January 28, 2010

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recently published an impact brief, providing their analysis of EMC’s acquisition of Archer Technologies. We invite you to download the brief from the Archer web site for a third-party perspective on the synergies between Archer’s GRC platform and the EMC portfolio—and what the acquisition means for the industry at large.

Impact Brief Excerpts:

Initially, few believed that regulatory initiatives such as SOX would have much if any impact on IT. What many failed to recognize is that IT is not just a business enabler, but is in fact the engine on which today’s enterprise runs.

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Few have succeeded to the extent of Archer, particularly in linking the relationship of IT to the management of enterprise governance, risk management and compliance efforts.

Archer has distinguished itself in two particular ways. First, the Archer SmartSuite framework is not a single application, but is rather a platform for building any number of tools that support program management in multiple domains and deliver the insight needed to measure, develop and refine strategy. The adaptability of this platform to user innovation has supported the development of Archer’s second major distinction, in the rise of a particularly loyal and vocal user community that has actively pushed the limits of what Archer can deliver.

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With this acquisition, EMC gains a dominant enabling platform for the management of risk and compliance strategy. It aligns not only with RSA, but with EMC’s core interests in information management, considering the volume of information under the management of GRC-enabling tools. Its role in supporting risk and compliance strategists can therefore be expected to become a point of unification across the EMC portfolio.

Download the full EMA impact brief, “EMC Acquires a Unifying Risk and Compliance Management Platform with Archer Technologies,” to read more.