The benefit of creating / obtaining Pantone Validated Certification has to link back to the latest Pantone product, PantoneLIVE. PantoneLIVE is a digital version of the Pantone color library and is a cloud-based service. The goal is for the brand-owners, designers, pre-press operators and press operators to access the same database, the same color values for the same job they are working on. It is referred as managing colors in the cloud. The concept is great, but when comes down to realization, the first problem people will encounter is: “which monitor should I trust since colors from different monitors are very different?” Hence, this is where Pantone Validated Certification comes in. The certification tests the monitor’s ability to accurately reproduce Pantone colors, and if the monitor can reproduce certain percentage of Pantone colors accurately, then the monitor is awarded Pantone Validated Certification. The test easily involves thousands of colors. Therefore, the benefit to the designers is, when the designer needs a reliable monitor, he or she could check whether this monitor has received Pantone Validated Certification. If so, then the designers could be confident that the Pantone colors he or she sees from the monitor are accurate; are no different from the physical color books or guides Pantone produces.