GRC 20/20 External Professional Solution Perspective
“Where many may perceive higher cost with greater value, this is not the case with Symbiant as they deliver an affordable solution with very robust features that enable organisations to manage GRC.”-Michael Rasmussen, GRC 2020
Symbiant’s Advanced Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and Audit Management Software with Optional AI
Replace spreadsheets and emails with a connected risk management system that boosts visibility, accountability, and confidence across your organisation, from risk owners to the board. See how business leaders, risk managers, and boards benefit from digitising risk with Symbiant’s modular, fully customisable, flexible and robust GRC, Risk Management and Audit platform that adapts to your organisation exact needs. Enhanced by an optional, fully integrated AI Assistant.
From only £100 per module/month for unlimited users*
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Why Organisations Are Moving Away from Spreadsheets
Traditional, manual risk management using spreadsheets, Word documents, and emails creates silos, errors, and inefficiencies. Data is often duplicated or outdated, compromising risk data integrity and making it difficult to produce accurate reports. Version control issues, overwritten formulas, and missing audit trails all contribute to growing spreadsheet risk.
When information is scattered across departments, leaders lack visibility, and decisions are made without reliable data. By digitising risk management with Symbiant, organisations replace manual processes with a connected, automated system that creates a single source of truth (SSOT). The result is improved data accuracy, faster reporting, and a clear view of risks across every level of the business.
Security, Compliance & Quality Assurance
What Digitised Risk Management Really Means
True risk management digitisation isn’t about uploading a spreadsheet into the cloud, it’s about transforming static data into connected, intelligent insights. With Symbiant, every element of your Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) framework works together in one integrated ecosystem, giving you real-time visibility and control.
Our modular platform allows you to build a tailored digital risk environment:
Risk Register – manage, score, and track risks dynamically with real-time aggregation and reporting.
Controls and Policies – simplify ISO 27001 compliance, perform RCSAs, and link controls to risks and incidents.
Incident Reporter– capture and link incidents directly to risks and controls for faster analysis and response.
Together, these modules replace disconnected tools with a single, automated system that keeps your risk data accurate, consistent, and always aligned with your business objectives.
Empowering your Line 1, Line 2, and the Board
How Digitising Risk Management with Symbiant Benefits Every Stakeholder
From business leaders and risk managers to board members and audit committees — Symbiant’s GRC and Audit Software transforms how every level of your organisation engages with risk. By replacing spreadsheets and manual reporting with a connected, modular system, Symbiant creates a single source of truth that improves visibility, strengthens compliance, and empowers data-driven decision-making across your entire business.
How Business Leaders Benefit from Digitised Risk Management
Modern business leaders are expected to understand and be accountable for their department’s risks, controls, and compliance status. Yet with manual processes, disconnected spreadsheets, and inconsistent reporting, preparing reviews or engaging with regulators becomes time-consuming and unreliable.
When risk is managed in silos, decision-makers lose sight of how individual risks affect the wider organisation. Without real-time visibility, leaders are forced to rely on outdated information and informal communication, making it difficult to assess risk versus reward or align decisions with business objectives.
Digitising risk management with Symbiant changes this entirely. By creating a single source of truth (SSOT), Symbiant connects risk data across departments, giving leaders a clear, consolidated view of performance, controls, and emerging threats. The system streamlines workflows and provides real-time, optionally AI-assisted insights to support faster, more informed, and strategic decision-making.
With automated workflows, instant notifications, and dynamic dashboards, business leaders can make decisions “eyes wide open”, confident that the data they see is accurate, complete, and up to date. Instead of spending hours validating spreadsheets, they can focus on strategy, growth, and improving outcomes across the organisation.
Symbiant also improves efficiency through automation, reducing manual effort and human error, while its modular, scalable architecture ensures affordability and flexibility. Each module costs just £100 per month with unlimited users, allowing organisations to build exactly what they need and expand as they grow.
Beyond efficiency, Symbiant strengthens compliance and accountability. Every action is logged, every update tracked, and risks, controls, and audits are fully connected to create a transparent, traceable audit trail. Leaders can instantly access insights, visualise risks and controls across the value chain, automate escalations, and empower teams with intuitive, guided workflows.
