Governance, Risk &
Compliance
Most organisations manage GRC in platforms structurally separate from strategy, architecture and investment. AlignX makes governance, risk and compliance dimensions of the connected model, governed by Microsoft Entra and protected by Microsoft Purview, not a separate system.
Why decisions fail in Governance, Risk & Compliance today
Most organisations manage GRC in platforms structurally separate from strategy, architecture, and investment. Risk registers are maintained by risk teams. Compliance evidence is collected for auditors. Governance approvals are made without full visibility of architectural or investment implications. The result is GRC that is expensive, reactive, and disconnected from the decisions it is meant to govern. AlignX integrates GRC as a connected dimension of the enterprise model, not as a bolt-on module.
GRC separated from the decisions it governs
Risk registers are maintained by risk teams. Compliance evidence is collected by compliance teams. Neither is connected to the strategic and architectural decisions that create the conditions they govern.
Risk registers without decision context
Risks are documented and assessed, but the decisions that created them, and the architectural choices that could mitigate them, are invisible.
Compliance evidence assembled manually
Audit and assurance exercises require manual evidence collection, because the decision trail is not preserved in any system.
GRC wraps around every decision
Governance is closest to the decision. Risk wraps around governance. Compliance is the outermost layer, the heaviest, most regulated dimension. All three are connected to the same decision context, not maintained in separate systems.
Decision enablers, not features
Connect risk to the decisions that create it
Connect risk conditions to the strategic and architectural decisions that create or mitigate them, making risk a live dimension of the enterprise model, not a periodic audit exercise.
What good looks like
Risk connected to decisions
Risk is connected to the decisions that create it, not just the controls that mitigate it.
Compliance through decision context
Compliance is evidenced through decision context, not just documentation.
Full situational awareness
Governance bodies make approvals with full situational awareness.
Audit met through the model
Audit and assurance requirements are met through the decision model itself, not through manual evidence collection.
Part of the AlignX decision system
GRC in AlignX is not a separate compliance platform. It is one of six interconnected capability domains that share a single connected enterprise model, held as Dataverse tables within your Microsoft tenant. Information protection is delivered through Microsoft Purview. Identity and access are governed by Microsoft Entra. Compliance obligations can be mapped to Purview's compliance framework catalogue, including PSPF, ISM, ISO 27001, NIST and sector-specific frameworks.
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