Oracle, ESS Join To Provide Environmental Sustainability Solutions

ESS, a 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 organisations to address how they manage their environmental compliance initiatives in order to better manage the associated business risks.

Leveraging Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance Manager (GRC Manager) and Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus, Oracle and ESS plan to provide a cohesive offering that will aid in reducing the complexity, risks and costs of managing environmental sustainability.

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.

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With the new delivery, 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 optimise 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.

"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 Jon Chorley, Oracle vice president, Product Strategy. "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."