MetricStream announces single sign-on capability

Announces integration with Netegrity SiteMinder

Redwood Shores, Calif. (8/30/2004) - MetricStream, Inc., a market leader in the enterprise-wide quality and compliance market today announced integration with Netegrity SiteMinder v5.5 to provide Single Sign-on capabilities to its customers. The integration enables the MetricStream application to trust the credentials passed from Netegrity SiteMinder regarding authentication and automatically perform user login during initial access. As a result, users do not have to reenter username and password when logging to the MetricStream application, if they are signed onto another application such as an intranet portal.

"MetricStream continues to focus on improving the user experience for its customers", said Shellye Archambeau, CEO of MetricStream. "In response to customer requests for single sign-on capability, we have partnered with the leading software vendor in this space."

MetricStream's quality and compliance solutions are used by leading companies to achieve:

• Compliance with industry regulations such as 21CFR Part 11, cGMP, TREAD or OHSAS 18001;
  
  
• Compliance with Section 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and other Corporate Governance initiatives
  
  
• Successful implementation of their quality initiatives such as ISO9000, six-sigma or supplier quality management
  
  
• Compliance with industry mandates such as TS16949 in the Automotive Industry;

Global companies looking to deploy a solution to support their global compliance initiatives consider single sign-on to be key evaluation criteria in "user experience" category. With this announcement, MetricStream continues to demonstrate its customer focus.

About MetricStream
MetricStream is a market leader in Enterprise-wide Quality and Compliance Management software for global corporations. MetricStream solutions are used by leading corporations in diverse industries such as Automotive, Food, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing and Electronics to manage their quality processes, regulatory and industry-mandated compliance and corporate governance initiatives. MetricStream is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California and can be reached at www.metricstream.com

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