Compliance has long been reluctant to tap the power of its organization’s data. Some of that hesitancy is institutional, either through inertia or outright hostility. Data is often kept in siloes, overseen by different administrators, stored in different systems.

One department will ask, with a certain amount of skepticism, “Why does compliance want access to our vendor management system?” The department that controls the organization’s expense reimbursement data will ask the same question. Legal will want to know why in the world compliance wants access to all of the firm’s contracts.

Aaron Nicodemus is the Editor-in-Chief of Compliance Week. He previously worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Law and as business editor at the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass. Email: aaron.nicodemus@complianceweek.com LinkedIn:...