About Us

Leading the way since 1999 With 7 World Firsts

We developed the world’s first web-based Audit and Risk solutions designed around collaboration The first Audit Action Tracking software and we introduced Dynamic Risk Scoring…and a load of other stuff…

1st World First
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Symbiant Is Born

Symbiant was established in the late 1990's, as a partner to Worldpay. Our first logo was an animated GIF (they were quite new at the time).

We quickly became one of the UK's foremost providers of e-commerce payment solutions.

We pioneered the first affordable DIY web store, Symshop, and launched a full solution for under £100 (World First).

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Founding Partner in Worldpay

We were a founding partner in Worldpay which was eventually taken over by the Royal Bank of Scotland

Web Based Shopping Solution

Our web-based shopping solution enabled small businesses to sell online. In the first year, we sold over 20,000 Copies

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Working with KPMG

Develop web-based Audit and Risk solutions for KPMG and their clients

This was a monumental point in our development as we worked with leading businesses and understood the issues from their perspective

2nd World First
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Symbiant Tracker Launched

Symbiant Tracker was a rewrite of our early tool K-tracker.

We revamped and supercharged the solution replacing the MS Access database with a full web-based SQL solution.

Making it the world's first true web-based Audit Action tracking solution.

Symbiant Tracker is the only thoroughbred audit action tracking solution on the market.

Very powerful, feature-rich but sleek and easy to use. It is still recognised as the World's premier Tracking tool.

3rd World First
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Symbiant Risk Suite

Symbiant Risk Suite was launched and is the World's first GRC SAAS tool and was designed for collaboration.

An affordable solution that gave companies all the tools they needed to Identify, Discuss, Measure, Treat, Monitor and communicate risk.

Combined with our Audit Tracker, Risk Suite was the first GRC & risk software created for true collaboration so the whole workplace could become involved in the organisation's compliance programs.

4th World First
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easyGen is Launched

We launch the world's first Dynamic website builder. Sold nationwide via PC World superstores and Amazon

easyGen was a groundbreaking solution and a world first, a true DIY solution that allowed non-programmers to create their own data-aware, dynamic websites.

It has won many industry awards and in 2005 was the best-selling software in its class, even outselling Microsoft's nearest equivalent.

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Award Winning Software

Over the years we have been the recipient of many industry awards for our software. They're recognition of the quality, innovation and value for money our solutions offer.

6th World First
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Symbiant Management Suite

After 5 years of Development we launched our first risk and audit Management Suite. A tool to allow collaboration and sharing of information across Risk and Audit.

We start to connect risks to controls and introduce 3 voting measurements, Inherit, Residual and Target. Another world first.

7th World First
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Symbiant Management Suite V2

We supercharged our Management Suite and made it the most advanced solution on the market.

A true mobile solution with advanced risk management features including our Dynamic Residual Scoring which lets you connect controls to automatically produce the residual scores. Another World First.

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Name Change

We changed our legal name from Credit Card Merchant Services Ltd to Symbiant Ltd

5th World First
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ICAEW Endorse Symbiant

Another World First, the ICAEW endorse Symbiant's Risk Suite and Tracker and use our software for risk and audit management.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants had never endorsed any Risk Suite product before or since.

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World Beater

Our new solution is recognised as one of the world’s top 20 risk management solutions by CIO Review magazine, the only UK entry.

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Gartner Make Us a Cool Vendor

Gartner the world's leading information technology research and advisory company were so impressed with our Software they made us a cool vendor.

They were also very impressed with our low pricing and were quoted as saying our software was “extraordinarily inexpensive”.

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Most Trusted Risk Management Solutions

Our solution was voted as the world's most trusted Risk Management Solution by Mirror magazine.

Risk Management Software
Symbiant One

In 2020 we launched our brand new Platform for Risk, Audit and Compliance Management Solutions and called it Symbiant One because it's the only platform you will ever need.

Built out of the very best ideas and processes from all other Symbiant Versions.

Symbiant One is a feature-rich, fully customisable, cloud platform to supercharge any business's Risk, Audit and Compliance Management (a total GRC solution). Symbiant One is a fully customisable system that allows us to add new bespoke modules that will connect to other modules. Thus providing a single silo of information that can share data and gives a company a single source of truth.