ESS China Expands EHS Software Market

March 24th, 2008

I am in Asia, because this week we are opening ESS China, our Beijing-based office that will offer the industry-leading software platform to organizations in Greater China and throughout the Asia Pacific region. To celebrate our new office, we will host a grand opening event, featuring local executives and civic leaders, Wednesday, March 26 at the Beijing American Club.

ESS has established its first office in Asia in order to grow its marketing and support operations in a region where it already has a strong client base, including global energy giants PetroChina and China National Petroleum Company (CNPC).

Businesses throughout Asia and, in particular, Greater China, are positioning themselves to increase their market share through expanded global presence. Those decision makers understand that their organizations must implement standards that are aligned with international protocols such as ISO 14000, Global Reporting Initiative, OHSAS 18000, REACH and others in order to compete in markets where EHS is recognized as an important benchmark for enterprise sustainability.

ESS China will continue our nearly two-decade long tradition of helping organizations reach their sustainability and operational excellence goals by offering the company’s integrated software platform–enabling organizations to efficiently address urgent business concerns such as greenhouse gas management, Corporate Social Responsibility reporting, worker health and safety, compliance reporting and emergency response.

Organizations throughout China have experienced tremendous growth over the past 10 years, and now they are facing daunting environmental, health, safety and crisis management challenges. ESS is uniquely positioned to help those organizations manage their EHS issues more effectively. ESS’ integrated software platform enables users to efficiently collect and communicate critical EHS and Crisis data at all levels of an organization and across the enterprise.

Our collaboration with PetroChina and its EHS software platform implementation represented a major landmark as the first enterprise-wide compliance and risk management software deployment of its kind in China. Our software platform enabled PetroChina, the world’s largest company by market capitalization, to increase productivity by driving process improvements that generated time and cost savings while also improving management decision making.

CNPC then selected ESS, based on the success of the PetroChina implementation. We’re honored to be involved in such an important initiative in Asia, and that’s why I’ve spent so much time there in the past few years.

Tags: asia pacific beijing china cnpc corporate social responsibility ehs environmental health safety global reporting initiative petrochina

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