Enterprise leaders know the costs are high when data compliance fails.
When US bank Citigroup was found to have “ongoing deficiencies” in its data quality management and handling of customer data, it was fined $136m in 2024 (Reuters, 2024).
Regulatory pressure notwithstanding, enterprises face significant losses due to poor data quality. According to recent research, organizations lose more than USD 5 million annually due to poor data quality (Forrester, 2024).
With revenue and reputation on the line, companies need more than spreadsheets and spot checks. They need systems built for audit readiness.
The Challenges of Regulatory Scrutiny
- Regulator Expectations: Regulators expect organizations clear evidence of data integrity.
- Lack of Audit Readiness: Many teams cannot produce multi-year validation history, clear records of corrective actions.
- Manual Processes: Evidence collection during audits is often slow, error-prone, and expensive.
- Regulatory Scrutiny: Regulators increase pressure when evidence of data integrity is weak or missing.
- Compliance Fire Drills: Last minute efforts drain resources and increase the risk of errors.
How Validata Supports Data Integrity for Compliance
Validata provides long-term retention of validation run metadata and reports, stored in its Historian or an external PostgreSQL database, so teams can align retention to business policy and reference historical runs during audits.
Fast-record and interval validations can be scheduled on regulated datasets to provide frequent, lightweight integrity checks, and reconciliation script outputs can be attached to audit records as proof that detected issues were addressed.
Validata helps teams build a continuous record of data integrity, so when auditors come knocking, evidence is already in place and ready to prove compliance.
With Audit-Ready Evidence, Enterprises Can
- Produce detailed, historical validation reports that turn Source→Target checks into auditable controls aligned with ISO/IEC 25012.
- Schedule validations on a recurring cadence so quality checks run continuously, not just during migrations or spot checks.
- Maintain control as pipelines, schemas, and business processes change.
- Run vector, key, record-level, and custom SQL validations so teams can match validation depth and cost to each dataset’s risk and criticality.
What This Means for Your Team: Compliance Without Manual Processes
Regulatory compliance should be about processes, not panic. With Validata, business leaders and compliance teams can rest assured they’re ready with clear evidence, time-stamped records, and robust data quality for when audits take place.
- Generate actionable reports: that teams can use to correct data discrepancies to ensure adherence to regulatory and other compliance measures.
- Build predictable audit cycles: fewer surprises and remediation projects triggered by data issues.
- Reduce time and resources in audit preparation: with fewer people needed to achieve audit readiness, teams are freed up to focus on strategic work.
- Self-serve integrity evidence: reducing the need for back-and-forth and ad hoc engineering requests.
- Share clear evidence: Provide auditors clear, structured artifacts (reports, scripts, timestamps) instead of loosely documented procedures.
- Restore trust across the organization: From the data team to the C-suite, employees can speak credibly about data quality and integrity in regulatory and investor forums.
Three Ways to Get Started with Validata
Regulatory compliance starts with proven data integrity. Here are a few ways to get started.
- Dive deeper into the technical details. Learn more about Validata’s architecture, the systems it supports, and the best ways to deploy Validata in your environment, via our documentation.
- Book a demo. Get acquainted with Validata’s UI, see Validata’s intuitive configuration engine, and experience firsthand how Validata delivers source-target parity with a personalized demo.
- Meet the team. Book time with our engineers to discover how Validata will build trust in your data and AI initiatives.
