CA boosts ecoSoftware suite with new carbon tracking tools
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 21:01 IST
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Bangalore: Business software major CA has extended its package of ecoSoftware applications after launching new tools designed to help firms better manage, measure and report on their environmental and carbon emission reduction initiatives. The company unveiled CA ecoGovernance 1.5, a new software suite designed to help executives track the performance of environmental initiatives and share the results across the business, reports BusinessGreen. It also consists of a new ecoMeter tool that allows firms to constantly monitor power use across their datacenters and other facilities. Colin Bannister, Vice President of Technical Sales at CA, said that the new applications would make it far easier for businesses to collate and analyze the carbon emissions and environmental impact data that they are increasingly required to report on as part of new legislation. "For many businesses keeping track of environmental data is a massive manual effort where there are constant concerns about the accuracy of the data," he added. The unveiling of the new applications comes just weeks after CA announced that supermarket giant Tesco is to roll out the technology to strengthen its efforts to calculate the carbon footprint of all its products. Bannister said that the company was also seeing strong demand from financial services and retail firms as growing numbers of UK firms prepare to comply with the imminent Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency scheme.

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