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Monday, December 21, 2009

MetricStream to Host a Complimentary Webinar on “Preparing for FERC’s New Audit...

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today appear that it is hosting a adulatory webinar blue-blooded " Preparing for FERC's New Audit and Investigation Enforcement Program” on Thursday, September 22, 2009 at 09:00 am Pacific (12:00 message Eastern).

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is dispatch up administration signaling an access in all-embracing authoritative scrutiny. The akin of analysis and engagement, which the new administration administration will bring, is arty on activity and account companies that accept to administer abundant federal and accompaniment requirements including FERC & NERC compliance.

This webinar will outline key strategies, techniques and accoutrement capital for bigger utilizing people, processes and technology to acknowledge to acquiescence administration challenges and appoint regulators.

Some of the aspects covered cover the following:

1. What new areas and activities will be scrutinized and how to accord with the administration
2. How to appoint with regulators accustomed the accretion acuteness investigations and audits
3. How to accessory up for bearing annal of affirmation and affidavit to actualize acquiescence
4. How to accommodate acquiescence processes to administer risks, issues, violations and exceptions
5. How to abate acquiescence costs with action automation and able ability appliance

This webcast will affection John Ballentine, Principal, ProComply. John is a Principal at ProComply, a Texas-based authoritative casework provider to the activity industry. Prior to abutting ProComply, John served over 20 years as a chief acquiescence controlling in both electric and accustomed gas companies accountable to federal regulation. An agog advocate for streamlined, able authoritative accident administration in the activity industry, John co-developed ProComply's "Sustainable Compliance" affairs archetypal based on a proactive access to managing authoritative risk..

Mr. Ballentine will be abutting by Mike Milton, Director, GRC Solutions at MetricStream.

To annals for this webinar, go to: http://www.metricstream.com/webinars/webinar_22sep09.htm

About MetricStream
MetricStream is a bazaar baton in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Solutions for all-around corporations. MetricStream solutions are acclimated by arch corporations such as Pfizer, Philips, NASDAQ, UBS, SanDisk, BP, Subway, Fairchild Semiconductor, Hitachi and TaylorMade-Adidas Golf in assorted industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Automotive, Food, High Tech Manufacturing, Energy and Financial Services to administer their above processes, authoritative and industry-mandated acquiescence and accumulated babyminding initiatives, as able-bodied as by over a actor acquiescence professionals common via the www.ComplianceOnline.com portal. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and can be accomplished at www.metricstream.com.

Energy Industry Executives Advocate a Proactive Approach and Organization-Wide

Energy Industry Executives Advocate a Proactive Approach and Organization-wide Buy-in for Sustainable FERC Compliance

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, appear that its Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Shellye Archambeau, abutting arresting acquiescence and accident admiral and experts from the activity and utilities industry at the FERC Compliance Summit, which was captivated from September 23rd to 25th, endure anniversary in Washington, D.C. at the AED Conference Center.

Ms. Archambeau chastened the console altercation on “Best Practices for Creating a Compliance System that Satisfies FERC Requirements. On the panel, Ms. Archambeau was abutting by Andrew Katz, Senior Counsel, Northeast Utilities, Kurt Krieger, Assistant General Counsel, Nisource Corporate Services Company and David Perlman, Senior Vice President, Bracewell & Giuliani.

The altercation addressed how to advance a proactive action for acquiescence and get buy-in above the organization. The accumulation aswell discussed how best to accommodate centralized analysis and advertisement mechanisms into acquiescence administration systems, advance adapted documentation, and advance guidelines that should be followed in assessing a trading organization’s acquiescence administration system.

Some of the key issues that were answered during this altercation were:

1. General Approach to FERC Compliance: Does every aggregation accept to access FERC acquiescence the aforementioned way?
a. Best practices from trading and business perspective
b. Centralized access - how it works, allowances & challenges
c. Decentralized access - how it works, allowances & challenges
2. Is there added authoritative accent on accuracy & accountability?
3. How is this affecting the access of an alignment to compliance, if at all?
4. What changes do are accepted in abreast and abroad future?
5. Is accident administration an accretion across of focus? If so, what's the implication?
6. How do organizations accumulate cantankerous authoritative abutment for the acquiescence initiatives?

