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Improve Your GRC Adoption by Keeping Users in the Platform Instead of Switching to External Tools

By Isaac Maw | 2025 Oct 29

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Summary: Modern GRC systems require document-centric features like version control, redaction, and secure access. Without built-in solutions for editing and managing documents, users must switch between apps such as Word, Excel and email for document tasks, undermining governance, risk and compliance management workflows. Apryse provides the solution with streamlined SDKs for secure, collaborative document workflows embedded into your platform.

 

Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platforms are designed to help simplify and organize compliance workflows and organizational processes such as audits and questionnaires. Yet one persistent challenge continues to slow adoption: Users don’t have the tools they need to complete document-related tasks inside the platform, forcing them to constantly leave and juggle other tools like Word, Excel and email.

When users move between disconnected tools to review evidence, update policies, or collaborate on documents, GRC platforms lose effectiveness, and GRC vendors lose adoption momentum.

Why GRC Adoption Suffers When Users Leave the Platform

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GRC platforms achieve maximum efficiency when all GRC tasks are centralized within a unified space, providing everything users need for their compliance workflows. When users juggle multiple Saas applications such as Office 365 to complete GRC tasks, the platform loses effectiveness, with:

  • Workflow Disruption: Switching between apps like Office 365 or email breaks audit trails, slows evidence collection, and creates version control headaches.
  • Increased Security Risks: Sensitive compliance data sent over email or shared externally leaves organizations vulnerable to data leakage.
  • Poor User Experience: Formatting issues, accessibility gaps, and inconsistent collaboration features frustrate users and reduce engagement.
  • Reduced Platform Value: When users rely on external tools, GRC vendors see lower adoption, decreased ROI, and weaker customer retention.

Simply put, if your users have to leave your GRC platform to get work done, your adoption metrics will reflect it.

What GRC Users Actually Need

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Teams need a single environment to manage their compliance workflows end-to-end, without ever leaving the platform.

Embedding Apryse’s document capabilities into your GRC software delivers that experience.

Here’s how:

  • In-App Editing for PDF, DOCX, XLSX | Enable users to update policies, complete vendor questionnaires, and review audit documents directly within your platform.
  • Secure Redaction & Annotation | Redact sensitive data, add comments, or highlight findings — all without exporting or emailing documents.
  • Version Control & Audit Trails | Maintain a single source of truth with traceable edits, timestamps, and version history to support compliance reporting.
  • Smart Data Extraction | Extract structured insights from unstructured sources such as SOC reports or compliance checklists, speeding up audit prep and evidence collection.

With Apryse, your users gain the features they need to stay in the platform — and your product team gains the reliability, performance, and scalability required to support them.

Why Apryse for Document Processing Capabilities for GRC?

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The Apryse WebViewer SDK is purpose-built for secure, compliant, and high-performance document processing.

It enables GRC vendors to embed robust document capabilities — editing, reviewing, redacting, and signing — directly into their SaaS applications.

Key Capabilities

  • Embedded document viewing, editing, and annotation
  • Secure redaction, digital signatures, and audit trails
  • Real-time collaboration with comments, track changes, and document comparison
  • High-fidelity rendering for PDF, DOCX, and XLSX
  • WCAG 2.2 Level AA accessibility compliance
  • Flexible deployment: on-premises, cloud, or hybrid

Unlike plug-ins that rely on external dependencies, Apryse SDKs are self-contained, security-hardened, and future-proof, helping GRC vendors accelerate their roadmaps without compromising compliance.

Benefits of a Document SDK for GRC Platforms

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With built-in document processing, you transform your GRC platform into a fully integrated compliance environment.

Unlock measurable gains across adoption, security, all while speeding time to market:

  • Higher Adoption & Engagement: Keep users in your platform with seamless, in-app workflows.
  • Enhanced Security & Compliance: Sensitive data never leaves your environment.
  • Faster Time-to-Market: Deploy proven document features instantly, without lengthy in-house builds.
  • Reduced Development Overhead: Eliminate the cost and complexity of maintaining document tools yourself.
  • Scalable Compliance: Meet global standards with built-in accessibility and auditability.

Accelerate Your GRC Platform with Apryse

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If you’re ready to enhance your GRC platform with secure, collaborative, and compliant document workflows — without forcing users to switch between apps — Apryse can help.

Our ready-to-embed SDKs empower your product and engineering teams to deliver enterprise-grade document functionality faster, more securely, and with lower development overhead.

Explore how Apryse powers document workflows across leading compliance and audit platforms.

Start your trial today, or visit our showcase to see how we help GRC vendors streamline compliance, reduce risk, and improve adoption.

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Isaac Maw

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