BWise vs. Rencore Code (SPCAF)

- What does our organization aim to achieve with the application? - Who will be using the tool? - How mature is our organization in the areas/processes that will fall in scope? - Are our areas averse to change? - How flexible and prone are our areas to modify their way of doing business and processes/procedures to accommodate BWise? - After implementation, who and how will perform application maintenance and change management (e.g. how easy will it be to update user privileges, central catalogs, assessment configurations, etc).

Incentivized

For Microsoft shops that are doing custom development on the Microsoft cloud platform in Office 365 and Azure, the Rencore toolset is an absolute must, especially if you are involved in converting farm solutions to cloud, or just moving into cloud development for the first time.

• Great reporting tool (uses SAP Business Objects). It is quite flexible on types of reports that can be created and supported. Also the reporting consultants are very competent and nice.
• Highly customizable solution: almost everything can be tailored to an organization's needs, assessments, audits, issues, recommendations, tasks, etc. However, there's a trade-off between customization and the integration of different areas of the organization.
• Increases visibility and efficiency in the organization. BWise offers centralized repositories (catalogs) that can be easily accessed and used by everyone in the organization (e.g. Process catalog, Policies and Procedures catalog, Risks, Controls, Laws catalogs, etc.). Also, the application allows findings on controls tested by Audit to be automatically reflected in controls monitored by SOX for example, without the need for SOX to retest them. So one area can leverage on the work of other areas increasing operational efficiency.
• Increases integration and avoids silos. By choosing the correct design (e.g. Risk Workshops instead of Open Assessments), one area can see and benefit from another areas' work. An example was mentioned above; another would be Operational Risk area considering the results of Business Continuity, Vendor Management, Info Security, etc. assessments when carrying out theirs. Additionally, processes can be integrated: when contracting a new vendor for instance, one can include questions about data confidentiality and usage of models in the Vendor risk assessment. Answers to these could then trigger Info Sec / Model Risk assessments.
• Increases accountability. Application provides full audit/change log with the type of change, name of executor, and date of change.
• Easier follow-up. BWise sends automatic emails with reminders to the people required to take action on an issue, assessment, etc.

Incentivized

• Support - It is very quick relative to other vendors in this space and also very thorough.
• Product Features - It appears to be the only product in the market that has ALL the pieces for a baseline SPFx project versus no tools or manual activities.

• Integration with SAP for continuous control monitoring.
• Control mapping to standards: ISO; COSO; COBIT; HIPAA; SP800_53 (NIST); FedRAMP; PCI_DSS; BITS; GAAP; AICPA; BSI; CCM; COPPA; CSA
• Surveys.

Incentivized

• Rencore's product line is of course still a bit of a niche: SharePoint code quality is not something every organization on the planet is concerned with - although Rencore does much more than that.
• We feel Rencore's marketing efforts are mainly targeted at technologists. There's a lot of other potential, especially for their platform governance product.

BWIse is very flexible, and an affordable GRC tool.

Incentivized

I found BWise to be very intuitive and user friendly.

Incentivized

BWise support is knowledgeable and responsive. Bug fixes and development are also timely and ongoing.

Incentivized

Happy with the fast and meaningful responses.

Incentivized

The main issues were managing the internal conflicts and competing objectives, rather than the capability and implementation of BWise itself.

Incentivized

Wasn't personally involved in the vendor selection process. I am aware that one of the main drivers for selecting BWise was cost (I believe BWise total project cost was several times lower than MetricStream's).

Incentivized

I don't know of any products that compete in the space and if there were any, they would not stand a chance against Rencore. Behind any good product is a team of highly skilled individuals, who all have the same goal, who are passionate what they do and lastly, are in it for the betterment of where they started; As Developers themselves. You can't buy that

• Increased employee efficiency especially considering incident management and follow up.
• Increased visibility and senior management information/awareness.
• Increased employee accountability.
• Reduction of silos.

Incentivized

• Valuable insights into large existing SharePoint customizations that would otherwise would have taken weeks to analyze and assess on quality.
• Without Rencore's tooling, it would be impossible to track changes to client-side code. For example, we can tell exactly who changed which JavaScript in which webpart in the environment.
• Transformation tools helped developers migrate their existing code bases to the cloud, while already providing an automatically translated code base to start from.