Resolver*Risk became GRC Cloud today, coinciding with the release of version 5.3 which contains a number of valuable features and enhancements.

Following the merger of Resolver Inc. and BPS Inc. at the beginning of this year, our product names are being rationalized under the banner of GRC Suite, and starting today, Resolver*Risk is now GRC Cloud. 

GRC Cloud v5.3 introduces a number of new features plus a dramatic enhancement to the login page. The new appearance is in sync with BPS Resolver’s corporate site and it also provides more ways (Product Update, News and Blog) for customers to stay up to date on product and corporate developments at BPS Resolver, plus easy access to Support contact information.

The other highlights of GRC Cloud v5.3 are:

• Ability for the first time to include past period data in Item Overview reports.
• Additional flexibility in selecting previous periods for display and reporting.
• Rationalization of reporting of results from functions and enhancements to reporting in pie charts.

For more details on what is included in this release, customers can check the Product Updates section on the login page.

Here are the highlights of GRC Cloud Release 5.3, the application formerly called Resolver*Risk.

Login page more content rich and rebranded. Other branding elements also updated.

• The home page now features news and updates from BPS Resolver, while the username and password fields and login button have been moved to the very top of the screen.
• The new branding is apparent on the home page and continues throughout the site including the Help documentation, broweser title bars, default “from” addresses in e-mail notifications etc.

Data from previous periods available in Item Overview reports.

• Item Overview Reports can now feature data from previous periods.
• The Report Builder screen has a new interface to select either specific periods or to display a number of successive previous periods (see item below).

Previous period selection data available as number of most recent periods in addition to selected periods

• In the Data Preferences screen and the Item Overview report builder there is a new option for selecting past period data to display, based on choosing a number of the most recent previous periods to display, rather than selecting specific periods.
• The advantage of this approach is that this setting can be saved in a report or in data preferences and therefore will always display a selected number of past periods rather than requiring a user to update his or her selection after each period end.

Functions that are not calculated or invalid now displayed appropriately in pie charts. Wording for invalid results and not calculated now rationalized across application.

• Functions that have not been calculated and functions that cannot be calculated (usually due to the values used as variables in the calculation being blank, such as an unrated risk or control) are now reported consistently across GRC Cloud, including in pie charts on the home page and the Executive Dashboard.

Release Notes now available from System menu

• Release Notes now have a permanent “home” in the GRC Cloud menu system and can be found under the System menu. The Release Notes are in PDF format and contain more detailed descriptions of all these features.

Today marks BPS Resolver’s first release of GRC Cloud, a new name and new look for Resolver*Risk, which has been a leading web-delivered governance, risk and compliance application since 2005.

Following the merger of Resolver Inc. and BPS Inc. at the beginning of this year, a lot of thinking and communication with customers and industry opinion leaders has taken place to determine how the range of software products offered by the two predecessor companies should be aligned to provide a product suite that would appeal both to companies executing on a fully developed GRC strategy, as well as companies that are currently executing specific areas of GRC.

The product line and product names are being rationalized under the banner of GRC Suite, and starting today, Resolver*Risk is now GRC Cloud.

Why GRC Cloud?

Over the years, customers asked us “Why do you call your application Resolver*Risk when we use it for SOX, NERC, IT-GRC, PCI, Bill 198, and Audit as well as Risk Management?” We listened; GRC Cloud now reflects exactly what you use it for, GRC, and how it is typically delivered, via the cloud. If you are not familiar with the term “Cloud”, it encompasses what is also known as software as a service (SaaS), where an application is hosted by the software provider and offered over the Internet. The use of the word Cloud is also significant following BPS Resolver’s migration to a new hosting provider which operates our application on a virtual infrastructure, enabling us to continue to more efficiently ramp up computing power as the number of customers increases.

GRC Cloud v5.3 introduces a number of new features but the revised look to the login page will be the first thing that most users notice. The new appearance is in sync with BPS Resolver’s corporate site and it also provides more ways (Product Update, News and Blog) to update customers on product and corporate developments at BPS Resolver, plus easy access to Support contact information. For more details on what is included in this release, please check the Product Updates section on the login page.

For details on where Resolver*Ballot, Resolver*Net and BPS Suite fit in this strategy and upcoming integration and rebranding, please see my colleague Joe Crampton’s blog entry from last month.

The upcoming transition from Resolver*Risk to GRC Cloud will be very obvious from the first time users login to GRC Cloud, with new branding and the much richer content of the login page. Click here for a preview of how it will look. (Your login and password will not work with the preview).

One of the first things users will notice is that the login area has moved to the very top of the screen.

If your site had your company logo on it before, it will still have this on the homepage, located just below the banner of the man sitting on the mountaintop.

There is a lot of frequently updated content at the bottom of the home page. The Product Updates section will list information on new releases, features and enhancements, while the blog will contain articles relating to GRC in general plus BPS Resolver related items of general interest. Meanwhile, News and Events will include corporate news releases, upcoming webinars, other events and so on.

Feel free to look at the preview page (see link above) and check out what’s new under the Product Updates, Blog and News links.

The Cloud is Coming

As part of our company strategy, we are in the process of rebranding our products. On September 22nd, Resolver*Risk version 5.3 will be released under the new banner of BPS Resolver GRC Cloud. This rebranding will be apparent from a new login page which you can preview at preview.sb.bpsresolver.net.

Release Scheduled September 22nd!

The first release of GRC Cloud will include:

-          Inclusion of past data saved through the period end process in item overview reports

-          A new way to select the periods to be included in data views, including the new report

-          Breakdown of not calculated and invalid function results in pie charts and consistent reporting of these in other sections of the application