Building a meaningful data analytics system for a company can be a multi-stage process with numerous challenges along the way. The effort could be worthwhile, however, because a well-functioning system can provide strategic insights that help the whole company to thrive. This article distills insights from compliance team leaders at American Express Global Business Travel, shared during a session at the 2025 Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Conference on Data Analytics for Compliance Programs, about how the team built an analytics program that generated insights that created value for the whole company. See “A Step-by-Step Approach to Upleveling Compliance Analytics” (Jul. 9, 2025).