The Compliance Workspace provides a single-pane view for compliance managers and analysts to assess the organization's overall compliance posture. It enables them to track time-sensitive issues, high-risk exceptions, ongoing policy acknowledgments, and new regulatory changes. The workspace also allows them to define and manage the compliance library, test the effectiveness of controls, and continuously monitor control performance through Key Control Indicators (KCIs). Using the centralized issue management capability, they can also define the remediation plans and ensure that the control gaps are addressed promptly.
Highlights of the Next Experience user interface:
- A default home page tailored to each user persona that delivers actionable insights and quick links.
- A well-structured navigation menu that organizes modules based on user roles and needs.
- A redesigned page layout that enhances the user experience for practitioners, business users, and executives.
- A holistic view of record pages with actionable insights specific to what is being viewed.
- A 360° view of relationships for comprehensive visibility.
- Personalized homepage for corporate compliance managers to manage their work more effectively.
- Personalized homepage for corporate compliance analysts to manage their work more effectively.
- Consolidated task landing page to manage all assigned tasks for the user and their groups.
- Centralized compliance library.
- Policy authoring and redlining integrated with Microsoft 365.
- Policy authoring and redlining integrated with Google Drive.
- Policy authoring and redlining integrated with SharePoint.
- Policy acknowledgment management.
- Policy exception management.
- Testing the design and operational effectiveness of controls.
- Continuous monitoring of controls through Key Control Indicators (KCIs).
- Issues landing page for triaging, managing, and remediating compliance issues.
- Regulatory change management landing page.
- Security and access features to manage the confidentiality of engagements, audit tasks, issues, remediation tasks, evidence requests, and other related activities.
- New
- Improved user experience:
- Card containers with rounded corners and drop shadows are implemented to enhance the user experience of widgets on home pages, overview pages and sidebars of Policy and Compliance table records.
- The grey background has been removed from home pages to improve the user experience.
- Improved user experience:
- Fixed
- Compliance manager/Contributor were unable to view the images under the policy text.
- Identical assessments were shown across all control objectives when clicking the pie chart under attestations in Control Objective Overview page.
- When attempting to 'Add from existing control' on a reliant entity for a control in the Compliance Workspace, the pop-up modal appeared condensed with incorrect view.
- Removed
- Removed the Tasks section from the home pages.
The following GRC applications must be installed and activated:
- GRC: Policy and Compliance Management (com.sn_compliance)
- GRC: Common Workspace Elements (com.sn_grc_workspace)
- Smart Assessment Core (com.sn_smart_asmt))
- sn-smart-assessment-connected
- sn-smart-assessment-designer
Permissions and roles:
- Role required to install the app: System Administrator (admin)
To enable policy redlining capability, ensure you have the following platforms and applications installed:
- Platform version: San Diego Patch-1 and above
- Multiple Provider Document Services Framework
- Microsoft Azure AD Spoke version 3.5.0
- Microsoft OneDrive Spoke for Document Service Framework version 1.0.5
- Microsoft OneDrive Spoke version 2.1.1
Note: IntegrationHub entitlements included in the Compliance Workspace are solely restricted to use for Policy Authoring integration with Microsoft 365. Any other usage requires purchase of additional IntegrationHub entitlements.