Everything you need to know to evaluate vendors, avoid expensive mistakes, and choose the right compliance platform for your organization.
Compliance Automation Software
2025 Edition
52 pages of actionable insights, vendor comparisons, and decision frameworks to help you choose the right compliance platform.
What compliance automation actually means, the 30-50% automation potential, and why manual compliance is killing your team's productivity. Learn which tasks can be automated and which require human expertise.
Overview of 10+ major vendors including Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Secureframe, and LowerPlane. Market positioning, target customers, and key differentiators for each platform.
Side-by-side comparison of 25+ features across all major platforms. Evidence collection, integrations, policy management, continuous monitoring, multi-framework support, and more.
Actual pricing data from $4,995 to $80,000+ annually. Hidden fees to watch out for, price increases at renewal, and total cost of ownership over 3 years. Includes pricing negotiation tactics.
Step-by-step framework for evaluating vendors. Scoring methodology, must-have vs. nice-to-have features, and how to create a requirements matrix for your organization.
50+ questions to ask during demos and sales calls. Uncover hidden costs, implementation requirements, support quality, and contract terms. Get vendors to reveal what they don't advertise.
Learn from companies who got it wrong. Overpaying for enterprise features you don't need, choosing based on brand alone, ignoring support quality, and more costly mistakes.
This guide is perfect for anyone responsible for selecting compliance software.
Evaluating compliance platforms and need technical comparison data, integration requirements, and implementation timelines.
Building compliance programs and need to understand which platforms provide the best automation, evidence collection, and multi-framework support.
Need compliance to close enterprise deals but overwhelmed by vendor options. Want clear pricing and ROI data to make informed decisions quickly.
Responsible for vendor selection and contract negotiations. Need total cost of ownership analysis, pricing benchmarks, and contract red flags.
Actionable insights you can apply immediately to your vendor evaluation process.
Create a scoring matrix customized to your organization's needs, priorities, and budget. Avoid getting swayed by sales pitches.
Understand actual costs from $4,995 to $80,000+ annually. Identify hidden fees, price increases, and total 3-year costs.
Distinguish between must-have capabilities and nice-to-have features. Don't overpay for enterprise features you'll never use.
Uncover what vendors don't advertise. Implementation requirements, support response times, contract terms, and hidden limitations.
Learn from companies who chose wrong. Overpaying for brand names, ignoring support quality, underestimating implementation time, and more.
Tactics to reduce costs by 20-40%, avoid price increases, and secure better contract terms. What to negotiate and when to walk away.
18,000+ compliance professionals have downloaded this guide.
"This guide saved us weeks of research and probably $30K in overspending. The pricing data alone was worth it. We used the evaluation framework to compare 5 vendors and chose the best fit for our startup."
"Finally, an honest comparison without vendor bias. The questions to ask vendors section was gold. We caught several red flags during demos that would have cost us later. Highly recommend downloading this before talking to any vendor."