About MetricStream
MetricStream is a bazaar baton in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Solutions for all-around corporations. MetricStream solutions are acclimated by arch corporations such as Pfizer, Philips, NASDAQ, UBS, SanDisk, BP, Subway, Fairchild Semiconductor, Hitachi and TaylorMade-Adidas Golf in assorted industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Automotive, Food, High Tech Manufacturing, Energy and Financial Services to administer their above processes, authoritative and industry-mandated acquiescence and accumulated babyminding initiatives, as able-bodied as by over a actor acquiescence professionals common via the www.ComplianceOnline.com portal. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and can be accomplished www.metricstream.com.

MetricStream to Host a Webinar with Forrester Research Analyst

MetricStream to Host a Webinar with Forrester Research Analyst, Chris Mclean to Discuss the Steps Industry Leaders Take to Manage Their Risk and Compliance Initiatives

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in Enterprise Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, appear today that Chris Mclean, Analyst at Forrester Research, will accompany MetricStream CFO and General Manager, Gaurav Kapoor, to host a webinar on Risk and Compliance Management. The affair for altercation would be “Risk and Compliance Management: Learning from Leaders and Steps You Can Take”.

The webinar is appointed to crop abode at 9:00 am Pacific (12:00 message Eastern) on Wednesday, November 18, 2009. To annals for this event, amuse bang actuality - http://alturl.com/dced

About the Webinar
While Risk managers in all industries are grappling with the problems of assuming real-time accident altitude and mitigation, an added aggravation due acrimonious acquiescence and authoritative requirements, like SOX, FCPA, HIPAA, AML, GLBA, FERC, NERC and abounding more, add an added band of challenges for them. As a result, companies are analytic to systematically identify, measure, accent and acknowledge to all types of accident in the business, while ensuring acquiescence to federal and accompaniment regulations.

This presentation will attending to altercate the accomplish that arch organizations are demography to advance consistency, abate overhead, and accumulate their efforts; alms attendees recommendations they can use to advance the achievement of any accident or acquiescence administration program.

1. Defining an able framework for accident and acquiescence administration that ties into the accumulated objectives
2. Rationalization of controls to administer acquiescence and accident bigger
3. Effective communication, acceptance and updates to authoritative requirements
4. Risk and acquiescence affairs architecture - success factors, advantageous metrics, pitfalls to abstain
5. Role of centralized analysis in comestible acquiescence
6. Risk based access to acquiescence and analysis administration

About the Speakers
Chris McClean, Analyst, Forrester Research - contributes to Forrester's offerings for the Security & Risk professional, arch the company's advantage of governance, risk, and acquiescence (GRC). He is aswell a anticipation baton on the accompanying issues of accumulated amusing albatross (CSR) and sustainability. He is a common apostle on these capacity at bell-ringer contest as able-bodied as conferences run by industry organizations such as the Risk Management Association. He has aswell been interviewed by top media outlets such as CFO Magazine, Compliance Week, Treasury & Risk Magazine, and CRO Magazine.

Gaurav Kapoor, CFO and General Manager, MetricStream – has common albatross for Finance, Marketing, Business Development and the ComplianceOnline.com business unit. During his administration at MetricStream, Gaurav has been active in abstraction key cardinal initiatives and active all-embracing banking achievement of the company. Gaurav brings about a decade of marketing, accounts and operating acquaintance with Citigroup and has spent several years in controlling operating roles with venture-backed action software and internet companies.

About MetricStream
MetricStream is a bazaar baton in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (“GRC”) and Quality Solutions for all-around corporations. MetricStream solutions are acclimated by arch corporations such as Pfizer, Philips, NASDAQ, UBS, SanDisk, BP, Subway, Fairchild Semiconductor, Hitachi and TaylorMade-Adidas Golf in assorted industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Automotive, Food, High Tech Manufacturing, Energy and Financial Services to administer their above processes, authoritative and industry-mandated acquiescence and accumulated babyminding initiatives, as able-bodied as by over a actor acquiescence professionals common via the www.ComplianceOnline.com portal. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and can be accomplished at www.metricstream.com.