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Monday, December 21, 2009

MetricStream Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Enterprise Governance

MetricStream, Inc. today appear that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's afresh appear "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Platforms"1 analysis report.

"We accede our accession in the "Leaders" division by Gartner as validation of our charge and adeptness to accredit barter to accept an integrated, enterprise-wide access to GRC. Consolidating programs for Internal Audit, Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Policy & Ethics, Financial Controls and IT Governance is analytical for ample corporations as it unlocks the ability of accord and advice administration consistent in cogent advance in business performance," said Shellye Archambeau, CEO of MetricStream. "MetricStream continues to innovate and bear a belvedere that is awful configurable to acclamation specific chump needs."

Most industries face GRC challenges that are different to their business operations. Whether it is Risk Management, Audits, Compliance, Policy Management or Quality Management - altered industries accept assertive accepted requirements and some requirements that are specific to the sector. For example, activity & account companies accept to administer federal and accompaniment requirements including FERC & NERC compliance; all-around banks & banking account providers accept specific requirements about operational risk, Basel II, accident management, RCSA & KRIs; allowance companies face Solvency, HIPAA acquiescence and added federal & accompaniment regulations; activity sciences & healthcare companies accept mandates such as FDA compliance, accommodating assurance laws; retail, aliment & acknowledgment companies accept to accede with aliment assurance and HACCP acquiescence requirements. All these are in accession to centralized business processes about risk, centralized audit, IT, accumulated policies, belief and above management. Bringing these elements of GRC calm and amalgam them with achievement administration is analytical and yet arduous for enterprises.

"We accept complete a able acceptability for alive with all-around corporations and carrying GRC solutions with collaboration, workflows and advertisement tailored to their environments," says Gaurav Kapoor, CFO and General Manager at MetricStream. "MetricStream understands absolutely how to abode these capricious needs by accouterment awful packaged solutions yet adapting to specific industry requirements with the appropriate software functionality as able-bodied as association and agreeable from its ComplianceOnline.com portal. That continues to be our key differentiator and is well-aligned with the bazaar demand."

Having abysmal acquaintance in above administration solutions (QMS) with a amount of acknowledged implementations for antidotal actions, supplier quality, birthmark tracking and abortion analysis MetricStream abnormally understands the GRC ambiance and requirements of companies with multi-site accomplishment operations. Managing areas such as accumulation alternation risks, Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), operational acquiescence and above & assurance audits crave a able action orientation, area ability and a scalable software belvedere that MetricStream provides.

1. Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Platforms" by French Caldwell, Tom Eid and Carsten Casper, August 12, 2009

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.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a exchange at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's appraisal of how assertive vendors admeasurement adjoin belief for that marketplace, as authentic by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, artefact or account depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not admonish technology users to baddest alone those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is advised alone as a analysis tool, and is not meant to be a specific adviser to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, accurate or implied, with account to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or exercise for a accurate purpose.

MetricStream to Showcase its Integrated Solutions for Internal Audit

MetricStream to Showcase its Integrated Solutions for Internal Audit, Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance at the IIA GRC Conference

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today appear that it is accommodating in the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) 2009 GRC Conference. Focusing on the affair “Internal Audit Solutions for Tough Times”, the accident is accepting captivated on August 24-24, 2009 at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort in San Diego, California.

The contempo times accept been abounding with acquisitions, divestitures, about-face and globalization. This year’s appointment has been revamped to ensure that Internal Auditors are geared to acclimate to the changes quickly. The accident aims to adapt attendees for what lies ahead, appearance how acknowledged organizations are blockage on the advance and advise the abilities to advice affected adversity.

At the conference, MetricStream will authenticate its industry-leading Internal Audit Management software band-aid that is absolutely web-based and advised for risk-based auditing with anchored best practices. The band-aid can be calmly configured and tailored absolutely for customers’ auditing processes. Simple, collaborative and chip with accident and acquiescence processes, the software is acclimated by several arch all-around corporations.

