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Compliance Management Software | EQS Compliance Cockpit

EQS COMPLIANCE COCKPIT · COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Integrity infrastructure designed for unwavering confidence

No two compliance programs run the same way —
so EQS Compliance Cockpit configures to yours.

Your obligations, your investigation procedures, your jurisdictions. Every investigation, disclosure, and third‑party decision is available through an integrated platform, with unified data for connected signals — so nothing stays hidden across your program.

5,000+ multinational organizations ·80+ countries ·80 languages ·25 years of compliance expertise

Page last reviewed: July 2026.

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Trusted by 5,000+ organizations globally

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The Confidence Gap

The compliance failure
that starts long before the headline.

Risk keeps expanding in complexity, speed, and volatility, while the disjointed systems and stretched resources compliance teams rely on cannot keep pace. That is the Confidence Gap: the distance between the risk visibility compliance teams need and what their systems reveal today, leaving leaders unsure that risk will surface internally before it erupts in public.

In 2024 alone, SEC enforcement remedies hit a record $8.2B, False Claims Act whistleblower recoveries reached $2.4B, and organizations without effective speak-up channels faced twice the fraud risk. Meanwhile, 71% of consumers actively avoid brands they don’t trust. The cost of the Confidence Gap shows up on the balance sheet.

Yet despite rising pressure, many compliance teams are still working with fragmented tools. Hard-to-use helplines discourage employees from speaking up. Investigations happen in silos. Risk signals are scattered across disconnected systems. The result is blind spots, driven by outdated infrastructure despite the effort teams put in.

$8.2BSEC enforcement remedies, 2024
$2.4BFalse Claims Act whistleblower recoveries, 2024
fraud risk without an effective speak‑up channel
71%of consumers avoid brands they don’t trust

Effective compliance management gives compliance officers continuous visibility into how a program performs, across investigations, disclosures, third-party relationships, and policy coverage, so risks surface internally before they escalate, and the documented evidence of program effectiveness is ready before anyone asks for it.

Current state

  • Cases managed by email. Evidence lives where the investigator last saved it.
  • Decisions made, but the reasoning behind them rarely documented.
  • Third-party due diligence completed once. FCPA exposure changes continuously.
  • Policy distributed. Read? Understood? Signed? No way to know.
  • Board reporting compiled from stale exports and significant time investment.

EQS Compliance Cockpit

  • Guided investigation workflows from intake, with AI‑assigned severity and a full audit trail.
  • Configurable decision flows with formal documentation at every stage.
  • Sanctions screening as an early gate. Network mapping to surface what standard FCPA datasets miss.
  • E‑signature and campaign tracking confirm policies were read, signed, and understood.
  • Configurable dashboards. Board-ready reporting available without the need for data analysis.
EQS Integrity Line platform overview

The Integrity Infrastructure your compliance program runs on.

EQS Compliance Cockpit is designed to work the way your compliance program works. Configure it to your requirements, your investigation procedures, and your jurisdictions. The platform fits the program, not the other way around.

Compliance programs built on Integrity Infrastructure spend less time producing evidence and more time acting on it. That’s the Return on Integrity.

Capabilities

What your program delivers.

Closing the gap requires a modern foundation. Integrity Infrastructure brings together speak-up channels, case management, disclosures, third-party risk signals, and advanced reporting into one connected platform — giving compliance teams the visibility and credibility to operate at the speed the business demands. When your compliance program is connected, confidence follows.

Investigations tailored to your process

Flexible case management allows you to configure dedicated investigation workflows for each type of investigation to ensure consistency and maximize quality. Every report is severity-rated according to your definitions and moves through a workflow you configure once and apply to every case of its type. The record builds itself as the work progresses, so when a regulator or the board asks how a case was managed, you have a complete account ready.

Explore EQS Integrity Line →

COI & gift disclosures, routed automatically.

Disclosures, gifts, and hospitality disclosures are routed to the right approvers, and automatically escalated based on rules you configure. The result is an automated workflow making disclosure review and mitigation easy for your approvers, while saving your team from endless follow-ups. All with clear records and built-in reporting.

