Forrester Consulting modeled what happens when a $4 billion enterprise actually gets its data ready for AI, and the results were not marginal. Over three years, the composite organization saw $4.6 million in total benefits, a 351% return on investment, and payback in under six months. Breach exposure risk fell 65%. Teams reclaimed the equivalent of seven full-time employees and cut the volume of data they had to actively monitor by 94%, because for the first time they knew which data actually mattered and which was noise.
The full study shows where those savings come from: compliance effort, DLP tuning, breach risk reduction, and cloud storage cost. It also lays out the complete three-year cost and benefit model, so you can map the assumptions against your own environment instead of taking a vendor's word for the math.