"We are admiring to accompany Internal Auditors and GRC admiral at this important industry event,” says Gaurav Kapoor, CFO and General Manager at MetricStream. “Many Internal Audit groups are adverse abundance challenges due to anachronous analysis systems that are not web-enabled, inefficient chiral processes that cannot accumulate up with business advance and adamant desktop accoutrement that do not accommodated alteration auditing needs. MetricStream has been auspiciously in carrying an chip software band-aid for enterprise-wide auditing consistent in greater productivity, college accuracy and bigger collaboration. Further, our platform’s absolute capabilities for risk, acquiescence and action administration ensure that barter are able to crop a holistic access to GRC.”

At the conference, MetricStream will advertise the absolute functionality of its band-aid including accident assessments of auditable entities, analysis engagement, planning, scheduling and ability management, beheading of analysis engagements, advancement of accident and controls repositories, plan cardboard management, analysis address generation, administration and advice with the management, aftereffect of acquiescence with analysis recommendations and axle and analysis board reporting.

Recently, MetricStream entered into a cardinal affiliation with the IIA to abutment best practices in Internal Auditing continuing its breath role in advocating GRC as a key basic of business strategy.

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.

Leading Industry Analyst Firm Report In Manufacturing

Leading Industry Analyst Firm Report “In Manufacturing, Quality Management Systems Evolve” Available to MetricStream Clients

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today appear availability of the address blue-blooded “In Manufacturing, Quality Management Systems Evolve” authored by Dan Miklovic, Research Vice President at Gartner, through their website www.metricstream.com.

Among added findings, the address highlights that “disparate, broken above applications do not let companies administer above so abundant as alone aggregate advice about quality, which has led to the change of QMS”

This address aswell states that assorted above accoutrement and applications affectation a botheration and duplication of functionality and the connected inefficiencies are acceptable unacceptable in today's bread-and-butter climate.

The address can be accessed from MetricStream's website at http://www.metricstream.com/pressNews/analyst_reports/gartner_qms_09.htm

As companies abound organically as able-bodied as inorganically, they tend to accrue assorted applications acknowledging their above programs. These bequest systems and point-solutions are about advised with bound anatomic ambit for authoritative acceptance and do not action the adaptability and scalability for enterprise-level usage.

The address analyzes these scenarios and focuses on analytical aspects of above administration including accident administration and authoritative compliance. It provides advice to authoritative architectural decisions to accommodated above administration needs in the average and continued appellation based on business and IT environment.

“Our success with enterprise-wide above administration band-aid implementations at ample accomplishment establishments has approved that an chip access to quality, acquiescence and accident delivers a affluent set of allowances and improves business performance,” said Carl McCauley, Vice President of Sales at MetricStream. “The growing mix of circuitous products, a all-around supplier abject and acrimonious authoritative requirements has created a charge for organizations to arrange a well-architected QMS belvedere that provides real-time afterimage via a all-around accepted athenaeum ensures bankrupt bend processes and supports able workflows for acquisition of information.

“The charge to administer issues basic from assorted credibility in the amount alternation - defects appear by customers, actual nonconformance during accomplishment processes, above issues in the accumulation alternation - has added added the charge accept an chip QMS solution,” he added.

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.

Canada-based Global Oil & Gas Company Selects MetricStream Platform for Supplier Governance

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in the enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions today appear that a Canada-based Global Oil & Gas Company has called MetricStream for supplier babyminding through above assessments, audits, inspections and achievement administration of its suppliers.

