SEAL for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and eDiscovery

Organizations today operate in an environment marked by increasingly stringent regulations, growing scrutiny from regulators and stakeholders, and rising expectations for transparency and accountability. From tax and anti-fraud rules to data privacy (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), anti-bribery laws, competition regulations, quality standards, and HSE (Health, Safety, Environment) protocols – compliance frameworks are more demanding than ever. Audits, internal investigations, and legal discovery requests have become frequent and resource-intensive activities, often requiring fast, accurate access to large volumes of unstructured information scattered across departments, systems, and geographies.

Most of the relevant information in audit or eDiscovery contexts is buried in emails, office documents, contracts, scanned files, chat messages, and audio-video records. Without the proper tools, locating and producing relevant information in time can result in costly fines, reputational damage, and legal liability.

In this context, intelligent content management and document automation solutions like SEAL are becoming essential for companies seeking to reduce compliance risks, enforce policies, accelerate regulatory response, and increase efficiency.

Key Industry Numbers:

$5.87 million

is the average cost of non-compliance per organization annually.

70%

of enterprise data is unstructured, making compliance reporting and eDiscovery complex and time-consuming.

62% of organizations

faced regulatory investigations in the past three years, with 45% citing poor document traceability as a top challenge.

83%

of legal and compliance professionals say document retrieval delays increase audit and legal exposure.

42%

faster response times to audit and regulatory requests are achieved by companies with automated compliance workflows.

Challenges and Business Implications in Governance and Compliance

Managing Risks, Reducing Exposure, and Responding to Audits and Investigations

Managing governance and compliance across unstructured content is increasingly difficult, especially in fast-changing regulatory environments. Organizations face growing pressure to deliver evidence on time, control the lifecycle of critical records, and collaborate securely during audits, litigation, or internal inquiries.

Key challenges include:

  • Document Chaos: Compliance-related documents are scattered across silos – email inboxes, local drives, legacy systems – with no unified governance.
  • Legacy and Obsolete Systems: Many organizations still rely on outdated, fragmented, or costly platforms to manage compliance documents, which lack modern automation, AI capabilities, and integration flexibility.
  • Manual Discovery & Collection: Audits, legal inquiries, or investigations often require significant manual effort to find, verify, and compile documents.
  • Policy Enforcement Gaps: Inconsistent retention and deletion practices increase risk of over-retention or premature data loss.
  • Collaboration Risks: Sharing compliance data with auditors, legal teams, or advisors is insecure and untraceable in traditional channels.
  • Productivity Drain: Knowledge workers waste time managing compliance records instead of focusing on strategic tasks.
Business implications
  • Financial penalties and reputational damage due to missed regulatory deadlines.
  • Higher legal exposure from incomplete or poorly managed document production.
  • Excessive operational costs due to fragmented processes and redundant data searches.
  • Delayed investigations and strained relationships with regulators or legal counterparts.
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Our Solution

SEAL: One Platform for Document Intelligence and GRC Automation

SEAL is a metadata-driven content services platform purpose-built for organizations seeking to transform their governance, compliance, and eDiscovery capabilities. With AI-powered document intelligence and low-code automation, SEAL centralizes, secures, and automates the full lifecycle of compliance-critical records.

Our solution leverages advanced technologies – including OCR, speech-to-text, artificial intelligence, and machine learning – to quickly and accurately identify relevant data across an organization’s records. It empowers teams to respond to regulatory requests more thoroughly, accurately, and cost-effectively by:

  • Consolidating records from different systems, geographies, and departments into a centralized, audit-ready repository.
  • Classifying documents and standardizing metadata across file types and formats.
  • Enabling AI-based extraction and advanced search to locate relevant content and generate insights.
  • Promoting secure collaboration with internal stakeholders and authorized external parties (legal teams, auditors, advisors).
  • Automating time-consuming, document-centric tasks with low-code workflows.

With SEAL, top global organizations can collect, store, maintain, and dispose of compliance-required records while responding swiftly to audits, investigations, or legal actions – minimizing the risk of penalties, reputational harm, and operational disruption.

