PwC U.S. announced a joint business relationship with MetricStream, a provider of enterprise-wide governance, risk and compliance solutions. The relationship enhances PwC's risk assurance capabilities in providing integrated solutions to improve companies' collective Enterprise and IT risk management and risk-based decisions.

PwC's Risk Assurance Services practice includes more than 2,100 professionals, who provide companies with significant technical expertise, as well as deep industry knowledge across all industries. Skilled team members assist companies in developing risk and compliance programs, performing audits and creating internal controls processes around business performance issues, IT systems as well as strategy and contingency planning.

With its enterprise scalability and ability to support complex, global organizations, MetricStream's highly-configurable, platform-based GRC solutions help provide Risk Intelligence by integrating internal audit, Sarbanes-Oxley, regulatory compliance, quality management, security, IT GRC initiatives all the way through operational and enterprise risk management.

As part of this process, the system also aggregates risk and compliance information across the enterprise, spanning business processes, IT applications and security infrastructure, providing top-down visibility and insights to drive business decisions. The integrated system for GRC will also deliver appropriate content such as risks, controls, regulations, standards and policies, among many other libraries.