What Dakota Software does

Dakota Software Corporation is a private, Cleveland, Ohio-based software company founded in 1988 that builds enterprise Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance software under the ProActivity Suite platform. The company positions itself as a "Regulatory Risk Operating System," combining curated regulatory intelligence (a 35-year proprietary content library covering 100,000+ action-forcing citations and tracking 6,000 regulatory changes annually) with execution modules for compliance planning, auditing, incident management, task tracking, inspections, sustainability reporting, and analytics. Named sub-products include Profiler (regulatory registers and compliance calendars), Auditor (EHS auditing with site-specific checklists), Tracer (task and action-item management), Scout (incident reporting and OSHA recordkeeping), Insights (EHS analytics and BI), and Dakota Inspections (mobile inspection management). An AI-powered Permit Analysis tool is offered as a feature within the platform.

The platform is built on a hub-and-spoke architecture with ProActivity as the central ecosystem powered by the regulatory intelligence database. Dakota extends the platform through partnerships — with Scope 5 for ESG/sustainability integration (2021) and The MARCOM Group for workforce EHS training content (170+ full-length and 1,100+ micro-learning courses, 2021) — and through ongoing product launches, most notably Dakota Insights (2022) and Dakota Inspections (2024). The platform has received multiple industry awards, including the AIHA Platinum Industrial Hygiene Award (2022) and Software/SaaS Product of the Year (2022, 2023).

Dakota sells primarily via direct enterprise field sales with a demo-driven motion, targeting large multi-site organizations in regulated industries such as chemicals, manufacturing, food/dairy, packaging, steel/metals, agriculture, and laboratory/healthcare. Pricing is quote-based with annual subscription billing; specific contract values are not publicly disclosed. The named customer base includes BASF, Schreiber, RPM International, Ingevity, Solvay, Veolia North America, FMC Corporation, ADM, Western Sugar Cooperative, Bemis, and TAMU, among roughly 20 enterprise logos. Dakota Corporation has no disclosed parent company, no institutional funding history, and continues to operate under founder/President Reg Shiverick from its Cleveland headquarters.

Name

Dakota Software

Legal name

Dakota Software Corporation

Website

https://dakotasoft.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Dakota Software is a private Cleveland-based software company founded in 1988 that provides enterprise EHS (Environmental, Health, and Safety) compliance software via its ProActivity Suite platform, serving large multi-site organizations in chemicals, manufacturing, food, and other regulated industries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

EHS Compliance Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) & Regulatory Reference (OSHA, EPA, Risk) (EDAGAGAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Audit Management, Controls & SOX Compliance (BPAEAPAH)

Keywords

• EHS compliance software
• Regulatory compliance platform
• Environmental health safety
• Audit management software
• ESG sustainability reporting

Headquarters

HQ city

Cleveland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. ProActivity Suite Subscriptions: Enterprise EHS software subscription model providing access to the full ProActivity Suite ecosystem including modules for compliance planning, auditing, incidents, inspections, analytics, and tasks

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Dakota Software sells a Regulatory Risk Operating System built on its ProActivity Suite platform, providing enterprise EHS compliance software that integrates curated regulatory intelligence with execution modules for compliance planning, auditing, incident management, inspections, task tracking, and analytics. The platform serves complex, multi-facility organizations needing to centralize and automate regulatory compliance workflows, with industry-leading curated content covering 100,000+ action-forcing citations.

Product overview

Dakota Software offers a Regulatory Risk Operating System built on its ProActivity Suite platform. The platform follows a hub-and-spoke architecture with ProActivity as the core ecosystem powered by curated regulatory intelligence, integrating multiple modules: Profiler (compliance planning), Auditor (auditing), Tracer (task management), Scout (incident reporting), Insights (analytics), EHS Inspections, and Sustainability Reporting. Dakota positions itself as a content-driven solution, differentiating through its integrated library of regulatory content that covers 100,000+ action-forcing citations and tracks 6,000+ regulatory changes annually. The company also partners with The MARCOM Group to provide training content access (170+ full-length and 1,100+ micro-learning courses), though this appears to be content access rather than a technical integration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ProActivity Suite: A comprehensive ecosystem of EHS solutions fueled by curated regulatory content, including modules for Incidents & Observations, EHS Compliance Planning, Inspections, EHS Auditing, Analytics, Tasks & Action Items, and Sustainability Reporting.
• Profiler
• Auditor
• Tracer
• Scout
• Insights
• Dakota Insights
• Compliance+

