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# Compliance Workspace

# GRC
Compliance Workspace {#ariaid-title1}

Release version: Brazil  
Updated September 10, 2026  
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## Summary of GRC Compliance Workspace

GRC Compliance Workspace is a unified interface designed for managing policies, control objectives, controls, and policy exceptions efficiently.
It provides a streamlined user experience tailored to the specific roles of corporate compliance managers, corporate compliance analysts, and IT compliance managers.
The workspace consolidates all compliance-related tasks and data visualization into one accessible location, enabling users to focus on their business goals.
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## Key Features

* **Role-specific Views:** Distinct page views cater to the unique activities of different compliance roles, ensuring relevant information and tasks are prioritized.
* **Home Page Sections:** Includes visual data presentations such as donut charts for compliance status of authority documents, policies, and entities; control assurance metrics; control test results; and tracking widgets showing control states and classifications.
* **Unified Tasks Page:** Allows users to track both their own and their team's pending tasks in a single interface with filtering and watchlist capabilities.
* **Lists View:** Provides a summary of all compliance-related records to support analysis and informed decision-making.
* **Conditional Widgets:** Additional widgets like Control tests, Regulatory changes, and Privacy are available when specific plugins (audit, regulatory change management, privacy management) are installed.
* **Email Notification Redirection:** Clicking links in email notifications directs users to the appropriate workspace or task page depending on their roles and installed workspace applications. This supports various record types including controls, evidence responses, policy acknowledgments, and exceptions.

## Access and Roles

To access the Compliance Workspace, users must have one of the following roles:

* IT Compliance Manager (sncompliancews.itcompliancemanager)
* Corporate Compliance Manager (sncompliancews.corporatecompliancemanager)
* Corporate Compliance Analyst (sncompliancews.corporatecomplianceanalyst)

These roles enable tailored access and functionality within the workspace aligned with each user's compliance responsibilities.

## Email Notification Behavior

Email notifications for policy and compliance records redirect users to the relevant workspace or task page based on their roles. The system prioritizes workspace redirection in the following order: Risk, Privacy, AI Risk and Compliance, Audit, then CAM workspaces. If no workspace role is assigned, users are redirected to the GRC Task Page or the classic UI if the common workspace is not installed.

## Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

* Centralizes compliance management activities for improved efficiency and oversight.
* Provides role-specific interfaces to enhance user productivity and focus.
* Offers comprehensive task tracking and visual insights to monitor compliance status and progress effectively.
* Supports seamless navigation from email notifications directly to relevant compliance records within the appropriate workspace.
* Enables integration with additional GRC-related plugins to extend functionality as needed.  
Compliance Workspace is a unified interface where you can manage all your tasks related to policies, control objectives, controls, and policy exceptions.

## Compliance Workspace overview {#grc-unified-compliance-workspace__section_hmf_lkj_ltb}

The highlights of the Compliance Workspace are:

Reimagined user experience
:   From the minute you navigate to the Compliance Workspace home page, all the tasks that you can possibly do in the workspace are streamlined to fulfill your business goals.

Workspace designed for different compliance user roles
:   Distinct page views for the exclusive activities of a Corporate compliance manager, Corporate compliance analyst, and IT compliance manager.

Home page with different sections
:

    Overview
    :   Donut charts display the categorical data of compliant and non-compliant authority documents, policies, and entities.  
        Figure 1. Compliance workspace home page

    Control assurance
    :   Displays the donut charts, grouping indicators by status, and attestations by state. Control test horizontal bar grouped by control and classification stacked by control effectiveness.

    Tracking
    :   Displays controls widget grouped by state and stacked by classification.

    Tasks
    :   View your pending tasks and the group's tasks. You can navigate to the unified tasks page by clicking the View all tasks link.

    Note:  
    Control tests widget, Regulatory change, Compliance case, and Privacy widgets are conditionally visible based on the respective plugins installation status.

Unified Tasks page
:   Track your tasks and team's tasks from a single interface. View your tasks by categories, filter them by various parameters, monitor those tasks that you've initiated, and track through the watchlist.

Lists
: List view of all compliance-related records, providing the summary of the record in a single view that helps in your analyses and take an informed decision.  
Note:  
The Control tests widget, Regulatory changes widget, and Domain compliance status section appear with the installation of audit, regulatory change management, and privacy management plugins, respectively. For more information, see [Other GRC plugins for an overall view](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/qa_9w3ESlum58qWXp1t5IA#compliance-manager-compliance-ws__grc-plugins-overall-view).

## Roles in the Compliance Workspace {#grc-unified-compliance-workspace__section_a15_5jt_mtb}

The targeted users of the Compliance Workspace are the corporate compliance managers, the corporate IT compliance managers, and the corporate compliance analysts.  
To access or view the Compliance Workspace, you need one of the following roles:

* IT Compliance Manager role: sn_compliance_ws.it_compliance_manager
* Corporate Compliance Manager role: sn_compliance_ws.corporate_compliance_manager
* Corporate Compliance Analyst role: sn_compliance_ws.corporate_compliance_analyst
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For more information on the roles, the responsibilities, and the tasks that the users can accomplish in the Compliance Workspace, see

* [Compliance Home page for the compliance manager](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/qa_9w3ESlum58qWXp1t5IA "The compliance manager home page in the Compliance Workspace gives a complete overview of the compliance posture of the organization. The workspace helps the compliance manager to centrally manage internal standards, policies, and control processes that match the external regulatory standards.").
* [Compliance Home page for the compliance analyst](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/4QmwBduAnbKH3fOFtNTS9g "The compliance analyst home page in the Compliance Workspace enables the compliance analyst to track compliance activities and helps compliance managers to ensure that the organization is compliant with various regulations and policies.").
* [Compliance Home page for the IT compliance manager](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/eXzEP1TAmUOf7VZlN4lXdg "The Compliance Workspace provides an exclusive home page for the IT compliance manager to view the IT-related risk and compliance data. The workspace helps the IT compliance manager to centrally manage internal standards, policies, and control processes that are exclusively IT-related to comply with the external regulatory standards.").
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## Email notification redirection {#grc-unified-compliance-workspace__email-notification}

When users receive email notifications for Policy and Compliance Management records, clicking a
record link in the notification opens the record in the appropriate workspace, based on the user's assigned roles and installed workspace applications.  
The following record types support workspace redirection from email notifications:

* Controls
* Evidence response
* Indicator tasks
* Policy acknowledgments/Policy acknowledgment instances
* Policy exceptions  
This table shows the Policy and Compliance user roles that redirect to GRC Task page or Compliance Workspace:{#grc-unified-compliance-workspace__email-notification__entry__2}

| User role | Redirected to |
|-|-|
| BU User | GRC Task page |
| Compliance Manager | GRC Task page |
| Corporate Compliance Manager | Compliance Workspace |
| Corporate Compliance Analyst | Compliance Workspace |
| Approver (policy exception) | Compliance Workspace |
| Approver | GRC Task Page |
[Table 1. Email notification redirection by user role]

In addition, if a user has roles associated with other workspaces such as Risk, Privacy, Audit,
CAM, or AI Risk and Compliance, the system redirects to the highest-priority workspace based on the role.  
The priority order is as follows:

* Risk Workspace
* Privacy Workspace
* AI Risk and Compliance Workspace
* Audit Workspace
* CAM Workspace

If no workspace role is assigned and the common workspace is installed, the user is redirected to the GRC Task Page. If the common workspace is not installed, the user is redirected to the classic UI.