The applicant is a all-around activity baton complex in the exploration, development, assembly and business of awkward oil, accustomed gas and ability with all-embracing operations. The circuitous oil and gas analysis and development operations absorb accommodating with abundant suppliers and breath assurance with suppliers is analytical for affair goals for quality, compliance, babyminding and ecology protection. MetricStream Supplier Governance band-aid will abutment anatomic areas such as Supplier Quality Assessment, Supplier Audits, Product Inspection, Quality Surveillance, Modularization, Construction Inspection and Acceptance Certification for the customer. By replacing paper-based and chiral processes with the web-based MetricStream solution, the applicant will apprehend the afterward benefits:

1. Reduced Cost of Poor Quality: Enhanced arrangement abutment will accommodate above advice for bigger and appropriate decisions to abode above issues, aspersing the appulse on costs and agenda

2. Improved Issue Management: Efficient monitoring, classification, escalation, resolution and advertisement of above issues will advice accomplishing activity objectives and deliverables

3. Enhanced Decision Making: Current and complete advice will acquiesce added assured decisions based on an cold accumulating of affirmation and facts, accurate by metrics and advertisement

4. Better Communication: Improved advice and abstracts administration amid the above administration team, 3rd affair inspectors, partners, suppliers and added stakeholders

5. Process Efficiency: Increased ability of absolute supplier above and achievement administration processes by automating and amalgam absolute operational practices

6. Resource Optimization: Better use of animal assets committed to amount added tasks, such as appraisal and accommodation making, against chiral administering and organization

7. Continuous Improvement: Centralized above affair tracking will advance into a ability abject for abeyant improvements above the alignment

8. Enhanced Supplier Relationships: Sharing achievement after-effects and areas for advance with suppliers will lower the amount of poor above and strengthen the partnering relationships

Deployed at above energy, oil and gas companies, MetricStream provides an industry arch belvedere to drive enterprise-level Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management programs through configurable workflows, real-time advertisement and anchored best practices. With a ample band-aid footprint, MetricStream facilitates automation in analytical areas such as Internal Audit, Policy Management, Financial Controls, IT-GRC, Ethics & Issue Management, Nonconformance Recording, Corrective Actions (CAPA), Quality & Compliance Audits, Occupational Health & Safety and Environmental Compliance.

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.

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.

MetricStream Announces Integration with the UCF to Help Customers Harmonize....

MetricStream Announces Integration with the UCF to Help Customers Harmonize and Rationalize IT Controls

Due to government regulations on aloofness and aegis that accept emerged in contempo years to aegis chump advice and ensure accumulated accountability, acquiescence and controls accept become axial to planning, designing and advancing administering of IT systems for CIOs and IT executives. To abode this issue, MetricStream has partnered with Network Frontiers to bear its Unified Compliance Framework (UCF) - a absolute database that maps and harmonizes added than 2,500 IT ascendancy statements to added than 400 regulations, standards and frameworks, anchored with MetricStream’s bazaar arch Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) solutions.

Through this partnership, MetricStream audience will be able to accommodate the amount and administer the cutting aggravation of IT acquiescence by standardizing on a accepted set of controls that map to all the regulations and action mandates they charge to accede with. Now accessible as a hierarchical dataset aural the MetricStream IT-GRC application, the UCF leverages the commonalities active through assorted regulations, standards and guidelines in adjustment to rationalize IT controls and adapt them for simple implementation, testing and monitoring.

MetricStream’s IT-GRC band-aid streamlines a advanced ambit of IT activities including managing IT policies, tracking IT assets, assessing and responding to IT risks, implementing IT controls, barometer and advertisement acquiescence with the IT controls and authoritative requirements, acquainted and responding to incidents and threats, managing IT bell-ringer risks and performance, business chain planning and advancing IT auditing. By carrying the UCF agreeable chip with its solution, MetricStream will added enhance the ROI barter acquire from an chip IT-GRC arrangement by accouterment a unified and bright appearance of all-around IT authoritative requirements and how to accommodated them.

The UCF includes controls from a array of regulations and guidelines, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Basel II, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), NASD Manual, HIPAA, CMS, FERC Security Program, NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), FIPS 191, GAO Financial Audit Manual, IRS Revenue Procedure, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, FFIEC, NIST COBIT and ISO 27002.

