Building Your GRC Program

Understand what governs your business, assess risk to the achievement of objectives and automate your enterprise compliance processes.

Enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is an integrated approach to managing the lifecycle of corporate policies, assessing and responding to risks that may impact the achievement of objectives, and measuring and reporting compliance with controls and regulatory requirements. Archer offers a holistic approach to managing these processes through out-of-the-box solutions built on a common platform—the Archer SmartSuite Framework. By centralizing your GRC program with Archer, you achieve sustainability, efficiency and transparency across your organization.

Whether you are expanding your IT-GRC program into enterprise GRC or are starting your Archer implementation at the enterprise level, Archer’s solutions allow you to visualize activities and results across business units, make sense of complex information and support informed decision making at every level. Because Archer’s solutions are fully integrated, you can leverage complementary intelligence from one solution to the next to support your business processes, risk management goals and compliance objectives.

• Governance

  Archer’s solutions allow you to:
  
  
  • Centralize and normalize corporate policies, and align them with objectives, controls and the authoritative sources that govern your business.
  • Ensure policy communication, acceptance and comprehension across your enterprise, and manage requests for exceptions.
  • Understand relationships and dependencies within your enterprise hierarchy and infrastructure to support risk and compliance initiatives.
  • Transform static, paper-based documentation into a dynamic business continuity program to ensure your successful ongoing operations.

• Risk Management

  With Archer, you can:
  
  
  • Develop an inventory of reputational, financial, operational and IT risks, and assess their impact to the achievement of your corporate objectives.
  • Manage the remediation or acceptance of assessment findings to reduce risk to a tolerable level according to your organization’s risk appetite.
  • Create transparency across key performance and risk indicators so you can monitor your organization's health, take advantage of opportunity, and avert or mitigate disaster.

• Compliance

  Archer also empowers you to:
  
  
  • Evaluate the design and operation of your controls through self-assessments, test plan execution and integration with third-party scanning tools.
  • Gain a comprehensive view of vendor relationships as they pertain to policies and controls, corporate objectives and compliance activities.
  • Mitigate issues of non-compliance with remediation tasks or waivers that identify compensating controls.

• Reporting

  Through Archer, you can:
  
  
  • Gain a current, holistic view of your governance, risk and compliance initiatives through real-time reports and graphical dashboards.
  • Report results to your governance board and senior management, enabling them to make informed decisions and solve critical challenges.
  • Bridge organizational divides through the sharing of information and effort.

Deploying Your Solutions

Archer supports a range of deployment scenarios via our Enterprise Business On-Demand model, including software as a service (SaaS), on-premise deployments and third-party managed services. These options allow you to balance administrative control, time-to-value and cost considerations when planning your Archer implementation. Rather than locking you into a single deployment scenario as many software vendors do, Archer gives you the freedom to run your solutions in the most appropriate environment based on your current needs and to move your solutions from one environment to another as your needs change.