The IRM Vendor Market: What the Major Analyst Firms Won’t or Can’t Tell You

The IRM vendor market spans five segments — GRC, ERM, ORM, TRM, and Risk Management Consulting — but no major analyst firm covers all five in a single research program. Gartner focuses exclusively on Assurance Leaders. Forrester and IDC treat GRC and cybersecurity as separate tracks. The 2025-2026 IRM Navigator™ Vendor Compass from Wheelhouse Advisors is the only research series that evaluates vendors across all five IRM segments using a consistent methodology. This article explains how buyers, investors, and vendors can use the free interactive Vendor Compass Segment Summary to answer the market questions that traditional analyst research leaves unanswered.