“Network Frontiers has created a reliable advice architectonics based on absolute acknowledged reviews of the UCF ascendancy mappings to the accurate sources. This will accommodate our barter the affirmation that their acknowledged liabilities and accident exposures are limited, while they account from a workflow and accord apprenticed IT-GRC arrangement delivered by MetricStream,” says Gaurav Kapoor, CFO and General Manager at MetricStream.

“Fortune 1000 companies baddest MetricStream to accommodate their GRC processes into a accepted basement eliminating silos, standardizing processes and convalescent collaboration," said Craig Isaacs, CEO of Network Frontiers. "MetricStream barter can now account from the UCF by abbreviation resources, time, and costs associated with deciphering IT acquiescence requirements and advice them into controls and ascendancy activities. This chip band-aid will aswell accord barter a clear bright appearance into the accompaniment of their IT babyminding affairs and area they charge to focus for bigger accident and acquiescence management.”

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.

About Network Frontiers
Since 1992 Network Frontiers has developed ground-breaking accoutrement to abutment IT best practices with a appropriate focus on authoritative compliance, metrics, systems chain and governance. Dorian Cougias, architect and Lead Analyst, is a common apostle at technology conferences and has authored abundant online autograph and books, including The Compliance Book and the award-winning Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center. Network Frontiers was afresh cited by advice technology analysis and advising aggregation Gartner as one of their 5 arch Cool Vendors in Risk Management and Compliance for 2009.

The Unified Compliance Framework (UCF) is Network Frontiers' flagship product. By absorption on commonalities above regulations, standards-based development, and simplified architectures, the UCF supports a cardinal access to IT acquiescence that reduces cost, banned liability, and leverages the amount of compliance-related technologies and casework above the enterprise. The UCF's agreeable and alignment is the absolute aftereffect of Network Frontiers abysmal compassionate of IT regulations and standards and decades of acquaintance consulting for clients, publications, and vendors in the mission-critical IT arena.

The UCF was created by Dorian Cougias and his analysis partner, Marcelo Halpern of the all-embracing law close Latham and Watkins, which oversees all acknowledged aspects of the UCF. More advice can be begin at www.unifiedcompliance.com.

MetricStream to Present on Quality, Compliance and Audit Management at the 18th Annual ASQ

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today appear that it is accommodating in 18th Annual ASQ Audit Division Conference organized by the American Society for Quality (ASQ). The appointment is accepting captivated on October 15 & 16, 2009 at the Hilton El Conquistador Golf and Tennis Resort in Tucson, Arizona.

Carl McCauley, Vice President at MetricStream, will be acclamation a acquisition of quality, acquiescence and analysis professionals, discussing the accepted trends in acquiescence and operational audits in the accomplishment area and the accretion ambit of Quality Audit administration in the industry. His presentation is based on the acquirements from accomplishing of the MetricStream operational and above analysis administration band-aid at several all-around Fortune 1000 companies. The altercation provides insights on how to:

1. Adopt a analytical and connected risk-based analysis action
2. Increase the ability of the analysis action and abbreviate aeon times
3. Improve advice and teamwork on circuitous analysis processes
4. Eliminate analysis errors and inconsistencies with a connected abstracts accumulating
5. Accelerate and accumulate development of findings, recommendations, antidotal action affairs
6. Gain enterprise-wide afterimage into the analysis action and metrics
7. Engage analysis agents on value-oriented functions such as allegory abstracts and acquainted trends

The 18th Annual ASQ Audit Division Conference has a affair of Audit Revolution, absorption on the auditor’s role in accomplishing and advertisement able analysis after-effects to accommodate administration with accurate abstracts to accomplish abreast decisions. The ambition of the accident is to betrayal auditors with assorted levels of acquaintance to the definitive, innovative, and ever-changing techniques, belief and expectations for auditing.

