--- title: "How Nasdaq Measures Governance ROI: Time to Insight, Time to Resolution, and Adoption" url: "https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/nasdaq-governance-metrics/" description: "Michael Weiss of Nasdaq explains how they quantified the governance business case - from 80% of users spending 5+ hours per week finding data to resolution times dropping from 8-10 hours to 2-3 hours." 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 Nasdaq Measures Governance ROI: Time to Insight, Time to Resolution, and Adoption** is a Re:Govern 2025 session video in the Atlan Re:Govern watch center. Michael Weiss of Nasdaq explains how they quantified the governance business case - from 80% of users spending 5+ hours per week finding data to resolution times dropping from 8-10 hours to 2-3 hours. Watch it at https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/nasdaq-governance-metrics/ (email required to keep watching). All sessions: https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/ ## Speakers - **Michael Weiss**, AVP, Product Management, Nasdaq. Michael runs a hybrid platform model with centralized infrastructure with embedded teams, and proves that metadata isn't overhead, it's the multiplier that scales advanced analytics globally while building board-level credibility. ## Companies - **Nasdaq**: A $49B company operating 30+ exchanges, Nasdaq is the intelligent fabric of finance. Nasdaq deploys AI across 50 exchanges globally - from generative AI surveillance detecting market manipulation to machine learning accelerating bank risk calculations. ## What's inside Nasdaq knew instinctively they had problems, but instinct doesn't build investment cases. An internal survey revealed 80% of users spent five-plus hours weekly just discovering assets - high-value resources digging through data to start their jobs. By measuring three metrics (time to insight, time to resolution, and adoption), they built the foundation for governance that now resolves issues 75% faster. ### Key takeaways - Three key metrics prove governance ROI: time to insight (discovery speed), time to resolution (fixing breakages), and user adoption rates - Internal surveys quantify pain - 80% of Nasdaq users spent 5+ hours weekly just trying to find available data assets - Time equals money when high-value resources spend most of their week searching instead of analyzing - Resolution time dropped from 8-10 hours to 2-3 hours by surfacing issues proactively and understanding blast radius - Adoption matters more than features - the best tools fail if end users can't or won't use them ## More from Re:Govern 2025 - [Virgin Media O2: Context for All](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/virgin-media-o2-context-for-all/) (session recording) - [DigiKey: Context Readiness](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/digikey-context-readiness/) (session recording) - 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