(openPR) - MetricStream, the market leader in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Solutions, today announced its participation in The TCS Innovation Forum 2008 being held on 3 and 4 March at the Four Seasons Hotel, Palo Alto, California.

This annual innovation event brings together an eclectic group of thought leaders across universities, innovative start-up companies, research organizations, venture funds, and TCS Innovation Labs, to connect and discuss emerging technology trends that impact businesses globally. This event is sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services and consulting firm.

MetricStream has enabled leading corporations in diverse industries to adopt an integrated enterprise-wide strategy for GRC and Quality Management. It has been in alliance with the TCS Co-Innovation Network (CoIN), since early 2005. This unique TCS-MetricStream partnership brings a compelling value proposition to their customers, helping them leverage MetricStream's GRC and Quality Management capabilities, solutions, experience and a patented software platform along with TCS' diverse industry knowledge, implementation expertise and global deployment support.

During the event, Gunjan Sinha, Chairman of MetricStream will be participating in a press briefing along with a select group of CoIN partners. Also, MetricStream's Vasant Balasubramanian, Director of Product Management, will be presenting a case study on the integrated approach to compliance and quality management adopted by a Fortune 500 automotive manufacturer. This discussion will help the audience to better understand the strategy and methods adopted to ensure enterprise-wide visibility and control, resolve issues affecting the efficiency, quality and productivity of compliance teams and automation of key quality business processes.

Talking about the TCS Innovation Forum, MetricStream's CFO and General Manager, Gaurav Kapoor said, "It is indeed our privilege to participate in this unique event which encourages and provides a platform for TCS' partners to showcase their strengths in the innovation ecosystem. Our relationship with TCS' CoIN underlines our skill and efficacy in providing our customers with value-added and innovative solutions and services to meet their GRC and Quality Management challenges in a constantly changing environment."

MetricStream, Inc.
3000 Bridge Parkway
Redwood Shores, California
United States - 94065
Phone: 650-620-2932

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, Covidien, NASDAQ, SanDisk, BP, Entergy, 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 ComplianceOnline.com portal. MetricStream is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California and can be reached at www.metricstream.com.