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MetricStream Unveils New Version of Its Enterprise Compliance Platform

(Feb 03, 2008)--"The current release of the MetricStream Enterprise Compliance Platform is architected as one solution for multiple risk initiatives, regulations, corporate policies and quality standards. It is designed to give provide easy access and clear visibility into critical business processes to employees, management, board members, external auditors and even regulatory inspectors." said Vidya Phalke, Vice President of Engineering at MetricStream on launching the MetricStream Enterprise Compliance Platform.

"As most of our customers are now seeking global deployment of their GRC applications, we have also made the framework for supporting multiple languages, multiple time zones, and global organizational models highly configurable and extremely robust in this release." She continued.

MetricStream, pioneer in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, announced the general availability of version 5.5 of its Enterprise Compliance Platform (ECP). The MetricStream ECP serves as the nucleus of an organization's corporate governance ecosystem, coordinating all GRC and quality management activities throughout the enterprise via a single management system. It streamlines all communications, information flows, recordkeeping and monitoring of business processes for GRC and quality-related needs, creating a seamless environment for managing regulatory and compliance-related processes, issues and data in accordance with government statutes and industry regulations.

Version 5.5 of the MetricStream ECP is designed to facilitate end-to-end development, deployment and management of a wide range of enterprise applications and solutions for the increasingly complex GRC and quality management requirements.

The new release is rich with features and enhancements for greater usability and performance as well as architectural innovations that make the ECP a versatile technology that uniquely addresses a variety of risk and compliance scenarios across verticals. The powerful Universal Search provides specialized search capability that gives quick and easy access to relevant information that spans an organization's entire current and historical data repository and records, delivering the true benefits of standardizing on one GRC platform. Reporting and email-based notifications and alerts have been made more usable, enabling easy access to and distribution of information. With enhanced High Availability configurations, the ECP now delivers 99.99% uptime and improvements in file management, scripting and caching have given a boost to the platform's scalability. Enhancements to the installation tools will allow customers to rapidly configure and tune MetricStream applications for optimum performance.

MetricStream ECP 5.5 is ideal for companies looking for to implement a federated approach to manage their Corporate Governance initiatives Enterprise and Operational Risk, Regulatory and Industry Compliance that spans the entire enterprise. In the recently published report Forrester Wave: Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Platforms 2007, an Independent Research Firm evaluated Version 5.5 of the MetricStream ECP and noted that "MetricStream demonstrated one of the most flexible GRC platforms evaluated."

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