Wolters Kluwer Connector

IBM OpenPages® Regulatory Compliance Management (RCM) includes a connector for Wolters Kluwer (WK).

The Wolters Kluwer connector enables you to load regulatory feeds from Wolters Kluwer into RCM. You can set up rules to process the incoming regulatory data automatically. Rules trigger workflows that are assigned to users based on the data points in the regulatory events or in the documents that are impacted by a regulatory change. The rules help you to assign tasks to users efficiently so that they can respond to and prepare for regulatory changes.

Note: To use the connector, you must meet the following prerequisites:
  • You must have a Wolters Kluwer license. For more information, contact Wolters Kluwer.
  • You must install the Wolters Kluwer connector. For more information, contact IBM® Support.
When OpenPages imports regulatory feeds from Wolters Kluwer, it does the following tasks:
  • Checks if there are any changes to the Wolters Kluwer taxonomy.
    If changes are found, OpenPages does the following tasks:
    • Updates the fields in the RCM-WK-Taxonomy field group.
    • Sends an email to the users who are set up as Wolters Kluwer Administrators.

    For more information, see Wolters Kluwer taxonomy updates.

  • Checks if the taxonomy mapping file has changed. If a new taxonomy mapping file is found, OpenPages uses the new mappings when it imports regulatory feeds. For more information about the taxonomy mapping file, see Mapping Wolters Kluwer taxonomy values to OpenPages field values.
  • For regulatory events, OpenPages does the following steps:
    • Creates a WK Regulatory Event object for each new incoming regulatory event.
    • Checks each of the incoming regulatory events for related documents in your regulatory library. If the citation field on a regulatory event matches the citation field on a Mandate, Sub-Mandate, or Requirement, OpenPages adds the Mandate, Sub-Mandate, or Requirement as a related object of the WK Regulatory Event.
    • Checks each of the incoming regulatory events against all of the Wolters Kluwer rules that are enabled in OpenPages. If the regulatory event meets the conditions of a rule, the rule is triggered. For more information, see Processing regulatory events by using rules.
  • For regulatory library objects, OpenPages does the following steps:
    • Creates an object for each new incoming Mandate or Sub-Mandate and adds them to your regulatory library under Library/RCM/RegLibrary/WKRegLibrary. The Content Source field on each object is set to Wolters Kluwer. For Mandates, the field is OPSS-Mand:Content Source. For Sub-Mandates, the field is OPSS-SubMand:Content Source.
    • Updates existing Mandates and Sub-Mandates with any incoming changes.
    • Sends an email to the owner of the impacted Mandates and Sub-Mandates.