Oracle and ESS Join to Provide Environmental Sustainability Solutions
Oracle and ESS Unite to Deliver Environmental Sustainability Information Management Capabilities
Redwood Shores, CA – September 23, 2008
News Facts
ESS, the leading global provider of Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) software and Oracle have aligned to deliver environmental sustainability information management capabilities.
Unprecedented growth in regulatory directives and impending legislation has made it critical for organizations to address how they manage their environmental compliance initiatives in order to better manage the associated business risks.
Oracle’s strategy is to deliver complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle’s approach helps customers simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility.
Mitigate Risk, Reduce Costs, Fuel Growth
Corporations need to evolve to a unified business applications platform across the enterprise in order to make environmental sustainability part of their core business model. The foundation for an environmental sustainability management solution consists of three primary components – data acquisition, compliance management, and reporting – working in conjunction with enterprise applications.
ESS has extensive experience in collecting the full spectrum of EH&S information from across a business unit, a facility or a global enterprise. For example, ESS routinely collects air, water, waste, and other environmental metrics – via forms as well as directly from real-time sensors – in a robust, proven data model that serves as an ‘eco-hub’ to centrally manage and house the relevant environmental data.
Oracle Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager offers robust capabilities to manage risk and compliance programs across regulations and around the globe. Incorporating environmental compliance on a common platform with other regulatory requirements such as financial compliance and IT governance improves consistency and helps reduce compliance costs.
Environmental sustainability goals are unwieldy and overwhelming for corporations if key metrics – ranging from energy usage to greenhouse gas information – are not identified and monitored on an ongoing basis. Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus provides a full range of analysis and reporting capabilities that enable customers looking to enhance the sustainability of the business to rapidly establish the operational data views necessary to identify issues and opportunities.
As a result, Oracle customers will be able to:
Centrally manage environmental data, allowing data timeliness, accuracy and consistency
Reduce risk by actively managing and enforcing environmental management policies
Leverage operational business intelligence to optimize EH&S workflow and manage reductions in environmental impact
Reduce cost of generating reports for regulatory bodies, customers, and other key stakeholders
Generate financial benefits and build brand equity.
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“The foundation of any improvement program is measurement and that is just as true of sustainability and environmental initiatives. By working with ESS, we can provide the foundation,” said Oracle Vice President Product Strategy Jon Chorley. “This can then be leveraged using Oracle’s analytic and compliance capabilities to give our joint customers the ability to drive beyond compliance towards performance efficiencies resulting in competitive advantages in the marketplace.”
“Teaming with Oracle is another way we can help organizations realize the value of our EH&S sustainability capabilities,” said ESS President and CEO Robert Johnson. “We look forward to working together to address some of today’s most critical business challenges, including environmental compliance, product stewardship and corporate responsibility.”
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