IHS

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IHS is the leading provider of enterprise sustainability management software solutions, with a portfolio of products and services which help companies proactively manage environmental performance and risk from the individual facility level to the global enterprise level. IHS Environment has two product suites: opsInfo™ for environmental data tracking and reporting, and ecoAsset Manager™ for emissions allowance management.

IHS has built a client list of over 100 companies and tens of thousands of facilities worldwide. Our software has been deployed in forty countries around the world to help companies manage and report on everything from regulatory compliance to corporate sustainability goals. A management team with extensive experience and knowledge in the areas of corporate sustainability, EHS, environmental and regulatory issues, emissions trading, and software development help ensure that our products deliver maximum value year after year.

IHS has maintained a pattern of financial stability, solid growth and product innovation throughout its history, A customer-centric business model helps ensure relevancy and value as our products and services evolve to meet changing business needs.

IHS’s comprehensive software solutions help companies in a diverse group of industries solve a wide range of sustainable development and regulatory compliance challenges. IHS Environment software is open and flexible, supporting a variety of database structures and a broad array of EHS management challenges. From EU Emissions Trading Scheme management to Canadian NPRI compliance to GRI and corporate sustainability reporting, the software delivers streamlined, cost-effective and reliable solutions that help your company improve both environmental and financial performance.

Sustainability

As corporate sustainability initiatives take on an increasingly central role in companies' operations, the need for systems to efficiently manage and report on the voluminous data associated with annual sustainability reports is growing.  IHS's opsInfo™ software helps you manage the large body of disparate data associated with your company's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report with increased efficiency, accuracy and transparency. Using the opsMetrics™ module of opsInfo™, the software helps you manage your corporate EHS and sustainability data by leveragng your existiing intranet and messaging platform for enterprise-wide data collection and reporting. The software helps you track most any metric at any frequency, with rollup capabilities that streamline annual report preparation by allowing the report to be generated from a single, centralized database.  From energy usage to emissions data to injury reporting and more, the software puts the information you need at your fingertips and delivers the data with minimal time spent. Use the software to prepare:

• Annual Corporate EHS Reports
• GRI, ISO 14001, Responsible Care and other Sustainability Reports
• Benchmarking Reports

Measurable Benefits
The software streamlines your sustainability reporting program and delivers strong return on investment by helping you:

• Adhere to GRI Guidelines.  By replacing multiple spreadsheets and data tracking approaches with a single uniform, centralized, system, the software allows increased confidence in both the accuracy and the transparency of your CSR data and helps you conform to established GRI principles of Transparency, Inclusiveness, Auditability and Completeness.
• Roll up Data Corporate-wide: The software lets you save time and reduce the costs of annual EHS reporting by easily generating rollup reports across business units and geographies.
• Enable Benchmarking: The system facilitates comparison between facilities and operating units, allowing you to call out best practices to drive performance improvement.
• Eliminate Lag Time in Corporate Reporting: Since data is stored centrally, corporate rollup reports on any desired metrics can be generated at any time.  This allows you to track and monitor your sustainability performance throughout the year, giving you the opportunity to analyse performance and implement improvement measures as issues come to the surface.
• Facilitate Corporate-Wide Reporting: Rollup reports allow you to plan better at the corporate level, thereby improving operations and reducing costs.  A web-based user interface allows staff in any part of the company to enter relevant data at any time.  And an 8-language user interface facilitates ease of adoption across your global operations.