Explore Conflicts of Interest Disclosures →

Third-party risk contained before it becomes a liability.

Risk is classified at intake, so high-FCPA-exposure relationships get structured due diligence and sanctions screening while lower-risk onboarding moves at pace. When ownership is opaque, AI surfaces the affiliates and connections that standard commercial datasets miss, making complex structures readable before you commit.

Explore Third Party Management →

A workforce that demonstrably knows the rules

Every policy acknowledgment becomes a verifiable, timestamped record of who read, signed, or clicked through, with training attached to confirm understanding rather than just distribution. Reviews run on a set schedule with version history held centrally, so audit preparation becomes a query you answer in seconds.

Explore Policies →

Program performance, visible to the board on demand

Every investigation, disclosure, third-party assessment, and policy campaign feed one configurable dashboard, so the whole program is visible in a single view across every workstream and jurisdiction, down to individual questionnaire answers. A natural-language prompt returns a board-ready visualization on the spot, replacing the three hours of exports previously required.

Explore Insights →
Q by EQS

Introducing

Q by EQS

Compliance teams carry questions that go beyond the dashboard. Q runs directly inside EQS solutions, built into the workflows where decisions happen — governed by default, with the compliance officer in control at every step.

Meet Q →

Regulatory Coverage

The regulations that shape
your compliance program.

EQS Compliance Cockpit is built around how US regulators actually evaluate programs — and configured for the international obligations that come with global operations.

DOJ Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (ECCP)

The DOJ evaluates whether a compliance program actively prevents misconduct and changes behavior. EQS gives compliance leaders documented, timestamped evidence of how investigations are handled, how policies are attested to, and how third‑party risk is assessed across the full program.

Read the DOJ ECCP guide →

FCPA / Third‑Party Due Diligence

Agents, intermediaries, and business partners who present bribery and financial crime risk require structured due diligence and documented assessment before the relationship moves forward. Sanctions screening, adverse media checks, and ownership verification produce the evidence of adequate procedures that FCPA requires.

Read the FCPA due diligence guide →

SOX Section 301 / Section 806

Public companies must provide an audit committee whistleblower channel with specific protections for reporters. EQS Integrity Line meets SOX 301 requirements with anonymous reporting, structured case management, and a complete audit trail for every report received and resolved.

Read the SOX whistleblower guide →

SEC Whistleblower Program

Employees can report directly to the SEC. Programs with trusted internal reporting channels keep more cases resolved internally. EQS provides the data to demonstrate your channel is functioning, and to show the audit committee the reporting activity across it.

EU Whistleblower Protection Directive

For companies operating in the EU, reporting channels are configured to support secure intake, confidentiality, and timely follow‑up. Each report can be acknowledged, assigned, investigated, and documented with a clear audit trail — helping teams meet required response timelines while protecting reporters from retaliation.

UK Bribery Act / Sapin II

For US companies with operations in the UK or France, gift and hospitality values are tracked cumulatively, with escalation triggered when policy thresholds are crossed. Every approval, rejection, and acknowledgment is documented and auditable.

Federal Enforcement Volatility / State‑Level AG Enforcement

As federal enforcement priorities shift, state attorneys general across California, Colorado, and Texas are increasingly active. Programs built on integrated infrastructure adapt faster than those built around a single regulatory requirement.

EQS Trust Shield

Compliance programs that
hold up when it matters.

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

Bob Bair

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

Case study

By adopting EQS Integrity Line, Teleperformance successfully unified its global compliance framework to protect and serve nearly 490,000 employees across 100 countries under a single, audit-ready speak-up program. This transition effectively eliminated technical debt and manual case routing, replacing them with a standardized, multi-channel intake system that leverages AI for streamlined triage. Ultimately, the enterprise achieved consistent global investigation standards and robust data reporting for leadership, while safely preserving local brand interfaces and native-language support to maintain high reporter trust.

Why EQS

What separates a program run on modern integrity infrastructure?