In short, digitisation with Symbiant turns risk from red tape into a strategic advantage, helping leaders drive performance, accountability, and resilience across the entire organisation.
How Symbiant Empowers Risk Managers
Symbiant’s GRC and Audit Software enables risk managers to move beyond time-consuming administration and focus on strategic, proactive risk management. The platform consolidates all risk information into one connected system, helping risk managers identify, assess, and mitigate threats with clarity, consistency, and confidence.
By providing a unified view of risks across the organisation, Symbiant removes silos and enables risk managers to see how individual risks interact and cascade across departments. This connected visibility ensures faster assessments, greater accuracy, and more meaningful insights for management and the board.
Through automation and streamlined workflows, routine tasks like data collection, compliance tracking, and reporting are handled effortlessly — freeing up time for analysis, stakeholder engagement, and forward planning. The optional Symbiant AI Assistant further enhances efficiency by identifying emerging risks, highlighting root causes, and offering predictive insights based on live, interconnected data.
Symbiant also promotes stronger collaboration and accountability. Centralised documentation, built-in audit trails, and real-time dashboards keep every team aligned while maintaining full transparency across the organisation. Risk managers can easily share reports, monitor performance against appetite, and demonstrate risk maturity with confidence.
With live analytics, interactive dashboards, and automated alerts, Symbiant empowers risk managers to make data-driven, proactive decisions, replacing static spreadsheets with dynamic, accurate intelligence. Compliance becomes continuous rather than periodic, and risk management evolves from reactive problem-solving to a strategic driver of value and resilience.
In short, Symbiant helps risk managers transform risk management from a reporting exercise into a connected, intelligent process that supports better decisions, stronger compliance, and measurable business impact. With Symbiant risk managers can easily meet business objectives and build organisational resilience.
How Symbiant Supports Boards and Risk Committees
For boards and risk committees, access to timely, accurate, and clearly presented information is essential to fulfilling their oversight responsibilities. Yet many boards still receive risk reports that are either too detailed, too vague, or too late — filled with technical jargon, excessive data, or information that’s already outdated. This lack of clarity makes it difficult to hold management accountable or evaluate whether the organisation is operating within its defined risk appetite.
In many organisations, risk reporting is disconnected from performance reporting. While financial performance is reviewed as part of an integrated discussion, risk is often treated as an afterthought — discussed separately, and usually at the end of the agenda. This separation creates blind spots, preventing leaders from fully understanding how risks affect business performance, strategy, and resilience.
Symbiant changes this by providing real-time, visual risk intelligence built for board-level visibility. With configurable dashboards, live analytics, and clearly defined thresholds, boards can instantly see the organisation’s overall risk health. High-priority items are highlighted for immediate attention, while areas operating within appetite are clearly marked, enabling informed, efficient oversight.
The platform’s centralised “Single Source of Truth” ensures every report is consistent and up to date, eliminating manual data preparation. Automation and AI-assisted analysis (optional) further enhance transparency by surfacing trends, anomalies, and risks that may require escalation, giving boards a complete and accurate picture of organisational exposure.
With Symbiant, risk becomes an integrated part of board discussions, aligned with strategy, performance, and decision-making. Instead of static reports, board members have dynamic, on-demand insights that support stronger governance, accountability, and confidence in every decision.
How Symbiant Helps You Digitise Risk Management
At Symbiant, we believe risk management is more than compliance, it’s about achieving objectives with confidence. True governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) integration means managing uncertainty as part of everyday business decisions, not as a separate process. That’s why Symbiant’s modular GRC and Audit platform is designed to embed risk management seamlessly into your organisation’s strategy, culture, and operations.
With over 23 years of continual development, Symbiant.One provides a digital ecosystem for enterprise risk management — adaptable to organisations of every size and sector. Our intuitive interface, real-time analytics, and optional AI-powered Assistant make managing risk simple, consistent, and insight-driven.
Key benefits of digitising risk management with Symbiant include:
Manage all your risks in one platform: Centralise governance, risk, compliance, and audit functions within a single, connected system accessible to all stakeholders.
Gain complete visibility: See the full picture of your organisation’s risk and control landscape through integrated dashboards and cross-module insights.
