Comprehensive Policy Lifecycle Management with Archer Document Governance

Navigating Your Organization’s Policy Management Approach: Complex Yet Crucial

Without effective policy management, organizations face significant challenges. Inadequate management of critical content can lead to outdated or inconsistent policies, creating confusion and increasing the risk of non-compliance with external and internal policies. This makes it challenging to meet regulatory demands and can lead to discrepancies during audits, resulting in penalties and reputational damage. The inability to quickly adapt policies in response to new regulations can leave enterprises vulnerable to legal and financial risks.

Effective policy management is not just a choice; it's necessary for enterprises striving to maintain compliance and mitigate risk. The ability to efficiently manage critical content using robust workflows and advanced editing capabilities is vital; it's a comprehensive solution. This ensures that policies are always up-to-date and aligned with current regulatory demands, enabling organizations to swiftly respond to new requirements and pass audits with confidence. By adopting a comprehensive policy management strategy, enterprises can streamline their processes, enhance governance, and safeguard their reputation in an increasingly complex environment.

Establishing a Holistic Solution

The solution is to adopt a centralized policy management system that includes workflows to streamline the review and approval process, ensure version control to keep track of changes and ensure consistency, and robust editing capabilities to facilitate all policy updates. This strategy not only ensures that you are securely managing your critical documents and keeping your policies up to date, but also significantly reduces the risk of non-compliance and improves overall operational efficiency. With this system in place, you can rest assured that you have a reliable and scalable solution to navigate the complexities of changing policies and regulations.

How Archer Document Governance Can Help

We're excited to announce that Archer Document Governance is now integrated with a streamlined version of the Policies application, offering a seamless policy user experience. Archer customers who have Document Governance will be automatically logged into Document Governance when they are logged into their Archer instance, making policy creation a breeze. With Document Governance, you can effortlessly ensure you have a robust governance process managing your critical documents and effectively managing your policies.

Features

• New, streamlined Policies application (newly named Policy Governance)  
• New Policy Portal dashboard 
• Archer-to-Archer Relationship Migration Feed (Policies -> Policy Governance) 
• Mail Merge Template to export policy content 
• Addition of Document Governance to the Global Navigation 9-pin  
• Seamless authentication from Archer into Document Governance 
• Automatic record creation from Document Governance to Archer 
• User Directory & Metadata Synchronization  

Benefits

• Streamlined policy program management
• Maintain a clear chain of custody throughout the policy lifecycle
• Respond to audit requests promptly
• Improved control and compliance across critical documents and content

Join us for a Free Friday Tech Huddle on June 28th to learn more about the Archer Document Governance release. Register using this link.