Platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms for enabling the creation, validation, and direct filing of regulatory documents; platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms for providing an end-to-end guide for the filing of regulatory documents via a user-accessible interface and providing validations and exceptions to identify gaps in the underlying data; platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms featuring a calculation and data ingestion engine that completes complex calculations for risk and transaction-based items and integrates with third-party services; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for third parties to manage and track regulatory records and reports and investment data on a global level and transmit to regulators; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for third parties to automate the management and tracking of regulatory records and reports and investment data on a global level and transmit data/filings to regulators