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Is anyone really surprised by this? A recent survey by Shavlik Technologies (vendor survey alert!) has found that IT professionals are still struggling with compliance issues, according to Redmond Read more...

AMR Research projects spending on government, risk and compliance applications and services will top $32.1 billion in 2008, up 7.4 percent from 2007. In 2009, growth is projected at 7 percent. In a Read more...

It's fair to say that in the Sarbanes-Oxley area, internal audits focused on financial risks and related controls. But some have discerned that this focus came at the expense of other issues, such as Read more...

We've discussed the idea that compliance initiatives can yield strategic benefits, if done right. A new survey from AMR Research seems to suggest that more companies are getting on board with this Read more...

Most people assume that so-called GRC software--governance, risk and compliance--will continue to gather steam, as big boys like Oracle and SAP continue their marketing. It makes sense to automate Read more...

Government, Risk and Compliance vendors have slowly been making headway in making their case to big companies. The Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) has released its 2007 Governance, Risk and Read more...

Oracle is a great example of how big IT vendors have ridden the compliance wave. Clearly, Oracle along with IBM and others sense a certain demand out there, which frankly would be hard to miss. Read more...

Ah, the good old days when software licenses meant nothing. For big companies anyway, Sarbanes Oxley has led to a clamp down of sorts. And that's a good thing. Most agree that piracy is much less of Read more...

Everyone is looking for fraud these days. In fact, people are trying to come up with Read more...

Over the past year or so, you've probably tripped across the term GRC software. Governance, risk and compliance management software basically refers to software that integrates several Read more...