A platform owner asks where Integrated Risk Management sits architecturally relative to the rest of ServiceNow. Which placement is accurate?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Think of IRM as apps living in the same house as the rest of Now—not a trailer parked outside. Entities, indicators, and shared GRC patterns ride the platform instead of inventing a parallel universe. That shared framework is what keeps risk and compliance data coherent.
Full Explanation
ServiceNow IRM (historically GRC) is implemented as applications on the Now Platform. Core objects such as entities and indicators, plus shared workflow and data patterns, come from the GRC common framework rather than a separate appliance. Correct architecture answers emphasize platform co-existence and shared GRC foundations, not isolation from CMDB or reduction of IRM to a SIR reporting skin.