Legend, an open source technology platform offered by Goldman Sachs and FINOS, tackles the rapidly growing challenge of ensuring timely access to actionable data across the financial services industry. It creates shared and standardized data models for improved collaboration and offers solutions to explore, define, connect and integrate data into business processes. Legend also breaks down data silos and the historical business vs. engineering divide by leveraging novel features that allow anyone to contribute, as it replaces complex code with an intuitive interface that transparently displays and explains changes.