Anecdotes allows me to ingest our tools to show continuous compliance monitoring. It integrates with 90% of our systems like AWS, HR systems, and even most of our security tooling. These integrations serve as the building blocks for control requirements that can then be easily mapped to applicable frameworks (for us SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, ISO27001, CSA CoC GDPR). They support 26 frameworks in total ATM which is more coverage then many other compliance tools I've looked at. Favorite feature is called Evidence Pool: Evidence from integrated tools comes in via API calls and Anecdotes automatically maps the relevant data fields from that system into very accesible table-based views. You can then filter this data for things like exceptions (some that anecdotes has pre-defined for each integration or custom rules if you want to get fancy). Another great use case is using this table to spot check what's actually happening in your systems. All of the connections are read-only. The tool actually gives me visibility to systems I don't neccessarily need direct access to, giving me only the relevent info for compliance. This tool also does the basic stuff well. Policy management works perfect, you can create custom controls or requirements, you can always resort to uploading screenshots or other document-based evidence to support a control and that's all very intuitive in the system. Going back to the frameworks --> they are going to map your evidence on the requirement level, NOT, the control level. So for example, you'll have a requirement like "User Access Reviews" and evidence of your choosing will sit in that requirement. From there Anecdotes will do it's best job to map that requirement to controls in ALL the frameworks you have. But what if you have a different scope from framework to framework? You still have the flexibiltity to change the evidence for that control on a framework to framework basis because it doesn't try and tie the actual controls to each other. The anecdotes team is amazing. The onboarding process is delightful and CSM presence is unmatched from any vendor I've ever used. I recommend this tool highly if you are running compliance for a SaaS company.

Anecdotes provide a structured approach to designing your control framework, quickly evaluating gaps and connecting to your infrastructure and security tools to collect evidence. Communication with the auditor during an audit is accessible and great using the system and helps quickly track and resolve issues.

Reduces time in year-over-year audit processes for SOC 2 and other frameworks.