BWise vs. SAI360

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BWise
Score 7.5 out of 10
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BWise is an Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) platform formerly owned and supported by Nasdaq, acquired by SAI Global in April 2019.N/A
SAI360
Score 8.0 out of 10
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SAI360 merges GRC software and Ethics & Compliance Learning to enhance risk management. Its scalable solutions have supported global organizations for 25+ years.N/A
Pricing
BWiseSAI360
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BWiseSAI360
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
BWiseSAI360
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Comparison of Governance, Risk & Compliance features of Product A and Product B
BWise
8.3
2 Ratings
9% above category average
SAI360
7.7
3 Ratings
2% above category average
Common repository of GRC items8.72 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Risk management8.12 Ratings7.33 Ratings
Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems7.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
GRC policy management8.72 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Incident management9.02 Ratings7.33 Ratings
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User Ratings
BWiseSAI360
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(2 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BWiseSAI360
Likelihood to Recommend
SAI Global
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.
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SAI Global
The usage of ROAM, as well as the integration of external programmes through API and import functions, has almost reduced duplication of work. One thing to keep in mind is that your use cases must be very clear. There are a lot of SAI solutions, and their titles don't always correspond to what they actually perform.
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Pros
SAI Global
  • 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.
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SAI Global
  • Customized unified design platform
  • Modules that fit your organization
  • Low technology involvement with information department.
  • Built on foundational platforms some bidirectional in the ERM framework with TPRM contracts
  • Single sign-on web-based applications
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Cons
SAI Global
  • 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.
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SAI Global
  • Reporting
  • Legacy modules (i.e. tasks)
  • Look and feel
  • Intuitive UI
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Likelihood to Renew
SAI Global
BWIse is very flexible, and an affordable GRC tool.
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SAI Global
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Usability
SAI Global
I found BWise to be very intuitive and user friendly.
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SAI Global
Overall it is a very versatile system that does help to keep our processes automated and secure. We are able to streamline our day to day activities.
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Support Rating
SAI Global
BWise support is knowledgeable and responsive. Bug fixes and development are also timely and ongoing.
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SAI Global
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Implementation Rating
SAI Global
The main issues were managing the internal conflicts and competing objectives, rather than the capability and implementation of BWise itself.
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SAI Global
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Alternatives Considered
SAI Global
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).
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SAI Global
Archer was very similar to SAI360 in cost and features. Has a more modern look and feel and more task functionality. The price point was very similar. Didn't choose them as our existing usage is in an On-Prem version and support from our in-house IT team was not able to be obtained. MetricStream was very modern looking with an intuitive UI. Appeared to have all the features with a number of additional bells and whistles. The price point was far above our budget and we could not get approval to move them to the RFP.
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Return on Investment
SAI Global
  • Increased employee efficiency especially considering incident management and follow up.
  • Increased visibility and senior management information/awareness.
  • Increased employee accountability.
  • Reduction of silos.
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SAI Global
  • The system is costly for the initial setup
  • Does help to mitigate risk and keep the vendors and internal departments from becoming non-compliant.
  • One license for all users
  • Easy to manage employee's security access
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