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Likelihood to Recommend
BWise
Well suited for general compliance, multiple initiatives, and integration with TeamMate.SAP GRC Process control may be better suited for an SAP environment.Oracle GRC may be better suited for an Oracle environment.Overall, BWise is a very cost effective, and flexible solution.

Verified User
Team Lead in Finance and Accounting
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesKCM GRC Platform
KnowBe4 KCM GRC Platform is well suited for a company that knows what they're doing compliance wise and needs to save time doing it. It won't be something you can spend a few hours on and then put on autopilot. It was made to create a rhythm within your own team, and you'll need to have the buy-in. It's useful for IT and Legal teams that already have a vendor risk management process, but want to have a better handle on it. Giving an outside auditor read-only access to a scope is also a huge time saver.
Information Security Analyst
Randall-ReillyMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Governance, Risk & Compliance
BWise
8.3
KCM GRC Platform
9.3
Common repository of GRC items
BWise
8.7
KCM GRC Platform
10.0
Risk management
BWise
8.1
KCM GRC Platform
10.0
Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems
BWise
7.0
KCM GRC Platform
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GRC policy management
BWise
8.7
KCM GRC Platform
8.0
Incident management
BWise
9.0
KCM GRC Platform
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Pros
BWise
- Great reporting tool (uses SAP Business Objects). It is quite flexible on types of reports that can be created and supported. Also the reporting consultants are very competent and nice.
- Highly customizable solution: almost everything can be tailored to an organization's needs, assessments, audits, issues, recommendations, tasks, etc. However, there's a trade-off between customization and the integration of different areas of the organization.
- Increases visibility and efficiency in the organization. BWise offers centralized repositories (catalogs) that can be easily accessed and used by everyone in the organization (e.g. Process catalog, Policies and Procedures catalog, Risks, Controls, Laws catalogs, etc.). Also, the application allows findings on controls tested by Audit to be automatically reflected in controls monitored by SOX for example, without the need for SOX to retest them. So one area can leverage on the work of other areas increasing operational efficiency.
- Increases integration and avoids silos. By choosing the correct design (e.g. Risk Workshops instead of Open Assessments), one area can see and benefit from another areas' work. An example was mentioned above; another would be Operational Risk area considering the results of Business Continuity, Vendor Management, Info Security, etc. assessments when carrying out theirs. Additionally, processes can be integrated: when contracting a new vendor for instance, one can include questions about data confidentiality and usage of models in the Vendor risk assessment. Answers to these could then trigger Info Sec / Model Risk assessments.
- Increases accountability. Application provides full audit/change log with the type of change, name of executor, and date of change.
- Easier follow-up. BWise sends automatic emails with reminders to the people required to take action on an issue, assessment, etc.

Verified User
Analyst in Other
Banking Company, 5001-10,000 employeesKCM GRC Platform
- Mapping controls across different compliance frameworks. It saves you a ton of time and energy!
- Performing risk assessments at the granularity that you prefer, splitting assessments across departments and teams if you wish.
Information Security Analyst
Randall-ReillyMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
Cons
BWise
- Integration with SAP for continuous control monitoring.
- Control mapping to standards: ISO; COSO; COBIT; HIPAA; SP800_53 (NIST); FedRAMP; PCI_DSS; BITS; GAAP; AICPA; BSI; CCM; COPPA; CSA
- Surveys.

Verified User
Team Lead in Finance and Accounting
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesKCM GRC Platform
- Vendor management has a few kinks to work out. We want to be able to do internal questionnaires for vendors as a compliance checklist before we sign off on a contract. Nothing in the works yet, but there are a few workarounds.
- The navigation between different tasks in scope is clunky, and it's easy to lose your place, and it forces you back to the main page of the scope to retrace your steps.
Information Security Analyst
Randall-ReillyMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
Likelihood to Renew
BWise
BWise 9.0
Based on 1 answer
BWIse is very flexible, and an affordable GRC tool.

Verified User
Team Lead in Finance and Accounting
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesKCM GRC Platform
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Usability
BWise
BWise 9.0
Based on 1 answer
I found BWise to be very intuitive and user friendly.

Verified User
Team Lead in Finance and Accounting
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesKCM GRC Platform
No score
No answers yet
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Support Rating
BWise
BWise 9.0
Based on 1 answer
BWise support is knowledgeable and responsive. Bug fixes and development are also timely and ongoing.

Verified User
Team Lead in Finance and Accounting
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesKCM GRC Platform
KCM GRC Platform 10.0
Based on 2 answers
Support from KnowBe4 KCM GRC Platform is always great. It's always in-house localized support, with excellent response times, and dedicated Customer Success Managers to answer the bulk of your questions or take your suggestions and make them a feature request. They will also reach out at least quarterly and do health checks to make sure you're using the platform to the best of your ability.
Information Security Analyst
Randall-ReillyMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
Implementation Rating
BWise
BWise 8.0
Based on 1 answer
The main issues were managing the internal conflicts and competing objectives, rather than the capability and implementation of BWise itself.

Verified User
Team Lead in Finance and Accounting
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesKCM GRC Platform
No score
No answers yet
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Alternatives Considered
BWise
Wasn't personally involved in the vendor selection process. I am aware that one of the main drivers for selecting BWise was cost (I believe BWise total project cost was several times lower than MetricStream's).

Verified User
Analyst in Other
Banking Company, 5001-10,000 employeesKCM GRC Platform
Quantivate and Fusion were the other two options we checked out. The quantity was high, and a good bit more expensive, but it was the best performing with its platform. They also had more modules that each cost extra to add to your subscription. KnowBe4 KCM GRC Platform was all-in-one and a little less mature, but the better buy. Fusion was hard to follow in the demo, and I was not overly impressed. I may have made my decision early enough in the demo to not pay much more attention to it.
Information Security Analyst
Randall-ReillyMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
Return on Investment
BWise
- Increased employee efficiency especially considering incident management and follow up.
- Increased visibility and senior management information/awareness.
- Increased employee accountability.
- Reduction of silos.

Verified User
Analyst in Other
Banking Company, 5001-10,000 employeesKCM GRC Platform
- Just having the capacity to do things the right way, and formally, has driven some of our compliance efforts.
- Due to licensing limitations, we likely overspent on seats to the platform that we didn't need but also didn't want to miss out on.
Information Security Analyst
Randall-ReillyMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
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Pricing Details
BWise
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
KCM GRC Platform
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No