

This IDC study (a translation of the Japanese report IDC #J9110101) looks at the latest (2009) taxonomy of the compliance infrastructure and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management solutions that make up the compliance market. It also reports the results of a questionnaire-based survey conducted among 180 chief compliance officers (CCOs) of listed and non-listed companies in Japan.
Amid the global economic crisis caused by the subprime loan problem in the United States, business managers have to juggle between ensuring effective law compliance and finding ways to get out of the "once-in-a-century" crisis. Non-IT departments (line of business [LOB]) have an increasingly important role to play in promoting the use of IT for compliance. "Compliance solution providers that do not have strong relationships with non-IT departments should put forth proposals to improve the efficiency of the compliance management processes of business departments such as accounting/financial, HR, legal, procurement, quality management/product safety, and customer management with security solutions as a common ICT platform," says Eiji Sasahara, research manager, IT spending, IDC Japan.