IntroductionThe more insight you have into your enterprise and its operations, the more effectively you can refine it to meet customer needs and compete in a global marketplace. The more control you have over those processes, the faster and more effectively you can tune those processes to respond to changes or new opportunities and risks. Indeed, the differentiator of the next generation of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is that the technologies you need to succeed in the marketplace are effectively the same you need for GRC. In fact, by focusing on deploying technology that can truly help your organization succeed in the future, you will gain a solution that gives you all the insights you need for successful governance, risk management and compliance.

Value-adding GRCInstead of looking backwards and treating GRC as a burden, what if the organization looked forward? By taking maximum advantage of the technical breakthroughs that have emerged over the past decade, an organization can both strengthen its ability

to perform in the marketplace and strengthen its ability to meet its GRC responsibilities. Market- leading enterprises make daily decisions based on balancing business and GRC performance, with business processes as the common ground.

Organizations must move toward greater automation because automation facilitates real-time monitoring and real-time data analysis. Instead of taking a reactive approach to risk, they must take advantage of real-time data analysis to identify emerging and impending risks—in time to do something proactive to mitigate or avoid these risks. Instead of acting retrospectively and executing controls at set intervals, organizations need to shift to control systems that operate continuously and that can facilitate business decisions based on predictive analytics.

Ultimately, we are looking at a world of fully integrated business controls. The organization gains the tools and insights that enable business decision- makers to view the business holistically, from end to end. Business process and workflows are laid bare because the silo walls that occluded insight have disappeared.

Intelligent GRC

The next generation of governance, risk and compliance management

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Whether an organization is considering GRC in the context of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 or the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010—or any of the myriad regulations enacted elsewhere in the world—GRC simply feels burdensome.

Intelligent GRC (iGRC) from Software AG eases the burden by providing you with platform you need to succeed. iGRC offers:

• Single point of truth across all GRC functions

• Real-time identification of control issues with automated alerting and remediation

• Accelerated reporting and rapid decision-making

• Improved and automate risk and control assurance

4th Generation GRCMaintaining balance with business processes as common ground

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Business managers have full understanding of how business processes are actually performing and have the tools and controls to refine those processes in response to new opportunities, competitive threats, changing market conditions or whatever stimuli demands a response. There is a single point of truth to which all stakeholders can turn.

At the same time, business decision-makers are able to integrate insights from well beyond the walls of the enterprise. Advances in the ability to incorporate and analyze data from social media and other sources provide much more information that can translate into business operational refinements, a better understanding of evolving customer needs and more. Organizations that can connect those insights with automated business processes and controls will be able to respond to the markets of today—and of tomorrow—with highly competitive and highly compelling offers.

With access to a single point of the truth that encompasses the entire enterprise and with analytical tools that can facilitate finding the answer to virtually any question about the operations of the enterprise, the organization we are describing can manage its GRC responsibilities more efficiently and effectively than ever before.

Managing the movement forwardSoftware AG has been working with companies around the world to facilitate the evolution of next generation of GRC. With iGRC, you gain continuous control, continuous monitoring and continuous analysis, enabling real-time insights into the state of the organization as well as the state of the marketplace. And with these tools you also gain the real-time levers you need both to guide the organization forward and respond rapidly and comprehensively to stakeholder demands for GRC information.

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Increase value through improved financial and operating controls

Reduce ongoing compliance costs

Improve risk and control assurance, usually in the same or less time than previous approaches

Accelerate reporting to support more rapid decision-making and business improvement

Get notification and impact analysis at regulatory change

Reduce costs, including internal audit costs and costs associated with unaddressed control deficiencies

Detect exceptions in real-time to enable immediate responses and reduce damage

Establish a more automated, risk-based control environment with lower labor costs

Achieve a more robust, more effective auditing process

Replace manual preventative controls with automated detective controls which increases the efficiency and traceability

Heighten competitive advantage by turning risk into value

Expand internal audit coverage with minimal incremental cost

Identify control issues in real-time with automatic alerting and remediation

Single point of truth for all GRC master data, such as risks, controls, regulatory requirements, processes, IT

Shorten audit cycles

Turn risk into value-adding GRC.

Far-reaching benefits for multiple stakeholders