"The 18th Annual ASQ Audit Division Conference on Quality and Improvement brings calm quality, acquiescence and analysis professionals, industry experts and business admiral to allotment acquaint abstruse and best practices. We are captivated to participate in the accident and present our adventures and ability in enabling companies to accept an enterprise-wide unified access appear above administration for bigger business performance." said Carl McCauley, Vice President, MetricStream.

MetricStream delivers easy-to-use software solutions for quality, acquiescence and analysis administration that provides best-in-class functionality for all the tasks and functions of above managers, acquiescence professionals and auditors. The allowances of MetricStream’s industry-leading Quality & Compliance Management Solutions allows the adaptability to acclimate the arrangement for assorted business needs and the ability of its technology is a analytical success agency in all-embracing all-around deployment scenarios.

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.

MetricStream to Showcase its Software Solutions for Audit, Risk and Compliance...

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today appear that it is accommodating in the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) 2009 All Star Conference from October 19 – 21, 2009 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada.

The 2009 All Star Conference Walk of Fame is a two-and-a-half day accolade to those individuals who accept fabricated cogent contributions to the profession and who were acclaimed by their aeon as the best of the best IIA appointment speakers. The appointment appearance sessions on analytical issues adverse the governance, risk, and acquiescence industry, including centralized controls, advice technology, ethics, compliance, and fraud.

At the conference, MetricStream will authenticate its industry-leading web-based software solutions for Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Management. MetricStream will aswell advertise added solutions accessible on its GRC Platform such as Policy and Procedure Management, Internal Controls Management, IT-GRC, Corporate Ethics Compliance and Supply Chain Governance – all of which appear calm to anatomy a able-bodied chip architectonics for enterprise-wide GRC.

MetricStream has a accurate clue almanac of carrying solutions to Fortune 1000 barter enabling them to advance business achievement by implementing best practices in centralized analysis administration and how the centralized analysis action interacts with added GRC functions.

"As an IIA Industry Leader Partner, we are admiring to accompany the centralized analysis and GRC admiral at this important event,” says Gaurav Kapoor, CFO and General Manager at MetricStream. “This accident gives us a adventitious to allotment our adventures with barter who are application our solutions to acquire cardinal amount from the centralized analysis action through able risk-based analysis planning, able ability management, bigger auditor-auditee accord and greater authoritative conduct and transparency. Internal Audit aswell has analytical touch-point with programs for Risk Management, Corporate Governance and Compliance with Regulations, Industry Standards and Internal Policies and ample corporations are adopting a technology-driven amalgamated access for managing this aggregation effectively.”

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.

MetricStream Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnDC Top 100 Winner

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today appear that it has been called by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDC Top 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnDC 100 signifies above developments in the conception of new business opportunities that accord to the renewed and connected abundance of our country. MetricStream was distinctively called by the AlwaysOn beat aggregation and industry experts spanning the apple based on a set of 5 criteria: innovation, bazaar potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

“It’s no abstruse that technology and addition are basic to bringing our country out of bread-and-butter recession and transforming important sectors like activity and healthcare,” said Tony Perkins, architect and CEO of AlwaysOn. “We congratulate the OnDC 100 for their success in introducing new tools, services, and systems to abode the nation’s top priorities.”

As a baton in the governance, accident and acquiescence (GRC) belvedere and solutions, MetricStream enables business managers to advance analytical accident and acquiescence programs for smarter decisions that aerate value, abate costs, andbalance accident and returns. MetricStream's solutions accord organizations added afterimage into their operational and cardinal risks with the adeptness to abate those risks through centralized controls as able-bodied as able action and acquiescence management. Fortune 1000 corporations adopt MetricStream because its software solutions can acclimate to their circuitous business environments ensuring abiding success of their GRC programs.

“MetricStream is accustomed to be called by AlwaysOn as an OnDC Top 100 Winner,” said Shellye Archambeau, CEO of MetricStream. “To be articular a allotment of the top 100 clandestine companies accidental to the renewed and connected abundance of our country is a cogent achievement. It is a accolade to the aberrant plan put in by our aggregation in compassionate and acclamation analytical needs of customers. An chip access to managing accumulated governance, accident administration and authoritative acquiescence is analytical for convalescent business performance, and this acceptance validates the amount of our solutions in allowance companies accommodated the ambition of abiding and connected growth."

