Going 'Green' gets Easy
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, May 2, 2008

SAS, a BI solutions provider, is aiming to help organizations accurately measure and manage their environmental impact. SAS for Sustainability Management is a decision-support software platform for identifying innovative strategies that address complex environmental, social, and economic situations while achieving stakeholder objectives.

Environmental issues are of major concern to executive worldwide. But measuring and managing environmental impact is difficult, intricate work that stretches across an organization's operations. Causal relationships connecting issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, use of scarce resources, ethical sourcing, and regulatory compliance make it extremely complex to invest in green technology and expand sales of products and services with measurably better environmental performance.

"Lessening our impact on the environment and mitigating the future risk of depleting our planet's natural resources is becoming a priority in shaping every organization's strategy," said Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS. "With SAS, organizations can optimize business strategies for minimizing risks and costs, developing new lines of business, and improving resource use, environmental or otherwise."

SAS for Sustainability Management, based on the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform, uses the global reporting initiative framework to report on triple bottom line indicators. These indicators relate to the 3 spheres of sustainability - environmental, social, and economic, using SAS' predictive abilities to validate strategies, identify causal relationships, forecast improvement scenarios, and drive innovation.


Related links:
Project Big Green Toward Energy Conservation
Project Big Green In India