News Corporation Selects Hara for On-Demand Environmental and Energy Management
Hara Deployed Globally to Enable Reductions in Energy Usage, Costs, and Carbon Emissions
Redwood City, CA – November 19, 2009 – Hara, the fastest growing provider of on-demand environmental and energy management software, today announced that News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS), a diversified global media company with operations in eight industry segments, has selected Hara to help reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. The company deployed Hara Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) to provide a central platform for measuring, managing, and monitoring their energy and environmental data across the company’s diverse global operations.
Hara offers News Corporation an environmental and energy management solution that is able to scale globally, collecting and managing energy and emissions information from hundreds of facilities around the world. Hara EEM provides News Corporation with the on-demand capabilities required to confidently manage environmental information, report against multiple global protocols, find cost savings opportunities, track progress and share best practices across worldwide operations.
“We truly believe that what you can measure, you can manage. Hara provides us with the tools and support needed to reduce energy usage and improve operational efficiencies while minimizing our environmental impact,” said Vijay Sudan, manager of Energy Initiatives at News Corporation. “After evaluating numerous solutions, we selected Hara due to the intuitive nature as well as the breadth and depth of the Hara solution – which we expect will take us far beyond carbon accounting and help us plan and implement energy reduction strategies while reducing carbon emissions.”
“Hara is a unique solution that enables global businesses with complex organizational structures to efficiently gain an understanding of their entire organizational metabolism – empowering them to reduce their impact on the environment, as well as to create operational efficiencies that impact their bottom line,” said Amit Chatterjee, CEO and co-founder of Hara. “An organization as large and diverse as News Corporation has a distinct opportunity to influence environmental impact reduction across an entire industry, and we’re pleased to be a strategic partner in this undertaking.”
About Hara EEM
Hara Environmental and Energy Management (Hara EEM), a comprehensive software-as-a-service solution, enables organizations to holistically monitor and manage their natural resource consumption and environmental impact. Hara EEM enables organizations to identify and implement sustainable initiatives across organizational and value chain stakeholders. Hara customers are using Hara EEM to identify millions of dollars in savings from energy, water and waste abatement strategies while reducing their carbon emissions.
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.
