Why compliance needs a new operating model: Introducing the osapiens HUB Store
Companies face a growing wave of regulations and requirements across their products, suppliers and own operations. Meeting them demands not only regulatory knowledge, but also the right content: questionnaires, assessments, reporting structures, data sources. The osapiens HUB Store brings this content directly into the osapiens HUB, making specialized expertise easy to access and use within existing compliance processes.
Greater transparency, stronger human rights protection and more sustainable business practices are important objectives behind many of the regulations companies are implementing today. However, putting these ambitions into practice creates growing complexity across products, suppliers and own operations. Product requirements are becoming broader and more specific, supplier due diligence covers an expanding range of risks, and reporting teams work across multiple frameworks and disclosure requirements. Companies operating in several markets also have to account for regional and local obligations, while expectations for transparency across products, operations and supply chains continue to grow.
This creates a significant workload that is often overlooked: turning regulatory requirements into new workflows and integrating them into business processes. A supplier due diligence requirement, for example, has to be translated into the right questions, evidence requirements and assessment criteria. Reporting frameworks require clearly structured data points and reporting formats. As regulatory demands grow, so does the underlying need for compliance content.
A growing operational workload
Today, much of this content is still developed individually for a specific requirement or implementation. Companies invest internal resources in defining the necessary structures and often involve external specialists where deeper regulatory or subject-matter knowledge is required. The resulting questionnaires, templates, assessments or data structures then have to be incorporated into the relevant processes and maintained over time.
The effort grows with the scope of regulations. One additional requirement may call for a new supplier questionnaire, another for a reporting template, another for additional risk data or specific regulatory guidance. Over time, these individual elements add up to a substantial body of operational compliance content that needs to be managed and maintained.
Compliance content also has to remain aligned with the requirements it supports. Standards, frameworks and methodologies evolve, which means questionnaires, reporting structures, assessments and regulatory content need to be updated.
This need also extends beyond individual regulations. Companies also require content for areas such as ISO preparation or industry-specific reporting. An industry-specific IRO library, for example, can translate a broad reporting framework into metrics that are more relevant for a particular sector. A circularity reporting template can structure data that can support other disclosure and compliance processes.
This ability to reuse data matters. The same underlying data point can contribute to several reports, assessments or regulatory obligations. Structuring content around reusable data therefore reduces duplication and creates more value from information that companies are already collecting.
A new model for compliance content
Compliance content should thus be reusable across regulatory, industry-specific and thematic use cases, maintained as requirements evolve, and available where companies already manage their processes.
osapiens is launching the osapiens HUB Store to bring this model into the osapiens HUB. Companies can use ready-to-use content from osapiens and vetted domain experts within the osapiens solutions they already use.
The content covers a broad range of requirements. This includes general product compliance standards, supplier risk and due diligence topics such as human rights, child labor protection and conflict minerals, as well as reporting content for sustainable finance and circularity performance.
The scope also extends beyond individual regulatory obligations. The HUB Store includes content such as ISO preparation templates, industry-specific templates and metrics, thematic reporting content and reusable data structures that can support several compliance and reporting purposes at once. This is particularly relevant where broad frameworks need to be translated into the realities of a specific industry or where the same data can create value across multiple reports and assessments.
The osapiens HUB Store provides ready-to-use supplier questionnaires, reporting templates, additional data sources, regulatory bundles, and industry- and region-specific content. Companies can add these directly to their existing osapiens solutions and use them within established compliance processes. Instead of building the same regulatory structures from scratch for each new requirement, they can start with content that is already structured for the relevant regulation, framework, industry, or region and maintained as it evolves.
Bringing specialized expertise into the process
The osapiens HUB Store combines content developed by osapiens with specialized content provided by vetted domain experts. Consulting firms, law firms, auditors, industry specialists and integrators provide and maintain content in the areas where they bring deep regulatory, regional or industry expertise.
This expertise becomes more useful when it is translated into operational content. A specialist's understanding of a due diligence requirement can be reflected in a supplier questionnaire and its assessment logic. Knowledge of a reporting framework can be structured into content that guides data collection and disclosure. Specialized risk intelligence can be provided as an additional data source and used alongside existing supplier information.
The osapiens HUB Store makes these materials available where customers already manage their compliance processes. They can extend existing osapiens solutions with additional content without introducing another third-party application or setting up a separate implementation project for each requirement.
This also broadens the range of expertise available to customers. Specialized regulatory, regional or industry knowledge can be made accessible through maintained content, while osapiens contributes content based on its own product and regulatory expertise.
Keeping content aligned with changing requirements
Maintenance is an integral part of the HUB Store model. Content providers keep their material aligned with the regulations, standards and frameworks it supports. When subscribed content is updated, customers continue to work with the maintained version in their osapiens environment rather than having to identify every relevant change and manually rebuild the corresponding content themselves. The osapiens HUB Store is designed around continuous maintenance and updates as requirements evolve.
Extending existing compliance processes
Regulatory requirements will continue to develop across products, suppliers and companies' own operations. Regional differences, industry-specific obligations and new areas of risk will continue to create demand for specialized expertise and additional operational content.
A scalable compliance setup needs to accommodate that development without turning every additional requirement into a separate content project.
The osapiens HUB Store provides a way to extend existing compliance processes as those needs emerge. Customers can add relevant regulatory, regional or industry-specific content to their existing osapiens solutions and work with content that is maintained as the underlying requirements evolve.
The osapiens HUB Store launches on November 9, 2026.
Join our HUB Store webinar on November 9 to learn more about the concept, see how the HUB Store works and get a first look at the content available at launch: https://osapiens.com/en/platform/hub-store