A new front has opened up in the long-running battle between arch-rivals Oracle and SAP in the enterprise application market. Oracle has entered into the sustainable business software market with two new applications developed from its acquisition of Ndevr’s IP in February. These early forays into the fast expanding market are Oracle Environmental Accounting & Reporting and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Environmental Accounting and Reporting. Can Oracle catch up with SAP?...
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Blog posts for the Sustainability Management Software category are listed below.
C3 Vision Adds Further Impetus To Strategic Shift In Energy Management
Energy management, until recently an operations backwater is getting a technology injection as tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and a broad range of services firms pile into this emerging space. Historically dominated by tactical applications deployed at a facility level by firms like Entech USB and TEAM, enterprise-class energy management applications have now arrived in force....
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Software Visionaries Combine Organizational Energy Overview With Asset Level Control
For many firms today, even consolidating their energy consumption and spend data is enough of a headache, let alone actively managing their energy at the organisational level. Avaya uses Hara’s EEM software application, implemented as part of HP’s Energy and Sustainability Management solution, to deliver this organizational view. With the launch of C3 in August 2011 competition in the enterprise energy management software market has reached fever pitch....
Why IT Services Firms Need A Sustainable Solutions Practice Group
Since Green IT burst onto the scene in 2006, IT systems integrators have struggled to understand the best organizational and go-to-market strategies for the confusing "market" for IT services linked to energy management, environmental compliance and sustainability strategies....
Eye On Earth Sets Its Sights On Citizen Empowerment By Sharing Environmental Data
Cities rely to varying degrees on their citizens’ efforts when implementing sustainability initiatives. Motivating mass behavioural changes can be a smart way of achieving sustainability targets at low cost, but a lack of individual accountability can lead to communal inertia and result in low project outcomes. To bypass this issue, several organizations are using IT to bring to life the mass of scientific data available today and reach out to wider stakeholder segments....
FirstCarbon Strengthens Its Environmental Management Capabilities by Acquiring Michael Brandman Associates
FirstCarbon Solutions, a publisher of sustainability and GHG management software, recently announced the acquisition of California-based environmental services firm Michael Brandman Associates (MBA). The move may look like it runs counter to a typical environmental software firm’s usual development of sales channels by aligning with third party consulting firms to help sell products to clients (see Verdantix IHS Launches Ecosystem for Sustainability Transformation). But FirstCarbon has a history of bringing such consulting expertise in-house. Faced with a maturing market for its core data aggregation software technologies, FirstCarbon’s move signals its desire to expand its client services by integrating environmental consulting with software services....
