As corporations expand globally, evolving regulations present challenges. Traditional methods aren't enough. Modern businesses need compliance management dashboards in the internal and external applications they use. These dashboards transform complex data into clear, actionable insights, offering organizations a comprehensive view of their compliance status across different regions. By transforming compliance challenges into opportunities, these tools pave the way for a competitive advantage.

Key Components of Effective Compliance Dashboards

Navigating the complex realm of compliance isn't just about accumulating data—it's about harnessing the right elements to distill clarity from chaos. An effective compliance management dashboard is the compass guiding organizations through this maze. Here are the key components that distinguish an effective dashboard:

1. Proactive Regulatory Tracking: A strong dashboard adapts to regulatory shifts, be it the EU's data privacy rules or the US's financial standards, ensuring proactive compliance alignment. Being able to adjust quickly based on changes is essential for building compliance dashboards.
2. Unified Data Integration: The strength of a sophisticated dashboard lies in its ability to pool data from diverse sources into one consolidated compliance hub. This integration includes operational data from enterprise systems, insights from compliance manuals, particulars from legal documents, and updates from external regulatory databases, presenting a holistic compliance view.
3. Advanced Data Visualization: Turning raw figures into easily digestible insights is key. Through data visualization, the dashboard can present nuanced metrics and KPIs in formats such as heatmaps highlighting regional compliance variations or time-series charts showcasing quarterly trends.
4. Real-time Data Adaptability: In the fast-paced world of compliance, timeliness is paramount. A top-tier dashboard seamlessly incorporates real-time data across operations, ensuring that decision-makers have the latest insights at their fingertips for prompt and effective decision-making.

Key Compliance Dashboard Metrics

The specific metrics encapsulated within a dashboard provide stakeholders with precise insights and indicators. Some examples of critical compliance metrics include:

• Regulatory compliance status and trends: Tracks alignment with current regulations (e.g., percentage of EU operations compliant with GDPR requirements). Provides historical trends and forecasts.
• Policy adherence monitoring: Highlights areas where internal policies may be overlooked or bypassed intentionally/unintentionally. 
• Training and certification compliance: Ensures all employees and contractors have completed necessary training certifications (e.g., the percentage of those who have completed the latest cybersecurity training).
• Incident and violation tracking: Enables granular tracking of unauthorized data access, privacy breaches or other violations. Helps identify problem areas.

Examples of Compliance Dashboards

Explo's client, RiskScout, is a leading compliance SaaS platform designed to empower businesses by automating compliance processes and reducing the regulatory burden. With a focus on delivering the best user experience, RiskScout uses Explo to provide self-service reporting to their users, making it an invaluable tool for organizations navigating complex regulatory landscapes. 

Here are two specific examples of how RiskScout uses embedded analytics to empower their customer’s end-users:

Compliance Dashboards for KYC & KYB

With RiskScout and Explo’s embedded dashboard solution, end-users gain direct access to compliance dashboards, allowing them to swiftly assess clients and businesses in a single, user-friendly platform. RiskScout’s KYC & KYB solution combines automated reviews with expert quality checks from former regulators and financial professionals, minimizing false positives and irrelevant results, enabling their clients to concentrate on identifying genuine bad actors effectively. 

Compliance Dashboards for BSA and Reporting

When it comes to compliance dashboards, RiskScout empowers their end-users to streamline and enhance compliance workflows. By fully automating policies, procedures, and controls within RiskScout, you can leave manual execution behind and redirect your efforts towards fortifying your compliance program.

Best Practices for Adopting Compliance Dashboards

Building dashboards for compliance teams effectively requires a nuanced approach. Maximizing the effectiveness of compliance dashboards hinges on several pivotal practices:

1. Adapting Dashboards to Evolving Regulations: Dashboards must be agile, updating swiftly in response to regulatory changes. For instance, as GDPR came into play, Facebook promptly adjusted its dashboard, introducing new privacy settings to ensure real-time compliance with these data privacy norms.
2. Regular Audits for Dashboard Refinement: Periodic audits not only identify compliance gaps but also optimize dashboard functionality. PwC showcases how internal audit dashboards can be used to highlight key topics such as trends, high-risk observations, and the status of remediation plans. These dashboards facilitate periodic reviews and adjustments to ensure ongoing compliance, thereby embodying the practice of conducting regular audits and assessments for process improvement
3. Promoting a Compliance-Driven Culture with Transparency: The power of a dashboard extends beyond mere metrics—it can shape organizational culture. Lloyd's of London exemplifies this with their Culture Dashboard, launched as part of their wider Culture Strategy. This dashboard, focusing on aspects like gender balance, strives to uplift the experiences of women at Lloyd's. By openly sharing progress on cultural and gender-specific goals, Lloyd's fortifies a transparent, compliance-driven culture, setting benchmarks for both societal and organizational standards.

By adopting these practices, organizations can maximize the potential of their compliance dashboards, ensuring adaptability and clarity.

Emerging Compliance Dashboard Trends and Innovations

Compliance management dashboards stand on the brink of transformative change. One notable advancement is the merging of predictive analytics with machine learning. Such an enhancement will empower dashboards to not only anticipate potential compliance risks but also proffer preemptive solutions. A testament to this progression is SAP's ambitious endeavor to unveil AI-enabled dashboards capable of identifying suspicious transactions indicative of fraud.

Further accentuating this evolution is the rise of blockchain technology, especially salient in domains like finance and healthcare where the sanctity of data is crucial. Envision dashboards reinforced by blockchain: they would offer immutable compliance records and transaction histories, embedding an unparalleled level of transparency and trust.

As new regulations and reporting standards emerge worldwide, next-gen dashboards will rapidly adapt to track these as well. For instance, the IFRS 17 accounting standard will soon necessitate changes in dashboards across insurance companies. Through a combination of scalability, analytical power and automation, future compliance dashboards will evolve into intelligent assistants.

Next Steps - Build Your Compliance Dashboards

Navigating the world of compliance can be difficult but the right tools can bring compliance to the organization’s forefront. Compliance dashboards help gather and make sense of the information, turning challenges into opportunities. By utilizing compliance management dashboards,  businesses can keep up with changing rules and avoid regulatory issues.

Looking for the best way to consolidate your organization’s compliance metrics into one dashboard? Consider Explo - a user-friendly embedded analytics dashboard designed for a transparent productive organization.

Read More from Explo Insights

• How can AI and BI supercharge customer-facing analytics? We break down the use cases and impact - read the blog
• Explo CEO, Gary Lin, discusses how SaaS companies can monetize customer-facing analytics - read the blog
• In a recent Product Launch, Explo announced the release of its GenAI powered Report Builder - read about the release