  • Centralized Document Repository: Consolidate records from across the enterprise into one secure, searchable, audit-ready environment.
  • AI-Based eDiscovery & Advanced Search: Use AI/ML, OCR, and speech-to-text to extract metadata, classify records, and find relevant content instantly.
  • Standardized Governance Models: Apply retention, legal hold, classification, and access policies consistently across formats, departments, and jurisdictions.
  • Secure Collaboration: Share sensitive documents securely with legal teams, auditors, and advisors with full version control and audit trail.
  • Low-Code Automation: Build workflows for audit preparation, approval chains, policy execution, and exception handling without coding.
  • Compliance Dashboard & Insights: Track document statuses, access history, retention schedules, and compliance indicators in real time.
  • Flexible Deployment: Available on cloud, on-premises, or hybrid—with rapid time to value and capacity-based licensing.

Sample Use Cases

Regulatory Audit Readiness

Automatically collect, verify, and present documentation for inspections and regulatory reviews.

Legal Discovery & Investigations

Search, retrieve, and export large sets of documents under legal hold with built-in chain of custody.

Policy Enforcement & Retention Management

Apply and monitor policy execution to ensure proper retention and defensible deletion.

Contract Compliance

Identify contract inconsistencies and monitor renewal obligations using metadata and AI.

Cross-Departmental Collaboration

Securely manage GRC documents with business units, legal teams, HR, or compliance officers.

Enterprise Content Consolidation

Migrate records from legacy archives and unify document governance across SAP, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Salesforce, and custom systems.

Facility & Property Documentation Management

Manage legal, ownership, and transaction-related documentation for company assets and infrastructure – including records from asset acquisition, usage, and disposal – to support maintenance, audits, compliance, and asset transfer processes.

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Tangible Benefits

Lower Operational Costs

Centralize and standardize compliance records from disparate systems and locations to reduce the cost of managing, storing, and processing corporate records.

Faster Audit and Investigation Readiness

Efficiently identify and retrieve relevant documentation in response to audits, legal inquiries, or internal investigations – reducing the risk of financial penalties, reputational harm, and legal liability.

Increased Efficiency and Productivity

Automate repetitive, document-centric tasks – such as classification, routing, approvals, and reporting – freeing up legal, compliance, and operational teams to focus on higher-value activities.

Improved Compliance Management

Maintain, classify, and dispose of compliance-critical records in a structured and organized way, ensuring adherence to legal and regulatory mandates.

Secure and Efficient Collaboration

Facilitate secure information exchange and version control with internal teams and authorized third parties (e.g., external auditors, advisors, or legal counsel), accelerating the resolution of compliance cases.

Actionable Insights through AI

Use AI-based metadata extraction and advanced search functions to locate relevant content quickly, standardize compliance documentation, and provide meaningful insights that support more informed decisions.

Cloud-like Agility, Scalable and Resilient by Design

The solution offers a CAPEX-free, pay-per-use model and cost-effective scalability, combined with 24x7x365 enterprise-grade service levels. Its architecture ensures comprehensive operational resilience, providing the flexibility and reliability required in today’s dynamic environments.

Delivery Models

Business is no longer located in your corporate office, so why should your business documents be? You have the freedom to choose your ideal delivery model. Available both as a perpetual license for On Premises deployment as well as an On Demand cloud based delivery, you can choose what’s best for you.

On-Premises (local install)

If you would like to purchase the licenses and simply install them on your hardware, we are here to help, contact us for your special quote.

 

On-Demand (EU Cloud)

Choose SEAL delivered from our European Data Center located in Bucharest, RO and have local performance and data stored in EU.

On-Demand (Global Cloud)

Choose SEAL delivered from Microsoft Azure and have global reach and multi-site distributed data centers around the world.

Why We Are Different

Competitive Pricing

Competitive pricing vs. traditional DMS/ECM platforms, fast implementation, rapid user adoption, low maintenance costs. Capacity based licensing available (unlimited number of users).

ONE Platform. End-to-End Capabilities

ECM, ERM, IDP, DPA, and Content Migration – all in one unified solution, enabling end-to-end digital processes, from document capture, processing, and creation to collaboration, secure e-signing, and archiving.

