So Your Company's Going Green—Now Prove It

摘要

Companies say they're environmentally conscious, but talk is cheap. So SAS Institute is offering software designed to let companies assess their environmental impact and help them develop strategies to become greener. SAS for Sustainability Management applies business intelligence capabilities to environmental performance. It includes a performance management app with metrics established by the Global Reporting Initiative, a 10-year-old group that has a framework used by 1,500 businesses to measure the economic, environmental, and social impact of their operations. It also includes SAS's activity-based management app, which tracks factors such as how much carbon emissions facilities produce and develops models that show how changes would affect costs and profit. In addition, SAS predictive analytics and risk management apps forecast trends related to sustainability, such as the possibility that government fines for environmental violations could go up in the future, raising costs.