Spend time on insights, not admin: Automate data collection, workflows, and reporting to focus on analysis and action instead of repetitive tasks.
Improve communication: Deliver clear, real-time risk intelligence to boards, executives, and risk committees in a visual and meaningful way.
Drive consistency and accountability: Standardise frameworks, taxonomies, and scoring across departments, ensuring a unified approach to managing risk and compliance.
Measure and enhance risk culture: Track engagement, accountability, and response behaviour to strengthen organisational resilience.
By digitising your risk management with Symbiant, you eliminate silos, reduce manual workload, and enable informed, strategic decision-making across every level of your business.
Transform uncertainty into clarity, start your digitisation journey today.
How Symbiant’s GRC Software Delivers Measurable Value to Every Stakeholder
Symbiant transforms how stakeholders engage with risk management — replacing static spreadsheets with a dynamic, modular platform that delivers visibility, accountability, and insight across every level of your organisation.
BUSINESS LEADERS (LINE 1)
• Gain complete visibility between risks and business outcomes, all in one connected platform. • Hold teams accountable with end-to-end transparency and traceable audit trails. • Make safer, data-driven decisions that balance risk and reward. • Reduce admin and reporting time with a single source of truth (SSOT) powered by Symbiant.
RISK MANAGERS (LINE 2)
• Spend less time on manual reporting and data consolidation with automated workflows. • Deliver greater value through clear, accurate insights and AI-assisted risk analysis. • Use consistent risk taxonomies and dynamic dashboards to challenge and support risk owners. • Collaborate seamlessly across departments with integrated compliance, audit, and risk data.
BOARD MEMBERS
• Gain real-time oversight of organisational risk and performance with live dashboards. • Meet governance and regulatory obligations with evidence-based reporting. • Conduct richer, more informed discussions supported by current, connected risk intelligence. • Strengthen confidence in management with transparent, traceable GRC information.
ISO 27001-Aligned GRC & Audit Management
How to Get Started with Symbiant’s Risk Digitisation Journey
Digitising your risk framework doesn’t have to be complex. With Symbiant’s GRC, Risk Management and Audit Software, you can move from spreadsheets to a connected, data-driven system in just a few hours. Our expert team is here to support you at every stage, from setup and configuration to training and continuous optimisation, ensuring your organisation builds a fit-for-purpose, future-ready solution.
Get the Foundations Right
Understand your organisation’s strategy, objectives, and risk appetite to build a strong Risk Framework. Digitise your risk management structure with Symbiant, creating a single, connected system for all GRC activities.
Spread the Word
Communicate your risk management approach clearly across all departments. With Symbiant’s intuitive interface, everyone from frontline teams to executives, can easily engage with risks, controls, and actions.
Put It Into Practice
Start assessing, scoring, and managing your risk environment within Symbiant’s integrated modules. Replace spreadsheets with automated workflows, digitise your processes, and monitor the health of your organisation in real time.
Continuously Improve
Use Symbiant’s analytics and optional AI Assistant to assess the effectiveness of your risk framework, culture, and controls. Expand your digitisation with additional modules, unlocking more features as your organisation grows and matures.
Symbiant AI Assistnt
25 Years of Insight, Delivered by AI
With 25 years of industry leadership, we’ve done more than just adapt—we’ve mastered the art of GRC & Audit Management. We’ve listened, learned, and refined our solutions based on real-world feedback, ensuring we meet your exact needs, every time.
Symbiant’s advanced AI delivers personalised recommendations, perfectly tailored to your business model and sector, making smarter decisions effortless. It’s the most affordable, cutting-edge GRC and Audit solution on the market—empowering you to stay ahead of risks and drive success like never before.
Symbiant’s flexible, modular platform streamlines governance, risk, compliance, and audit—so you can reduce complexity, adapt fast, and stay focused on achieving your objectives.
Our Solution at a Glance:
Risk Management Software
The Symbiant Risk Management Software module enables organisations to identify, understand, and manage risks with ease and efficiency. It provides a streamlined approach to monitoring, assessing, and mitigating risks, ensuring informed decisions and compliance.
