Leading Analyst Firm Confirms ESS’ Industry Leadership

August 17th, 2007

I’m so proud today. I just got back from Bogotá, Columbia to find out that AMR, one of the most respected analysts covering IT issues, published an Alert that says some pretty good things about us:

“… a few of the panelists at our conference shared more than a commitment to sustainable supply chains; they also shared a common software provider. And it’s not their ERP platform - all three use ESS to help them track the EH&S elements of their sustainability activities. AMR Research recently spoke with a series of ESS customers and their consensus is clear; leveraging ESS as a single environmental instance helps centralize EH&S structures that originally were comprised of a potpourri of homegrown and manual systems.”

I feel like a father whose child is graduating from college. Here’s some more from the report:

“A multinational chemicals manufacturer has ESS deployed at over 200 sites and supporting 600 users on a single instance. The instance interfaces to MES, LIMS and waste characterization tools for the standardization of work processes, procedures and training. This new single version of the truth builds on a platform of standardized calculations.

One metals manufacturer that recently selected ESS is aiming to consolidate their widespread duplicity that legacy incident management structures have created. It will standardize on Essential Suite across 300 sites worldwide as a broad environmental task management platform.

A major oil producer already has ESS deployed in support of 941 sites, 5,470 users and 80,000 different tasks—not to mention 5,000 different environmental permits.

When we surveyed the available landscape of technology options for support of environmental health and safety (EH&S) efforts at the end of 2006, we discovered that despite the presence of a few mature players in the vendor ecosystem, the EH&S compliance market was crying out for a leader (see the AMR Research report, “Technology Options To Support EH&S Compliance”). ESS is emerging as a strong candidate for companies seeking to centralize their EH&S processes to a single platform outside of their ERP instance. And an attractive partner (or even acquisition target) for vendors seeking to expand their environmental footprint.”

I promise not to do this again, but allow me my moments of pride.

“While ESS and… [our competitors] have all been capitalizing on the current market demand for enterprise-class applications to support environmental compliance practices across multiple sites on a single instance, ESS has distanced itself from the pack …”

If you are our customer, I thank you. And if you work for us, I thank you even more.

Tags: amr research environmental footprint health and safety sustainability

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