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1. Guardium helps secure and protect organizations’
sensitive data across their entire environment.
Guardium enabled the organizations meet compliance
reporting and auditing requirements.
Guardium provides improved visibility into sensitive data
that the organizations did not have in their previous
environments.
IBM is a trusted leader in the data security and compliance
space
ROI Payback NPV
218% 7.4 months $1.8M
More importantly, the TEI study quantified specific benefits, costs, and
metrics that matter to customers:
Net Present Value*
THREE YEAR ANALYSIS
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The Forrester Total Economic Impact™
of IBM® Security Guardium®
Disclosures
The reader should be aware of the following:
• This document is an abridged version of a full case study: The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Security Guardium,
September 2015.
• To learn more, visit ibm.com/guardium
• The study was commissioned by IBM and delivered by the Forrester Consulting group.
• Forrester makes no assumptions as to the potential return on investment that other organizations will receive.
Please read the full case study for additional disclosures.
TEI Methodology
Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) is a methodology developed by Forrester Research that enhances a company’s technology
decision-making processes and assists vendors in communicating the value proposition of their products and services to
clients. The TEI methodology helps companies demonstrate, justify, and realize the tangible value of IT initiatives to both
senior management and other key business stakeholders. The TEI methodology consists of four components to evaluate
investment value: benefits, costs, risks, and flexibility. (forrester.com/marketing/product/consulting/tei.html)
*Values of costs and benefits are representative of a composite organization constructed from aggregated feedback based on
interviews with four Guardium customers.
Challenges and objectives
Forrester worked with IBM to analyze the total economic impact that
Guardium has on a number of its customers, who shared that Guardium
was selected because:
Summary of benefits
Through interviews and data aggregation, Forrester concluded that
Guardium has the following financial impact:
Guardium by the numbers
Avoided cost of labor to
develop alternative
Reduced cost to recover from
breach
Improved process efficiency in
meeting requirements
Avoided cost of labor for
ongoing support of
alternative
Reduced likelihood of
regulatory fines
Planning,
implementation and
professional services
Cost and annual
maintenance of
Guardium
Benefits
$2.6M
Costs
$828K
MILLIONS
20%
Percent reduction in time
spent on security and
compliance requirements
with IBM Security
Guardium.
45%
Reduced likelihood of
breach with IBM Security
Guardium
960
Man-hours avoided to
develop in-house
monitoring and auditing
capabilities
3
FTEs hires avoided for
ongoing support of in-
house monitoring and
auditing capabilities