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The Static Quadrant: Why GRC Stopped Moving
The “2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Tools, Assurance Leaders” offers more than an update on vendor positioning. It captures a defining moment in the evolution of enterprise risk management technology. For the first time since Gartner began coverage of this market in 2008, the Visionaries quadrant is completely empty.
This absence is not an error or a symptom of decline. It is a reflection of structural maturity and the point at which a technology category stops expanding outward and begins to integrate inward. The GRC segment has stabilized around its purpose: to deliver reliable assurance, compliance automation, and control verification at scale.
This research note is a follow-up to the recent RiskTech Journal article, GRC Without Visionaries: What the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Reveals About the Future of Risk. It further examines why the quadrant has gone static, why that matters, and how the integration of GRC within the broader Integrated Risk Management (IRM) model marks a necessary and healthy progression. It concludes that the current stillness in GRC represents not the end of innovation, but the beginning of Assurance Intelligence. It is the fusion of compliance evidence, operational data, and AI-enabled assurance that will define risk management by 2032.