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  • Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)

Connect GRC to How Your Organization Actually Works

QualiWare connects regulations, requirements, risks, controls, policies, processes, systems, responsibilities, audits, and corrective actions in one enterprise model.


See what requirements apply, where risks exist, which controls address them, who is responsible, and where action is needed. And because GRC is connected to the wider organization, you can understand what a requirement, risk, or control actually affects.


Instead of managing GRC as a separate layer of documentation, you connect it directly to the processes, systems, information, and people that make up the organization.

Compliance Management in QualiWare

Make GRC Part of the Way the Organization Operates

Compliance, risk, and governance depend on people across the organization.


Process owners know their processes. Application owners know their systems. Control owners know how controls operate. Compliance, risk, and audit teams need oversight across them.


QualiWare lets responsibility sit with the people who know their area best while maintaining the governance needed to keep information consistent and accountable.


Reviews, approvals, assessments, responsibilities, findings, and corrective actions can all be managed as part of the same connected environment.


GRC becomes part of ongoing management rather than a separate exercise performed when an audit or regulatory deadline approaches.


Give Each Role the View They Need

A Compliance Manager needs to understand requirements, controls, gaps, evidence, and responsibilities. A Risk Manager needs to understand exposure and mitigation. An auditor needs to follow findings and corrective actions. A process owner needs to know which requirements and controls apply to their process. Management needs to know where exposure and unresolved issues require attention.


QualiWare lets these roles work with different perspectives on the same connected enterprise knowledge.


You don't need to create a separate version of GRC for every team.

And GRC teams can maintain oversight without having to maintain every piece of information themselves.

See GRC in Context

Requirements, risks, and controls become more useful when you can see what they mean for the organization.

See What Requirements Affect
Connect regulatory requirements to the processes, applications, information, policies, controls, and responsibilities they affect. When a requirement changes, you can see where it has consequences, who is responsible, and what may need to change.

Understand What Is Exposed to Risk
Connect risks to the processes, applications, information, capabilities, and organizational areas they could affect, and to the controls used to reduce them. This gives risk and business teams a shared view of exposure, mitigation, ownership, and potential consequences.

Trace Requirements to Controls and Evidence
Connect requirements to the controls that support them, the risks those controls address, where they operate, who is responsible, and the evidence that demonstrates they are working. When deficiencies are identified, you can follow them through corrective action.
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Start With the GRC Challenge That Matters Most

You don't need to implement every aspect of GRC at once.


Start where you need better control today. Because requirements, risks, controls, processes, applications, responsibilities, and evidence are connected in QualiWare, the knowledge established for one purpose can support others as your needs grow.


Work started for compliance can support risk management and audits. Process knowledge can support controls and regulatory traceability. Architecture can help identify the applications and technologies affected by requirements. The same enterprise knowledge can support cybersecurity, resilience, AI governance, and transformation.


When the next requirement, risk, or governance challenge arrives, you build on what you already know instead of creating another disconnected structure.

One Connected Foundation for GRC


Compliance Management

Connect regulations and requirements to controls, processes, responsibilities, and evidence, and see where gaps require action.




Risk Management

Identify, assess, and monitor risks in the context of the processes, systems, information, and business areas they could affect.


Audit Management

Plan and perform audits, document findings, assign responsibilities, and follow corrective actions through to completion.


Business Process Management

Connect processes to risks, controls, requirements, systems, information, and responsibilities so compliance becomes part of operational management.



Business Management System

Bring policies, processes, responsibilities, objectives, controls, and improvement activities together in a governed management system.



Cybersecurity & NIS2

Connect cybersecurity and regulatory requirements to the systems, processes, risks, controls, and responsibilities needed to manage them.

GRC Is More Useful When It Is Connected to the Enterprise

Many GRC activities focus on requirements, risks, controls, assessments, findings, and evidence.

QualiWare connects these to the wider enterprise they govern.


The same enterprise model can connect capabilities, processes, applications, information, technologies, organizational responsibilities, policies, risks, controls, and regulations. A compliance requirement can therefore be understood in relation to the processes and systems it affects. A risk can be understood in relation to what is exposed. A control can be understood in relation to what it protects and who is responsible for it.


And knowledge created for GRC can also support Enterprise Architecture, process management, cybersecurity, business continuity, transformation, and other parts of the organization. You are not building a separate model of compliance. You are connecting governance, risk, and compliance to the model of the enterprise itself.

​See How QualiWare Supports  Compliance Work

In this short video, Business Architect Martin Tølle explains how QualiWare helps compliance managers handle complexity, stay organized, and stay audit-ready , even as requirements change.

