One of the best moments of 2019 was Onspring being named a Gold Medalist by SoftwareReviews, who recognizes outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. And that’s the key—our users were responsible for us winning this award.
How does Boxing Day tie in with enterprise risk management (ERM) and other solution offerings, or with Onspring in general? It’s literally about the box, or specifically, what’s in it and how you can use it. One of the things we pride ourselves in at Onspring is the overall readiness of our platform. Our development team has done a fantastic job keeping our solutions up-to-date within industry standards.
Compliance programs help organizations to develop and manage effective internal controls with the goal of demonstrating compliance with various local, state and federal regulations (per their business). Depending on the number or complexity of regulatory requirements put on an organization, managing an effective compliance program can be a daunting endeavor.
When it comes to putting together a GRC platform—or using any of Onspring’s other solutions—It doesn’t matter what kind of cooking personality you have. If you use our professional services team to lean on or you do it yourself, the results will be good. Anyone can do it—it’s just like when you’re cooking; you need the confidence to go into your kitchen and say, “I might burn this cake or destroy this pie, but I also might make something really good. If I fail, it won’t be for long.”
Being a part of a growing family like Onspring is rewarding because I am getting to be apart of a tradition not only with my life, but the lives of the clients we serve. Due to the spirit of our company and the heart of our work culture, we live a lifestyle of thankfulness that isn’t just one day a year. In 2019 alone, with the help of our clients who have been with us from the start to the clients that came on last week, Onspring has 37% more employees than it did last year.
Getting great, new people isn’t easy, but it is so important to take the time and attention necessary to make the best choices. A few bad hires can really cripple a company and cause hard-to-correct damage. While there is no foolproof way to make sure a bad hire never happens, there are some good practices you can follow to find the best talent for your organization.
Much like my fishing trip, you should begin defining your requirements and planning early on, maybe even wade around in research materials for a few months before beginning the purchasing process itself. It is of paramount importance to ask yourself the tough questions that will help shape and define your scope—questions around your budget, specific needs, timeline and workflow requirements tend to work best.
From a work perspective, I am just as excited at the prospects of getting back in touch with people and things that matter. In the last couple of weeks I’ve been focusing on the following things that I think will help me get back in touch with why I love working at Onspring.
The Onspring Sales team knows you probably don’t want us to sit on the couch with you and watch Onspring videos after just having spoken for the first time, but we do our best to make you feel at ease with the resources available to help with education and awareness of where you’re at with your processes and where you can be in the future.
When GRC platforms started becoming a “thing” in the mid-2000s, there were only a few major players in the market. They focused primarily on IT: whether it be controls, policies or risk management. Additionally, with the Enron and Worldcom scandals, SOX and its myriad of financial reporting controls quickly became platform offerings as well. As the market started expanding quickly at the turn of the decade, the concept of “eGRC”, with the “e” standing for enterprise, swept the landscape. Why settle for managing IT processes when many of the tools were capable of managing an entire organizations’ Governance, Risk and Compliance frameworks? The natural progression had begun.
If in your current state, your audit team has to spend time creating work papers manually and then saving them and going back and looking at them, that’s a manual step that is something that could be easily repeated in Onspring that ends up saving a lot of time. Looking at how much time were we spending on admin work in the past and now how much time are we pivoting that toward audit work—time, saving time is a big ROI with Onspring.
With automated processes in place, organizations save time and ensure best practices are implemented to improve overall operational efficiency. Using a GRC platform like Onspring can help you automate many, many different kinds of jobs. You can build custom workflows for repetitive tasks, create triggers to remind you when something is due, set up approval paths, auto-generate email notifications—our no-code platform makes a lot of things easy.