A Single-Source Data Management Provider Bringing Order to Data Chaos: Congruity360

In today’s digital world, companies have access to more data than ever before. This data creates a basic foundation of intelligence for important business decisions. To ensure employees have the right data for decision-making, companies must invest in data management solutions that improve visibility, reliability, security, and scalability. Data classification is a crucial first step to employing effective data analysis at scale, which leads to important insights that add value to your customers and improve your bottom line.

Congruity360 is one such single-source data classification and governance solutions provider for enterprises and government organizations. The company unifies data management across the organization through innovative data classification and governance solutions that improve data quality and maximize technology investments. Its solutions keep enterprise data secure, healthy, and agile, exposing reliable data sets that empower businesses to make intelligent decisions. With a focus on cost savings, simplicity, and efficiency, Congruity360 introduces simple workflows, reduced storage footprints, and maximum productivity to every engagement.

Congruity360 is headquartered in Norwell, Massachusetts.

Brian Davidson (CEO) spoke exclusively to the CIO Bulletin. Below is an excerpt

Q. Tell us about the idea behind the foundation of Congruity360 and its brief history.

Congruity360 is a single-source data management solution provider bringing order to data chaos. Knowing the individual components of data management aren’t used in isolation, Congruity360 takes a holistic approach to managing enterprise data. Congruity360’s Classify360 product is a single-source data classification & governance solution delivering actionable data intelligence to empower strategic decisions around data reduction, compliance, and journey to the cloud. It strengthens data investments and enables smarter, quicker business decisions by rapidly identifying, normalizing, and classifying multi-petabyte enterprise data sets for collaborative review.

Q. How has the company transformed over the years?

Congruity360’s rich history spans three collective decades of data management and expertise across managed services, hardware & maintenance, data storage, and information governance. As technology progresses, Congruity360 has shifted from largely hardware-focused to a SaaS-based approach improving enterprise storage optimization.

Q. Please detail us about the suite of products Congruity360 offers to the clients.

The Classify360 product offers four key workflows

• Intelligent MigrationsTM – Removes compliance, regulatory, and data risk barriers to enable wider cloud adoption while magnifying cloud efficiencies and cost savings
• Risk Mitigation – Machine learning pinpoints risk and redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data to take defensible action
• Storage Optimization – Content-level data insights across the enterprise enable strategic storage decisions to optimize spend and keep your data secure
• Compliance – Ensure business & industry requirements are met with minimal human intervention utilizing ongoing, automated workflows

Q. Congruity has been acquiring several startups in the recent few years. How have the acquisitions helped the company grow?

With each acquisition that occurs, Congruity360 becomes a more well-rounded data management provider. Through these acquisitions, Congruity360 has broadened its workflows to expertly include migration solutions, discovery, cloud optimization, and more.

“Congruity360’s Classify360 product is a single-source data classification & governance solution delivering actionable data intelligence to empower strategic decisions around data reduction, compliance, and journey to the cloud.”

Q. How does Classify 360 help in strengthening data investments and making smarter business decisions?

Classify360 strengthens data investments and enables smarter, quicker business decisions by rapidly identifying, normalizing, and classifying multi-petabyte data sets for collaborative review. This process yields healthy, accurate, and effective data that is then fed into other data solutions, such as data loss prevention (DLP) software, enabling subsequent software solutions to produce the best outcome possible using the best data possible.

Q. Explicate the data migration and storage optimization services.

Classify360 supports a number of enterprise workflows, including data migration and storage optimization workflows. Layering Classify360 on top of a standard data migration removes compliance, regulatory, and data risk barriers – enabling wider cloud adoption while magnifying cloud efficiencies and cost savings. Classify360 also provides content-level data insights across the enterprise, supporting strategic storage decisions to optimize and keep enterprise data secure.

Q. How do you ensure regulatory compliance? 

Classify360 can be configured to address virtually any policy type. Classify360 can analyze and assess on a binary basis or via confidence scoring. For reporting, Classify360 can generate a report on virtually any information or data in the system. Classify360 has the ability to identify all requisite data (files and structured data) for data subject requests (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) as well as other similar use cases.

Q. Who are your major technology partners?  

Since the inception of our business, we have always been a partner-led company. We have a dedicated referral program and deal registration platform along with other co-sell opportunities. Our partner types include OEMs, VARs, GSIs, MSPs, and CSPs; partners include Microsoft, AWS, Google, HBR, Dell, Conduent, and Accenture.

The Visionary Leader at the Helm of Congruity360

Brian Davidson serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Congruity360. His professional career originated with Co-Founding several successful IT companies, Rockland IT Solutions and MSDI that ultimately lead to Congruity360. Brian has proven success in both direct and indirect sales models, revenue generation, operational excellence, and strategic vendor management.

“Layering Classify360 on top of a standard data migration removes compliance, regulatory, and data risk barriers – enabling wider cloud adoption while magnifying cloud efficiencies and cost savings.”