We are happy to announce that The Forrester Wave™: Governance, Risk, And Compliance Platforms, Q2 2026 , is now live. We’ve evaluated 12 vendors in this iteration and are grateful to all of them for their participation in the process. Today’s governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platforms market faces many headwinds. Many GRC platforms still require too much manual data entry, only offer basic workflow automation, and are too complex, unwieldy, and expensive for the function they perform today. And unfortunately, intelligent integration of AI into the platform isn’t coming to help soon, reflected in tepid feedback from customers on their adoption plans for it. Yet the GRC platforms market is going to fundamentally reform its purpose over the next 18 to 24 months with vendors focusing on becoming orchestrators of outcomes and action for risk professionals.…