Ventana Research Announces New Benchmark Research and Education in Governance, Risk and Compliance

    SAN RAMON, CA, October 28, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ventana Research is launching new governance, risk and compliance benchmark research to identify, explore and quantify the ways in which finance, line-of-business operations and IT departments in companies each approaches and executes its specific governance, risk and compliance policies and processes.

While governance, risk and compliance (GRC) are longstanding business issues, the "GRC Software" category is a relatively new categorization of technology and processes. GRC will become increasingly relevant as companies attempt to manage governance and risk issues - including those related to regulatory compliance - on a cross-functional basis. Since the software dimension of GRC is fairly new, it remains a challenge for most companies to determine how to efficiently implement these applications. This GRC research will explore in detail how finance, LOB operations and IT can improve their efficiency of these processes. The research will investigate how each part of the organization supports GRC and the underlying technology to support deployments.

"One of the goals of this benchmark research is to provide education on the best practices and processes that can be improved with the use of business technology for GRC," said Robert Kugel, SVP Research of Ventana Research. "Cutting through the technology hyperbole of the industry and providing direct education will help organizations reduce the risk in operating their business across finance and operations."

Ventana Research, the leading business technology research and advisory services firm, provides qualified research participants with a complimentary report of the research findings as well as access to a free educational webinar on key findings from the GRC benchmark research. To learn more about GRC and take the benchmark, please visit http://www.ventanaresearch.com/grc.

About Ventana Research

Ventana Research is the most authoritative and respected benchmark business technology research and advisory services firm. We provide insight and expert guidance on mainstream and disruptive technologies through a unique set of research-based offerings including benchmark research and technology evaluation assessments, education workshops and our research and advisory services, Ventana OnDemand. Our unparalleled understanding of the role of technology in optimizing business processes and performance and our best practices guidance are rooted in our rigorous research-based benchmarking of people, processes, information and technology across business and IT functions in every industry. This benchmark research plus our market coverage and in-depth knowledge of hundreds of technology providers means we can deliver education and expertise to our clients to increase the value they derive from technology investments while reducing time, cost and risk.

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To learn how Ventana Research advances the maturity of organizations' use of information and technology through benchmark research, education and advisory services, visit www.ventanaresearch.com.

Media: Copies of benchmark research report and interviews are available upon request.

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