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Energy Management Software and Services Partnership Map

Evolving LCA Ecosystem Opens Up Opportunities For Users

Green Quadrant Sustainability Consulting (US) 2013

Throughout 2012 energy management software providers such as CA Technologies, IBM and IHS developed an ever expanding ecosystem of partners. Partnership announcements will continue into 2013 driven by the need to deliver global implementations, gain access to senior budget holders and boost revenue from newly created energy consulting and services divisions.
 

Life cycle assessment (LCA) has a crucial role to play in advancing sustainability at the product level. As businesses look beyond their own four walls and seek support to improve the sustainability of products, they are faced with a complex and evolving landscape of solutions and services. This report helps executives in product management, R&D and sustainability functions to navigate the complex market of LCA software and solutions, and explains how to extract maximum value from product LCA.

This Green Quadrant report provides a detailed comparison of the sustainability consulting capabilities of 16 consultancies in the US market, in order to help buyers of sustainability advice such as heads of sustainability, business unit leaders and function heads understand which consultancies have the strongest expertise in eight service capabilities. This report assesses 16 of these consultancies against 49 criteria, reflects the views of 15 buyers of sustainability consulting services, and compares the advisory capability and market momentum of the consultancies.