Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Software

Governance, Risk and Compliance

What is Governance, Risk and Compliance Software?

GRC software provides an integrated, overall view of an organization’s governance, risk and compliance activities in order to minimize financial, legal and other liabilities. Together they provide for a coordinated approach and ensure that the organization is managing its risk factors and is compliant with all laws and regulations under which it operates.​

Common Features

  • Workflow Management
  • Incident Management and Remediation
  • Audit and Compliance Management
  • Policy Management
  • Risk Management
  • Asset Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Data Analytics / BI / AI
  • Reporting and Dashboards
  • Threat and Vulnerability
  • Automated Control Evidence Collection

Top Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Software

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Products: 13
Next Award: Jul 2025

Top Governance, Risk and Compliance Software 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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8.4 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Flexible, cloud-based GRC platform from Onspring. Easily manage and share information, monitor processes in real time and create reports with improved efficiency and integrity, all within a no-code environment. Whether you’re leaving an existing platform or implementing GRC software for the first time, Onspring has the technology, transparency and service-minded approach you need to rapidly achieve your goals.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Altruistic
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Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Control where you need it. Automation where you want it. Transparency through it all.

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  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Fair
  • Transparent
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Reimagine risk and compliance with integrated, automated, and embedded solutions to protect your business. Gain early and predictive insight into anomalies and potential risks Continuously monitor risks, identities, cyberthreats, and compliance across your mission-critical systems and processes with SAP GRC and cybersecurity solutions.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Caring
  • Effective Service
  • Acts with Integrity
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7.5 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

ServiceNow GRC harnesses the ServiceNow service management platform to enhance visibility and orchestrate cross‑functional GRC processes, detect and assess risks in real time, streamline and operationalize compliance controls, and accelerate the mean time to mitigate risks.

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  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
  • Fair
  • Client Friendly Policies
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The global threat landscape continues to evolve each day, bringing new and unexpected risks to people and organizations. The OneTrust GRC and Security Assurance Cloud brings resiliency to your organization and supply chain in the face of continuous cyberthreats, global crises, and natural disasters – so you can operate with confidence.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Efficient Service
  • Fair
  • Reliable
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7.3 /10
CX Score
7.4 /10

Archer Insight is a suite of enterprise-wide risk quantification capabilities designed to deliver risk and business leaders a complete view of enterprise risks to improve resilience and ensure achievement of its strategic goals. The solution provides business leaders with more aggregated view of risks that allows them not only to ensure compliance but ultimately to better protect their business from disruption as well as address risks related to new opportunities.

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  • Enables Productivity
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Reliable
  • Respectful

Proactively protect your enterprise to build trust and resilience amid constant change and disruption. Oracle Fusion Cloud Risk Management and Compliance is a security and audit solution that controls user access to your Oracle Cloud ERP financial data, monitors user activity, and makes it easier to meet compliance regulations through automation.

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Pros

  • Security Protects
  • Respectful
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
7.2 /10

The Diligent One Platform (formerly Diligent GRC Platform) is the only unified solution designed to centralize and unify all your board management and GRC activities. Get a consolidated view of risk across your entire organization. Curate and deliver it right to the board — so they can make better decisions.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Friendly Negotiation
  • Fair
  • Trustworthy
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6.9 /10
CX Score
6.9 /10

ZenGRC -- the first, easy-to-use, enterprise-grade information security solution for compliance and risk management -- offers businesses efficient control tracking, testing, and enforcement.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
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6.8 /10
CX Score
6.6 /10

IBM® OpenPages® with IBM Watson® is an AI-driven, highly scalable governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution that runs on any cloud with IBM Cloud Pak® for Data. Centralize siloed risk management functions within a single environment designed to help you identify, manage, monitor and report on risk and regulatory compliance, especially in today’s changing business landscape.

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Pros

  • Security Protects
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Altruistic

Cons

  • Under Delivered
  • Wastes Time
  • Less Efficient Service