"Our risk function should be able to better support sustainable business growth. To help deliver on that vision over the course of this year, we've been working with MetricStream to deliver an integrated GRC program across multiple business units and all three lines of defense."

“Facing different types of risks on a daily basis is part and parcel of doing business. MetricStream’s centralized and automated approach has helped us gain a comprehensive view into cross-functional risks and understand risk relationships and accountabilities, thereby enabling us to make risk-aware business decisions."

"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."

“The MetricStream professional services organization enabled us to go live with the document management solution in a very smooth manner. We are very happy with our choice of MetricStream and look forward to deploying their CAPA and OOS applications as well to continue to automate our cGMP processes and significantly …

"In today’s high-risk markets, our stability as a bank is an important part of our competitive edge. Maintaining that stability involves embracing new and more advanced risk and audit management technologies. After evaluating several top risk and audit solution vendors, we believed MetricStream remained unique in its ability to offer …

"By using the MetricStream system, it’s very easy for us to flag where these smelters are from and what the risks are. We are actually able to close out most of our supplier risk within 30 days."

"Technology certainly helps improve the efficiency of regulatory compliance through automation. And in terms of agility, technology allows our offices across the globe to access the information they need, whenever they need it, thus reducing dependency on a single individual."

"The benefits that organizations can gain from implementing a GRC tool are streamlined operations, elimination of duplication of work and information, and contextual intelligence that allow you to make better decisions faster."

“A lot of time may be spent on the design phase of a GRC program, but ultimately, it's about how the program is implemented. There needs to be a focus on engagement, communication, follow-up, and the sustainability of the GRC program.”

“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."

"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."

“The biggest benefit we are getting right now is to compress the time period we have to roll the updated ERM top 25 out. We are able to give it to the executive team in time for them to discuss the results and the progress.”

"We used to take a lot of man-hours trying out the numbers lots of reports and graphs that would be affected with one small change, but with the tool we can do that simultaneously."

"Layering in technology such as MetricStream allowed us to have transparency of information, all in one place and across all of our offices and practices."