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Business processes within companies are increasingly being driven by the need to ensure compliance with various regulatory mandates and quality standards. MetricStream Enterprise Compliance Platform provides a common framework for supporting all compliance and quality processes in a company and driving effective risk management and corporate governance. Solutions built and deployed on the Platform tightly integrate together to give the users and management a seamless environment which functions as a single system for managing regulatory and compliance-related processes, issues, and data.
By adopting MetricStream Enterprise Compliance Platform, customers see tangible business benefits from consistent and closed-loop processes across sites and functions, real-time visibility and easy access to compliance data, and a collaborative environment for improved co-ordination between teams. New in Version 5.5 The release is rich with features and enhancements for greater usability and performance as well as architectural innovations that make the ECP a versatile technology that uniquely addresses a variety of risk and compliance scenarios across verticals. The powerful Universal Search provides specialized search capability that gives quick and easy access to relevant information that spans an organization’s entire current and historical data repository and records delivering the true benefits of standardizing on one GRC platform. Reporting and email-based notifications and alerts have been made more usable enabling easy access to and distribution of information. With enhanced High Availability configurations, the ECP now delivers 99.99% uptime and improvements in file management, scripting and caching have given a boost to the platform’s scalability. Enhancements to the installation tools will allow customers to rapidly configure and tune MetricStream applications for optimum performance. The current release of the MetricStream Enterprise Compliance Platform is architected as one solution for multiple risk initiatives, regulations, corporate policies and quality standards. It is designed to give provide easy access and clear visibility into critical business processes to employees, management, board members, external auditors and even regulatory inspectors. As customers are seeking global deployment of their GRC applications, the framework has been refined for supporting multiple languages, multiple time zones, and global organizational models highly configurable and extremely robust in this release. MetricStream ECP 5.5 is ideal for companies looking for to implement a federated approach to manage their Corporate Governance initiatives Enterprise and Operational Risk, Regulatory and Industry Compliance that spans the entire enterprise. Enterprise Compliance Platform: Application SuiteEnterprise Compliance Platform provides a comprehensive suite of products and solutions for for Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Workflow Engine: Enterprise Compliance Platform has an embedded workflow engine that manages and supports compliance business processes based on industry best practices. It controls the routing of information, relationship between records, and assignment of tasks based on predefined business rules and conditions.
Process Flow Designer: The Process Flow Designer tool facilitates application design and development by graphically modeling business processes. Application forms, fields, and workflows can be rapidly created and modified to support specific business requirements without any programming or code change This ensures ease of maintenance and portability between upgrades and releases.
Integration: MetricStream’s integration services consist of powerful and flexible adapters called Infolets that seamlessly connect to external systems and data sources to extract relevant data and load it in the MetricStream database and API tables. Customers have realized tremendous cost and efficiency benefits by automating and controlling the interactions between MetricStream solutions and the information systems they have already invested in.
Reporting and Dashboards: MetricStream Enterprise Compliance Platform has a built-in reporting engine for powerful reports and executive dashboards that provide data analytics and business intelligence in real-time. The unique drill-down capability allows users to click on a report or dashboard and easily access the underlying data at the finest level of detail.
Reports Wizard: In addition to the standard reports available out-of-the-box in MetricStream solutions, end-users can build custom reports using the simple Reports Wizard without any programming. The Reports Wizard takes the user through a series of steps to select the data set for the report and to define properties such as report columns, formatting, sorting and grouping, filtering, and coloring conditions to create the new report that can be saved and shared with other users.
Security: MetricStream Platform supports 21 CFR Part 11 compliance for electronic records and signatures. All applications can have configurable rules for passwords, password complexity, password expiry, as well as authentication and signoffs at major transactional steps in business process workflows. The Platform provides a robust security infrastructure by supporting the current standard and best practices including authentication and authorization, 128-bit data encryption algorithms such as MD5, SSL and HTTPS support, support for LDAP-based authentication models, as well as support for single sign-on technologies.
Application Briefcase: MetricStream Platform provides a unique offline capability that allows users to perform their tasks at remote field sites without access to the corporate network. Key functionalities such as conducting audits and reviewing CAPAs can be made available on notebook computers and handheld devices even when they are offline and cannot access the network. The data can be recorded in exactly that same manner as when the application is online and synchronized with the central repository when the network is accessible.
Access Controls: MetricStream Platform supports multi-level role-based access controls with support for hierarchy-based organizational models and org-role pairings. Such role-based access to functionality and data is essential for companies with multiple locations, product lines, and business units. Any document or record is made available only to those users who have appropriate privileges based on their roles and profiles.
Zaplets: MetricStream’s patented Zaplet technology enables email-based delivery of application data and forms. Users can receive Zaplets in their email with information that is current when read versus current when sent. Users can also reply to the email by entering relevant data and responses within the email. The application processes the information in the email form in the same way as if the user had entered it in the online application. For more information on MetricStream’s patented Zaplet technology, click here.
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