A abounding account of all the OnDC Top 100 Winners can be begin on the AlwaysOn Web website at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/33638

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.

About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn afire the open-media anarchy in aboriginal 2003 by accepting the aboriginal media casting to barrage a all-around blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn connected to advance the media industry in addition by introducing a amusing arrangement area associates can affix and engage. AlwaysOn is aswell revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media attempt to its controlling accident alternation (Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, OnDC, GoingGreen East and West, Venture Summit East and West) and annual book “blogozine” by allotment its associates to column and allotment their account and accommodated anniversary added online. As our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn is committed to the free-market, merit-driven access to advertisement and accident programming. No added media casting has dared to actualize such accessible alternation with its readers and accident participants.

MetricStream CEO to Discuss New Directions and New Tools for Suppliers...

MetricStream CEO to Discuss "New Directions and New Tools for Suppliers and Supply Chain Management" at the First Annual Silicon Valley Quality Conference

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today appear that it is accommodating in First Annual Silicon Valley Quality Conference organized by the American Society for Quality (ASQ). The appointment is accepting captivated on October 23rd, 2009 at The Techmart, Santa Clara, California.

The ASQ Silicon Valley Section 2009 Quality Conference has a affair of “The Road to Quality Excellence” and will attending to abode the primary challenges of accomplishing action and artefact excellence. The accident will cover presentations from experts and professionals from the industry, accoutrement the key elements in accomplishing authoritative change and management’s role in managing the action and advancement momentum. It will aswell attending to altercate the best practices, accoutrement and templates, analytic approaches to circuitous problems and key results. Further, there is a altercation of an chip acquirements archetypal and class bare to accomplish a acquirements alignment to drive the goals of achievement and above excellence.

At the conference, Shellye Archambeau, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at MetricStream, will be allotment of a panel, alternating with chief Quality and Analytics professionals from NetApp, Seagate Technologies, Harrington Institute and ActiveMiner to altercate “Quality - New Directions and New Tools for Suppliers and Supply Chain Management”.

Globalization is accelerating, arch to ample structural accouterment for all-around accumulation alternation organizations and new challenges to auspiciously administer accumulation alternation performance. Supply alternation administration advance is currently accepting apprenticed by the charge to consistently advance artefact above and chump service. The coercion of acknowledging with acrimonious artefact and action above norms for authoritative acquiescence adds a different ambit to supplier above management.

MetricStream delivers easy-to-use software solutions for quality, compliance, analysis administration and accumulation alternation governance. The chip accumulation alternation babyminding band-aid allows companies to administer altered aspects accompanying to their suppliers including supplier performance, supplier quality, supplier accident and bell-ringer risk. MetricStream’s industry-leading solutions aswell acquiesce the adaptability to acclimate the arrangement for assorted business needs and the ability of its technology is a analytical success agency in all-embracing all-around deployment scenarios.

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.

MetricStream CEO, Shellye Archambeau, Named One of 50 Most Important...

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, is appreciative to advertise that Shellye Archambeau, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MetricStream, has been called to the Tenth Annual 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology account for 2009, in an anniversary advertisement called by eAccess Corp.

As CEO, Ms. Archambeau has developed MetricStream into a accustomed bazaar baton in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). MetricStream’s software based solutions are acclimated by tens of bags of users about the apple to accommodated the accretion demands of industry and banking regulations, and operational mandates. Ms. Archambeau is a approved afterwards apostle on able governance, accident administration and arising trends in GRC; as able-bodied as administration attempt and go to bazaar strategies.

Ms. Archambeau aswell serves on several boards of admiral including: Arbitron, Inc [NYSE: ARB}, the IT Senior Management Forum, The Silicon Valley Leadership Group and The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Exectutives.

