EQS COMPLIANCE COCKPIT · COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Compliance management software – built so nothing stays hidden

Running a compliance program and knowing how it’s performing are not the same thing.
EQS Compliance Cockpit closes that distance.

Our compliance management software connects investigations and whistleblowing, policy management, disclosures, third‑party risk management, and compliance reporting into one auditable platform.

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14,000+ customers ·80+ countries served ·40+ regulations covered ·25 years of regulatory engineering

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The Confidence Gap

Compliance programs generate records.
Not all of them generate confidence.

Compliance management software should help compliance leaders understand whether investigations, policies, disclosures, and third‑party risk controls are working together.

A compliance officer can describe their program. Knowing whether it’s working right now is a different question.

Whether the open investigation is progressing. Whether last Thursday’s disclosure reached the right person. Whether the third party onboarded in February is still the right risk profile.

Most compliance tools manage individual workflows. They weren’t designed to show the CCO what’s happening across all of them.

Effective compliance management requires ongoing visibility into how a program is performing, across investigations, disclosures, third‑party relationships, and policy coverage, so that the compliance officer responsible is continuously informed rather than periodically updated.

Current state

Cases managed by email. Evidence lives where the investigator last left it.
Decisions made, but the reasoning behind them rarely recorded.
Third‑party risk assessed periodically while relationships change continuously.
Policy distributed. Read? Understood? No way to know.
Reporting assembled from exports, ancient by the time the board reviews it.

EQS Compliance Cockpit

Guided investigation workflows from intake with AI‑assigned severity and a full audit trail.
Configurable decision flows with formal attestation at every stage.
Sanctions screening as an early gate. Network mapping to surface what standard datasets miss.
E‑signature and campaign tracking confirm policies were read, signed, and understood.
Configurable dashboards. Board‑ready without a data analyst in the loop.

Knowing, not assembling.

EQS Compliance Cockpit gives compliance officers a continuous, accurate picture across every workstream: investigations, disclosures, third‑party risk, and policy coverage. Without waiting for someone to compile it.

Every workstream feeds the same audit trail and the same intelligence layer. Every update surfaces in real time.

That confidence is operational. It’s what a CCO carries into the week.

Capabilities

What your program could do with our compliance management software

EQS Compliance Cockpit brings the core parts of a compliance program into one platform: whistleblowing case management, policy management, third‑party risk management, conflict of interest disclosures, and reporting. Every workflow contributes to a unified audit trail, giving compliance officers a clearer view of program effectiveness.

Whistleblowing case management workflow in EQS Integrity Line

Whistleblowing case management for investigations that hold up under scrutiny

Every incoming report is rated by a severity rating the moment it arrives, calibrated against your own definitions, so the most critical cases surface immediately.

Investigation workflows are configured by case type, with the right forms, stages, and access controls for each. Whether the investigator is experienced or handling their first case, the process holds.

When a report involves multiple allegations or jurisdictions, it can be split into parallel investigations, each with its own team and procedure. Complex cases don’t get flattened into a single workflow.

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Conflict of interest and gift disclosure approval workflow in EQS Approvals

Conflict of interest disclosures that close compliance gaps

Approval logic is configured once and applies across every rule, so disclosures reach the right person without manual routing decisions each time. In global organizations, the right HR partner is assigned automatically based on the employee’s region and function.

When a disclosure is automatically approved or rejected, the employee formally acknowledges the outcome. The audit gap that automated workflows typically leave is closed.

Gift and hospitality values are tracked cumulatively. When aggregate spending crosses the policy threshold, escalation triggers automatically.

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Third-party due diligence and risk screening in EQS Third Party Management

Third‑party due diligence at the pace of onboarding

Not every third‑party relationship carries the same risk. Due diligence should reflect that. Risk is classified early, with routing automated based on each counterparty’s profile. The depth of review follows the level of exposure.

Sanctioned entities are identified before the relationship progresses, not after due diligence is complete. For entities where the ownership picture is opaque, AI analysis of open‑source intelligence surfaces structures, affiliates, and individual connections that standard commercial datasets don’t carry. Complex corporate structures become readable earlier in the process.

