--- title: "How CME Turned Vendor Selection into a Data Strategy" url: "https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/cme-vendor-selection-data-strategy/" description: "Zenul Pomal from CME Group explains why Dataplex worked as a technical catalog but couldn't scale enterprise-wide governance" keywords: "atlan, data governance, regovern 2025, regovern watch center" --- > Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/ **How CME Turned Vendor Selection into a Data Strategy**: a session recording from Re:Govern 2025, in the [Re:Govern 2025 watch center](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/). Zenul Pomal from CME Group explains why Dataplex worked as a technical catalog but couldn't scale enterprise-wide governance The recording plays on the page after a short preview, then an email form unlocks the rest: [watch at https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/cme-vendor-selection-data-strategy/](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/cme-vendor-selection-data-strategy/). ## Speakers - **Zenul Pomal**, Executive Director, Core Data Platform & Enterprise Architecture, CME Group. Zenul architects top-down governance automation at the world's largest derivatives exchange. He's standardizing metadata, automating lineage, and building BigQuery-based infrastructure where trust and compliance operate at nanosecond speed through centralized automation. ## Company **CME Group.** CME Group operates the world's largest derivatives marketplace, processing 30.2M contracts on average every day. A decade-long Google Cloud journey powers AI-ready, governed infrastructure at the speed and scale global markets demand. ## What's inside CME Group started with Google Dataplex for governance, which provided a solid technical foundation. But to democratize data across the entire organization, they needed more: an intuitive platform for non-technical users, complete enterprise-wide lineage across systems, a central business glossary, automated workflows, and formal certification processes to build trust at scale. Key takeaways: - Technical catalogs work for IT but don't democratize data across business users who need intuitive interfaces - Single-platform lineage only shows part of the story - enterprises need visibility across all systems for impact analysis - Business glossaries create a single source of truth so everyone speaks the same language about data - Manual governance processes don't scale - automation and certification workflows are essential for trust at scale - Vendor selection requires a structured approach: define requirements, demo thoroughly, run hands-on POCs with your own data ## More from Re:Govern 2025 - [Virgin Media O2: Context for All](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/virgin-media-o2-context-for-all/) (Session Recordings) - [DigiKey: Context Readiness](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/digikey-context-readiness/) (Session Recordings) - [CME Group: Context at Speed](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/cme-group-context-at-speed/) (Session Recordings) - [Mastercard: Context by Design](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/mastercard-context-by-design/) (Session Recordings) - 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