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SOS International 

keeps Business Processes centralized and up-to-date with QualiWare

SOS International, a leading assistance provider in the Nordics, has relied on QualiWare for over 20 years to manage business processes and compliance across the organization.
In this video, TQM Coordinator Freja Pedersen shares how QualiWare helps her stay organized:
“I work in QualiWare almost every day, and I enjoy that I can put things in systems and boxes, everything has its place – and you can always find it again.”
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CSRD WITH QUALIWARE

For over 30 years, QualiWare has been helping companies around the globe navigate complex laws and regulations

COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT IN QUALIWARE

QualiWare makes it easy for a compliance manager to maintain an overview of the management system. See how in this video ->

GARTNER REPORTS

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See how QualiWare connects requirements, risks, controls, processes, systems, responsibilities, and evidence,  and gives different teams the views they need to manage their responsibilities.

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​GRC FAQ

Many organizations still manage compliance in Excel, Word, or SharePoint. The problem is that these documents are siloed, quickly become outdated, and make audits time-consuming and error-prone.

QualiWare provides a central, living system that connects regulations, risks, processes, and controls. Instead of scattered files, you get one authoritative source of truth where compliance is always up to date and accessible to all relevant stakeholders.

Organizations rarely need to comply with just one standard. Typically, compliance managers must align with GDPR, ISO, ESG, NIS2, or DORA,  and more.

QualiWare lets you model and manage multiple frameworks in parallel. You can link shared processes, risks, and controls across standards, avoiding duplication and ensuring consistency across the entire compliance landscape.

One of the biggest pains for compliance managers is scrambling to collect evidence when an audit is announced.


With QualiWare, all documentation, risks, and controls are connected and traceable in one system. This makes you audit ready at all times, enabling faster preparation, less disruption, and stronger confidence during external assessments.

Compliance is not only about following rules but also about managing risks and controls effectively.


Risks, controls, and mitigating actions can be mapped directly to processes and standards in QualiWare. This ensures clear accountability, visibility of gaps, and better decision-making in risk mitigation.

Regulations evolve. That's one of the reasons why QualiWare is highly flexible. Frameworks, standards, and controls can be updated in the repository without disrupting existing processes. This makes it easier to adapt to new regulations or revisions of existing ones.

Compliance data often lives in multiple places, and re-entering it manually wastes time and increases risk.


QualiWare integrates with ERP, ServiceNow and other enterprise systems. Through APIs and connectors, data can flow seamlessly, ensuring compliance information stays synchronized across the organization.

QualiWare provides role-based portals and dashboards tailored to different stakeholders, from compliance managers to executives and line employees. Non-experts can engage through intuitive views, checklists, and collaboration features, while experts still have access to full modeling capabilities.

QualiWare's Governance Workflow Engine automates compliance and governance workflows—including approvals, reminders, and escalations—ensuring that relevant stakeholders receive timely notifications and tasks appear in their to-do lists. For compliance-specific scenarios, the tool can send acknowledgment requests (e.g., for new or revised documentation), track who has read and acknowledged content, and store these records for audit purposes. This automation reduces administrative overhead, ensures nothing slips through the cracks, and keeps organizations audit-ready at all times.

Executives and boards need clear overviews of compliance risks and status, not detailed spreadsheets.


QualiWare offers configurable dashboards, heatmaps, and reports that visualize compliance status, risks, and gaps. This gives leadership a clear, evidence-based picture of compliance maturity and performance.

Compliance is not only about passing audits — it’s about building resilience and improving over time.


QualiWare treats compliance as an ongoing practice. By continuously linking regulations, risks, and processes, it helps organizations embed compliance into daily operations and drive long-term improvements rather than one-off certifications.

QualiWare is scalable across geographies and organizational structures. It supports multiple languages, federated setups, and the ability to manage compliance centrally while allowing local adaptations. Our customer GPV is a great example. Read the GPV case

Compliance data is sensitive, and many industries have strict hosting requirements.


QualiWare can be deployed in the cloud, on-premise, or in a hybrid setup. It supports private cloud and multi-tenant models, ensuring organizations can meet strict data protection and regulatory requirements.

Evidence and traceability are critical when facing external assessments.


QualiWare produces clear audit trails, reports, and documentation directly from the system. Since risks, processes, and controls are connected, auditors can easily verify compliance without requiring manual evidence collection.

Compliance typically involves a small group of specialists who document, model, and manage frameworks, and a much larger group of employees, managers, and auditors who need to access, review, or give feedback. A cost-effective compliance tool must accommodate both.

QualiWare uses a role-based licensing model that makes it affordable to scale across the enterprise.

  • Architect licenses give full modeling and design capabilities for compliance managers and specialists.

  • Plus licenses are for power users who need to analyze data, manage dashboards, or run reports.

  • Collaboration licenses provide access for the majority of users who only need to browse, comment, acknowledge documents, or complete assigned tasks.

Since every organization requires a mix of roles, you don’t just buy one license type. Instead, QualiWare helps you find the right balance to fit your compliance maturity and user base. This ensures that everyone can be involved in compliance management, without unnecessary cost. Get in touch to hear more: sales@qualiware.com 

QualiWare is used by enterprises worldwide in industries such as finance, energy, manufacturing, and the public sector. It has also been recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the 2024 Magic Quadrant for EA Tools and as a Sample Vendor in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture 2025. Check out our customer stories here

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