data analytics covers a wide spectrum of the use of analytics to discover and gain insights from an organization's data, potentially enhanced by externally sourced data. Corruption and fraud analytics specifically targets the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data that identify or indicate that corruption or fraudulent activity may have, or is currently occurring in any particular organization. it enables use of the power of data already stored in company databases to find suspicious patterns. it does not prove that fraud or corruption has occurred, but is a rapid and efficient way to identify what further enquiry and investigation may be warranted.