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So as we look at like, how do we manage continuous growth of our data? It's through a tool like Sierra, you know, from a Babylon, we are in heavy growth mode. As we've shifted to a retail only organization, privacy is a top initiative on our end. The big piece that Sierra is doing is as we understand our environment and the data within it, it's helping us make those data-driven decisions. And by having Sierra to help us classify and inventory that, it's been a huge win. We've assessed Sierra against a couple other big players in the market. Sierra was pretty much plug and play. After it took 10 minutes to get Sierra in, we were able to identify we have a lot of data that is unused. I think it was over like 11, 12 million unused records. The more data you have, the more discoverable it is. We were trying to identify, this is my SharePoint versus the other company's SharePoint site. With Sierra, we were actually to sit there and say, this is global operations data versus retail. It's always scanning in around 98% of our environment that we allow it to manage. It's telling us this new data that's coming in, right? We're looking at it from a daily, weekly perspective to see new risks, new issues. From a security standpoint, it's been a huge win. As we roll out AI, data intelligence is a foundational item for us to make sure that we have the proper policies and processes in place to effectively govern the AI. Prior to Sierra, we really didn't have the ability to manage this. For us to be able to go to the legal team and say, hey, yes, we know that this person has access or, hey, we have the PII that sits over here. We're now going to sit there and put better protections and controls around it. It's huge. It's been cool to see reading the white papers that Sierra has put out, allowing me to have those intelligent conversations with others within the business. And with Sierra, it's been fun. I'll be honest, I feel like I'm ahead of the curve, right? Which is awesome to show to the executives and to the board that we're ahead of a lot of other organizations that are trying to do this. It's keeping me excited to do what I do.
