GRC Announcements

Compliance Week regularly tracks announcements and developments in the GRC space, from product releases to surveys and studies. Please submit announcements to Compliance Week's Jaclyn Jaeger. Also, don't forget to check out Jaclyn's Scuttlebutt blog of personnel announcements.

Latest Index Engines Tool Helps Simplify Big Data Management

May 10, 2013

Index Engines, an enterprise data management and archiving company, has announced the release of the Catalyst Data Profiling Engine, designed to be a cost- and time-effective solution to managing Big Data.
 

Flextronics Selects Amber Road's RPS On-Demand Solution to Expediate Screening

May 06, 2013

Amber Road, a provider of global trade management solutions, announced that Flextronics, an electronics manufacturing services provider, selected its Restricted Party Screening On-Demand solution to automate the screening of partners, customers and vendors.
 

TeamMate Audit Management System Expands Hosting Solutions for Global Internal Audit Community

May 03, 2013

Wolters Kluwer Audit, Risk & Compliance is providing a new hosting center for its TeamMate audit management system in London, building upon the company's current TeamCloud hosting solutions for the internal audit industry
 

Splunk Introduces the Future of Security Intelligence

May 03, 2013

Splunk, a software platform for real-time operational intelligence, has released Version 2.4 of the Splunk App for Enterprise Security, helping organizations discover unknown threats in real time with out-of-the-box content, including new searches, dashboards and visualizations that enable rich statistical analysis of machine data.
 

Responsys Unveils New Offering for Unifying Customer Preferences across Marketing Channels

May 03, 2013

Responsys, a provider of e-mail and cross-channel marketing solutions, has introduced Responsys Interact Preference, a new offering that provides marketers with a unified, cross-channel view of customer preferences and permissions.
 

Actiance Announces Enhancements to Socialite

April 26, 2013

Actiance, a communication, collaboration, and social media governance platform for companies, announced this week that it has added new enhancements to its social media engagement platform Socialite, allowing companies to increase productivity while remaining in compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements.
 

Merger Expands Baker Tilly's East Coast Presence

April 24, 2013

Baker Tilly announced today that it will be merging with accounting firm Holtz Rubenstein Reminick, effective June 1. The name of the combined firm will be Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLC.
 

Thomson Reuters Brings Enhanced Workflow Capabilities to Disclosures Reporting

April 24, 2013

Thomson Reuters recently announced enhancements its Accelus Disclosure Solutions PROFILE software, enabling companies to more accurately prepare, update and deliver their financial disclosures to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 

Actiance Partners with Symantec to Provide Integrated Compliance, eDiscovery and Archiving for Social Business

April 24, 2013

Actiance, a communications, collaboration and social networking platform, recently announced a partnership with Symantec to aid customers in managing, capturing, and archiving Instant Messaging, social networking, collaboration and Unified Communication traffic.
 

Concur and Oversight Systems Announce Partnership

April 24, 2013

Transaction analysis software company, Oversight Systems and Concur, an integrated travel and expense management firm, recently announced a partnership focused on helping customers quickly gain advanced, operational insights to uncover waste and fraud.
 

Brainloop Announces Secure Connector for Microsoft Outlook

April 17, 2013

Brainloop, a provider of solutions for enterprise-wide collaboration on confidential information and documents, has announced the availability of its Secure Connector for Microsoft Outlook.
 

Oversight Systems New Operational Analysis Platform Simplifies Big Data Analysis

April 15, 2013

Oversight Systems, a data analysis software company, has launched its Operational Analysis Platform to help companies and government agencies evolve from exploring Big Data to quickly generating and delivering operational insights for greater business success.
 

Grant Thornton Expands Corporate Advisory & Restructuring Capabilities

April 10, 2013

Grant Thornton is expanding the capabilities of its Corporate Advisory & Restructuring Services with the additions of Kenneth Simon and Ryan Maupin, who join as managing director and director, respectively.
 

ControlCase Releases Data Discovery Software 4.0

April 10, 2013

ControlCase, a provider of compliance, information security, and risk management software, has announced the release of ControlCase Data Discovery (CDD) 4.0, the next generation of its credit card data discovery software.
 

Global Equity Matrix App Navigates Legal Implications for Equity Awards

April 09, 2013

The Global Equity Services Group of law firm Baker & McKenzie has launched a first-of-its-kind app that provides crucial legal and tax information from nearly 40 countries on granting equity awards to employees and executives of public companies. Details inside.
 

Teambox Launches Self-Hosted Collaboration Tool

April 09, 2013

Cloud-based company Teambox has announced the launch of Teambox On-Premise, a self-hosted collaboration solution that customers can host from behind their own firewall.
 

