There are a couple of major events this week so GRC has been busy. Force.com has now offers ClearGRC for social governance, OpenText has released new content management for the legal vertical, we looked at why SharePoint is barely legal, and Clearwater has upgraded its HIPAA auditing tool. Symantec, meanwhile, offers new backup possibilities.
Force.com Gets Social GRC
Dreamforce is on , so let’s kick off with something Salesforce-y. GRC vendor EnCrisp has announced the release of ClearGRC Enterprise and Social Governance Service built and delivered natively on Force.com.
The suite of products includes come with cloud-based Governance-as-a-Service (GaaS) platform named ClearGRC.
These overnance, risk and security compliance applications are designed to govern and provide transparency and monitoring of compliance with quality and security standards
The purpose built cloud GRC solutions focus not just on internal governance but also on the collaboration driven by social GRC, using real-time dynamic risk-based information from social media channels like Twitter, Facebook and geo-spatial information from Google.
Built on Force.com, the EnCrisp applications come with a drag-and-drop user interface and offers extended real-time transparency and monitoring of social media and geo-spatial location based information.
It also comes with supports for over 16 languages with the ability to add more and integrates into to all major enterprise ERP and GRC solutions including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and other third-party solutions.
OpenText Offers Legal Content Management
Earlier in the week OpenText released Legal Content Management. The release follows its release of Application Governance for SharePoint in March of this year.
While the governance application offers control over SharePoint sites to enforce broader compliance and archiving policies and help lower ongoing administration and storage costs, LCM offers OpenText expertise in lifecycle management with SharePoint’s collaboration and document management capabilities.
LCM, significantly, is also specifically offering this to SMB law firms, reflecting perhaps, the reach of SharePoint into that market with the launch of Office 365 and new pricing schemes that make SharePoint accessible to even the smallest companies. Interested in more?
SharePoint is Barely Legal
This week we also took a look at SharePoint in the legal space and posed the question as to whether SharePoint is ready for legal?
The legal vertical tends to be the most fussy when it comes to document management, something SharePoint has been severely criticized about. In the legal space this could be problem as law firm’s entire business model is driven by authoring, delivering and storing documents.
Their competition has been perfecting this technology for many years, and SharePoint has some catching up to do. Interested in more?
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