– Increasing role in supporting regulatory compliance needs and monitoring

– Greater demand for continuous monitoring on a broader scale to increase efficiency and add value to the organization through better insights into risks.

– Growing complexities of global businesses, disparate systems, and availability of large volumes of data

– A renewed focus on data quality and data governance, driven by organizations’ growing reliance on big data and big data tools, increasing the need for sophisticated data analysis within finance, operations or audit function

– Rapid adoption of data analytics in other functions and groups throughout the organization (enterprise risk management, data governance, compliance), leading to a similar expectation across the organization