Built for continuous program intelligence

EQS connects every compliance workstream to the same intelligence layer. Investigations, COI disclosures, third‑party risk, and policy data feed the same real‑time view. The compliance officer’s picture of the program is always current, always complete.

Designed to work your way

You configure the platform. Investigation workflows, routing logic, and escalation thresholds are owned by the compliance team and adjustable without IT involvement — built for how your program runs.

Connections between modules

Investigations, disclosures, policy acknowledgments, and third‑party decisions all write to the same timestamped log. The complete program record is always up to date and in one place.

Compliance‑ready AI

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, in line with the DOJ ECCP’s guidance on documented human authority at every decision point.

Meet Q →

Highly certified compliance‑specialist support

You get implementation and ongoing support from people who understand how investigations run, how enforcement unfolds, and how CCOs prepare for board review. US‑based coverage in Denver and New York City, alongside a global team across Munich, London, Paris, Zurich, Hong Kong, and 10 other global cities.

See how your program can close the Confidence Gap.

A walkthrough takes 30 minutes. We configure it around your regulatory obligations, team structure, and the gaps you’re working on now.

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 compliance with laws and regulations. For compliance and ethics teams, this typically includes 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. A single platform with a unified audit trail closes those gaps and gives compliance leaders a continuous, documented record of program effectiveness.

How does EQS Compliance Cockpit differ from point solutions?

Point solutions manage a single compliance function — a speak‑up channel, a policy library, or a due diligence questionnaire. EQS Compliance Cockpit connects Integrity Line, Conflicts of Interest Disclosures, Third Parties, Policies, and Insights on a single platform with a single audit trail. When a regulator or auditor requests evidence, the answer comes from one place — complete, current, and ready.

Can we configure EQS Compliance Cockpit to align to our own compliance program?

Yes. EQS Compliance Cockpit is fully self‑configurable to the way your program already runs. Your compliance team sets investigation workflows, disclosure routing logic, escalation thresholds, and access controls, and is empowered to adjust them as obligations or jurisdictions change — without waiting on your provider or signing costly SOWs.

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 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 built for regulated work — governed by default, with the compliance officer in control at every step.

Which US regulations does EQS Compliance Cockpit support?

EQS Compliance Cockpit supports compliance programs operating under the DOJ Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (ECCP), FCPA, SOX Section 301 and 806, and the SEC Whistleblower Program. For US companies with international operations, the platform covers UK Bribery Act and Sapin II obligations. As state‑level enforcement activity increases across California, Colorado, and Texas, the platform’s integrated infrastructure gives compliance teams the adaptability that point solutions built around a single regulatory requirement cannot provide.

How does EQS Compliance Cockpit help meet DOJ ECCP requirements?

The DOJ’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs evaluates whether a compliance program prevents misconduct and changes behavior, and whether the organization uses data to assess compliance risk. EQS Compliance Cockpit gives compliance leaders documented, timestamped evidence of how investigations are handled, how policies are distributed and attested to, and how third‑party risk is assessed. The Insights module delivers the data analytics capability the DOJ evaluates at program assessment.

How does EQS support SOX whistleblower requirements?

SOX Section 301 requires public companies to provide an audit committee whistleblower channel with specific protections for reporters. EQS Integrity Line provides an anonymous reporting channel, structured case management, and a complete audit trail for every report received and resolved. The channel is configurable to meet SOX requirements and produces the documentation required for audit committee review. A strong internal channel also keeps more cases resolved internally, reducing the risk of SEC escalation.

Is my data processed and stored in the United States?

EQS offers data residency options including both EU‑ and US‑based hosting. Whistleblower messaging is maintained on dedicated EQS infrastructure and is never routed through general delivery channels. [Insert: confirm current US hosting regions before publish.]

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

EQS supports data integration with most enterprise HRM and ERP systems. HR data drives dynamic HRBP routing within the Conflicts of Interest Disclosure module. Case data can be pushed to external systems and consumed via bi‑directional API. 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 who understand how investigations run, how regulators audit, and how CCOs prepare for board review.

What happens when the DOJ or 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 is designed to produce that evidence continuously, so the record is complete before anyone asks for it.