Symbiant AI connects data across your organisation, delivering actionable insights and seamless workflows. From logical, data-driven risk scoring to uncovering root causes and predicting the domino effect of control failures, Symbiant AI empowers smarter, faster decisions. Eliminate duplicate risks in seconds, refine controls, identify emerging risks, and so much more—all tailored to your business.
The Symbiant Audit Management Software module streamlines audit planning, action tracking, and time management. It automatically pulls relevant data, allows easy report customisation, and generates professional audit reports.
The Symbiant Compliance Management Software module simplifies the management of compliance tasks. It helps organisations track regulations, manage audits, and ensure adherence to legal requirements, driving efficiency and minimising risk.
The Symbiant Risk Management Software module enables organisations to identify, understand, and manage risks with ease and efficiency. It provides a streamlined approach to monitoring, assessing, and mitigating risks, ensuring informed decisions and compliance.
Symbiant AI connects data across your organisation, delivering actionable insights and seamless workflows. From logical, data-driven risk scoring to uncovering root causes and predicting the domino effect of control failures, Symbiant AI empowers smarter, faster decisions. Eliminate duplicate risks in seconds, refine controls, identify emerging risks, and so much more—all tailored to your business.
The Symbiant Audit Management Software module streamlines audit planning, action tracking, and time management. It automatically pulls relevant data, allows easy report customisation, and generates professional audit reports.
The Symbiant Compliance Management Software module simplifies the management of compliance tasks. It helps organisations track regulations, manage audits, and ensure adherence to legal requirements, driving efficiency and minimising risk.
Frequently Asked Questions About Risk Digitisation with Symbiant
What is risk management digitisation and why does it matter?
Risk management digitisation means moving from manual spreadsheets and disconnected documents to a connected, automated system that gives you full visibility of your risks, controls, and compliance. With Symbiant’s GRC and Audit Software, you can manage every stage of governance, risk, and compliance in one place — improving accuracy, accountability, and strategic decision-making.
Digitisation eliminates human error, enhances data integrity, and provides real-time insight into your organisation’s risk landscape, helping you make faster, evidence-based decisions
How does Symbiant’s GRC and Audit Software replace spreadsheets?
Symbiant replaces static spreadsheets with a dynamic, cloud-based platform that connects all risk, audit, and compliance data across your organisation. Each module — such as Risk Registers, Controls and Policies, and Audit Working Papers — works together to create a single source of truth (SSOT).
You can automate data entry, notifications, reviews, and reports, ensuring that every update is tracked, auditable, and visible in real time. No more version confusion, broken formulas, or manual reporting — just accurate, actionable insights at a click.
What makes Symbiant different from other GRC software?
Symbiant stands out for its flexible, agility, modular design, transparent pricing, and proven experience. Each module costs just £100 per month with unlimited users*, making it one of the most affordable GRC, Risk Management and Audit software solutions.
Unlike rigid enterprise systems, Symbiant adapts to your existing processes. You can start small, for example with the Risk Register or Incident Reporter, and expand at any time. Plus, the optional AI Assistant provides advanced analysis, risk linkage, and objective matching, helping you save hours of manual work.
Is Symbiant suitable for SMEs as well as large enterprises?
Yes. Symbiant is trusted by public sector organisations, charities, financial institutions, and global enterprises, but it’s equally ideal for small and mid-sized businesses. Our modular, scalable approach lets you build a solution that fits your size, structure, and budget, without unnecessary complexity or cost.
Symbiant operates within a secure, cloud-based environment using role-based access controls, tamperproof audit trails, and encrypted data management. Our AI Assistant is designed for full data protection, it processes queries in a temporary cache and never stores data, ensuring total compliance with GDPR and ISO 27001 standards.
How secure is Symbiant’s GRC and Audit platform?
Symbiant operates within a secure, cloud-based environment using role-based access controls, tamperproof audit trails, and encrypted data management. Our AI Assistant is designed for full data protection, it processes queries in a temporary cache and never stores data, ensuring total compliance with GDPR and ISO 27001 standards.
Pricing Disclaimer
* Modules are charged at a standard monthly fee, not on a per-user basis. All users can access each module at any required level. Please note that costs exclude VAT, AI features, and additional modules you may wish to use. User seats are required.
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