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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
  • Reporting and Dashboards
  • Threat and Vulnerability

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Products: 17
Next Award: Jul 2027

Top Governance, Risk and Compliance Software 2026

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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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

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
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Client Friendly Policies

Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster.

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Pros

  • Friendly Negotiation
  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Trustworthy
SAI360

SAI360

Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
7.1 /10

Compliance 360® is a comprehensive software solution that streamlines governance, risk, compliance and internal audit process for organizations of all sizes and geographic diversity. Compliance 360 is designed to make compliance, risk and audit management easier, less costly, and much more manageable – even for organizations in highly regulated industries.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Includes Product Enhancements
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
Archer Technologies

Archer

Composite Score
6.9 /10
CX Score
6.9 /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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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Reliable
  • Respectful

Logic Manager ERM Software is a risk management software specializing in regulatory compliance, audit management and financial/market risk management. LogicManager’s ERM software can connect all your enterprise risk management, governance, and compliance activities in one centralized hub.

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Pros

  • Caring
  • Respectful
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Under Delivered
  • Vendor's Interest First
  • Charges for Enhancements

MetricStream ConnectedGRC empowers organizations to pursue an integrated approach to GRC and ensure collaboration between risk, compliance, audit, cybersecurity, and sustainability teams. This highly collaborative approach enables businesses to better identify, assess, manage, and mitigate strategic risks, operational and enterprise risks, IT and cyber risks, third-party risks, compliance risks, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks.

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Pros

  • Friendly Negotiation
  • Includes Product Enhancements
  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Less Caring
  • Slower Product Innovation
  • Leverages Incumbent Status

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Maclear’s Risk Management Solution provides a structured automated approach to managing risk. A software solution designed on best practices configured to your business processes to apply uniform risk assessment frameworks across the risk landscape. Built-in comprehensive dashboards with a wealth of qualitative and quantitative data that provide real-time risk insights. The data, reports and analytics can be used to across the enterprise to manage top-down and bottom-up approaches and roll-up scores

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

CLDigital 360 is an intuitive, scalable, and flexible Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platform tailored to meet the needs of modern businesses. Built on three main pillars—no code, business process management, and data centricity—CLDigital offers a comprehensive platform that combines data integration, visualization, innovative solution creation, security, and governance. The platform features easy-to-use, customizable, real-time, interactive dashboards and capabilities for building innovative, future-proof solutions. It offers cloud and on-premises deployment flexibility.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

360inControl® is your collaborative solution to implement all requirements and aspects in GRC, information security, data protection, and certification centrally and integrally. Whether you need to directly implement a use case or start with GRC, ISMS, or data protection implementation, 360inControl® supports you in implementing your requirements adapted to your company, your budget, and your protection needs. APIs e.g. to OKTA, Microsoft etc. supports a lean and sustainable onboarding into your organization. Extremely fast setup of the cloud solution. Test tenants allow interested parties to perform a practical evaluation.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy