Hara Continues to Set Pace of Innovation in Environmental and Energy Management
Winter 2010 Release Empowers Energy and Natural Resource Best Practices and Business Transformation
Redwood City, CA – December 17, 2009 – Hara, the fastest growing provider of on-demand environmental and energy management software, today announced the Hara Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) Winter 2010 Release, the industry’s deepest and most comprehensive solution enabling companies to holistically monitor, manage, and optimize their natural resource usage and environmental impact. This latest release of the Hara EEM solution provides new functionality and enhancements across a broad range of areas including best practices and innovation, data aggregation and automation, and the enterprise management of energy, resources and emissions on a global scale.
Innovation and Business Transformation
Hara EEM best practices content and collaboration capabilities enable organizations to share and leverage best practices across stakeholders, and align top down strategies with bottom up operational execution to ensure efficiency and results. Hara EEM uniquely cross-references organizational profile information with attributes in the best practices database to identify optimal financial and environmental opportunities. Rebate and incentive identification and tracking capabilities, tightly embedded in best practices, provides customers with the ability to maximize return on investment and better leverage government and utility programs. The solution also enables strategy definition and true-up analysis for environmental credits such as carbon offsets and renewable energy certificates.
Data Aggregation and Automation
Hara EEM provides a comprehensive integration framework, allowing organizations to automate and aggregate the collection of enterprise-wide resource and energy consumption data from sources across the enterprise and value chain. Direct integration with utilities captures energy usage, costs, and subsequent environmental impact. Hara web services capabilities and service-oriented architecture enables real-time integration with sensors and meters as well as EH&S systems. Access to current and historic market, environmental and financial data provides decision support intelligence and real-time insight into resource and energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions.
Global Scale and Complexity
Hara EEM provides a comprehensive and rich business-ready application for organizations to manage energy, resources and emissions as an enterprise-wide, end-to-end business process. Hara EEM’s configuration flexibility and depth is proven to support both small and large global customer deployments with thousands of worldwide facilities and assets. Wide ranging functionality – including multiple currencies, units of measure, protocols, and languages – enable global, multi-national corporations to implement and scale worldwide. Push-button reporting is supported for multiple global voluntary and mandatory reporting programs, from EPA Climate Leaders to Australia’s NGERS.
“The latest release of Hara EEM gives our customers even more insight and control over their organizational metabolism, no matter how wide ranging and complex their operations,” said Amit Chatterjee, CEO and co-founder of Hara. “Hara continues to set the pace for the industry, helping our customers to transform their businesses and emerge as leaders in the post-carbon economy.”
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 empowers organizations to identify and implement sustainable initiatives across organizational and value chain stakeholders. Fortune 500 companies such as The Coca-Cola Company and government organizations such as the City of Palo Alto 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. Hara was initially funded in 2008 by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. For more information, please visit www.hara.com.
