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WHEN IT CLOSES THE DEALHow Technology Strategy Helps the Business to Win

Andy CooperSVP, Global Platform Services

Brandon HolcombVP, Global Platform Engineering

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Equifax: The Early Years

Family-owned grocers expanded credit investigations/reports with list of credit worthy customers and door-to-door ingenuity

Established Equifax name to reflect customer pledge to deliver equitable factual information

Vision:To be the global leader in

information solutions that creates unparalleled insights to solve

customer challenges

Guy WoolfordCator Woolford

Dynamic Future2016 – 2020s

Information Solutions Leader Innovation from lower cost

technology, digital/mobile trends, advanced analytics

Equifax positioned for disruptive growth

Growth Transformation2006 – 2015

Differentiated Data Leader Mortgage crisis pushes lenders beyond FICO

scores Differentiated data strategy Cultural transformation Vertical focus; IT platforms for scale; analytics

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National, Score-Driven CRA 1975 – Equifax CRA consolidation, automation,

national coverage Europe & LATAM Decisioning

Scale & Automation1960s – 2005

Early Days1899 –1960s

Regional CRA 1899 - Retail

Credit Company Local regional Toronto 1st intl

office

History

Equifax: By Numbers

$2.7BGlobal Information Solutions Company

9,200Employees

1899Company Founded

24Countries

Equifax Maintains Data, Worldwide, on More Than:

820M Consumers

91M Businesses

5,000 Employer Contributors

TOP AWARDS

Information WeekElite100

fintech FORWARD

ForbesTHE WORLD’SMOST INNOVATIVECOMPANIES

2015

FORTUNEWorld’s MostADMIREDCOMPANIES

2015

TOPWORKPLACES

The Atlanta Journal

Constitution

20152015

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Organization Evolution – Conway’s Law"Any organization that designs a system will inevitably produce a design whose

structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure"

OPERATIONALLY LED2007

STRATEGICALLY LED2017

TECHNICAL ORGANIZATION

INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORMS

Build Technical Domain Capabilities Converged Teams Platform

Centric

Application Centric Infrastructure Shared Platforms Converged

Platforms SDDC

Outsourcing of Technical Support

Further opportunity within Equifax U.S. Investments in high-scale, multi-tenant platforms since 2010 Invest in new skills 10s of $M of refresh in next 5 years Access to high-volume bandwidth for Decision 360 strategy

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The Planets Aligned in 2015

Maturity of Colocation

Market

Cloud Computing

Availability of Massive Bandwidth

SDDCand

Infrastructure as Code

How we workis as important

as what we build Product vs

Business Case Driven

No more outsourced

culture

Become builders vs buyers

Quality at the SourceTalent,

Talent, Talent!

Cultural and Organizational Transformation

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Budget Centralization

OLD PARADIGM NEW PARADIGM

Business Units

Business Case

COMMON PLATFORMS

Core Infrastructure+

Software Assets

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DEV TEST PROD

Prove the economic value of shared infrastructure platforms

Align infrastructure capabilities with the software that drives the business

Scale allows higher levels of engineering and resiliency for everybody

Software is developed once and leveraged for the enterprise

Business Units

Business Case

CONSTRUCTION ZONE

InfrastructureSilo

ApplicationSilo

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Aligning Across Boundaries

Budget centralization

drives financial dependency which leads to

execution dependency

Use tools to do your job NOT

to be your job

Develop, fund and cultivate

communities of practice

Narrow focus, grow

competency

“If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.” 

W. Edwards Deming

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Closing the Deal