10 policy management and compliance statistics for 2025

10 policy management and compliance statistics for 2025

Compliance and policy management is essential for every business, but it’s super critical for regulated sectors such as healthcare, financial services and pharmaceuticals. But driving compliance has its challenges, not only keeping up with a fast-moving regulatory environment, but also providing easy access to policies for employees.

Policy management and compliance software like Xoralia can make a significant difference – automating processes such as employee attestation, helping employees find the policies they need, and ensuring policy and SOP owners keep their documents up to date.

The challenges and role of technology associated with policy management are reflected in various industry statistics, some of which are truly eyebrow-raising. These numbers are useful in:

  • helping compliance and digital workplace teams consider how they can overcome challenges
  • feeding into useful conversations with business stakeholders
  • planning appropriate strategies and tactics to support compliance
  • inserting into a business case for policy management software

In this post we’ve gathered ten policy management and compliance statistics for 2025 which we think you’ll found interesting. These are all from authoritative sources and while most come from more recent reports, some are a little older but are still valuable.

Here are ten policy management and compliance statistics.

1. 69% of CEOs think the regulatory environment inhibits the creation of value

PwC’s latest Annual Global CEO survey reports that nearly seven in ten CEOs feel the regulatory environment is a barrier to their organisation in changing the way it creates, delivers and captures value.

2. 82% of compliance professionals view cybersecurity as the biggest area of risk

According to Thomson Reuter Institute’s 2023 Risk & Compliance report, the greatest compliance risk identified by compliance professionals is “data and cybersecurity risk”, mentioned by 82% of survey respondents.

3. 52% of risk and compliance professionals monitor compliance while 54% are using technology

Another fascinating statistic from Thomson Reuters Institute’s 2023 Risk & Compliance report suggests that 52% of risk and compliance professionals spend their time monitoring compliance, the second highest activity after identifying and assessing risk.  Furthermore, 53% also say they are adopting technology-driven solutions due to increased regulatory pressure.

4. The global policy management software market will be worth USD $4,3 bn by 2032

More and more organisations are relying on policy management software like Xoralia to increase compliance, drive efficiency and minimise risk. Market analysts IMARC Group predict that the market will grow to USD $4.3 billion in 2032, up from UDS $1.7 billion in 2023. This represents an annual CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 10.39%.

5. 47% of compliance professionals list training employees as their biggest policy management challenge

In a survey of compliance professionals conducted by NAVEX, respondents were asked what their biggest policy management challenge was. 47% declared “training employees” as their main challenge, the top answer after “aligning policies with changing regulations”, mentioned by 40%.

6. 38% of organisations are not good at providing a tool for employees to search for policies

The research from NAVEX also found that 38% of organisations either felt they were only “fair” or “poor” in either providing employees with a tool that helps them search for policies, or having a corresponding tool that can track which policies are being read by employees.

7. 56% of larger enterprises use automation software to help manage compliance

Increasingly solutions with automation are being used to manage aspects of compliance and policy management. According to a survey from Coalfire, 56% of large enterprises are using automation for managing compliance.

8. 79% of companies are using or considering using AI to support compliance and risk management

AI has significant potential to support different aspects of compliance and risk management, driving efficiency, increasing levels of compliance and more. According to a report from Moody’s, 79% of companies are either already using, piloting or considering AI to support compliance and manage risk. Only 21% are not considering using AI.

9. Compliance costs in the UK financial services sector is rising by 12%

A study of the UK financial services sector by Lexis Nexis found compliance costs rose on average by 12% in 2023 for each company, with 95% of firms in the sector reporting an increase in costs.

10. Organisations using policy management software can achieve attestation rates of 87.5% and higher

When Lifearc, a UK-based medical charity, used Xoralia to support their ISO 27001 certification through improved access to policies and employee attestation, they were able to achieve a high attestation rate of 87.5% extremely quickly. Other Xoralia customers have achieved rates approaching 99%.

Supporting compliance and policy management

The statistics show the continuing challenges around compliance and policy management, but also the positive role technology can play. Xoralia is an example of a solution that is making a real difference for compliance and policy management teams in helping them manage their policies by:

  • Enabling all employees to find all policies clearly and simply, supporting compliance processes and creating a culture of compliance.
  • Reducing the manual overhead around policy management with automation, allowing busy teams to focus on more value-added work.
  • Reducing risk by creating one source of truth – no more duplicate and out-of-date policies.
  • Supporting owners to keep their policies up to date and be more accountable.
  • Revolutionising policy-related communications and employee attestation processes more directly in the everyday flow of work, helping to underpin compliance.

The story behind Xoralia

Xoralia was built by the team at Content Formula, an intranet and digital workplace consultancy that has built SharePoint intranets for some of the world’s most famous companies. Now, most companies want their policies and procedures on the intranet but they don’t just want to store them there, they also want tools to help better manage them. Over the years we came across just about every single requirement for a policy management system. As this article above explains, there are gaps in SharePoint and so we never built what in our mind was the perfect policy management system.

However, one of our clients challenged us to build something for them that filled all the gaps but still used SharePoint at the back end. We had a great relationship with them and agreed to share the budget to do this, provided we could then market the solution to others. That was in 2019. We’re now on version 3 of Xoralia and the product has grown and evolved a lot.

3 benefits you can expect from Xoralia

Make it easy to find policies

Centralised policy library with powerful search and filtering.

Reduce administrative burden

Automations and notifications so that all policy tasks are carried out on time

Demonstrate compliance and best practice

Sophisticated tracking and dashboards to drive and measure compliance.

And lots more!

What our clients say

Xoralia drives user engagement and compliance...

The platform's user attestation functionality has been particularly impactful, leading to a remarkable increase from ~50% to 86% in user attestation within a matter of weeks.

Rian Stuart

Rian Stuart, IT Manager, Twinstream

★★★★★

...simplifies our policy management...

It not only simplifies our policy management, but also enhances our overall compliance posture and has proven to be a significant time-saver for our organization.

Nadja Boyum

Nadja Friedrichs, Vice President of HR, Boyum IT

★★★★★

...single source of truth and access for employees...

We successfully rolled out the tool with a minimal internal learning curve and achieved a 97% read / acknowledgement rate on our first assigned policy.

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★★★★★

How to get started with Xoralia

Step 1: request a demo

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Step 2: get a price proposal

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Step 3: install and launch

We’ll install Xoralia in your environment (or you can do it yourself). We’ll provide training and support to get you up and running quickly.

Here's what you'll get

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Perfect policy management solution for Microsoft 365 users.

I highly recommend Xoralia to any organisation seeking a robust and user-friendly policy management solution.

Xoralia seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365, particularly with SharePoint and Teams, aligning perfectly with our company's daily workflow..

Rian Stuart

Rian Stuart, IT Manager, Twinstream

★★★★★
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