New York, NY and ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, February 22, 2008 – BWise, a leading provider of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software solutions, today announced that Gartner, a leading industry analyst firm, has ranked BWise as Positive in the MarketScope for IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Management, 2008 by Paul Proctor, Mark Nicolett and French Caldwell.1
“BWise is extremely pleased to be rated as Positive in Gartner’s MarketScope for IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Management,” according to BWise CTO, Luc Brandts. “BWise continues to experience strong growth in North America and Europe and is especially proud of our ability to simultaneously address governance, risk and compliance as well as information technology controls. At BWise, innovation and market awareness continues to be driven by the needs of our customers.”
BWise is a global enterprise GRC leader, with proven solutions to help organizations increase compliance, streamline related business processes and enhance performance. With fourteen years of experience, BWise continues to innovate and improve its solutions to meet growing market demands. BWise has a rapidly growing customer base across Europe, Northern America and Asia with users in all five continents.
According to the report, “The primary reason why some buyers look to enterprise GRC (EGRC) platform vendors, rather than IT GRCM vendors, for IT governance functionality is that they are taking an enterprise approach to compliance and risk management, and want to have all business units, including the IT organization, on the same GRCM solution.”
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1) Gartner, Inc. "MarketScope for IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Management, 2008" by Paul Proctor, Mark Nicollett and French Caldwell, February 11, 2008
About BWise
BWise is a global leader in compliance and enterprise risk management software, with a strong heritage in business process management. Established in 1994, BWise delivers proven solutions to help organizations become “in control” by increasing corporate accountability; strengthening financial, strategic and operational efficiencies; and maximizing performance and ROI. With more than 1,200 customers in more then 80 countries worldwide and 175,000 users in virtually all markets, BWise has developed a strong and sustainable presence in the compliance and risk management sectors. Utilizing templates and a best-practice implementation approach, BWise enables management to measure and manage risks and to comply with rules and legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, European Corporate Governance Codes, IFRS, Basel II, ISO-standards and more. BWise has offices in the Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom, Germany and India. For more information, visit
www.bwise.com.
About the MarketScope
The MarketScope is copyrighted February, 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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