MetricStream’s latest groundbreaking innovation, the M7 platform and apps, are ready and available for new customers now
Palo Alto, Calif. (April 5, 2017) – MetricStream, the independent market leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) apps and solutions, today announced the release of the M7 platform and apps for risk, compliance, audit, IT security, third-party management and other GRC professionals.
With M7, MetricStream is the first to bring to market innovative fourth-generation GRC technology. The M7 platform and apps are designed to help companies preserve their corporate integrity, protect their brand and drive exceptional business performance through GRC that is simple, pervasive and delivered in the cloud. M7 focuses on enabling high performers through an engaging user experience, high degree of configurability, enhanced mobility and layering, sophisticated reporting and analytics and a future-ready architecture.
MetricStream CEO, Shellye Archambeau said, “M7 enables high-performing organizations by making GRC simple, intuitive and more deeply embedded across the enterprise and extended ecosystem. M7 gives our customers real-time intelligence that they need to anticipate risk and balance opportunities effectively.”
MetricStream M7 Apps
The MetricStream M7 Platform supports dozens of apps and solutions for risk management, compliance, audit, IT security, third party management, and other GRC professionals. M7 apps have been demonstrated and deployed to the market, and are generating significant traction and momentum.
Risk Management Professionals
The MetricStream Enterprise Risk Management app enables organizations to manage a wide range of risks and related activities in a systematic and integrated manner. Through the app, users can identify, assess, monitor and mitigate enterprise risks effectively. Powerful analytics and reporting capabilities, paired with detailed graphical dashboards and charts, offer comprehensive and real-time visibility into risks, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions. This app is often deployed with the Operational Risk Management, Business Continuity Management and Internal Audit Management apps.
Regulatory and Corporate Compliance Professionals
The MetricStream Regulatory Engagement Management app streamlines and automates the process of managing various regulatory engagements, including examinations, meetings and requests for information from regulators. In tandem with the Compliance Management app, the Regulatory Engagement Management app simplifies engagement creation and task management and captures all regulatory engagement data in a central repository. Powerful dashboards and reports provide real-time insights, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions that strengthen the organization’s relationships with regulators.
Audit Management Professionals
The MetricStream Internal Audit Management app helps organizations plan, manage and track internal audits with ease and efficiency. The app streamlines audit planning and scheduling, audit execution, review and analysis of audit findings, creation of the final audit report and follow-up activities. Through an intelligent, risk-based approach to internal auditing, the app helps prioritize audit tasks and resources based on the areas of highest risk. For an enterprise audit management solution, the Internal Audit Management App is often deployed with the Compliance Management and Operational Audit Management apps.
IT Security Professionals
The MetricStream IT Risk Management app empowers organizations to adopt a focused and business-driven approach when managing and mitigating their IT risks. The app streamlines IT risk identification, IT risk assessments and risk treatment. It also provides sophisticated analytics and reports that transform raw risk data into actionable IT risk intelligence, providing clear visibility into the top risks and improving decision-making. This app is often deployed with the IT Compliance Management and Threat and Vulnerability Management apps for an integrated IT GRC solution.
The MetricStream Threat and Vulnerability Management app strengthens IT security by proactively aggregating and correlating threats and vulnerabilities across information assets. The app integrates with multiple end-point IT security and infrastructure management tools and security intelligence feeds to identify and prioritize the risk exposure for IT assets and streamline the remediation process.
Third-Party Management and other GRC Professionals
The MetricStream Issue Management app facilitates a systematic and integrated approach toward managing governance, risk and compliance issues. The app provides a single system for enterprisewide issue management initiatives, thereby strengthening compliance and risk management while reducing the associated costs. Through an integrated approach, the app facilitates cross-functional coordination and collaboration on issue management and helps align these processes centrally with corporate governance and reporting objectives. Issue Management is a critical component of any GRC solution.
The MetricStream Survey Management app enables a structured and automated process to manage surveys for systems compliance, process compliance, risk assessments, HR policy awareness, legal attestations, etc. The app fosters accountability by streamlining the flow of information and records and documenting attestations and representations at appropriate stages. Moreover, the reporting engine built on the MetricStream GRC Platform aggregates survey data and enables exploration and evaluation of survey findings at the enterprise level. Survey Management is a critical component of a GRC solution requiring the collection of intelligence across the enterprise and business partners and can be integrated with other apps including Compliance Management, Risk Management and Third Party Management.
“We are excited to announce the release of the MetricStream M7 platform and apps,” said Gunjan Sinha, Executive Chairman at MetricStream. He continued, “Our vision is to make GRC simple, pervasive and delivered in the cloud. With M7, we have made our vision a reality.”
About MetricStream
MetricStream, the independent market leader in enterprise and cloud applications for governance, risk, compliance (GRC) and quality management, makes GRC simple. MetricStream apps improve business performance by strengthening risk management, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, vendor governance and quality management for hundreds of thousands of users in dozens of industries, including financial services, health care, life sciences, energy and utilities, food, retail, CPG, government, hi-tech and manufacturing. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an operations and R&D center in Bangalore, India and sales and operations support in 12 other cities globally. (www.metricstream.com).