“Shellye is an archetype of the alarmingly important role of African-American innovators, educators, policymakers and admiral to appearance the approaching of the all-around economy,” said John William Templeton, president/executive editor of San Francisco-based eAccess Corp., which has produced the account back 1999. “During a transformational civic administration, she represents the role models to actuate new ancestors into the careers of the future.”

Since 1999, the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology has accent the all-encompassing captivation of African-Americans in the advance and development of the world’s a lot of acid bend industries. With added than 400,000 workers and added than 2,000 IT businesses, advice technology is the better able employer of African-Americans in the United States. An bulge of a 1998 exhibition at San Jose’s Tech Museum of Innovation, the account continues to reinforce the basal band accent of an broadcast aptitude pool.

The 2009 Honorees will accumulate for a 10th celebration appointment in San Francisco on Jan. 15, 2010 to architecture an addition and disinterestedness agenda for the nation.

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.

MetricStream Enters into Agreement to Provide GRC Platform for Risk Based

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today appear that it has entered into an acceding with Lear Corporation (OTC:LEARQ), a arch all-around supplier of automotive basement systems, electrical administration systems and electronics, to accommodate MetricStream’s GRC Platform and solutions for accident based Internal Audits management.

Lear Corporation is a arch all-around supplier of automotive basement systems, electrical administration systems and electronics. In 2008, Lear ranked #157 a allotment of the Fortune 500. Lear's world-class articles are designed, engineered and bogus by a assorted aggregation of added than 75,000 advisers at 210 accessories in 36 countries.

The absolute capabilities of MetricStream’s accident and centralized analysis administration band-aid accommodate and accumulate the centralized analysis and acquiescence processes for all-around operations. Through added able risk-based analysis planning and able beheading of analysis affairs and plan affidavit at the accumulated akin as able-bodied as at common locations auditors will be able to acquire greater cardinal value.

“We are admiring to accept Lear as a chump and we attending advanced to implementing our accident and centralized analysis band-aid for them,” said Gaurav Kapoor, CFO and General Manager at MetricStream. “As this illustrates, our GRC band-aid apartment helps corporations analytic to accumulate functions like audits, governance, policies, accident and compliance, advance a accepted database for centralized controls, assimilate their auditing and ascendancy appraisal workflows, accretion real-time afterimage into abeyant risks and advance administration advertisement on babyminding issues.”

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.

Amedisys Selects MetricStream for Integrated Enterprise-wide GRC

MetricStream, Inc. (“MetricStream”), the bazaar baton in the enterprise-wide Governance, Risk and Compliance (“GRC”) solutions, today appear that Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: "AMED" “Amedisys”) has called MetricStream for an chip enterprise-wide GRC belvedere and band-aid apartment for managing its accident and acquiescence efforts.

Headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Amedisys is one of America's arch home bloom and auberge nursing companies, operating 508 Medicare-certified home bloom agencies and 61 Medicare-certified auberge agencies in 38 states aural the United States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as of September 30, 2009.

Increasing authoritative mandates and blank in the healthcare industry is acute companies to accumulate and synergize processes accompanying to action and action management, acquiescence management, accident management, centralized audits, above of casework and operations, adventure tracking, antidotal action affairs and authoritative reporting. By adopting MetricStream as the technology infrastructure, Amedisys will be able to abide to automate the advertisement of its accident and acquiescence information.

“We capital to added automate the accession and advertisement of advice by our accident and acquiescence groups and we accept that MetricStream best meets our needs,” said Collin McQuiddy, Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management at Amedisys.

“We are admiring to accept Amedisys as a chump and attending advanced to alive with them appear their ambition of bringing added automation to their accident and acquiescence efforts,” said Gaurav Kapoor, CFO and General Management at MetricStream. “The alternative by Amedisys of MetricStream illustrates our connected administration in GRC and the acute amount we bear for healthcare 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.