Archer® Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Third‑Party Risk Management Platforms, Q1 2026

Third‑party risk has become one of the most urgent governance challenges facing modern organizations. From accelerating regulatory mandates to increasingly interconnected vendor ecosystems, companies are balancing unprecedented opportunity with equally unprecedented exposure.

That’s why we’re excited to share that Archer has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Third‑Party Risk Management Platforms, Q1 2026 (TPRM).

According to the report, "TPRM has moved from a peripheral concern to an urgent business risk and board-level priority,” driven by ongoing market volatility and increased regulatory expectations.

Forrester calls out several key trends shaping the next phase of TPRM:

• Continuous monitoring over point‑in‑time checks:  Due diligence is no longer viewed as an end state. Organizations must track how vendor risk evolves over time.

• Relationship mapping:  Relationship mapping reveals which products, customers, processes, and geographies depend on each third party and where critical services converge on the same provider. It exposes hidden concentration and ‘Nth‑party’ dependencies.

• High‑value integrations that trigger action:  Integrations that simply feed dashboards are no longer enough. Forrester notes that modern TPRM requires bidirectional, workflow‑connected integrations that automatically update risk scores and trigger remediation workflows.

These trends underscore a clear market direction: third‑party risk platforms must be deeply connected, proactive, and operationally embedded across the enterprise. Unlike point solutions that operate in isolation, Archer integrates third‑party risk into the broader enterprise risk ecosystem, including issues, controls, policies, remediation, continuity, and regulatory change. This creates a unified and standardized approach to governance across the organization.

Our vision for the future of TPRM is embodied in Archer Evolv™, our cloud‑native SaaS offering that combines the flexibility, availability, and scalability of the cloud with the full depth and breadth of the Archer Platform. Archer Evolv brings together advanced capabilities, including AI‑driven enhancements, within a unified, governed journey to help organizations proactively identify, assess, and respond to emerging third‑party risks. It is the operational blueprint for the next generation of integrated risk management.

As organizations like yours navigate increasingly complex ecosystems, Archer remains dedicated to providing the clarity, automation, and governance you need to stay ahead.

We invite you to read the Forrester report, compliments of Archer. If you’d like to learn more about Archer’s TPRM capabilities or see it in action, contact us today.

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