Stroz Friedberg New Navigator App Brings Compliance to Mobile Devices

April 05, 2013

Stroz Friedberg, a global digital risk management and investigations firm, has announced the launch of Navigator, a desktop and mobile application designed to bring a company's compliance policies to life by enabling employees to receive real-time direction on global compliance policies through their mobile devices. Details inside.
 

Barclaycard U.S. Chooses MetricStream to Provide GRC Solutions

March 27, 2013

Barclaycard U.S., the payments business of Barclays in the United States, has chosen MetricStream to provide governance, risk, and compliance software solutions.
 

Thomson Reuters, Capita Company Secretarial Services Provide eLearning Solution for Directors

March 27, 2013

Thomson Reuters, an information provider for businesses and professionals, and Capita Company Secretarial Services, the UK's largest professional services company secretarial team, announced the launch of a suite of eLearning solutions for directors' training and certification.
 

Kroll Ontrack Launches Technology Assisted Review Learning Lab Series

March 26, 2013

Kroll Ontrack, the provider of e-discovery, information management, and data recovery products and services, announced it is hosting a new series of Technology Assisted Review Learning Labs, complete with CLE credit, in select cities around the country. Details inside.
 

ComplyRight Launches Branded Mobile Business Application Store On Canvas Platform

March 26, 2013

Canvas, a mobile business application store, announced this week that ComplyRight, a provider of government-compliant forms that help businesses minimize legal risk while fostering more productive and secure workplaces, has launched a branded mobile application store on the Canvas mobile app platform.
 

Fortinet to Acquire Coyote Point

March 25, 2013

Network security provider Fortinet announced that it intends to acquire Coyote Point, a privately-held provider of enterprise-class application delivery, load balancing and acceleration solutions that enable IT personnel to have greater control over their web and application servers.
 

Weaver Promotes Adam McCane to Partner

March 15, 2013

Independent accounting firm Weaver has announced the promotion of Adam McCane to partner in its assurance services practice.
 

Attunity Enhances Big Data Replication Solution

March 15, 2013

Attunity, a provider of information availability software solutions, announced the release of Attunity Replicate 2.1, a high-performance data delivery solution featuring several new enhancements for data warehousing.
 

AgreeYa Mobility Introduces Onvelop

March 14, 2013

AgreeYa Mobility, a mobile-engineering product and service firm, has introduced Onvelop, a first-of-its-kind intuitive, unified collaboration and communication platform.
 

ADP SmartCompliance Consolidates Compliance for Companies

March 14, 2013

ADP has announced a new approach to tax, employment and payroll compliance with the release of ADP SmartCompliance, a cloud-based unified platform of outsourced services that helps companies better manage tax, employment and payroll compliance capabilities.
 

DataMotion Launches SecureMail Automation

March 14, 2013

DataMotion, a cloud-based secure data delivery provider, has announced the immediate availability of SecureMail Automation, an e-mail encryption service that automates secure digital message distribution for a range of business applications. Details inside.
 

SolarWinds Introduces Alert Central

March 07, 2013

SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has released the company's first full-featured free product, SolarWinds Alert Central, designed to help simplify IT alert management.
 

Adra Match Tool Streamlines Financial Close Process

March 07, 2013

Adra Match, a global software firm specializing in advanced data matching and reconciliation management, announced the launch of Balancer, a new financial software solution to help finance managers streamline their financial close and consolidation processes.
 

ACL Introduces ACL Analytics Exchange 4

March 07, 2013

ACL, a technology solutions provider, has announced the launch of ACL Analytics Exchange Version 4, a tool that goes beyond audit, enabling finance, risk and compliance to protect the bottom line by identifying control deficiencies such as fraud and revenue leakage. Details inside.
 

IMS HedgeOp Extends Footprint to Hong Kong

March 06, 2013

The IMS Group and HedgeOp Compliance, the specialist regulatory services and compliance consultancy to the asset management and securities industry, has announced the opening of its first Asian office, in Hong Kong
 

Equivio Releases Breakthrough Content Analytics Solution

March 06, 2013

Equivio, a provider of analytical solutions for e‑discovery, has launched Themes, a breakthrough content analytics application that identifies themes and thematic relationships across document collections.
 

PwC Names New Managing Director to Risk Assurance Practice

March 06, 2013

PwC U.S. has named Greg Szczesny as a managing director in the firm's expanding Risk Assurance practice, where he will play a leading role developing the firm's conflict minerals service offering.
 

