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AI-powered GRC with IBM OpenPages as a Service on AWS Marketplace

IBM OpenPages, an AI-powered governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solution, is now available on AWS Marketplace. You can access integrated risk management, regulatory compliance, and audit functions in a single software-as-a-service (SaaS) environment.

When GRC functions operate from separate systems, teams spend more time consolidating information than acting on it. With rapidly changing regulatory obligations and growing compliance demands, the cost of operating in silos continues to rise. IBM OpenPages brings these functions together, giving you the visibility and context to respond to regulatory change faster and with greater confidence.

This post introduces IBM OpenPages on AWS, describes its capabilities, shares examples of how organizations across industries use it, and explains how to get started.

What is IBM OpenPages?

IBM OpenPages is an enterprise GRC solution built on a modular architecture. You can start with the modules that match your current needs and add others over time. The unified platform architecture provides enterprise-wide visibility across modules, supports collaboration across teams, and delivers contextual intelligence through real-time dashboards.

OpenPages uses AI to automate routine GRC tasks such as classification, tagging, issue creation, and workflow routing. This reduces manual effort, so your teams can focus on analysis and judgment rather than data entry.

The GRC Canvas

The GRC Canvas is an interactive visual workspace built into OpenPages. You can use it to model business processes, risks, controls, and relationships using live data. The following figure (Figure 1) shows the GRC Canvas displaying risk relationships, control dependencies, and compliance status in a live visual workspace.

IBM OpenPages GRC Canvas showing risk relationships, control dependencies, and compliance status in a live visual workspace.

Figure 1. The IBM OpenPages GRC Canvas displaying risk relationships, control dependencies, and compliance status in a live visual workspace.

AI Integration

OpenPages supports a bring-your-own-model (BYOM) approach. You can connect IBM-provided, third-party, or custom AI models to perform specific GRC tasks directly inside OpenPages – such as classifying risks, tagging objects, summarizing evidence documents, automating obligation text review, and generating risk assessment progress reports.

Because OpenPages BYOM supports the OpenAI API specification, you can use Amazon Bedrock to run model inference using the OpenAI Create chat completion API with GPT-OSS 20B or GPT-OSS 120B models and connect them directly to OpenPages.

Capabilities

OpenPages includes 11 modules covering the major domains of enterprise GRC. You can start with one module and add others as your program grows.

Key modules include:

  • Operational risk management – Identify, measure, and manage operational risk through risk and control self-assessments, loss event tracking, scenario analysis, and key risk indicators
  • Regulatory compliance management – Break down regulations into a catalog of requirements, map them to internal controls and policies, and track compliance status across your organization
  • Internal audit management – Plan, run, and report on audits from a central system
  • Third-party risk management – Assess and monitor vendor risk at scale

Additional modules cover financial controls management, model risk governance, policy management, business continuity management, data privacy management, IT governance, and ESG risk management.

The following image (Figure 2) shows the OpenPages dashboard, where risk data and tasks are surfaced in one place for each user.

IBM OpenPages dashboard showing personalized risk tasks, key indicators, and compliance report panels for a GRC team member.

Figure 2. The IBM OpenPages dashboard showing personalized risk and compliance tasks, key indicators, and report panels for a GRC team member.

OpenPages includes a data export capability to extract GRC data, including relationships between objects, and send it directly to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), SFTP, and other destinations. This makes it straightforward to connect OpenPages data to AI pipelines and third-party business intelligence tools.

For the full list of capabilities, refer to the IBM OpenPages documentation.

How organizations use IBM OpenPages

GRC requirements cut across industries. Organizations managing complex regulatory environments, large vendor networks, or growing AI portfolios share a common need—consistent visibility into changing requirements, risk data, and team capacity.

Financial services – Audit and compliance teams use OpenPages to manage model risk across large portfolios, track regulatory change across multiple jurisdictions, and automate audit documentation workflows.

Insurance – Insurers use OpenPages to manage operational risk assessments and meet regulatory reporting requirements across multiple lines of business.

Energy and utilities – Organizations use OpenPages to manage compliance with operational and environmental regulations, track third-party vendor risk across complex supply chains, and maintain business continuity plans.

Life sciences – Compliance teams use OpenPages to manage data privacy assessments, maintain policy libraries, and track regulatory obligations across multiple markets.

Get started

IBM OpenPages brings risk management, regulatory compliance, and audit functions together in one environment on AWS. The AI-powered platform gives you the visibility to respond to regulatory change with confidence while reducing manual effort across your GRC program.

To get started, visit the IBM OpenPages listing on AWS Marketplace, or contact your AWS or IBM account team to learn more about how OpenPages can support your GRC program.

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Eduardo Monich Fronza

Eduardo Monich Fronza

Eduardo Monich Fronza is a Partner Solutions Architect at AWS. His experience includes Cloud, solutions architecture, application platforms, containers, workload modernization, and hybrid solutions. In his current role, Eduardo helps AWS partners and customers in their cloud adoption journey.

Masa Koinuma

Masa Koinuma

Masa Koinuma works for IBM as STSM (Senior Technical Staff Memeber) lead architect. He has over 20 years of developing, architecting, modernizing software across various industries. For the past 5 years, he has focused on cloud transformation and SaaS offerings architecture on governance, risk and compliance domain.