Great software for GRC

As our company looked to assess and document our Internal Controls Environment and management, we looked to ServiceNow and other vendors to provide us with a framework/baseline starting point. We carefully compared features/capabilities of ServiceNow, Metric Stream, Modulo, and others and really benefited from the software demos offered by each company. We chose ServiceNow because of our already positive experience with their IT helpdesk software (was already used in our company) and how intuitively the GRC software appeared to operate. We understood that some customization was necessary, but felt it would more easily be adapted to our business versus the other options. Our experience, so far, has been positive; however, we feel we are still in the configuration/expansion phase. The challenges we are still overcoming are in our understanding of GRC attributes of our Oracle EBS R12 system, Active Directory access controls, and change control over these and other IT systems.

Our experience has been positive, and we appreciate the level of reporting and insight we gained by selecting a software like ServiceNow GRC instead of trying to handle this ourselves with documents and spreadsheets. As with most implementations, the costs occur up front, but we do expect an ROI in the next few years as we establish processes of administration, assessment, and remediation.