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Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Faced with mandates for tighter corporate governance and enterprise risk management and barraged by compliance regulations, organizations are adopting platforms that are focused on enterprise governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management. To assess the state of the GRC platform market and see how the vendors stack up against each other, Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top vendors across 99 criteria. The result: Axentis and QUMAS hit the top of the charts because of their thoroughness in covering the GRC space, while BWise and IBM also fall into the Leader category with platforms that have been used for a variety of GRC purposes. This report includes an interactive vendor comparison tool that provides detailed product evaluations and customizable rankings.