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While a primary charge of many government agencies is regulatory oversight of citizens and commerce, often the more difficult challenge presents itself in intergovernmental regulatory compliance issues. This can occur among federal agencies or between federal, state, and local entities on transactions related to procurement, healthcare, the environment, grant applications and funding, housing and development, homeland security and disaster response, and performance reporting.
The key benefit of business intelligence in these scenarios is information distribution so the right hand knows what the left hand is doing, so to speak. Visibility into data from other agencies promotes cooperation and enables compliance monitoring, ensuring that intergovernmental standards are met and established procedures are followed. Business Intelligence tools also allow users to set parameter-based alerts so they are made aware of potential problems before they occur and while corrective action is still possible, promoting more effective risk mitigation.
Other features that foster regulatory compliance include rules-based processes for determining which directives have precedence over others, automating report generation and distribution in required formats for timely delivery, and ensuring data consistency and quality through drill-down capabilities to original data sources, thus affording access to meaningful, trusted information to provide actionable insight that ensures compliance with all manner of governmental regulations.
Navy PERSCOM – Facilitated compliance with DoD reporting requirements through the implementation and customization of Crystal Enterprise. The new system allowed web-based data input directly into a previously paper-based DoD form, and all data entered in the reports is maintained in a central repository to eliminate reentry, thereby streamlining a multi-step, semi-manual, and error-prone process.
Defense Logistics Agency – Facilitated DLA's ability to comply with Section 508 regulations by customizing all reports to be viewed and employed by users with disabilities (in addition to providing improved overall reporting capabilities).
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