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6 GRC Platforms CIOs Should Know Print E-mail
Thursday, 24 July 2008
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6 GRC Platforms CIOs Should Know
Paisley, Archer Technologies, OpenPages

Paisley, Archer Technologies, OpenPages


Company: Paisley
Headquarters: Cokato, MN
Revenue: NA (privately held)
GRC Information.


Founded in 1995, Paisley is an industry leading provider of comprehensive governance, risk and compliance solutions, including software, training, and professional services. The company's software solutions portfolio includes Paisley Enterprise GRC and GRC on Demand, which support the business processes of financial controls management, internal audit, operational risk management, compliance, IT governance, and enterprise risk management. To compliment these software solutions, Paisley offers a set of GRC professional services that combine methodology and technology it claims enable an organization to implement, maintain and optimize Paisley applications within their technology environment while reducing the total cost of ownership.


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Paisley recently announced a strategic partnership with QUMAS, the Cork, Ireland-based provider of compliance, risk and policy management solutions. In this partnership, Paisley will embed the QUMAS DocCompliance - a system for lifetime document management—functionality as a feature of Paisley Enterprise GRC, providing enhanced compliance management capabilities for Paisley and expanded market penetration for QUMAS.


Company: Archer Technologies
Headquarters: Overland Park, Kan.
Revenue: NA (privately held)
GRC Information.


Started five years ago with EDS as its first customers, Archer today has more than 6 million licensed users and a client list that includes one in four of the Fortune 100. Archer enables highly regulated companies to reduce enterprise risks, manage and demonstrate compliance, automate business processes, and gain visibility into corporate risk and security controls. All Archer solutions are built on the highly flexible Archer SmartSuite Framework, allowing clients to tailor the solutions according to their unique requirements and to build new on-demand applications to solve business problems. Building on a core IT GRC management (GRCM) base, the company has demonstrated effectively all four primary GRCM functions - audit management, compliance management, risk management and policy management—according to Gartner.


Company: OpenPages
Headquarters: Waltham, MA
Revenue: NA (privately held)
GRC Information.


OpenPages is a leading provider of enterprise GRC management solutions that optimize business performance. OpenPages gives large companies the ability to unify governance, risk and compliance across the enterprise and incorporate risk management into their everyday business processes. Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the Gartner report, OpenPages recently released its newest offering, OpenPages EHS, which provides companies with the tools to develop and manage a compliance and risk management program focused exclusively on managing environmental, health and safety. In June, the company also announced that it had received a patent for its enterprise GRC software. Prior to that, OpenPages introduced its latest platform offering—OpenPages 5.5—as well as OpenPages Hosting, which provides users with an easy and reliable way to deploy the company's technology.


This list was compiled by CIOZone contributing editor Laton McCartney.




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