Grc News & Articles

In a world full of Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, RenewData (news, site) wants to be a Honda. That is, the eDiscovery provider would rather be regarded as automated, reliable and affordable than manual, over-priced and out of reach.

Wasn’t it just last week that we were pondering the sustainability of GRC as an acronym? Have no fear; the world of GRC still spins. This week: financial advisers tackle social media, how to comply with multiple regulations and security compliance predictions for 2010.

Cloud computing has been the hot new thing on the market for a while now. It’s what has the enterprise buzzing and apprehensive. It’s what has those in charge of governance concerned. Overall, working in the cloud is the best and worst thing that ever happened to the enterprise.

How one uses the cloud is most dependent how compliant you intend to be. Once you understand the individual compliance regulations and specific requirements, it’s likely that you (and your data) can live comfortably on the cloud.

Last week, we pondered the fate of acronyms -- namely GRC. Continuing the conversation, we sat down with CA’s (news, site) Marc Camm, senior vice president and general manager of GRC Products, and Peter Stapleton, senior principal product manager for CA GRC Manager, to discuss their thoughts about what Governance, Risk and Compliance will look like in 2010 and beyond.

Back in December we remarked about the trouble with generic acronyms and what they contribute (if anything) to web content management.

This year the same argument unfolds around another acronym, GRC. On the Gartner Blog Network, French Caldwell recently wrote about the war on governance, risk and compliance.

January kicks off officially for EMC (news, site) with the acquisition of Archer Technologies, further demonstrating the enterprise content management vendors support for integrated governance, risk and compliance software.

Vamosa (news, site) has been around for a number of years now, but the latest version of their Content Migrator -- version 3 -- was just recently released. In this second article of our series (see part one covering Kapow Technologies here) we take a look at Vamosa Content Migrator 3.0. Come along for the ride.

Oracle (news, site) has gone beyond their regular Governance, Risk and Compliance Suite with the release of a new platform and updated Enterprise GRC Controls. The tools aim to complete the cycle by providing integration, automation and the consolidation of activities under one big umbrella.

Content is everywhere, and it is not cheap to manage it. Open Text (news, site) says it wants to lower the costs by connecting transactional data with business content behind each transaction through one app.

The new Open Text Content Access for Oracle application provides a single point of access to data for Oracle E-Business Suite users. Oracle E-Business Suite is a set of enterprise applications dealing mainly with ERP, lifecycle management and CRM.

The content access app works with both Oracle and non-Oracle content and allows users to link structured data in Oracle transactions with business content (electronic and paper assets, such as e-mail and contracts) managed in Open Text Enterprise CMS suite of products, while also covering the GRC angle.

Usually, content needs to be re-used across multiple applications, even though some of it is tied to a specific one (ERP, CRM, etc.). This is when Open Text’s new app gives a way of sharing business content across different applications, while managing access, retention, audit history, compliance, risk and other document and records management related activities.

As a side note: Oracle and Open Text’s relationship goes as far back as 10 years, and OTEX says it plans to continue its ECM technologies development using Oracle Fusion middleware.

This week may be a holiday for many of us, but there is still governance, compliance and risk issues to contemplate and analyze. Spruce up the conversation at the kids' table with a little talk of cloud computing and eDiscovery and teach the next generation that the future is now.

This week in GRC: a new privacy manager to map your enterprise's risks, a conference for pique your interest in identity management and a survey that shows you're getting better at managing GRC. 

Regardless of the current economic climate, saving money in a responsible way is a good thing. But these days many companies are looking to E-GRC and document management software to improve efficiency and lower costs.

In this guest article, Steve Schlarman of Archer Technologies asserts that you can reduce costs without compromising your governance, risk and compliance (GRC) structure. Let's have a look.

Looking for guidance on how to develop and execute a successful GRC program? In this article Sumner Blount highlights 7 best practices that can lead you on the path to Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) success.

In this article Computer Associates' Sumner Blount explains the four main principles of Lean GRC -- highlighting how companies can leverage the concepts of Lean Manufacturing and Lean IT to help streamline compliance and risk management efforts across the enterprise.

In addition to CA's release of GRC Manager 2.5, the world of GRC is chock-full of partnerships and inquiries.