Deployed in Top Enterprises Worldwide

A proven enterprise software platform, combined with deep industry expertise – trusted by leading organizations such as NN Group, Leadway Insurance, Engie, Vodafone, Liberty Steel, Kaufland, and Servier.

Backed by Global Leaders

Leading global players like Hitachi Vantara and Infosys trust and support our solutions – extending our reach, validating our technology, and accelerating enterprise-scale deployments across industries.

Built for Business Users

SEAL delivers a modern, powerful, and easy-to-use interface – designed specifically for business users, not just IT professionals.

Metadata-Driven by Design

SEAL empowers content with business context, using metadata to automate classification, enforce governance, trigger business processes, and apply dynamic security.

Designed for Hybrid Cloud. Built for Scale.

SEAL orchestrates unstructured content management and compliance across on-prem and public cloud – delivering full freedom, data mobility, and rule-based control.

Our solutions
Content Management Modernization

It’s time to get rid of legacy ECM (enterprise content management) and move to the next-generation content services platform. Use our proven “application-aware” content migration platform – StarMigrator Engine together with a proven and tested methodology to deliver a seamless, risk-free, fast content and metadata migration from legacy platforms (Opentext Documentum, OpenText Content Server, IBM Content Manager, IBM FileNet, Alfresco, etc. into SEAL and start saving money while moving to modern architecture and provide an amazing user experience to the line of business users. Use SEAL to optimize up to 50% of the content management costs, to boost user adoption while leveraging comprehensive content management, information governance, and records management capabilities.

Today, organizations generate massive amounts of unstructured content that are dispersed across various locations and systems. This situation poses several challenges, including escalating costs, decreased productivity due to difficulty in finding relevant content, decision-making delays caused by poor metadata quality, and compliance issues.

By moving unstructured content to dedicated content management platforms and connecting this unified repository to line of business applications generating and using content, companies can reduce their costs, the burden on top line business applications, improving their performance and scalability.

Additionally, consolidating unstructured content into a single platform allows for improved information management and compliance, reducing the risk of data breaches and maintaining trust with customers and stakeholders.

In today’s business world, companies face an increasing range of regulatory requirements that they must comply with, including those related to tax, fraud, bribery, competition, data privacy and protection, consumer protection, quality, HSE (Health, Safety and Environment), and more. In addition, organizations must be prepared to respond to audits and investigations that are designed to ensure that they are meeting these requirements. These audits and investigations can be costly and time-consuming, and failing to respond to them adequately and timely can lead to significant fines, reputational damage, and legal liability.

One of the biggest challenges that companies face when responding to an audit or investigation is identifying the relevant information that must be produced. This information is most of the time spread across the organization, “buried” in tens of thousands of documents, emails, audio and video files and other records. Finding and organizing this information can be a daunting task, particularly when time is of the essence.

SEAL is a cutting-edge platform designed to revolutionize how organizations manage and utilize their corporate documents. Acting as an Active Document Store, SEAL supports the entire lifecycle of business documents, providing advanced content-centric features essential for digital operations. The platform facilitates end-to-end digital processes, enabling document composition, collaborative authoring, review, approval, and e-signing capabilities.

SEAL is a cutting-edge platform designed to revolutionize how organizations manage and utilize their corporate documents. Acting as an Active Document Store, SEAL supports the entire lifecycle of business documents, providing advanced content-centric features essential for digital operations. The platform facilitates end-to-end digital processes, enabling document composition, collaborative authoring, review, approval, and e-signing capabilities.

Sales & Customer Service

In today’s competitive market, delivering exceptional sales and customer service is paramount for organizations seeking to retain customers and enhance their brand reputation. Managing customer-related documents efficiently and ensuring timely responses to feedback and complaints are critical components of this endeavor. Companies must centralize and streamline their document management processes to provide quick access to customer information and automate the handling of feedback and complaints. SEAL addresses these needs by offering a comprehensive solution designed to optimize sales and customer service functions through advanced document management and process automation.

