OneTrust Expands its Privacy and Compliance Footprint with Integris’ Acquisition

OneTrust Acquires Integris to Add AI in Privacy Management

OneTrust acquires Integris to enhance AI capabilities and provide customers access to a host of new features on its DataDiscovery platform.

Atlanta-based privacy software unicorn, OneTrust, acquired Integris Software, an AI-powered privacy management solution provider, earlier last week. The acquisition will boost OneTrust’s discovery capabilities.

Integris is already a part of OneTrust DataDiscovery offering and will help customers ensure compliance during cloud migrations, auto-populate feeds into data maps and GDPR records, automate privacy impact assessments (PIA) and data protection impact assessments (DPIAs), discover and classify structured and unstructured data, manage data governance, secure Big Data systems, identify personal and non-personal data, and automate privacy rights fulfilment for CCPA, GDPR, LGPD, and other privacy laws.

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“Integris Software is excited to be a part of the OneTrust family and join the world’s leader in privacy, security, and governance,” saidOpens a new window Kristina Bergman, Founder and CEO, Integris Software, “We knew OneTrust’s 6,000 customers would be eager to use our combined solution quickly, so we’ve worked hard over the last few months to seamlessly bring the technologies together and offer organizations the ability to use the Integris technology within OneTrust DataDiscovery immediately.”

The acquisition follows OneTrust’s $210 million funding round in February, earlier this year. This also marks the company’s fifth acquisition since its inception in 2016. While data privacy is certainly a busy martech segment, OneTrust has emerged as a dominant player with a $2.7 billion valuation.

“Our customers have encouraged us to continue to lead the market with innovation in automated data discovery capabilities,” said Kabir Barday, OneTrust CEO and Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP). “After evaluating dozens of discovery technologies, we identified Integris Software as having best in class technology and team that will combine with OneTrust to accelerate our innovation and benefit our customers.”

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Data Privacy and Compliance: One Platform to Rule Them All?

Strategic acquisitions by companies like OneTrust are aimed at improving existing product line-ups and providing more comprehensive bundling. With 6000 customers, OneTrust has managed to diversify its offerings from a handful of products to a fully integrated platform with a broad suite of products that cater to varying trust and compliance needs of customers.

OneTrust recently also launched OneTrust Unity SDK to empower publishers and developers to collect user consent to deliver personalized, compliant user experiences across apps and gaming platforms. By opening its platform to Unity, a major real-time game development platform, OneTrust has further widened its data privacy offering.

It was also named a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Privacy Management Software 2020. OneTrust bagged the highest scores across all three categories – strategy, current offering, and market presence.

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Although it’s too soon to say whether the privacy and compliance market is headed toward consolidation, OneTrust has consistently made the right bets all along from GDPR to CCPA compliance readiness.