Enterprise Risk & Compliance Management
Enterprise risk and compliance management monitors compliance across multiple regulatory requirements, understands relationships between regulations and business processes, tracks data lineage for compliance reporting, and manages risk across business units and jurisdictions. This use case addresses modeling regulatory requirements semantically, providing cross-system visibility, enabling automated compliance reporting, responding to regulatory changes in real-time, and providing complete audit trails and evidence for compliance demonstrations.
The Challenge¶
Modern risk and compliance management must:
- Monitor compliance across multiple regulatory requirements
- Understand relationships between regulations and business processes
- Track data lineage for compliance reporting
- Manage risk across business units and jurisdictions
- Respond to regulatory changes in real-time
- Provide audit trails and evidence for compliance
Traditional approaches cannot effectively model or query these complex relationships across siloed systems and organizational structures.
Why EKG is Required¶
Risk and compliance require understanding relationships between regulations, business processes, data lineage, and organizational structures. EKG provides:
- Semantic relationship modeling — Ontologies enable precise modeling of regulatory requirements and business processes
- Cross-system visibility — Semantic relationships enable queries across all systems and organizational units
- Data lineage tracking — Graph structure enables automatic tracking of data flows for compliance
- Regulatory mapping — Relationships between regulations and business processes can be modeled and queried
- Real-time monitoring — Graph queries enable real-time risk and compliance monitoring
- Automated reporting — Graph queries enable automated generation of compliance reports
Business Value¶
- Reduced regulatory fines — Proactive compliance reduces risk of violations
- Faster compliance reporting — Automated generation reduces time to produce reports
- Proactive risk management — Early identification of risks enables mitigation
- Cost reduction — Automation reduces manual compliance effort
- Better decision-making — Comprehensive risk view enables informed decisions
Related Use Cases¶
- Data Privacy & Governance - Privacy compliance
- Enterprise-Spanning Regulatory Reports
- Regulatory reporting
- Fraud Detection - Fraud risk management