HiSoftware Releases HiSoftware Sheriff Workspace Mobile and Windows

March 06, 2013

HiSoftware, a provider of compliance and security solutions for SharePoint, announced the release of HiSoftware Sheriff Workspace Mobile and Windows, extending the company's SharePoint solutions suite to bring secure collaboration on iPads and other mobile devices.
 

Grant Thornton Names Leader of China Business Group

March 06, 2013

Grant Thornton has hired Sandy Chu as a partner and national leader of the firm's recently launched China Business Group (CBG), based in New York.
 

Nastel Technologies Launches AutoPilot for Dodd-Frank Compliance

March 01, 2013

Nastel Technologies, a global provider of application performance monitoring solutions for mission-critical applications from the data center to the cloud, announced AutoPilot for Dodd-Frank Compliance, a new solution that provides banks and brokerage businesses a solution to meet their needs for monitoring trade reporting compliance.
 

Co3 Systems Delivers Security Incident Response in Major Platform Expansion

March 01, 2013

Co3 Systems, a provider of incident response software, has announced a major expansion to its SaaS-based incident response platform. Details inside.
 

Qualys and Verizon Join Forces to Deliver Cloud-Based IT Security and Compliance Solutions

March 01, 2013

Qualys, a provider of cloud security and compliance management solutions, and Verizon, a provider of global managed security solutions, has announced an agreement to expand their relationship to deliver new advanced cloud-based IT security and compliance management services.
 

Splunk and Palo Alto Networks Join Forces to Enhance Enterprise Security Intelligence

March 01, 2013

Splunk, a software platform provider of real-time operational intelligence, has announced the release of a new joint solution with network security company Palo Alto Networks, that takes security intelligence across the enterprise to a new level. Details inside.
 

Summit 7 Systems Releases Compliance QuickStart

February 25, 2013

Summit 7 Systems has released the SharePoint Compliance QuickStart solution, which utilizes AvePoint Compliance Guardian, enabling organizations to implement a robust risk management framework that supports accessibility, operational security, privacy, and site quality.
 

Oracle Financial Services Introduces New ERM Applications

February 25, 2013

Oracle Financial Services has expanded its Oracle Financial Services Enterprise Risk Management suite to include a new model risk management solution, as well as enhanced offerings for regulatory capital management and credit risk management.
 

ACI Worldwide Helps Financial Firms to Fight Fraud

February 13, 2013

ACI Worldwide, an international provider of payment systems, announced this week the release of the newest version of ACI Proactive Risk Manager, a payment fraud detection and mitigation solution for financial institutions, processors, and merchant retailers.
 

TRUSTe and Promontory Launched Joint BCR Management Program

February 12, 2013

TRUSTe, a global provider of data privacy management solutions, and Promontory Financial Group, a global consulting firm for regulated companies, has announced the launch of a joint Binding Corporate Rules program.
 

Actiance Releases Socialite Engage Mobile App for iPhone

February 12, 2013

Actiance has announced the availability of Socialite Engage mobile for iPhone, the first in a line of mobile products and services from Actiance designed to allow for the compliant use of social on any device.
 

True Office and Thomson Reuters Partner to Accelerate Enterprise Gamification

February 11, 2013

True Office, the company that gamifies regulatory and compliance training, has announced a product development and distribution partnership with Thomson Reuters to create a range of new applications to address regulatory and compliance training requirements for financial services firms globally.
 

FTI Consulting Launches Ringtail Version 8.3

February 11, 2013

Global business advisory firm FTI Consulting has announced the launch of Version 8.3 of its Ringtail e-discovery software, which now can be accessed and managed in a secure, self-serve private cloud called Ringtail Software as a Service.
 

Thomson Reuters Launches ONESOURCE Operational Transfer Pricing Solution

February 08, 2013

Thomson Reuters has launched ONESOURCE Operational Transfer Pricing, its newest corporate tax and accounting product that enables multinational companies to more effectively and efficiently manage transfer pricing data, compliance and reporting in real time.
 

Grant Thornton, BlackLine Systems Announce Partnership

January 31, 2013

Audit, tax, and advisory firm Grant Thornton has announced a strategic partnership with software firm BlackLine Systems to bring software and professional services to mid- to large-size clients.
 

New Software Firm Convercent Launches With Innovative Cloud Compliance Solution

January 31, 2013

Companies now have a new and innovative way to systematically align their corporate values with individual behavior to create thriving, productive, and compliant cultures of engaged, high-performing employees with the launch this week of software firm Convercent.
 

Viewpointe Information Governance Platform Addresses e-Discovery Challenges

January 29, 2013

Viewpointe has added new e-discovery enhancements to its information governance platform OnPointe to unify and simplify early case assessment, review assignments and preservation notification.
 
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