You pretty much need effective partnerships to survive these days as a tech vendor of any sort. GRC is no different. Agiliance's RiskVision platform, which includes five core GRC applications, seems ready made for deployment by big integrators and consultants. It has just inked a joint marketing and sales deal [1] with PricewaterhouseCoopers, who presumably will offer the automation platform to its clients. I'm sure it it's looking for more distribution partnerships of this ilk.

In addition, Archer Technologies, has inked a deal with Qualys [2]; the deal will make QualysGuard vulnerability and compliance data available to Archer's clients. In January, Archer bought the assets [3] of Brabeion Software. It has been on a good run as of late, reporting a 56 percent rise in revenue [4] for the second quarter. The market for GRC [5] will be able to support a lot of players, but not all. Partnerships and deals will remain a constant for the rest of the year, most agree.

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