EDS, SAP collaborate on carbon accounting for Aussie companies

Peter Dinham
Monday, 15 June 2009 17:37

Business IT - Technology

IT services group, EDS and SAP Australia and New Zealand have worked together to develop a new carbon accounting solution which, they claim, will make it easier for Australian companies to comply with new federal government emissions guidelines.

EDS Australia/New Zealand vice president, David Caspari, announced today that the SAP Environmental Compliance (EC) solution - an enterprise-wide software platform – would allow corporations to define regulatory scenarios with key performance indicators.

“Businesses in Australia and New Zealand can now more quickly meet regulatory requirements on carbon emissions for business processes as well as assess the financial impact across their organisations.

“By combining EDS’ systems integration expertise and SAP’s world-class EC solution, EDS will extend its current Carbon Emissions Management Service beyond purely IT assets to whole-of-business operations.”

“EDS will provide its deep SAP systems integration expertise to incorporate the solution into companies’ existing systems to calculate, record and analyse the carbon emissions across entire organisations. The solution then generates data to allow regulatory reporting.”

SAP Australia/New Zealand’s Karen Zwissler, says that “by providing businesses with a single, standalone platform that allows access to critical emissions data and information, we are reducing the workload and operational costs associated with the new federal legislation and enabling appropriate cost allocation.”
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