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66% willing to recommend
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Pros
"The interface is mobile-friendly and it is getting a good response from our customers.""Key features are usability and ease of configuration. It allows us to have all the information in a single place and provide real-time indicators and information for our executives."

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"The most valuable feature is its ability to easily upload and update financial results, creating a dynamic data sheet.""Workiva Wdesk has a flow diagram that is standardized, making it easy for people to file documents on ECDAs, which are in HTML format.""It helps you to maintain a backup of your data, including the connectivity with the tables, which provides a user-friendly way to handle and access your files.""The collaboration within the platform is valuable.""It makes the compliance process more efficient and more effective.""Workiva Wdesk is pretty good in terms of getting the data from the system, automating the reporting schedules...It has a very good integration with ERP tools."

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Cons
"We would like to have more dashboards and reports, such as geographical and trend reports in the next version. Also, an improvement in the mobile version would be helpful.""I would like to see out-of-the-box integration with more security, it would be helpful."

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"The speed must be improved.""At this point, I don't see a compelling reason to invest in Workiva. It may be necessary for compliance and controlling the version of SCC, but not everyone needs its high-end capabilities.""Regarding the solution, reporting has certain areas that can be considered for improvement.""One area where Workiva Wdesk could improve is by ensuring that its cloud-based system is fully compatible with the most current versions of PowerPoint and Excel.""The most critical issue is the need to shift between uppercase and lowercase.""With this product, it's more about the integrated data model where you can have a one-to-many/many-to-one relationship between your policies and processes, risks, and controls. They need to showcase how you can put those pieces together."

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  • "They are flexible in terms of customers' needs."
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  • "Our clients in Asia think that the solution is too expensive."
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    Top Answer:The most valuable feature is its ability to easily upload and update financial results, creating a dynamic data sheet.
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    Overview
    Provides advanced capabilities such as risk calculators and risk heat maps for risk analysis and monitoring.

    Wdesk is used across the enterprise to support hundreds of data collaboration, reporting, and compliance processes. Use Wdesk to:

    • Optimize your structured and composite reports
    • Improve trust in your data, reports, and presentations
    • Transform processes to enable insight
    Sample Customers
    Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, ACCO Brands Corporation, AgFirst Farm Credit Bank, AIB International, Associated Banc-Corp, BAE Systems, Barclaycard, Dell Inc, DIRECTV, Energizer, Fresenius Kabi, Hasbro, Goodyear, HudsonCity Savings Bank, Infigen Energy, Kaydon, Leroy Merlin, Mountry Financial Corp., Nicholas Piramal, Pepco, Pfizer, Societe Generale, Whitney Bank
    Noodles Company, eBay, Winnebago, American Assets Trust, AmericanEnterprise, Calpian, Capstone Infrastructure, Cascades, Circor International, Coeur Mining, Davey, Dr Pepper Snapple
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization25%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Retailer5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Educational Organization18%
    Insurance Company6%
    Computer Software Company6%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise32%
    Large Enterprise53%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise56%
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    MetricStream is ranked 12th in GRC while Workiva Wdesk is ranked 7th in GRC with 6 reviews. MetricStream is rated 8.6, while Workiva Wdesk is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of MetricStream writes "Reasonably priced, stable, with out of the box deployment, and has good local support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workiva Wdesk writes "A user-friendly tool useful for data consolidation and automating the reporting schedules". MetricStream is most compared with RSA Archer, IBM OpenPages and OneTrust GRC, whereas Workiva Wdesk is most compared with AuditBoard, Oracle Hyperion, RSA Archer, OneTrust GRC and IBM OpenPages.

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