AI-Powered Enterprise Risk Management
Transform Risk Into Strategic Advantage
Transform enterprise risk into strategic advantage with our AI-powered platform featuring risk bow-tie analysis, interactive heat maps, and automated risk workflows that deliver real-time insights for faster, smarter collaborative risk management and enhanced organizational resilience.
5 starverified ratingTrusted by Fortune 500 companies • Deployed across 55 countries • 99.9% customer satisfaction
100s of risk & compliance teams have switched to managing risk with Essentials
Transform Risk Management Into Strategic Advantage
Essential ERM delivers business-focused risk management capabilities that drive growth, enhance collaboration, automate processes, and align with strategic objectives.
Strategic Risk Intelligence for Business Growth
Essential ERM provides predictive risk analytics and real-time monitoring to support strategic decision-making, enabling organizations to turn risk management into competitive advantage.
Comprehensive reporting capabilities including dashboards and heat maps for actionable risk insights
Track and monitor KRIs with intelligent linking to risks, mitigations, controls, and strategic objectives for comprehensive risk performance measurement
Data analysis to anticipate potential risks before they materialize, enabling proactive management
Built-in 5x5 risk heatmap with pinned cells, customizable thresholds, and real-time visualization for comprehensive risk assessment
Integrated bow-tie analysis with drag-and-drop functionality to visualize root causes, mitigations, and consequences for comprehensive risk modeling
Generate reports and dashboards to visualize risk data and track key risk indicators
Easy-to-Use & Flexible Risk Register
Essential ERM's intuitive risk register serves as your organization's central hub for recording, tracking, and managing all identified risks with unmatched flexibility and ease of use that scales with your business needs.
Comprehensive repository to record, track, and manage identified risks with easy-to-use interface for updates and monitoring
Customize risk categories, fields, scoring methods, and workflows to match your organization's unique risk management approach
Supporting multi-user input and visibility for team-based risk management activities
Unique consensus-building feature that enables teams to vote on risk priorities, likelihood, and impact assessments for more accurate and democratic risk evaluation
Structured workflows for risk assessment processes with configurable approval chains, review cycles, and stakeholder notifications to ensure proper governance
Track risks from identification through mitigation and closure with automated status updates and progress monitoring
AI-Powered Risk Assessment Automation
Essential ERM's artificial intelligence automates risk identification, control testing, and compliance reporting, reducing manual effort while improving accuracy and consistency.
AI features suggest risks based on your strategic objectives, organizational context and changing external environment
Automated risk assessment workflows, approval routing, task assignments, stakeholder notifications, and document version control with customizable business rules
Connect with various applications for seamless data synchronization and workflow automation
Define and monitor controls and mitigation strategies for identified risks with effectiveness measurement
Risk Appetite & Strategic Alignment
Define and monitor organizational risk tolerance with Essential ERM's risk appetite framework, ensuring all risk decisions support strategic business objectives and growth initiatives.
Define and manage organizational risk appetite ensuring activities align with risk tolerance
Simplify compliance frameworks and ensure adherence to industry regulations and standards
Define key risk indicators and mitigation strategies to maintain operations during disruptions
Collect and track incidents, near misses, and issues related to risk events with comprehensive workflows
Additional Enterprise Capabilities
Essential ERM includes advanced features that empower organizations to achieve comprehensive risk management excellence.
What Our Customers Say About Essential ERM
Real reviews from verified users across enterprise, mid-market, and small business organizations who rely on Essential ERM for their risk management needs.
Risk Management Coordinator
A must-have tool for risk managers to obtain a clear view of their risks. Interface is intuitive to navigate through.
Senior Risk Specialist
Really good tool for risk management. User-friendly interface makes it easy for both beginners and seasoned professionals.
Risk and Compliance Manager
Essential ERM is easy to use, can be scaled quickly. This tool will improve business buy in to your Risk program.
Business Integration Analyst
Excellent tool that enables us to engage our business unit leaders effectively, seamlessly aligning enterprise risks with strategic objectives.
Risk and Compliance Manager
Essential ERM is very easy to set up and navigate. It delivers all product essentials for risk management.
Risk Management Coordinator
A must-have tool for risk managers to obtain a clear view of their risks. Interface is intuitive to navigate through.
Senior Risk Specialist
Really good tool for risk management. User-friendly interface makes it easy for both beginners and seasoned professionals.
Risk and Compliance Manager
Essential ERM is easy to use, can be scaled quickly. This tool will improve business buy in to your Risk program.
Business Integration Analyst
Excellent tool that enables us to engage our business unit leaders effectively, seamlessly aligning enterprise risks with strategic objectives.
Risk and Compliance Manager
Essential ERM is very easy to set up and navigate. It delivers all product essentials for risk management.
Risk Management Coordinator
A must-have tool for risk managers to obtain a clear view of their risks. Interface is intuitive to navigate through.
Senior Risk Specialist
Really good tool for risk management. User-friendly interface makes it easy for both beginners and seasoned professionals.
Risk and Compliance Manager
Essential ERM is easy to use, can be scaled quickly. This tool will improve business buy in to your Risk program.
Business Integration Analyst
Excellent tool that enables us to engage our business unit leaders effectively, seamlessly aligning enterprise risks with strategic objectives.
Risk and Compliance Manager
Essential ERM is very easy to set up and navigate. It delivers all product essentials for risk management.
Risk Management Coordinator
A must-have tool for risk managers to obtain a clear view of their risks. Interface is intuitive to navigate through.
Senior Risk Specialist
Really good tool for risk management. User-friendly interface makes it easy for both beginners and seasoned professionals.
Risk and Compliance Manager
Essential ERM is easy to use, can be scaled quickly. This tool will improve business buy in to your Risk program.
Business Integration Analyst
Excellent tool that enables us to engage our business unit leaders effectively, seamlessly aligning enterprise risks with strategic objectives.
Risk and Compliance Manager
Essential ERM is very easy to set up and navigate. It delivers all product essentials for risk management.
Executive Director & COO
A combination of the ease of use and the amazing customer service makes Essential ERM fantastic!
Verified User in Banking
Essential ERM provides a single view of the risks in real time and links to risk appetite and strategies.
Sr. ERM Analyst
Easy to follow, easy to set up and intuitive workflow. The results show exactly what we want to know about current risks.
Consulting Chief Financial Officer
I've found it easy to use, and good for both small and large organizations. Really great product design.
Verified User
Constant updates that are made available to users and how relatable it is to what I need on a daily basis.
Executive Director & COO
A combination of the ease of use and the amazing customer service makes Essential ERM fantastic!
Verified User in Banking
Essential ERM provides a single view of the risks in real time and links to risk appetite and strategies.
Sr. ERM Analyst
Easy to follow, easy to set up and intuitive workflow. The results show exactly what we want to know about current risks.
Consulting Chief Financial Officer
I've found it easy to use, and good for both small and large organizations. Really great product design.
Verified User
Constant updates that are made available to users and how relatable it is to what I need on a daily basis.
Executive Director & COO
A combination of the ease of use and the amazing customer service makes Essential ERM fantastic!
Verified User in Banking
Essential ERM provides a single view of the risks in real time and links to risk appetite and strategies.
Sr. ERM Analyst
Easy to follow, easy to set up and intuitive workflow. The results show exactly what we want to know about current risks.
Consulting Chief Financial Officer
I've found it easy to use, and good for both small and large organizations. Really great product design.
Verified User
Constant updates that are made available to users and how relatable it is to what I need on a daily basis.
Executive Director & COO
A combination of the ease of use and the amazing customer service makes Essential ERM fantastic!
Verified User in Banking
Essential ERM provides a single view of the risks in real time and links to risk appetite and strategies.
Sr. ERM Analyst
Easy to follow, easy to set up and intuitive workflow. The results show exactly what we want to know about current risks.
Consulting Chief Financial Officer
I've found it easy to use, and good for both small and large organizations. Really great product design.
Verified User
Constant updates that are made available to users and how relatable it is to what I need on a daily basis.
Sr. Risk Analyst
Enhanced my ability to do my job as a Risk Analyst. Product developers actually listen to their customers and follow through on suggested enhancements.
Senior Manager, Enterprise Risk
Essential ERM understands what is needed to manage risk. Perfect for getting started with Risk Management and sustain your program going forward.
Verified User
Essential ERM provides a unique outlook on the factors involved with business, clients, and personnel. Super easy to use!
Enterprise Risk and Audit Director
I love that I can bring strategy, risks, and implementation plans to one location and link them together for better management reporting.
Manager, Finance and Risk
It makes me organize our company's risk register in a compelling and intuitive format
Sr. Risk Analyst
Enhanced my ability to do my job as a Risk Analyst. Product developers actually listen to their customers and follow through on suggested enhancements.
Senior Manager, Enterprise Risk
Essential ERM understands what is needed to manage risk. Perfect for getting started with Risk Management and sustain your program going forward.
Verified User
Essential ERM provides a unique outlook on the factors involved with business, clients, and personnel. Super easy to use!
