Governance, Risk and Compliance news from FierceComplianceIT

We tend to think of GRC (governance, risk and compliance news) software as something with the sole purpose of making compliance with regulations and best practices easier--though some big-think types... Read more...

Recall that when EMC bought Archer Technologies, it seemed to suggest a major step forward in its bid to offer a more integrated suite. Archer, after all, had made some huge in-roads at big companies... Read more...

So IT spending, including spending on GRC solutions, has been pressured by the recession, right? We're in a tough period of grueling incremental gains, during which the sales folks need to be working... Read more...

Symantec and other security companies have leveraged themselves into the GRC market over the past couple of years with new services and acquisitions. Symantec continued that movement with its... Read more...

We discussed the import of the EMC deal for Archer Technologies last week. Some have suggested that the deal is yet one more in a string of deals that will slowly leave very few if any independents.... Read more...

The industry tends to gravitate to the same marketing points. Right now, we're all accustomed to the rhetoric that formerly stove-piped processes--such as financial compliance, risk management and... Read more...

KPMG and Archer Technologies just announced a partnership that will combine tax and audit expertise with tax control and other GRC solutions. The partnership is pitching the combination as a way to... Read more...

We've been predicting more consolidation in the GRC--and security--related software markets for a while now. In particular, we've been expecting the mega-vendors to pick up smaller companies. No one... Read more...

The benefit of mainstream newspapers taking a look at the GRC industry is that they often provide some timely perspective on the state of the industry. So it is with a recent Financial Times look at... Read more...

"Once in a while, you can be better off getting hit with that bullet you thought you dodged." So says SymSoft CEO Dan Wilhelms. He's referring to the small-ish companies or pre-public that took their... Read more...