blocker

Expertise

Modernization solutions for key issues facing CDOs/CDAOs

Data trust

Build trust, confidence, and defensibility in enterprise data

When KPIs don’t reconcile and definitions drift, trust erodes at the C-suite—and proving results becomes reactive and costly.

Rocket makes trust provable by design. Ownership, lineage, access evidence, and recoverability are embedded into how data is delivered and accessed so KPIs, reports, and models can be defended with proof, not explanation, at enterprise scale.

Featured data trust products

Explore Rocket Software’s suite of products designed to deliver audit-ready data, transparent lineage, and defensible enterprise KPIs.

Business context, lineage, impact analysis, and audit ready evidence.

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Standardized data capture, delivery, and restart/replay for reproducibility.

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In-place content governance, records management, legal hold, and access control.

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Data governance

Scale governance through embedded policy enforcement

Policies exist, but enforcement and evidence are inconsistent—driving exceptions, slowing delivery, and turning audits into fire drills.

Rocket operationalizes governance instead of documenting it. Policies are enforced consistently across data and content, producing continuous evidence and fewer exceptions—so governance accelerates delivery rather than blocking it.

Featured data governance products

Explore Rocket Software’s suite of products designed to operationalize governance with consistent enforcement and continuous compliance evidence.

In-place content governance, records management, legal hold, and access control.

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Policy definition, classification, lineage, and governance evidence.

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Standardized data capture, delivery, and restart/replay for reproducibility.

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Data integration

Reduce fragmentation, cost, and operational friction across data ecosystems

Data and content spread across platforms create duplicated pipelines, tool sprawl, and rising KTLO that drains delivery capacity.

Rocket standardizes how data is accessed and delivered across fragmented environments. Reusable patterns replace one-off pipelines—cutting duplication, reducing tool sprawl, and improving delivery economics.

Featured data integration products

Explore Rocket Software’s suite of products designed to reduce fragmentation, eliminate duplication, and simplify data access across environments.

Standardized integration and orchestration patterns.

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Capture once, reuse broadly with high-fidelity CDC,

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Governed, in place access to reduce replication.

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Modernization & resilience

Embed resilience into modernization and reduce exposure

Critical data and content lack repeatable recovery proof, increasing risk as modernization accelerates.

Rocket embeds resilience into modernization. Coexistence patterns protect systems of record while delivering governed access and recovery confidence—so progress doesn’t come at the expense of continuity or control.

Featured modernization and resilience products

Explore Rocket Software’s suite of products designed to embed recovery, continuity, and control into hybrid modernization initiatives.

Restart/replay, reconciliation, and defined RPO/RTO patterns.

Learn about RDRS

Low‑risk, in‑place access during transition.

Learn about Rocket Virtualization

Availability, retention, and governed access for critical content.

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proven results

What do analysts and customers say about Rocket Software’s data solutions?

Al's promise of faster decisions and better experiences depends on unlocking insights from unstructured content without compromising compliance. Rocket Software's ContentEdge solution is an example of embracing what comes next, by enabling governed, in-place access to sensitive information and bridging the gap between content and analytics. This approach helps organizations accelerate productivity and deliver measurable business impact while maintaining trust and control.

Amy Machado Senior Research Manager Content and Knowledge Discovery Strategies, IDC

Rocket Software allowed us to bridge proven mainframe technologies with modern IT systems. We can seamlessly support ongoing modernization projects and react faster with fresh, up-to-date data.”

Michael Tores Mainframe Systems Engineer SDK Insurance

Understanding and harnessing all enterprise data is critical to enable complete and actionable insights on customer needs, market trends, and operational effectiveness, But integrating data from core transactional, distributed, and cloud sources into a single, widely accessible repository is still a huge challenge. Rocket's DataEdge vision and roadmap connects core transactional systems with cloud and distributed environments to deliver seamless, high-quality data access and governance across the enterprise.

Stewart Bond Vice President Data Intelligence and Integration Software, IDC

From the perspective of a financial institution, obtaining insights from operational information is important. ContentEdge enables us to locate information, unlock intelligence, and drive efficiencies from critical documents.

Brian Kelley Enterprise Architect, AgFirst Farm Credit Bank

Mobius^®

Kawasaki: Preserving Decades of Critical Data With Rocket^® Mobius^®

Data Intelligence

Groupe Pasteur Mutualité: Data Governance with Rocket^® Data Intelligence

Data Intelligence

Financial Firm: Metadata Management Success with Rocket^® Data Intelligence

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Insights

What are the latest data insights and trends?

Insight

Discover five practical ways data leaders are building trust, unifying data and content, enhancing governance, and moving AI from pilots to production.

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insights

To gain deeper insight into their priorities and concerns during modernization, Rocket Software surveyed global IT leaders to reveal the current challenges enterprises face.

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Insight

The role of data management today isn’t to just accumulate and store data, but to see it, trust it, and extract maximum value for business advantage regardless of where it lives.

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Frequently asked questions

Rocket DataEdge data intelligence certifies business definitions and traces end-to-end lineage and access so every output carries provenance and proof. DataEdge data replication and synchronization adds reconciliation plus restart/replay to rederive results. ContentEdge (formerly Mobius) builds trust in content and data by providing end-to-end transparency, traceability, and governance so organizations can confidently understand what data is used, how it’s transformed, and where it’s deployed—at scale and with compliance.

DataEdge delivers low impact CDC from IBM z/OS and i and other legacy sources, while providing governed in-place reads during transition. Coexistence patterns support bidirectional sync, selective resync, and rollback for safe cutover. Capture once and fan out to targets with defined RPO/RTO and periodic drills, delivering first feeds in 30–90 days.

Regulated enterprises use AI on unstructured data by applying governed, in-place GenAI access that lets teams query sensitive repositories without moving data or weakening compliance controls. This allows organizations to get instant, compliant answers from contracts, claims, and enterprise documents while preserving security and governance.

Implement policy as code—masking, redaction, and attribute-based access—consistently across replication, virtualization, and content controls follow the data. Reuse enterprise identity and approvals, producing continuous audit ready evidence and fewer exceptions. The result is faster approvals, lower policy drift, and predictable compliance.

Standardize on DataEdge for structured data catalog, lineage, evidence, and capture/sync/virtualized access. Standardize on ContentEdge for in place content governance and automation. Teams subscribe to governed change streams and views instead of cloning data. Expect fewer duplicate pipelines, lower KTLO, and higher throughput of approved data products.

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CDO and CDAO Solutions to Deliver a Data Estate the C-Suite Trusts

How do CDOs and CDAOs deliver outcomes the C-suite can trust?

How Rocket helps across your data estate: