Ensure GDPR and Data Protection Compliance with Symbiant’s Data Protection Impact Assessment Software (DPIA)
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DPIA Software That Delivers Compliance, Control, and Customisation at Scale
From guided assessments and automated action tracking to optional AI-powered insights and seamless module linking, Symbiant’s DPIA Software is everything you need to manage data protection impact assessments with clarity, confidence, and complete control.
Comprehensive and User-Friendly DPIA Module
The Symbiant DPIA Software Module is a comprehensive, simple and fully featured Data Protection Impact Assessment Solution. Answer Questionnaires, create associated Risks, Track Actions and ensure Compliance.
Customisable & Fully Linked Across Modules
Easily link any questionnaire or assessmen—not just DPIAs—to related modules like risks, controls, and audits. The entire DPIA Software Module is fully customisable to fit your organisation’s exact workflows and requirements.
AI Supercharged Efficiency
Symbiant AI connects the dots for you, turning scattered data into actionable insight. Automate the tedious, uncover hidden risks, and stay effortlessly aligned with evolving regulations.
Everything You Need to Manage Complaints with Clarity
DPIA Features That Help You Stay Compliant, Informed, and in Control
Effortlessly manage your Data Protection Impact Assessments with a powerful, user-friendly solution built to ensure full GDPR compliance, streamline risk analysis, and support ongoing data privacy best practices.
Premade DPIA Assessments
Get started immediately with a fully structured DPIA template—ready out of the box and built to meet all legal requirements and data protection best practices. The included questionnaire covers the nature, scope, context, and purpose of data processing, plus assessments of necessity, proportionality, and compliance controls. All questions are editable, so you can adapt the assessment to your project’s exact needs.
Real-Time Risk Scoring
Automatically calculate privacy and data protection risks using your own risk scoring framework. Symbiant’s software allows you to define likelihood and severity thresholds, delivering real-time insights into potential high-risk activities. Risk scores are updated dynamically as new information or controls are added—ensuring every DPIA reflects the most up-to-date threat landscape.
Centralised Action Tracking
Create actionable mitigation plans directly within your DPIA record. Assign tasks to responsible users, set deadlines, attach evidence, and log progress updates—all in one place. Symbiant’s robust action tracking ensures nothing is missed and provides full visibility across all ongoing DPIAs.
Automated Email Alerts & Notifications
Symbiant’s DPIA software includes automated email notifications that alert users to new actions, due dates, overdue tasks, and review cycles. No more chasing people—just seamless, automated updates to keep your entire team aligned and responsive.
Reimagine Compliance with AI
How Symbiant AI Transforms Compliance Management
Smarter, faster, and fully connected—Symbiant AI empowers compliance teams to stay ahead of regulations, uncover hidden risks, and automate the manual work that slows you down.
Starting from just £100/month* Unlimited users. Unlimited requests.
Symbiant AI actively scans your compliance data to flag gaps, identify new risks, and recommend actions aligned with evolving regulations—so your team can stay proactive, not reactive.
From Root Cause to Ripple Effect—AI Connects the Dots
Forget assumptions. Symbiant AI automatically identifies why issues occur and what could happen if controls fail—giving you clear, data-backed insights without the legwork.
Save Time
Duplicate entries? Poorly structured records? Let AI handle it. Symbiant automatically detects duplicate compliance data, giving you a reliable single source of truth.
Where Compliance Meets Strategy, Powered by AI
Compliance isn’t just a checklist, it’s part of your strategy. Symbiant AI links risks and controls to your organisational goals and resources, making compliance a driver of smarter decision-making.
Work Smarter: AI Reduces Admin Burden
Automate manual processes and repetitive reviews. Symbiant AI frees up your team to focus on high-impact work while ensuring accuracy, speed, and collaboration across departments.
Ensure Privacy and Security
Symbiant’s AI-Powered Assistant is fully GDPR-compliant and built to protect your privacy. It does not collect or store your data. Instead, it creates a temporary cache folder to fulfil each query and immediately deletes the information once the task is complete.
Your data always stays securely within your environment, giving you full control and peace of mind while benefiting from AI assisted insights.
Advanced Functionality for Total Data Protection Control
Advanced DPIA Software Designed for Full Control and GDPR Compliance
Take your Data Protection Impact Assessments further with fully editable questionnaires, actionable risk workflows, real-time dashboards, and a flexible design that adapts to your organisation’s compliance framework—no coding required.
Editable, Compliant, and Ready to Launch
Each DPIA begins with a built-in assessment questionnaire that meets GDPR requirements out of the box. It covers core areas like purpose, legal basis, proportionality, and impact on individuals. Every question is fully editable, allowing you to customise the questionnaire based on internal policy, industry requirements, or specific project needs.
From Identification to Mitigation, All in One System
Symbiant transforms questionnaire responses into actionable risk records. Risks can be assessed for likelihood and severity, linked to mitigation plans, and assigned owners for resolution. Progress is tracked throughout, ensuring every risk is addressed, not just documented.
Real-Time DPIA Oversight at a Glance
Stay on top of all assessments with live dashboards showing progress, open actions, review schedules, and risk exposure levels. Use ready-made report templates or design your own to meet internal audit, board, or regulator needs—with full export functionality.
Make It Yours, No Code Required
Customise field names, page layouts, forms, reports, and workflows without needing development support. Whether you’re a local council, financial institution, or health organisation, Symbiant’s DPIA module adapts to your exact processes and governance standards.
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With over 25 years of innovation in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and Audit Management, Symbiant is trusted by organisations across every sector. Our clients love how our powerful, affordable, award-winning and fully customisable risk software helps them stay compliant, make smarter decisions, and reduce complexity, without the costly overheads.
Explore the full Symbiant suite, powerful, fully integrated modules that extend your Compliance Management capabilities across governance, risk, audit, and beyond. Everything you need to protect your organisation, stay aligned, and work smarter.
Your complete solution starts from just £300/month*.
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The Symbiant Risk Management Software module enables organisations to identify, understand, and manage risks with ease and efficiency. It provides a streamlined approach to monitoring, assessing, and mitigating risks, ensuring informed decisions and compliance.
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The Symbiant Compliance Management Software module simplifies the management of compliance tasks. It helps organisations track regulations, manage audits, and ensure adherence to legal requirements, driving efficiency and minimising risk.
The Symbiant Risk Management Software module enables organisations to identify, understand, and manage risks with ease and efficiency. It provides a streamlined approach to monitoring, assessing, and mitigating risks, ensuring informed decisions and compliance.
Symbiant AI connects data across your organisation, delivering actionable insights and seamless workflows. From logical, data-driven risk scoring to uncovering root causes and predicting the domino effect of control failures, Symbiant AI empowers smarter, faster decisions. Eliminate duplicate risks in seconds, refine controls, identify emerging risks, and so much more—all tailored to your business.
The Symbiant Audit Management Software module streamlines audit planning, action tracking, and time management. It automatically pulls relevant data, allows easy report customisation, and generates professional audit reports.
The Symbiant Compliance Management Software module simplifies the management of compliance tasks. It helps organisations track regulations, manage audits, and ensure adherence to legal requirements, driving efficiency and minimising risk.
Common Questions About Symbiant’s Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) Module
Explore answers to the most asked questions about Symbiant’s GRC and Audit Management software with an optional AI-Assistant, from features and benefits to pricing and integration.
What is DPIA software, and why do I need it for GDPR compliance?
DPIA software (Data Protection Impact Assessment software) helps organisations identify, assess, and mitigate data protection risks before processing personal data. Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), DPIAs are legally required for projects that may pose a high risk to individuals’ rights and freedoms. Symbiant’s DPIA Module streamlines the entire process, from questionnaires to risk analysis and reporting, ensuring you stay compliant, efficient, and audit-ready.
Can I customise the DPIA forms and workflow to match my organisation’s needs?
Absolutely. All aspects of the DPIA module are fully customisable, from the questionnaire and field labels to the report templates and user permissions. You can tailor the workflow to align with your organisation’s policies, internal processes, or sector-specific governance requirements.
Is Symbiant suitable for public sector and regulated industries?
Absolutely. Symbiant is used by local councils, regulatory bodies, healthcare providers, universities, and private enterprises. The platform is scalable, secure, and flexible, perfect for any organisation that processes personal or sensitive data and needs to ensure compliance with data protection regulations.
Is the AI Assistant included in the base price of the complaint management software?
No, the AI Assistant is available as an optional add-on. Symbiant’s AI Assistant is designed to enhance your complaint management process by providing intelligent insights, automating workflows, and improving accuracy. This feature is available starting at £100 per month*, offering unlimited users and requests. It can be added to your existing compliance management module to supercharge your operations with AI-powered precision.
Getting started is simple! Just book a free, no-pressure demo with our team. We tailor every demo to your business or industry, so you’ll see exactly how the DPIA Software for Data Protection Impact Assessments can work for you. We don’t believe in hard sells, once you see the flexibility, intelligence, and value Symbiant offers, the software speaks for itself. With full access to our platform starting from just £300/month* for a complete solution, you’ll have everything you need to manage risk, audit, compliance, and complaints, seamlessly.
Unmatched GRC Flexibility. Powerful Features. One Smart Platform.
Symbiant isn’t just the world’s most cost-effective GRC and Audit software—it’s the most agile and customisable too. Whether you need a streamlined setup or a feature-rich solution, Symbiant flexes to fit your workflow, your team, and your goals.
From configurable dashboards to automated triggers and audit-ready reporting, every feature is designed to simplify complex processes and give you full control. Tailor the user experience for each team, automate the repetitive, and connect your data like never before.
There’s a lot Symbiant can do—so instead of listing everything (and putting you to sleep), here’s a taste of what our clients love most.
Solution Highlights
Audit Assessments
Audit Management
Business Continuity Planning
Business Objectives
Controls & Policies
Control Self Assessments
Compliance Management
Create Bespoke Modules
Data Protection Impact Assessments
Document Management
Due Diligence
ESG Management
Incident Reporting
Key Risk Indicators
Regulatory Action Tracking
Risk Assessments
Risk Workshops
Security, Health & Safety, Environment Management
Survey and Questionnaires
Ticket Management
Working Papers
Administration Highlights
Symbiant Service Highlights
30 Day Contracts
£100 per module with unlimited user access
Free Support & Training
ISO 27001 & ISO 31000
ISO 9001 & ISO 22301
Intuitive & Easy to use
Only Pay For The Modules you use
Ready To Use Out Of The Box
Unlimited Record Storage
Configurable User Accounts
Configurable User Permissions
Hub & Spoke Divisional Permissions
Single Sign On Authentication
Track System Changes
Track User Login Activity
User Inactivity Timeouts
Unlimited User Accounts
Solution Highlights
AI Assistant
Action Tracking
Automated Email Reminders
Automated Email Reports
Automated Triggers
Collaborate with Groups
Configurable Dashboards
Configurable Data Entry
Configurable Reporting
Configurable View & Edit
Create Bespoke Functions
Create Your Own Dashboards
Create Your Own Reports
Filterable Dashboards
Full Audit Logs of Changes
Full Audit Logs of Data
Fully Customisable
Give Ownership of Content
Import & Export Data
Multiple Risk Registers
Performance Indicators
Report on connected data
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Pricing Disclaimer
* Modules are charged at a standard monthly fee, not on a per-user basis. All users can access each module at any required level. Please note that costs exclude VAT, AI features, and additional modules you may wish to use. User seats are required.
Symbiant’s DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment) Software enables organisations to identify, evaluate and mitigate data privacy risks with ease. Designed to support GDPR and data protection compliance, the module includes prebuilt assessments, real-time risk scoring using your custom score sets, and integrated action tracking. Users can log reviews, attach supporting documentation, and create remedial action plans that are tracked to completion. Seamlessly link your DPIAs to Risk Modules, Risk Registers, Controls and Policies, and the Incident Reporter for a connected and compliant data governance strategy.
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