IBM's Responsible Business and ESG Regulatory Monitoring, Powered by Datamaran
IBM strengthens responsible business oversight and cuts regulatory verification time in half with Datamaran's always-on monitoring.
Results
Monitoring ESG regulations across multiple jurisdictions can be challenging. Datamaran gives us a reliable way to quickly verify regulatory developments and understand their status, which brings much more confidence to the process.
Overview
IBM monitors regulatory developments across jurisdictions worldwide as part of its responsible business approach — identifying and assessing emerging ESG regulations, verifying their applicability to IBM's operations, and logging them into internal workflows for further analysis. IBM adopted Datamaran to strengthen this work with faster verification, broader jurisdictional visibility, and a more streamlined path from monitoring to analysis.
How Datamaran Supports IBM
IBM adopted Datamaran to support more effective regulatory monitoring and responsible business workflows by helping to:
Streamline regulatory verification
Datamaran reduces the time required to confirm key regulatory details. The regulatory monitoring manager uses the platform to quickly locate legislative texts, English translations, enforcement timelines, lifecycle status, and applicability insights in one place.
Support broader jurisdictional awareness
Datamaran enables the team to investigate developments across a broader range of jurisdictions with greater confidence, helping improve visibility into a complex and evolving regulatory landscape.
Improve internal workflow from monitoring to analysis
By accessing verified regulatory information directly through the platform, the Regulatory Monitoring Manager can capture key details and log them into IBM’s internal systems without relying on lengthy additional research support from colleagues.
Strengthen responsible business oversight beyond regulatory use cases
Datamaran also supports broader visibility into emerging ESG developments that may impact governance, strategy, risk management, and reporting.
Impact
Verifying an individual regulation now takes about 10 minutes, down from around 30 which is part of an overall reduction of 50% verification time, letting legal and compliance teams begin analysis sooner. A consistent verification method across regulatory domains reduces the risk of missing or misreading emerging developments, and self-service lookup means the team can scale with a growing regulatory landscape without adding headcount.
Looking Ahead
As ESG regulations and responsible business expectations continue to evolve globally, IBM is focused on staying ahead of emerging developments — spending less time on manual research and more on strategic analysis and decision-making.
