Hara Recognized as Leader in Carbon Management Software
Only new venture to be included in leader quadrant
Redwood City, CA – October 2, 2009 – Hara, the fastest growing provider of on-demand environmental and energy management software, today announced it has been recognized as a leader in carbon management software by Verdantix, an independent business research firm focused on climate change, carbon markets, and corporate responsibility. Out of 22 companies profiled, Hara is the only new player to receive the leader designation in Verdantix’s report, "Green Quadrant® Carbon Management Software (Global)".
The report states, "Hara Software is the only example of a new venture in the carbon management space that has achieved more than 15 customer wins — which in our analysis uniquely pushes this well-funded start-up into the Leaders quadrant."
Leaders are differentiated in the Verdantix Green Quadrant as having "more customer success stories and global implementations, fully featured solutions, best-in-class functionality, greater company resources and deeper energy, environment and carbon domain expertise".
"This recognition is testament to Hara’s unique, holistic approach to environmental and energy management," said Amit Chatterjee, CEO and co-founder of Hara. "Hara's focus on organizational metabolism gives customers a comprehensive solution for auditable transparency and control of the collective resources consumed and expended across their organizations and value chains, so they can meet their corporate growth and profit objectives while optimizing their natural resource consumption and minimizing their environmental impact."
The report continues, "As a new entrant to the environmental and energy software market, Hara had the freedom to take a broad view of enterprise sustainability management which reflected new market needs. The Hara SaaS solution encapsulates a remarkable blend of functionality for enterprise environmental and energy data capture, data integration, organizational modeling, audit and security with a rich suite of tools for carbon reduction analysis, project portfolio management and GHG reporting."
Hara was also included in the report’s list of "only a handful of providers [who] offer complete CO2 reduction tools and portfolio management."
The report, "Verdantix Green Quadrant: Carbon Management Software (Global)", is available on-line at www.verdantix.com.
About Hara
Hara helps organizations grow and profit while optimizing natural resource consumption and minimizing environmental impact. The Hara™ Environmental and Energy Management solution gives customers auditable transparency and control of their organizational metabolism – the collective resources consumed and expended by an organization – including energy, water, waste, carbon and other resources. Leading organizations use Hara solutions to manage their environmental record and leverage best practices in order to improve their operational efficiency, maximize shareholder value and manage risks. For more information, please visit www.hara.com.
