Palo Alto, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/29/2009 -- MetricStream, Inc., the market leader in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today announced that it is participating 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 tribute to those individuals who have made significant contributions to the profession and who were lauded by their peers as the best of the best IIA conference speakers. The conference features sessions on critical issues facing the governance, risk, and compliance industry, including internal controls, information technology, ethics, compliance, and fraud.

At the conference, MetricStream will demonstrate its industry-leading web-based software solutions for Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Management. MetricStream will also showcase other solutions available 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 come together to form a well integrated architecture for enterprise-wide GRC.

MetricStream has a proven track record of delivering solutions to Fortune 1000 customers enabling them to improve business performance by implementing best practices in internal audit management and how the internal audit function interacts with other GRC functions.

"As an IIA Industry Leader Partner, we are pleased to join the internal audit and GRC executives at this important event,” says Gaurav Kapoor, CFO and General Manager at MetricStream. “This event gives us a chance to share our experiences with customers who are using our solutions to derive strategic value from the internal audit function through effective risk-based audit planning, efficient resource management, improved auditor-auditee collaboration and greater organizational discipline and transparency. Internal Audit also has critical touch-point with programs for Risk Management, Corporate Governance and Compliance with Regulations, Industry Standards and Internal Policies and large corporations are adopting a technology-driven federated approach for managing this convergence effectively.”

About MetricStream
MetricStream is a market leader in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Solutions for global corporations. MetricStream solutions are used by leading corporations such as Pfizer, Philips, NASDAQ, UBS, SanDisk, BP, Subway, Fairchild Semiconductor, Hitachi and TaylorMade-Adidas Golf in diverse industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Automotive, Food, High Tech Manufacturing, Energy and Financial Services to manage their quality processes, regulatory and industry-mandated compliance and corporate governance initiatives, as well as by over a million compliance professionals worldwide via the http://www.ComplianceOnline.com portal. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and can be reached at http://www.metricstream.com.