# What's the best Policy Management software with version control features that prevent departments from using obsolete procedures?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Every compliance person I've talked to has a version control horror story, usually involving two departments operating off completely different copies of the same procedure for months without anyone noticing. Looking at which tools in the <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/policy-management">policy management</a> category actually solve this at the version level rather than just at the acknowledgment level.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/workiva-workiva/reviews"><strong>Workiva</strong></a> reviewers describe it as solving the "version control nightmare" directly, with one calling it their single source of truth after years of juggling multiple final drafts across teams.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/xoralia-sharepoint-policy-management-software/reviews"><strong>Xoralia</strong></a> users mention version history, metadata tagging, and audience targeting that ensures departments are automatically pointed to the current approved document rather than an old one saved locally.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/strike-graph/reviews"><strong>Strike Graph</strong></a> reviewers like being able to see progress and outstanding items at a glance, which helps catch when a control or procedure hasn't been updated in line with the rest of the program.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/vanta/reviews"><strong>Vanta</strong></a> gets mentioned for continuous monitoring that flags when policies tied to a framework need updates, keeping departments from working off procedures that no longer match the current control set.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/scrut-automation/reviews"><strong>Scrut Automation</strong></a> users describe centralized tracking across frameworks that makes it obvious when a document tied to a specific control is out of date.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For anyone who's actually caught a department using an obsolete procedure after a switch to one of these tools, was it the version control feature itself that caught it, or did it take a manual audit to surface? Curious whether the tooling alone is enough or if it still needs a scheduled review process layered on top.</p>

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&lt;p&gt;The tooling catches it if the obsolete copy lives inside the system, but the real failure mode is someone who saved a PDF locally months before the switch and never touched the platform again — Xoralia&#39;s audience targeting helps prevent that going forward, but it can&#39;t retroactively find what&#39;s already sitting on a desktop.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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