SEAL for Contracts Management is a cross industry solution that offers control and visibility over all your contracts and supporting documents during their entire lifecycle using full paperless operations. Every single contract is stored, categorized and can be easily and securely accessible from anywhere using any device for a new level of productivity.

More than ever before, procurement teams are operating in a challenging and fast-changing environment. They’re tasked with tough operational excellence goals while working with fewer personnel and reduced budgets. By digitizing and automating document-intensive business processes, organizations can gain enhanced visibility and optimize their mission-critical supply chains while reducing manual data entry and data entry errors, improving supplier information management, lowering transaction costs, and accelerating the receiving process.

Responsible for planning, controlling and auditing the company finances and cashflow, the finance department is a crucial component of any business. Though not always obvious, this department is a core enabler of a company’s growth and development. By implementing digital and automated processes to manage and distribute financial documents, finance managers can free up their staff to focus on strategic initiatives and serve the lines of business with accurate and relevant information.

The HR department depends on document-driven processes, usually on paper. Paper requires archiving cabinets, and, in time, the amount of paper stored quickly become unmaintainable. Plus, paper tied to bloated processes slows HR Managers down from doing important work that pushes a business forward. Automation and digitalization can help you to reduce the time it takes to complete your HR tasks without sacrificing quality of work.

In today’s business environment, organizations face numerous legal challenges and risks, including compliance with regulatory requirements, managing litigation processes, and ensuring the integrity of legal records. Efficiently handling these legal matters is critical for minimizing risks, controlling costs, and achieving favorable outcomes. SEAL provides a next-generation platform designed to support legal and litigation management by automating case management processes, ensuring secure document handling, and facilitating compliance with legal standards.

Banking

The banking industry is undergoing a digital transformation, and document automation is a crucial component of this process. Banks need to efficiently manage large amounts of unstructured data (documents, emails) scattered across various locations and systems, while ensuring security and regulatory compliance. Document-centric processes require specialized platforms that are optimized for unstructured content
management and automation, as they should not be managed by the core banking or other transactional systems.

The insurance industry faces several challenges, including intense competition, taught compliance regulations, meeting rising customer expectations, and the management of extensive amounts of data and documents.

Automating document-based tasks, including managing internal regulations and policies, risk analysis, claims management, and underwriting policies, is a crucial undertaking, given that many insurance processes rely heavily on documents.

The energy industry is undergoing a transformative shift driven by the need for decarbonization, regulatory pressures, and evolving technological advancements. Key challenges include managing vast amounts of unstructured data, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enhancing operational efficiency. Effective unstructured content management and automation are critical for addressing these challenges, enabling energy companies to streamline operations, reduce costs, and make informed decisions.

Operational excellence is vital in the manufacturing industry. Effective document management and automation is crucial and allows manufacturers to leverage their information to innovate and grow effectively.

The manufacturing industry needs also to ensure regulatory compliance and reduce risks. A massive amount of controlled documentation is necessary, where a mistake at any level can affect the production and the organization’s reputation.

Every aspect of the architectural, engineering and construction project involves an increasing number of documents that must be captured, processed, stored / archived and managed. SEAL enables contractors in the Architectural, Engineering and Construction industry to manage critical corporate content and business processes associated with the Projects (Build) and Operations documentation, thereby attaining compliance with industry regulations, cost reduction and a corresponding increase in operational efficiency.

The transportation and logistics industry generates and manages a vast array of documents daily, from invoices and bills of lading to shipping declarations and cargo manifests. Efficient handling of these unstructured documents is critical to operations. Tasks like adding files to document folders, sharing with external parties, issuing delivery proofs, or ensuring confirmation signatures often involve repetitive, manual processes prone to error.

By automating document workflows, companies can minimize errors, reduce reliance on paper-based processes, and streamline digital operations.

Resources & Insights
Modernizing Content Management
A Guide for Enhanced Productivity and Radical Cost Reduction
Discover how SEAL revolutionizes content management! This whitepaper explores the critical challenges of legacy ECM systems – high costs, poor user experience, and compliance risks – and shows how SEAL’s modern content management and automation platform reduces costs by up to 74%, enhances productivity, and ensures seamless content migration. Unlock the future of content efficiency today!

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