Products and services

• ProActivity Suite A comprehensive ecosystem of EHS solutions fueled by curated regulatory content, integrating modules for compliance planning, auditing, incident management, inspections, analytics, and task management. Provides a single trusted view of regulatory exposure across the business.
• Profiler (EHS Compliance Planning) Automates regulatory registers and compliance calendars with an integrated library and regulatory applicability tools, ensuring compliance plans are always accurate and up-to-date.
• Auditor (EHS Auditing) Streamlines EHS audits with site-specific checklists, real-time tracking, and current regulatory citations; available online and offline, fully integrated with the platform.
• Tracer (Tasks and Action Items) Centralizes EHS tasks, tracks progress in real time, and links actions to audits, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks across sites and teams.
• Scout (Incidents and Observations) Streamlines incident reporting and OSHA recordkeeping; empowers frontline reporting, streamlines investigations, and auto-generates OSHA logs with audit-ready incident management.
• Dakota Insights (Analytics) Advanced EHS Analytics and Business Intelligence platform with real-time dashboards, predictive KPIs, and exportable reports; unifies EHS data for regulatory-informed decision-making.
• EHS Inspections (Dakota Inspections) Standardizes inspections with OSHA/EPA-based checklists, mobile access, and real-time analytics; equips workforce for safer outcomes and site-wide regulatory compliance.
• Sustainability Reporting Supports ESG data tracking and sustainability reporting capabilities within the platform, enabling decarbonization compliance and ESG dashboards.
• EHS Consulting Services Professional consulting services to help organizations assess EHS risk and design compliance programs built around the ProActivity Suite platform.
• Implementation Services Implementation services to deploy and configure the ProActivity Suite platform within customer environments, including integration with existing systems.
• Managed Services Ongoing managed services supporting customers' day-to-day operation of the EHS compliance platform, including regulatory content updates and program maintenance.
• Compliance+ Quick-Start A quick-start compliance solution offering designed to accelerate deployment of Dakota's EHS compliance tooling for organizations seeking rapid onboarding.
• Training and Support Training programs and customer support services for users of the ProActivity Suite, including access to the MARCOM Group's training content library of 170+ full-length and 1,100+ micro-learning EHS courses.

Quantifiable outcome

• Saves approximately one week of man hours every month on EHS report preparation
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers21 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• The MARCOM GroupcoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 4 June 2021Partnership to provide online safety and compliance training content to Dakota Software clients. Through this partnership, clients gain access to an online library of more than 170 full-length and 1,100 Micro-learning training courses covering General Safety, Regulatory Compliance, Hazardous Materials and Waste, Human Resources, Laboratory Safety, and Construction Safety. MARCOM's adaptive-learning and micro-learning formats complement Dakota's content-driven compliance products, supporting consistent training delivery across large workforces.
• Scope 5coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 March 2021Partnership to deliver comprehensive ESG solutions by combining Dakota's EHS compliance expertise with Scope 5's sustainability leadership. The partnership brings together EHS and Sustainability software leaders to transform ESG management through proactive compliance management and real-time data collection, analysis, and reporting.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• VelocityEHS: VelocityEHS is a leading cloud-based EHS software platform serving enterprise customers across manufacturing, chemicals, and industrial sectors. It directly competes with Dakota's ProActivity Suite in compliance management, auditing, incident tracking, and sustainability reporting, and is similarly focused on mid-to-large enterprise buyers with subscription-based recurring revenue.
• Intelex Technologies: Intelex is a mature EHS and Quality management software platform serving enterprise customers globally. It competes directly with Dakota in compliance, auditing, incident, and ESG workflows, with similar modular architecture and recurring subscription pricing aimed at complex multi-site organizations.
• Enablon (Wolters Kluwer): Enablon is an enterprise EHS, risk, and sustainability software platform owned by Wolters Kluwer. It competes directly with Dakota in compliance management, auditing, and ESG reporting for large multinationals, with deeper global reach and integration breadth than Dakota.
• Sphera: Sphera is an enterprise EHS, risk, and product stewardship software platform serving industrial customers globally. It directly overlaps Dakota in compliance, auditing, and sustainability workflows, and competes for the same Fortune 500 industrial and chemical customers Dakota serves.
• SAI360: SAI360 is an EHS, risk, and compliance software platform serving enterprise customers across industries. It competes directly with Dakota in compliance management, auditing, and incident tracking, with similar modular SaaS architecture and enterprise subscription pricing.
• ProcessMAP: ProcessMAP is an enterprise EHS software platform serving manufacturing, chemicals, and industrial customers. It directly competes with Dakota in compliance, incident, audit, and sustainability workflows, with similar enterprise sales motion and recurring subscription pricing.
• KPA (formerly EHS Hero): KPA is an EHS and compliance management software platform serving mid-market and enterprise customers. It overlaps with Dakota's ProActivity Suite in compliance management, training (via its training content library), and incident/audit workflows, with comparable regulatory content differentiation.

Emerging players

• Verisk 3E: Verisk 3E provides regulatory content and compliance software for EHS, particularly focused on chemical regulatory data and SDS authoring. It is comparable to Dakota's curated regulatory intelligence database as a content-plus-software play, though it is stronger in chemical/product compliance than full EHS workflow management.

Broad incumbents

• Workiva: Workiva is a cloud platform for regulatory, ESG, and sustainability reporting, serving large enterprises and audit teams. It is comparable to Dakota's Sustainability Reporting and Insights modules as an ESG/sustainability reporting destination, though Workiva is broader in scope (financial reporting, GRC) and serves a wider buyer.
• Wolters Kluwer (Enablon parent): Wolters Kluwer is a global information services company whose Enablon unit is a direct EHS competitor to Dakota. As a broad incumbent with deep regulatory content libraries, professional expertise, and global distribution, Wolters Kluwer represents both a direct competitor and a potential acquirer or partner for Dakota.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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