Cognos Conecta: from regulation to action

In aviation, keeping up with regulation is not optional. It is an essential part of managing any organisation that operates within the European regulatory framework.

But there is a growing difficulty: the amount of regulatory information keeps increasing, documents evolve, and changes can be scattered across different sources and publications. When an amendment appears, the first question that comes up is this:

What has changed in the regulation that affects my organisation?

The question is no longer only “what has changed?”

The first question should not only be which document has changed. We also need to know when it changed, when it starts to apply and what implications it may have.

A regulatory amendment raises several questions: what has changed and in which document; when it happened and when it starts to apply; what it may mean for our organisation; which internal procedures we should review, and which actions we should set in motion.

That is why regulatory monitoring can become a process of regulatory intelligence:

Detect → Understand → Decide → Act

From regulatory monitoring to regulatory intelligence

Cognos Conecta connects EASA's official regulatory sources and documentation with an environment for monitoring, detection and analysis.

The aim is not simply to flag that a new document exists. It is to turn regulatory change into information that the organisation's responsible professionals can understand and use: from EASA's official sources, to Cognos Conecta's monitoring, detection and analysis; from there, to actionable information —changes, applicability and checklist—, and finally to the organisation, which reviews, decides and acts.

EASA → Cognos Conecta → Actionable information → Organisation

How does Cognos Conecta work?

01 · Select your regulations.Cognos Conecta lets you work with the whole EASA regulatory universe, from Aircrew and Aerodromes to Continuing Airworthiness. The organisation can select the regulations it needs to monitor and centralise their follow-up.

02 · Detect what has changed.The system identifies new and amended documents, so the first stage of monitoring no longer depends solely on a manual search.

03 · Understand the change.Cognos Conecta uses Artificial Intelligence to help the professional understand the regulatory content: executive summaries, regulatory purpose, amended rules, cross-references, application dates and practical implications.

04 · Turn the analysis into action.The analysis can be turned into an action plan, together with a checklist and high-value questions that make the team's review easier. The information can be exported to CSV to feed it into internal processes.

The key question: what should I do?

Detecting a regulatory change matters. Understanding it matters even more. But for an aviation organisation, the real value appears when the analysis makes the next step possible: deciding where to start acting.

Cognos Conecta is not meant to replace the internal compliance assessment process. What it does is provide guidelines to start that process: what has changed, which areas may be involved, which aspects are worth reviewing and which questions the team should be asking.

This kind of output is especially useful because it does not stop at a summary of the change. It provides a starting point from which the person responsible can begin the internal assessment with a clear structure.

The questions Cognos Conecta generates also help steer the team's conversation: which procedure should we review? What evidence do we need to check? Who should be involved? What actions should we record?

The output can thus become an action plan and an initial checklist, which the organisation will then review and develop according to its own processes and responsibilities.

AI to assist. Knowledge to decide.

A new approach to regulatory monitoring

Before.Manual review of EASA sources, periodic searches for updates, manual identification of amended documents, an initial reading to decide whether they are relevant and, separately, the analysis of their implications.

With Cognos Conecta.Centralised monitoring, detection of new and amended documents, AI-assisted analysis, application dates and checklist, and greater traceability throughout the process.

Artificial Intelligence, but with aviation knowledge

In an environment as sensitive as aviation, bringing in Artificial Intelligence does not mean handing a tool the responsibility for interpreting regulation.

Cognos Conecta is conceived as a tool that assists the professional. AI helps locate, structure and analyse the information, but responsibility for the review and the decisions remains with the professionals and the organisation.

This approach includes an AI governance framework aligned with ISO/IEC 42001 and the European regulatory framework for Artificial Intelligence.

Built for those who need to stay up to date

Cognos Conecta is aimed especially at Compliance Managers, Quality Managers, Safety Managers, auditors and aviation managers who need to keep an up-to-date view of the regulatory landscape.

Coverage matters

Cognos Conecta monitors 34 EASA regulations, actively tracks 76 AMC & GM and covers 36 Certification Specifications, with a 48-hour change review cycle.

Because the real challenge is not knowing the regulation

Aviation regulation will keep changing. New documents, amendments, application dates and cross-references will remain part of the daily life of aviation organisations.

The challenge will be less and less “finding information” and more and more “turning that information into knowledge that is useful for making decisions”.

That is the space where Cognos Conecta works.