As the day-to-day stewards of governance programs, compliance managers and staff are tasked with diverse areas of responsibility and corporate accountability. In many cases, they must work with limited resources and may lack decision-making authority for activities that fall within the scope of their compliance programs.

In their roles as compliance advisors, experts, program managers, and resources for their constituents, compliance staff face some of the following specific challenges:

• Manage and track the rapidly changing regulatory, policy, and business operations and ensure consistent communication of policies, impact assessments, and data practice approvals to all constituents (people, partners, systems, applications, and product or service offerings).
• Ensure that collaboration and communication among all the compliance, business, technical, and executive sponsors are operating in a cost-effective, efficient, and responsive manner.
• Demonstrate an organization’s governance programs provide reduced risk of non-compliant incidents, and that these programs provide organizational risk management and program performance mechanisms.

The Align suite can help compliance staff, departments, and managers address these challenges by providing:

• The Align Policy Development Environment is a policy development and management console including journaling, audit trails, request and approval tracking, that allows instant ‘what-if’ impact assessments and scenario planning, as well as performing policy and practice rollbacks. Segregated or federated policy models can be developed and deployed to address operational, jurisdictional, or functional programs.
• The Align Enterprise Service Center is a web-based application that allows cost-effective and consistent communication among all the organizations, staff, and managers involved in data governance. Policy look-ups, research, and training as well as request and approval features tracking ensure that performance, cost-effectiveness, and business goals can be maintained even as the scope and depth of compliance programs increases.
• By registering information handling practices through the Align PDE or the Align ESC, risk programs, impact assessments, as well as incident and contract management can be easily administered while providing tracking and reporting to executive and business partners.
• The Align Federated Policy Management is an extension to the Align suite, which allows for the establishment of shared responsibilities, areas of policy expertise, and complex workflows for approvals, reporting, notification, and incident response rules. Reports and notifications can be customized to the area of responsibility of each member of the federated governance management program.

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