"We have performed our annual compliance risk assessment in the tool. We have also used our tool this year for annual planning exercise."

"Second and third line of defense are finally speaking with each other, exchanging information. We have broken the silos that we had grown into. We have extended the program to the local banks and they have received it quite happily."

"Manal Al Sarraf, Head of Internal Audit, Batelco, describes the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) challenges that the telecom industry currently faces and what they need to do as a company in order to overcome them. She also talks about the benefits she’s getting by being a part of the …

"MetricStream is helping us improve the efficiency, tracking, and transparency of our quality management program by consolidating multiple types."

“MetricStream had provided a comprehensive yet simple to use solution. And simplicity was important as we did not want something overly technical and complicated.”

“MetricStream provided us a proven, scalable and cost effective solution to help our subsidiaries streamline SOX compliance initiatives. The configurability of the solution combined with the logically structured, intuitive interface accelerated the speed at which we were able to achieve unified risk and compliance framework. We are pleased to partner …

"We continue to be impressed with the richness of MetricStream's SOX solution and their ability to help deploy the solution in such a short timeframe."

“We continue to be impressed with the richness of MetricStream’s SOX solution and their ability to help deploy the solution in such a short timeframe. It speaks volumes about the configurability and richness of their solution.”

"We have started to aggregate risk data across the various risk taxonomies and risk types i.e. if an individual of our company or a client is showing up in more than 1 risk silo, it probably warrants an in depth review. This is obviously a much more complex system but …

"Now we have our workflow process in place to identify the audit universe, to assess and document what should be the priorities for next year, to set up the plan. All that happened in the past through emails."

"We implemented the MetricStream Vendor Risk Management Solution at Zurich Insurance Company in under 12 weeks. We have a great solution that is really working well for the business."

“We have engaged [on the MetricStream Community] throughout the implementation and found the interactions and materials quite useful. [Through the interactions on the MetricStream Community] we have also made sure that what we are working through, other companies are also working through, and what we are seeing, other companies are …

"Our approvals are consistently done within the system, we have issue management beyond the audit cycle, our quarterly and annual reporting execution time has been reduced significantly. QA efforts have been redirected to higher value work due to workflow and system checks."

“For the first time the company had a complete inventory of the organization’s risk. That helped us recognize early on that MetricStream solution is well conceived and tremendously efficient.”

“By October 2011, we had a complete, consolidated picture of risk across the group. Therefore, during our meetings with organizational executives, we could point out which auditable entity was more risky than others. Providing this kind of feedback was new. It enabled us to add value to the management team, …