Standardize,
   Disseminate
   & Monitor Your
   Procedures & Best
   Practices

Contextware compliance support for:

Sarbanes-Oxley 404/409

T + 1

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA)

GMP, GLP, GCP

Six Sigma

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP)

Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM)

ISO 9000

IT Service Management (ITSM)

IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

Compliance as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Increased attention to compliance plays an important role in the way that public and private businesses, government and even non-profits are managing their businesses. Driven to a large degree by evolving and increasingly complex regulations, companies and organizations are forced to spend a significant amount of time and money on attorneys, consultants, auditors and software to satisfy compliance requirements.

A great deal of regulatory compliance for internal controls requires nothing more than simply documenting what you do, then having it reviewed and verified. But most software packages take a microscopic view of the problem, failing to illuminate how compliance connects and impacts other organizational processes and procedures. The result is that you become compliant, but without any additional benefits including process improvements, cost benefits and elimination of redundancy.

With our compliance solution, you can:

Precisely document relevant activities.
The software is designed to allow business users and subject matter experts to easily document procedures and business processes. Users are also prompted to consider the business information relevant to what they have written.

Audit and monitor.
Contextware's digital audit trail precisely tracks user activity, so auditing can take place at the user/task level — documenting regulatory compliance in detail. Because the software is web based, it is easy for your auditors to review processes and employee interaction with them remotely.

Share compliance intellectual assets and activities across the enterprise.
The biggest problem with buying a software product to support a compliance requirement is that it only supports that specific compliance requirement. Architected to easily scale, you can incorporate compliance-relevant information into other processes then share with users across departments.

Make your business or organization work better.
As you document activities, monitor and audit them, you get a keen sense of what works and what doesn't, so you can continually refine and improve critical business activities.

Business Services

Financial Services

Government

High Tech

Hospitality

Life Sciences

Manufacturing

Nonprofits

Retail

Software

Utilities

Why a compliance "platform?"

Recent changes in the way compliance is regulated suggest that a platform approach will give your business the most flexibility in satisfying future regulatory requirements.

Traditionally, compliance was "rules-based" — thousands of pages of rules that had to be followed. However, in recent years, some corporations engaged in ethically questionable (yet legal) behavior that followed the letter of the law but stretched areas not clearly defined.

In response, legislators determined that creating more rules would merely create more legitimate loopholes, so instead they reduced the number of rules and now hold companies accountable to a higher standard — their conscience. This is known as "principles-based" compliance.

Thus the need for a compliance platform, a mechanism for communicating and managing cultural interaction and change across the organization.