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GRC Solutions for Governance

Governance Solutions

The Challenge

To achieve a culture of corporate governance, you must establish and communicate clear boundaries for corporate behavior and monitor adherence. Your primary challenges may include:

  • Understanding the full range of regulations that govern your business
  • Pulling policies out of information silos and mapping them to regulations and objectives
  • Ensuring policy awareness and compliance across your extended enterprise
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of established controls across multiple lines of business

The Solution

Set your governance program on a firm foundation with Archer’s fully integrated enterprise governance, risk and compliance solutions.

With Archer, you can :

  • Manage the lifecycle of corporate policies and control standards from creation through approval and publication.
  • Rationalize your policies and control standards by mapping them to the corporate objectives they support and the authoritative sources that impact your business.
  • Train your employees on policies and test their understanding.
  • Initiate and manage requests for policy exceptions using built-in workflow and alert notifications.
  • Communicate policies to partners and vendors, and evaluate their compliance.
  • Gain a rollup view of your policy management program across all levels of your business hierarchy and enterprise infrastructure.
  • Utilize real-time reports and dashboards to provide your governance board and senior management with the information they need to ensure that your business achieves your defined objectives and stays within the boundaries of policies and regulations.

Build Your Program

Implement a best-in-class governance program through these fully integrated Archer solutions:

  • Policy Management – Centralize and standardize
    corporate policies and control standards, map them to
    objectives and authoritative sources, and leverage a
    single platform for communicating policies, conducting
    training and testing comprehension.
  • Compliance Management – Document your control framework, control activities and test plans, and deliver continuous, automated assessments to evaluate the effective design and operation of your internal controls.
  • Vendor Management – Communicate policies and control standards to your vendors and partners, and assess their comprehension and compliance.
  • Enterprise Management – Gain a rollup view of policy and compliance processes at the company, division and business unit levels.

Evolve Your Processes

To keep pace with the changing business and regulatory climate, you need the ability to refine your corporate governance processes over time. A rigid solution structure would make this virtually impossible. To deliver on your needs for flexibility, Archer provides the Archer SmartSuite Framework—the platform for all Archer solutions. Through the Framework, you can:

  • Tailor solutions through point-and-click configuration
  • Modify workflow processes on the fly
  • Create actionable reports and dashboards in minutes
  • Eliminate your reliance on IT for solution customization

You can also evolve your processes by downloading applications created by your industry colleagues from the Archer Exchange, an online marketplace for on-demand applications, services, content and integration solutions developed for the Archer SmartSuite Framework. Here are just of few of the Exchange applications that support governance programs:

View More Applications on the Archer Exchange

Learn More

Explore the following resources to learn more about Archer’s governance capabilities:

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Contact Archer today to discuss the value Archer’s enterprise governance, risk and compliance solutions could provide to your organization.