High‑volume programs move at scale without sacrificing review depth on high‑risk entities.

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Policy distribution, attestation and version control in EQS Policies

Compliance policy management your employees engage with

A policy nobody reads is a policy that doesn’t exist, legally or practically. Every policy acknowledgment creates a verifiable, timestamped record of consent. Whether an employee read and signed, or just clicked through, is on file.

Policy reviews run on schedule, with owners assigned, approvals tracked, and version history maintained centrally. Preparing for an audit no longer means assembling a policy record from scratch.

Training courses close the gap between distributing a policy and knowing employees understood it.

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Configurable compliance reporting dashboard in EQS Insights

Analytics your board won’t need explained to them

Every investigation, disclosure, third‑party assessment, and policy campaign feeds the same analytics layer. Insights is where the program becomes visible as a whole.

Dashboards are built from preset views or from scratch, without a data analyst in the loop. The analytics go to questionnaire level — every answer to every disclosure question is available for analysis.

Natural language prompts generate visualizations directly. The distance between a compliance data question and a board‑ready chart becomes a single instruction.

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Regulatory Coverage

Regulatory compliance software for the obligations your program is accountable to

Modern compliance programs must demonstrate adherence across multiple regulatory frameworks simultaneously. EQS Compliance Cockpit helps teams document, monitor, and evidence compliance obligations across whistleblowing, anti‑bribery, third‑party risk, data protection, and supply chain governance requirements.

EU Whistleblowing Directive

Anonymous reporting channels, secure case management, and regulatory response deadlines are met across all EU member states, with a documented audit trail for every report received.

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FCPA / UK Bribery Act / Sapin II

Gift and hospitality values are tracked cumulatively, with escalation triggered when policy thresholds are crossed. Every approval, rejection, and acknowledgment leaves a documented, auditable record.

ABAC and financial crime compliance

Agents, intermediaries, and business partners who represent bribery or financial crime risk require structured due diligence and documented assessment. Sanctions screening, adverse media checks, and ownership verification produce the evidence of adequate procedures that anti‑bribery and financial crime frameworks require.

CSRD supply chain requirements

Third‑party policy attestation and questionnaire scoring produce the documentation record needed to evidence supply chain ethics governance for CSRD reporting.

GDPR

Personal data within investigations and disclosures is accessible only to users with a documented, justified need. Access decisions are traceable, reviewable, and tied to role.

NIS2 Directive

Third‑party due diligence workflows support the cybersecurity supply chain risk assessment requirements under NIS2, with audit‑ready evidence trails for each reviewed entity.

Trusted by compliance teams across Europe and beyond.

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We needed a speak‑up system that could match the scale and complexity of our global workforce. Today we operate an effective, consistent program across nearly 100 countries and 490,000 employees, with the confidence that every report is handled to the same standard. EQS gave us the infrastructure to make that possible.

Bob Bair

SVP Global Audit, Compliance, Ethics and Health and Safety, Teleperformance

Customer story

“The effectiveness of the Integrity Line is much higher than our previous solution. Reporters communicate more frequently, and case managers are able to follow up and close cases much faster.”

44%

Return on investment over three years, with payback in under six months.

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Why EQS

What separates a defensible program from one that merely exists.

The confidence gap is the product problem we solve

Speed matters. What regulators, boards, and acquisition due diligence teams ultimately audit is the evidence record. EQS Compliance Cockpit keeps that end state visible at every step. Not just when someone asks for it. Continuously.

European regulatory‑first

EQS was built around EU directive timelines, enforcement patterns, and investigative procedures. The platform doesn’t apply US compliance logic to European obligations. When a European regulator asks for evidence, the Cockpit was designed for that exact conversation.

One audit trail across every module

Investigations, disclosures, policy acknowledgments, and third‑party decisions all write to the same timestamped log. When a regulator asks what happened, or a board asks for assurance, the answer comes from one place.

