Regulatory Change Management
Monitor regulatory updates, evaluate their impact, and drive updates to controls and policies to maintain continuous compliance alignment.
Solution Overview
The Regulatory Change Management solution gives compliance teams the tools to stay ahead of changing laws, standards, and guidance — ensuring ongoing alignment between regulatory obligations, internal controls, and policies.
SmartSuite centralizes the capture, review, and tracking of regulatory updates from multiple sources. Teams can assess the impact of each change, assign actions to owners, and update controls or policies automatically using integrated workflows.
The solution supports frameworks such as SOX, ISO, NIST, GDPR, and FFIEC, providing a single system to manage compliance obligations across jurisdictions and industries.
Dashboards give real-time visibility into pending assessments, implementation progress, and control coverage — helping organizations maintain continuous compliance readiness.
Core Capabilities
SmartSuite’s Regulatory Change Management solution enables proactive compliance oversight with configurable workflows, automated updates, and structured mappings between regulations, controls, and policies.
Regulatory Feed & Intake
Capture updates from government websites, regulators, and industry sources.
Impact Assessment Workflows
Evaluate changes to determine affected business units, policies, or controls.
Action Planning & Ownership
Assign actions to owners with due dates and status tracking.
Regulation-to-Control Mapping
Link requirements directly to relevant controls, frameworks, or policies.
Review & Approval Cycles
Route proposed updates for review and documentation.
Audit Trail & Documentation
Retain full history of regulatory changes and decisions.
Dashboard Reporting
Visualize pending reviews, completed assessments, and affected frameworks.
The Regulatory Change Lifecycle
SmartSuite manages every stage of the regulatory change process — from identification to implementation — providing transparency and accountability across compliance teams.
Capture Regulatory Updates
Automatically import or record new requirements.
Assess Impact
Determine which policies, controls, or business processes are affected.
Plan & Implement Changes
Assign owners, tasks, and deadlines for remediation.
Review & Approve Updates
Route proposed changes through compliance approval workflows.
Track & Report
Monitor implementation progress and generate compliance reports.
Who Uses This Solution
The Regulatory Change Management solution supports compliance, risk, and policy teams responsible for maintaining alignment with evolving regulations and frameworks.
Ensures policies align with regulatory frameworks and internal controls.
Updates and maintains policies impacted by new regulations.
Links assessment outcomes to enterprise risks.
Verifies version control and policy attestations for audit evidence.
Interprets regulatory text and validates compliance actions.
Connected GRC Ecosystem
The Regulatory Change Management solution integrates across SmartSuite’s GRC modules, ensuring that regulatory changes automatically update related policies, controls, and risk frameworks.
Modernizing Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Modernize how you manage governance, risk, and compliance with SmartSuite — a unified platform built for today’s connected enterprise.
Artificial Intelligence
SmartSuite's AI generates insights, summarizes complex results, and predicts risks within existing workflows to support proactive decisions.
AI Regulatory Summaries
Automatically summarize lengthy regulatory updates, rule changes, guidance publications, or enforcement actions — providing clear, actionable insights for compliance teams.
AI Impact & Obligation Analysis
Identify which policies, controls, processes, vendors, or business units are affected by a regulatory change by analyzing linked data and prior mappings.
Predictive Regulatory Risk Modeling
Forecast where regulatory exposure is likely to increase based on historical findings, upcoming rule changes, enforcement trends, or gaps in current controls.
Automations
Use SmartSuite's no-code engine to eliminate repetitive tasks and ensure accountability across risk operations.
Automated Regulatory Monitoring
Trigger alerts when new regulations or rule updates are published, using feeds from regulators, supervisory bodies, or trusted compliance sources.
Automated Regulatory Monitoring
Trigger alerts when new regulations or rule updates are published, using feeds from regulators, supervisory bodies, or trusted compliance sources.
Policy & Control Update Scheduling
Create tasks and workflows to update impacted policies, controls, procedures, or training materials, with reminders and escalation paths for overdue changes.
Integrations
Integrate with the tools your teams use every day. Keep controls, incidents, and risk data in sync through prebuilt connectors and open APIs.
Regulatory Intelligence Feeds
Integrate with platforms such as Thomson Reuters, Ascent, Compliance.ai, or RegScan to ingest regulatory updates directly into SmartSuite.
Policy & Document Repositories
Connect with SharePoint, Google Drive, Box, and OneDrive to sync updated documents, version histories, and evidence supporting regulatory change management.
GRC & Compliance Systems
Sync data with ServiceNow, Drata, Vanta, or UCF platforms to ensure consistent governance records, updated requirements, and cross-framework mapping.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions about SmartSuite’s pricing models, plan options, and onboarding programs.
Yes — via integrations or manual entry, regulatory updates can be imported and tracked in real time.
Yes — regulatory requirements can be mapped directly to frameworks, controls, and policies.
Yes — dashboards display all regulatory updates, impact assessments, and remediation progress.
Yes — automated reminders and workflows keep teams on schedule.
Discover the Power of Connected GRC
Break down silos, improve collaboration, and streamline compliance. SmartSuite helps GRC teams achieve more — with integrated data, automation, and a shared source of truth across the organization.