Enterprise Risk and Audit Director
I love that I can bring strategy, risks, and implementation plans to one location and link them together for better management reporting.
Manager, Finance and Risk
It makes me organize our company's risk register in a compelling and intuitive format
Sr. Risk Analyst
Enhanced my ability to do my job as a Risk Analyst. Product developers actually listen to their customers and follow through on suggested enhancements.
Senior Manager, Enterprise Risk
Essential ERM understands what is needed to manage risk. Perfect for getting started with Risk Management and sustain your program going forward.
Verified User
Essential ERM provides a unique outlook on the factors involved with business, clients, and personnel. Super easy to use!
Enterprise Risk and Audit Director
I love that I can bring strategy, risks, and implementation plans to one location and link them together for better management reporting.
Manager, Finance and Risk
It makes me organize our company's risk register in a compelling and intuitive format
Sr. Risk Analyst
Enhanced my ability to do my job as a Risk Analyst. Product developers actually listen to their customers and follow through on suggested enhancements.
Senior Manager, Enterprise Risk
Essential ERM understands what is needed to manage risk. Perfect for getting started with Risk Management and sustain your program going forward.
Verified User
Essential ERM provides a unique outlook on the factors involved with business, clients, and personnel. Super easy to use!
Enterprise Risk and Audit Director
I love that I can bring strategy, risks, and implementation plans to one location and link them together for better management reporting.
Manager, Finance and Risk
It makes me organize our company's risk register in a compelling and intuitive format
Senior Risk Advisor
User-friendly and intuitive nature of the system.
Verified User
Perfect risk management tool! Easy to use and scalable. No need for complicated configurations, ready to go 'out of the box'.
Co-Founder
Very intuitive to use. The bow tie view when defining risk is great. It allows the easy creation of KPIs and KRIs.
Risk & Internal Control Specialist
It includes every aspect of ERM. Very user-friendly and gives users the freedom to customize as they wish.
Executive Director
Powerful tool for Strategic Risk Mapping. The tool is reliable, easy to navigate, and allows for a variety of filtering options.
Senior Risk Advisor
User-friendly and intuitive nature of the system.
Verified User
Perfect risk management tool! Easy to use and scalable. No need for complicated configurations, ready to go 'out of the box'.
Co-Founder
Very intuitive to use. The bow tie view when defining risk is great. It allows the easy creation of KPIs and KRIs.
Risk & Internal Control Specialist
It includes every aspect of ERM. Very user-friendly and gives users the freedom to customize as they wish.
Executive Director
Powerful tool for Strategic Risk Mapping. The tool is reliable, easy to navigate, and allows for a variety of filtering options.
Senior Risk Advisor
User-friendly and intuitive nature of the system.
Verified User
Perfect risk management tool! Easy to use and scalable. No need for complicated configurations, ready to go 'out of the box'.
Co-Founder
Very intuitive to use. The bow tie view when defining risk is great. It allows the easy creation of KPIs and KRIs.
Risk & Internal Control Specialist
It includes every aspect of ERM. Very user-friendly and gives users the freedom to customize as they wish.
Executive Director
Powerful tool for Strategic Risk Mapping. The tool is reliable, easy to navigate, and allows for a variety of filtering options.
Senior Risk Advisor
User-friendly and intuitive nature of the system.
Verified User
Perfect risk management tool! Easy to use and scalable. No need for complicated configurations, ready to go 'out of the box'.
Co-Founder
Very intuitive to use. The bow tie view when defining risk is great. It allows the easy creation of KPIs and KRIs.
Risk & Internal Control Specialist
It includes every aspect of ERM. Very user-friendly and gives users the freedom to customize as they wish.
Executive Director
Powerful tool for Strategic Risk Mapping. The tool is reliable, easy to navigate, and allows for a variety of filtering options.
Get Essential ERM Today
Start with Essential ERM as a standalone solution or add it to any of our platform plans. Flexible pricing designed to grow with your organization.
Essential ERM
Standalone enterprise risk management solution
- Easy-to-use & flexible risk register
- Risk heat maps & bow-tie analysis
- Collaborative risk voting system
- Key Risk Indicators (KRIs)
- Risk assessment & approval workflows
- Risk appetite framework
- Interactive risk matrix & bow-tie tools
- Executive risk reporting
- Implementation in 2-6 weeks
Add to Platform
Integrate with our full GRC platform
- All Essential ERM features
- Full compliance management
- Third-party risk management
- ESG & Strategy modules available
- Advanced integrations & API
- Enterprise-grade security
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