AI that augments compliance judgment

Q handles the first cut: severity classification, pattern recognition, document review, risk routing. Every final decision stays with a named, documented human. The audit trail records both the AI recommendation and the compliance officer’s action. Built for severity assignement, network mapping, and file summaries.

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Compliance‑specialist support

Implementation and ongoing support from people who understand how investigations run, how directives are enforced, and how CCOs prepare for board review. European presence across Munich, London, Paris, Zurich, and twelve other cities.

See how your program would look in the Cockpit.

A walkthrough takes 30 minutes. We configure it to your specific regulatory obligations, team size, and current situation.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is compliance management software?

Compliance management software is a platform that helps organizations manage the policies, processes, investigations, and documentation required to demonstrate adherence to laws and regulations.

For compliance and ethics teams, this typically covers whistleblowing channels, conflict of interest disclosures, third‑party due diligence, policy distribution, and audit reporting. When these functions run across separate tools, evidence gaps form, creating regulatory and reputational exposure that a single platform with a unified audit trail is designed to prevent.

What features should compliance management software include?

Compliance management software should include investigation management, whistleblowing channels, policy management, disclosure workflows, third‑party risk management, compliance reporting, audit trails, and workflow automation. Organizations should also evaluate integration capabilities, data security, and regulatory coverage.

How does EQS Compliance Cockpit differ from point solutions?

Point solutions manage one compliance function: a speak‑up channel, a policy library, a due diligence questionnaire. EQS Compliance Cockpit connects Integrity Line, Approvals, Third Parties, Policies, and Insights within a single platform and a single audit trail.

When a regulator or auditor asks for evidence, the answer comes from one place, not several exports manually stitched together.

What is Q by EQS?

Q is the AI layer that runs directly inside EQS Compliance Cockpit. It handles the time‑consuming parts of compliance work: assessing the severity of incoming cases, reviewing third‑party questionnaires, summarizing investigation files, and helping teams move from information to a decision with the full audit trail built as they go.

Every action Q takes is logged, every recommendation is explainable, and the compliance officer always has the final say. Q is compliance‑ready AI: built by compliance practitioners, governed by default, and designed to meet the standard that regulated work demands.

Which regulations does EQS Compliance Cockpit cover?

EQS Compliance Cockpit supports compliance obligations under the EU Whistleblowing Directive, GDPR, FCPA, UK Bribery Act, Sapin II, CSRD supply chain requirements, and NIS2. The platform was designed inside European regulatory logic and is updated in line with directive changes.

How does AI work in EQS Compliance Cockpit?

AI features in EQS Compliance Cockpit handle classification, pattern recognition, and document summarization, reducing the time investigators and compliance managers spend on first‑pass analysis.

AI Severity Assignment auto‑rates incoming reports against your defined criteria. Network Mapping surfaces ownership and affiliate connections between third parties using open‑source intelligence analysis. AI File Summaries generate structured metadata for uploaded evidence.

All AI outputs are visible to the compliance officer, who can accept, edit, or override the suggestion, and every decision is logged.

Is my data processed in Europe?

EQS offers GDPR‑sovereign hosting with data residency options in Germany and other European locations. Whistleblower messaging is maintained on dedicated EQS infrastructure and is never routed through general delivery channels.

Can EQS Compliance Cockpit integrate with our existing HR and ERP systems?

EQS supports data integration via SCIM, Inbound JSON API, SFTP, and a dedicated Third Party API. HR data drives dynamic HRBP routing in the Approvals module. Case data can be pushed to external systems. Custom user attribute support ensures HR system changes propagate across the platform without manual batch uploads.

How long does implementation take?

Integrity Line can be live in days. Full multi‑module implementations for large enterprises typically run 8–16 weeks. Implementation is led by compliance specialists.

What happens when a regulator asks for evidence of our compliance program?

Every action in EQS Compliance Cockpit writes a timestamped entry to a centralized audit log. Case investigators can export complete investigation records. Policy compliance teams can produce signed attestation records. Approval managers can generate decision trails including the reasoning and approver identity for each outcome.

The platform was designed to answer a regulator’s evidence request, not to produce a summary of what happened.

Compliance programs generate records.Not all of them generate confidence.