Architecture documentation for regulated industries
Financial services, insurance, healthcare and pharmaceuticals share a structural requirement: architecture has to be auditable, the audit evidence has to be current, and drift between the architecture and the documentation has to be demonstrable. NeoArc treats this as a structural property, not a quarterly exercise.
In regulated industries, compliance evidence is usually assembled retroactively. A few weeks before an audit, architects and compliance officers pull snapshots from tools that have moved on since the last review, reconcile diagrams with code, and produce a pack that describes a state the system was in at some point. Regulators accept this because the alternative is impossible with the tools most organisations have. The result is a cycle where the evidence is always a little behind the system, and nobody claims otherwise.
What regulators actually want is lineage. They want to see how a requirement became a control, how that control became a design decision, and how that design decision became a line of production configuration. And they want evidence that the control applies to the system as it is today, not as it was six months ago when the last pack was assembled.
| Domain | Typical audit frame | What NeoArc produces |
|---|---|---|
| Financial services | External auditors and financial regulators examining controls and lineage | A model where controls attach to architectural elements, with coverage and drift computed from the graph |
| Insurance | Supervisory reviews of policy, claims and reserving systems | A model that captures policy-lifecycle architecture and the controls applied to each stage |
| Healthcare | Data protection reviews and clinical-system accreditation | A model that makes PHI boundaries explicit and attaches the controls that apply at each boundary |
| Pharmaceuticals | GxP inspections of validated systems and clinical trial data handling | A model that captures validation status, change impact and lineage across validated systems |
If this sounds like the shape of the problem you are trying to solve, the next step is to read the compliance-documentation solution page and the governance-and-compliance product page, or to talk to us directly through the contact form on the site.