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SAI360

Score7.1 out of 10

11 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAI360?

SAI360 merges GRC software and Ethics & Compliance Learning to enhance risk management. Its scalable solutions have supported global organizations for 25+ years.

Top Performing Features

  • Common repository of GRC items

    A common repository linking all GRC elements such as policies, risks, regulations, etc.) to give a 360 degree view

    Category average: 7.7

  • GRC policy management

    Support for policy lifestyle changes including creation, approval, communication etc.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Risk management

    Risk management capabilities including alert engine to warn of trending risk exposure and risk visualizations like heat maps, dashboards, etc.

    Category average: 7.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Incident management

    System captures risk-related incidents, including cause and result

    Category average: 7.3

  • Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems

    Ability to integrate with external CPM software

    Category average: 6.8

Great platform to training employees regarding best practices in different topics

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We recommended SAI Ethics and Compliance Learning courses to train complete teams for satisfying the required training for implementing and certifying standardized management systems (ISO Standards) about multiple topics: anti-bravery, anti-corruption, data protection, HS&E, compliance, etc.

The library has multiple courses that support this goals for organizations. These courses are industry agnostic for most cases.

Pros

  • Communicating best practices for each topic covered
  • Easy to use platform
  • Tracking for multiple users

Cons

  • Detailed content about specific industries or situations
  • Different length and deep for each topic

Most Important Features

  • Compliant with internationally accepted best practices
  • Easy of use for all users

Return on Investment

  • Pre-built training courses for certification that have a higher ROI than building your own courses.
  • Helped customers training their personnel to achieve multiple management system certifications.

Other Software Used

monday.com, HubSpot CRM, Forecastr, Rippling

Configurable With Potential

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAI360 is one of the top 3 systems for our legal risk and compliance department. We use SAI360 to manage enterprise risk, regulatory complaints, product new laws & regs, and conflict of interest assessments.

Pros

  • Fully configurable forms & fields
  • Fully configurable workflow
  • No code platform

Cons

  • Reporting
  • Legacy modules (i.e. tasks)
  • Look and feel
  • Intuitive UI

Most Important Features

  • Custom fields & forms
  • Custom workflow
  • Permissions management
  • Customer support

Return on Investment

  • Less administration for risk assessments allowing for quarterly control assessments
  • 100% removal of IT effort in our annual conflicts of interest assessments
  • Reduction of manual processes
  • Consolidation of legacy systems into SAI360

Alternatives Considered

MetricStream Platform and Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform

Other Software Used

Wolters Kluwer Passport Legal Spend and Matter Management, RegEd Compliance Management Solution Suite, Agiloft Contract Lifecycle Management

A risk and compliance manager

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used SAI360 for our risk management analysis dashboards. It was mostly used to proactively trigger plan activations and notifications to everyone who needs to see them. SAI360 also provides an inbuilt framework(best practice), which also helped in transition from our spreadsheets. The dashboards are pretty awesome to use.

Pros

  • The dashboards are pretty amazing to use and see real-time data
  • Workflow analysis
  • Another advantage is that it's easier to see what activities are open or overdue.

Cons

  • Customized workflows are a little tedious to create
  • Not ideal to have to report separate in Business objects.
  • Within the system, the internal audit module does not allow for the development of an audit report.

Most Important Features

  • Dashboards
  • Risk management
  • Built in frameworks

Return on Investment

  • It is costly

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Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • Enhancement with modules, they are siloed based on platforms.
  • Customer support for success
  • Form configuration and setup of the reports is a bit tedious
  • The report printout style sheet needs some improvement
  • The color scheme in the UI

Return on Investment

  • 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

Alternatives Considered

Risk Manager

Usability

BWise GRC Implementation Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

BWise is used as a GRC platform to manage multiple compliance initiatives for SOX, IT compliance, PCI compliance, Procurement compliance, Internal Audit, and Management Self-testing.

BWise is integrated with TeamMate audit tracking, for internal audit testing and annual compliance testing.

BWise is used for testing across the enterprise, giving management a view into the control effectiveness, across the company, and across compliance initiatives.

Pros

  • Bwise is very customizable to accommodate multiple compliance initiatives, across the enterprise.
  • Integration with TeamMate, made tracking audit testing and results easy to stay on top of.
  • Being able to map controls, and test once, and report control effectiveness for multiple initiatives was important.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • BWise was the most cost effective, and flexible solution evaluated, and eventually implemented.
  • BWise is a great repository for controls, and for managing GRC compliance.
  • BWise handled mapping multiple compliance initiatives to the master controls very well.
  • BWise integrated with TeamMate for testing controls very well.

Usability

Other Software Used

SAP Business Warehouse, Oracle BPM Suite, Microsoft SQL Server