Project Overview
The main goal of the project was to transfer the internal GRC (Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance) operations of two major European clients (NDA) from the banking and energy sectors to Metricstream, a specialized platform designed for comprehensive integration in the fields of governance, risk management, and compliance. Our duties went beyond just adapting and enhancing the platform; we also played a crucial role in analyzing the clients' processes and providing consultation. This approach enabled us to deliver solutions that were specifically tailored to the unique requirements of both clients.
Project Results
Delivery pipeline setup
To address organizational, communicational and cognitive challenges, we developed a streamlined approach to deliver required functionality:
Conceptual approach to delivery planning
To make the delivery as much predictable, stable and transparent as possible, we sticked to conceptual and disciplined approach to plan the delivery. Constantly maintaining and evolving all of the planning artifacts (like Gantt charts) helped a lot to deliver in time and without a stress.
Applying expertise to tackle all the technical problems
We applied many years of expertise in software areas such as architecture, design, development (both front-end and back-end), database management and DevOps to tackle all the technical challenges arose during the project.
Project Challenges
Complex field
GRC is an integrated approach to managing an organization's governance, risk management, and compliance activities, and it requires a deep understanding of the organization's business processes and workflows.
Simply put, there were two “realms”: business processes of the client and best-practices and capabilities of Metricstream platform. We had to create conditions under which those two “realms” can meet each other in the most efficient manner.
Sophisticated platform (technical challenges)
The project encountered several technical challenges as Metricstream's platform is a sophisticated software solution with enterprise-grade functionalities, including a federated GRC data model, reporting and analytics, and multi-dimensional organizational structure, all integrated in a multi-database and distributed architecture.
Co-development process
All the changes made to the platform should be done in planned, shared and collaborative style in a geo-distributed multi-cultural team with members from Germany, India, Czech republic and Romania.
What our clients say
"Fork IT Studio has been invaluable partner in our collaboration. Their expertise in software development and processes, combined with their conceptual approach and dedication to understanding business needs has resulted in a successful project outcome. We appreciate their professionalism together with overall quality of their work and would highly recommend them to any organization in need of software solutions."
“Fork IT Studio has successfully provided us high-quality services both in terms of modern software architecture design and development methods. I highly recommend their services to anyone looking for a reliable and experienced partner.”
