GRC Announcements

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has announced the availability of the Sabrix Tax Rate Calculator, an easy to use, on-demand tool providing accurate tax determination and calculation. Combining research from tax experts, including attorneys, CPAs, accountants and former tax auditors, with the latest online technology, the Sabrix Tax Calculator enables businesses to […]

The Global Transaction Services unit of Citi, a global financial services company, has launched a suite of Regulatory Administration and Compliance Support Services developed specifically for hedge funds, private equity funds and their SEC registered investment advisers. Citi’s Regulatory Administration Services will work at the direction of clients to draft routine contracts, policies and procedures […]

Exostar, whose cloud-based solutions enable secure, cost-effective business-to-business collaboration, has announced that its Federated Identity Service (FIS) solution, a Software-as-a-Service offering for the issuance and maintenance of public key infrastructure digital certificates, has been deployed for Bell Helicopter, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Textron. FIS is enabling Bell Helicopter to more effectively control access to its […]

Coupa Software, a provider of disruptive and innovative Cloud Spend Management solutions, unveiled significant additions to its expense management platform, including Google Maps integration, credit card import functionality, and the ability to add custom fields to an expense report. Traditional expense management practices are fraught with inefficiencies, derived from manual processing, lost receipts, untimely submissions […]

Avotus Corporation, a provider of Telecom Management Services, including Expense Management, eProcurement, and Usage Management solutions, introduced ICM Unity, its next generation of Intelligent Communications Management and Usage Management Software. The new generation of Avotus’ flagship Usage Management takes call accounting to a new level by incorporating VoIP, video conferencing, wireless, and mobile demand management. […]

Freedom OSS, an Integrated Cloud Service Management provider, has announced the availability of its vNOC 2.0 offering. As part of the company’s “Stairway to the Cloud” suite, vNOC 2.0 eases the transition to cloud services for enterprise organizations by mitigating risks and reducing costs. The vNOC 2.0 suite manages packaged and server applications, operating systems, […]

Business software giant IBM is acquiring OpenPages, one of the most notable independent GRC software vendors to emerge in the post-Sarbanes-Oxely era. IBM and OpenPages announced the sale Sept. 15. Financial terms were not disclosed. The two companies have already collaborated on various software products in the past, mostly in the financial-services sector. The OpenPages […]

Protiviti, (www.protiviti.com ), a global business consulting and internal audit firm, has recently released the latest version of its Governance Portal, an enterprise governance, risk and compliance software platform that allows companies to address multiple GRC objectives. The updated Governance Portal enhances multilingual capabilities that facilitate execution of a uniform GRC strategy across multinational companies. […]

Virtify has announced the release of its new software product Virtify PIM Enterprise, part of the Virtify Enterprise Content Compliance Software Suite. Virtify PIM is designed to help companies stay compliant with the new EU labeling standard. The PIM standard, currently in pilot, is being implemented to enable the efficient exchange and evaluation of product […]

Gulf Resources, a manufacturer of bromine, crude salt and specialty chemical products in China, announced that the company has retained Deloitte to perform an independent assessment over the company’s internal controls. The objective of Deloitte’s engagement is to assist Gulf Resources with an independent assessment of its managerial, operational and internal controls. The independent assessment […]