Can you run risk and resilience reporting on your own data platform instead of a GRC tool?
Risk and resilience reporting can run directly on a data platform such as Databricks when the underlying data already lives there, which avoids maintaining a second copy of the same data inside a separate GRC tool. This works well for reporting and analytics. It works less well for the workflow side of a GRC programme, such as attestations, approvals and control testing, which usually still needs a dedicated interface. If the same risk data is being manually re-entered into two systems, that is the sign that reporting and workflow have been forced into the wrong layer.
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Maximilian Bazzi, Founder and CEOWhere this fits well
Reporting fits well on a data platform you already hold when the source data, such as incident logs, control testing results or third-party risk data, already lives there or can be ingested cleanly. Building the reporting and analytics layer directly on that data avoids the common pattern of exporting the same data into a GRC tool on a schedule, which creates a second, slower-moving copy that drifts out of sync with the source.
Where it fits less well
A GRC programme is not only reporting. Attestations, control owner sign-off, exception approval and remediation tracking are workflow problems: they involve a person being prompted to do something and their response being recorded, not only data being queried. A data platform can support this with the right tooling, but it is a different kind of build from a reporting layer, and most data platforms are not designed for it out of the box.
Where teams commonly run into difficulty
The difficulty is usually scope creep in one direction or the other: either the reporting-on-data-platform approach gets stretched to also cover workflow, producing something that behaves like a GRC tool but was never designed as one, or a full GRC platform gets bought purely for its reporting capability when the actual need was better served by reporting directly on data already held elsewhere.
How Bazzi Consulting helps
We assess whether your reporting need is genuinely a data platform problem, a workflow problem, or both, and build or configure accordingly rather than defaulting to a single tool for everything. See technology and custom build.