IHS announced the release of opsInfo™ 8.1 software for environmental, health
and safety (EHS) and sustainability information management. This new version of
the software will enable enterprises to address growing
demand for accurate, verifiable greenhouse gas (GHG) and sustainability
reporting as well as assuring compliance with rigorous market-based emissions
management protocols and third-party emissions auditing procedures.
“We know that emissions
and sustainability management demands on large enterprises are expanding rapidly
and some companies are struggling to find the right way to manage their
information,” said IHS Vice President of Environmental Solutions Scott Lockhart.
“With opsInfo 8.1, we are introducing key innovations that will enable our
customers to transform compliance and business management obligations into
opportunities for greater efficiency, accountability and
competitiveness.”
opsInfo 8.1 builds upon
the platform’s core functionality, which customers have been using since the
1990s at tens of thousands of sites worldwide for EHS compliance, corporate
responsibility reporting, and corporate performance management. The new release
will help organizations reduce the risk of non-compliance with increasingly
stringent government mandates and voluntary reporting schemes while also
enabling efficiency gains – and cost savings – by streamlining data collection,
processing and reporting across the enterprise.
opsInfo 8.1 enhancements
deliver exceptional support for:
• Change Management – Global organizations
can quickly and easily answer new regulatory and/or business challenges at the
corporate, facility or departmental level. Authorized users can fine tune their
Web-based system without assistance from IT, thanks to its highly configurable
design.
• Transparency – Organizations get end-to-end visibility into the
transformation of operational data into outgoing compliance reports and business
intelligence. opsInfo 8.1 tracks who provided data and when, who edited it and
when, if/how the system configuration was changed, and more.
• Auditability
–Because GHG emissions and other sustainability data is undergoing scrutiny by
regulators and stakeholders, and companies must ensure that their information
remains fully verifiable, opsInfo 8.1 supports best practices in EHS accounting
by enabling users to safely “lock down” data.
The opsInfo platform is
part of a growing family of IHS software solutions for EHS and sustainability. The
company recently earned accreditation from the Carbon Disclosure Project for
meeting that organization’s exacting standards for GHG data collection,
calculation and reporting. For more information about EHS and sustainability
solutions from IHS, please visit http://www.ihs.com/Solutions/environment.htm.
