GRC Roll-up: Laserfiche Offers Tighter Governance, EU Gets Tough On Data Privacy

By David Roe (@druadh20) Nov 30, 2011

Even with the Thanksgiving Weekend, there’s been a lot in the GRC space, including the recent upgrade from Laserfiche, SOA’s enhanced Repository Manager, the EU has said it is going to tighten up on data privacy, Compliance 360 looks into its crystal, while Iron Mountain and O’Neil partner.

Laserfiche 8.3 Offers Tighter Governance

Laserfiche has announced the immediate availability of Laserfiche 8.3. The new release spans various lines of business, helping organizations improve information governance and automating transactional processes such as accounts payable processing, case management, contract management and HR onboarding, among others.

Laserfiche 8.3 comes with

New Workflow activities to automate transactional processes by dragging and dropping pre-built workflow activities onto a graphical canvas.
Database activities automate the process of retrieving and updating information from third-party databases, simplifying integration.
Automatically import PDF forms into Laserfiche
Customized workflow configuration

If you’re interested in more, check out the video below.

SOA Software Upgrades Repository Manager

SOA Software has just announced Repository Manager Version 6.4 which now automatically discovers dependencies across processes, services and schemas, ensuring they conform to organizational standards.

Repository Manager is SOA’s development governance platform that simplifies the creation, integration, management and promotion of enterprise assets and services throughout the complete development lifecycle.

It also automates the path to SOA and Cloud, enabling customers to rapidly develop, govern and deploy services within the SOA service lifecycle.

Repository Manager 6.4 gives customers deep insight into their SOA as it matures and evolves, and ensures that changes are well managed, proactively dealt with and remain aligned with core SOA architectural principles, the company said.

Its heading towards the end of the year and everyone’s trying to get to grips with what’s on the way for next year.

Compliance 360’s Crystal Ball

There’s been a number of companies that have already published their predictions, so here’s Compliance 360’s predictions around governance, risk, audit and compliance management for the upcoming year.

As the attention of regulatory bodies becomes more firmly focused on GRC results, corporations and their boards of directors need to focus their attention on reducing the likelihood of whistleblowers and proactively demonstrating compliance effectiveness in 2012.

Compliance officers and their boards of directors will face increasing threats to their internal compliance programs and, ultimately, their institutional brands.
Demonstrating compliance effectiveness will be critical.
The "G" in GRC will become much more important.
GRC will be recognized as strategic to the CEO and board.
Analytics will become more important.

From the board down, Compliance 360 says, GRC users will need to see trend lines and correlations to identify and address root-cause issues before auditors come calling. If you want to see these predictions in more detail, check them out here.