Honored with ‘GRC Innovation Partner of the Year 2016’ Award at MetricStream GRC Summit 2016
Noida, India and Sunnyvale, CA, June 10 2016 – HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services company, has been honored with ‘GRC Innovation Partner of the Year 2016’ award from MetricStream for the spirit of collaboration and innovation. The MetricStream GRC Journey Award ceremony was held at the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Washington DC on April 26, 2016. The awards were presented by Shellye Archambeau, CEO of MetricStream and Gunjan Sinha, Executive Chairman of MetricStream.
The partner awards recognize MetricStream’s business partners who have provided exceptional GRC consulting, services and guidance to customers. These partners work closely with MetricStream, providing hands–on assistance with strategy and foundational elements, enabling customers to meet their GRC goals. A total of 17 awards were presented, honoring the efforts and achievements of MetricStream customers, individual customer stakeholders and partners.
Kalyan Kumar, Executive Vice President at HCL Technologies, said “21st Century Enterprises do face challenges in managing cyber threats and maintaining real–time compliances. HCL’s DryICE™ Autonomics & Orchestration framework, complemented with integrated GRC methodology, also focuses on automation of compliance and risk management activities and our association with MetricStream supports this strategy. HCL is thrilled to receive the MetricStream GRC Innovation Partner of the Year 2016 award. This is a testimony to HCL’s industry leading GRC programs and practices.”
Rohit Bedi, Senior Vice President, Global Partnerships & Alliances at MetricStream said, “The combined strength of HCL’s industry expertise and thought leadership, and MetricStream’s powerful GRC platform and applications enable us to jointly deliver best in class GRC solutions for our customers globally. Innovation is key to our clients who need better ways to drive success in their business and create a sustainable and competitive edge. This milestone stands as a testament of HCL’s and MetricStream’s commitment to continuously innovate and set new benchmarks of excellence in the GRC space.”
A pioneer in the area of Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), HCL is among the first IT services companies to create an industry–recognized IP content & proprietary framework BRiCS™ (Business Risk Intelligence & Compliance Solution), for Risk & Compliance management specific to industry verticals. The creation of integrated GRC BRiCS™ framework is a step towards making an enterprise more regulatory compliant, risk averse and security aligned, which is also a core attribute of HCL’s core DryICE™ Autonomics & Orchestration methodology.
HCL is a premier partner of MetricStream since 2013 for their GRC technology services, and has strong capabilities and technical expertise on the MetricStream platform. With a dedicated Center of Excellence, HCL has developed and engineered many leading GRC applications like PCI–DSS management, SANS 20 dashboard and Information Security Operations Management, leveraging MetricStream AppStudio platform.
About MetricStream GRC Awards
MetricStream, a market leader in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) apps and solutions, hosted its annual GRC Journey Awards ceremony at the MetricStream GRC Summit 2016, which was held on the evening of April 26, 2016 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington DC. The GRC Journey Awards recognize individuals, customers, and partners who are leading their organization’s GRC Journey, championing GRC programs, and achieving superior business performance with GRC.
About MetricStream
MetricStream is the market leader in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management Solutions. MetricStream solutions are used by leading global corporations in diverse industries such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Energy and Utilities, Food, Retail, CPG, Government, Hi-Tech and Manufacturing to manage their risk management programs, quality management processes, regulatory and industry-mandated compliance and other corporate governance initiatives. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA (www.metricstream.com).
About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company working with clients in areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its emergence on global landscape after its IPO in 1999 and listing in 2000, HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, today operates out of 32 countries and has consolidated revenues of US$ 6.2 billion, for 12 Months ended 31st March, 2016. For the 21st Century Enterprise, HCL focuses on business model transformation, underlined by innovation and value creation, offering an integrated portfolio of services including BEYONDigital, IoT WoRKS, Engineering Services Outsourcing and Next–Generation IT & Operations (NGIT&O) that focuses on transformation–led integrated infrastructure services, applications services and business services. HCL leverages DryICE, its 3rd generation automation platform, global network of integrated innovation labs, and global delivery capabilities to provide holistic, multi–service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Media, Publishing & Entertainment, Retail & CPG, Life sciences & Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Travel, Transportation & Logistics and Government. With 104,896 professionals from diverse nationalities, HCL Technologies focuses on creating real value for customers by taking 'Relationships Beyond the Contract'. For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com
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