When Powerful Legislative Software Feeds a Global Regulatory Compliance Business

Problem

When thinking about regulatory compliance – especially the thousands of regulations that businesses must comply with on a national and global scale – “simple,” “smooth” and “straightforward” are probably not the first words that come to mind. Tracking and monitoring new laws and regulations is rarely a top priority for businesses, but failing to keep up to date on new requirements can have hidden costs that many businesses can’t afford.

Juliette Lees is a Regulatory Analyst at Nimonik - Regulatory and Standards Compliance Software. She knows firsthand about the value that regulatory compliance brings businesses in every industry. Juliette helps Nimonik’s clients adopt and comply with important environmental statutes, regulations and standards around the world and maintains Nimonik’s regulatory database by providing notifications of changes to US laws and regulations.

“Nimonik helps organizations comply with EHS regulations and standards through an integrated solution including software, regulatory content and monitoring devices,” explains Juliette. “Many businesses, especially in industries that are heavily regulated, find it extremely expensive and time-consuming to keep up-to-date with constantly changing legislation. Nimonik’s goal was to make thorough compliance simpler and more efficient.”

Nimonik specializes in providing integrated solutions for regulatory compliance that are tailor-made to fit the requirements of specific industries, such as mining, manufacturing, banking, consulting and many more. Nimonik prides itself on exceptional customer service, with an in-house team of developers and regulatory analysts on hand to ensure a seamless experience for clients.

While Nimonik is dedicated to providing efficiency to its customers by streamlining information, the organization also benefits from tools that help simplify its vast database of EHS legislation and standards from over 90 countries and 200 jurisdictions.

Solution

Nimonik found its solution with BillTrack50's API. By accessing BillTrack50's API and pulling data directly into their existing workflow, Nimonik can easily review changes to the specific laws that matter to their clients, move the new information into the Nimonik system, and provide the timely impact analysis their clients count on.

Karen Suhaka, founder of BillTrack50, particularly appreciates the way Nimonik has integrated their BillTrack50 data feed into Nimonik’s internal processes.

“The primary goal of our software is to provide the most timely and accurate information to people who need it, and there are few subjects that are more critically important than EHS,” Karen explains. “BillTrack50 is an ideal tool for a company like Nimonik that needs full access to legislative information in a format that works within their own systems. Tracking changes to a zillion specific laws across all 50 states is a detail-oriented, meticulous process, and the flexibility of our system allows us to meet Nimonik’s extreme needs.”

Unlike many of the solutions that Nimonik explored, BillTrack50 was willing to customize its tracking services to meet Nimonik’s complex requirements for EHS regulations.

“We wanted someone that was willing to work with us to develop an EHS regulatory tracking system that worked for us, rather than providing an out-of-the-box service,” says Juliette. “BillTrack50 has been helpful and responsive, providing tailored support and training, not to mention changes to their search engine to more efficiently run our kind of searches.”

Results

BillTrack50 provides Nimonik with a vast amount of information about new legislation daily. The information Nimonik receives from BillTrack50 about legislative changes informs many of the other services that the organization provides. Aside from update notifications, data from BillTrack50 helps Nimonik maintain up to date audit protocols and accurately identify acts and regulations which apply to clients’ operations.

“BillTrack50 helps us keep well-organized internal records of legislative changes and of our own tracking process,” Juliette explains. “This means that when clients have questions, we are able to respond quickly and accurately.”

When Nimonik’s clients receive an update notification through the organization’s software, it tells them what the most recent regulatory and legislative changes are, when they are in force, and how they can find out more about them. BillTrack50 helps Nimonik easily find all the information it needs to provide clients with this critical service.

“Our clients rely on us to tell them about every EHS change that will impact their business. With BillTrack50, we can trust that nothing will fall through the cracks,” says Juliette. “BillTrack50 has been helpful, responsive, and all-around wonderful to work with. I can’t recommend them enough.”