To help resource-stretched organizations adhere to regulations, improve efficiency and cut costs, SAS, the leader in business analytics, is expanding SAS for Sustainability Management. The software helps measure, manage and report on key environmental, social and economic indicators and identify strategies that reduce risk and increase shareholder value. SAS will ship two new offerings in Q4 2009 that address sustainability reporting and energy and emissions management. Through a new partnership with AMEE, SAS customers of the new energy and emissions management product will have access to the most up-to-date emissions factors from a single source. This will reduce complexity, risk and time associated with delivering accurate and reliable information to decision makers.

The first new offering is SAS Sustainability Reporting. This single source of information about an organization’s sustainability performance uses generally accepted sustainability reporting metrics, including the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The Web-based solution includes pre-defined analytics for accurate forecasting and correlation between metrics, with both automated data capture and manual Web data entry. Better sustainability reporting leads to more effective planning, better adherence to regulations, and more effective results. You can’t fix or improve what you can’t measure, and this new SAS software helps improve measurement.

The second is SAS Energy and Emissions Management. This software includes activity-based capacity and resource planning models to help organizations choose between alternatives, based on predicted resource requirements. It incorporates emissions factors from AMEE, a global service provider that aggregates every model, method, standard and emission factor related to carbon dioxide (CO2), greenhouse gas (GHG), energy and environmental assessment. This allows SAS’ customers to reduce complexity, risk and time associated with energy and emission modeling. The solution can go beyond basic inventories by modeling the activities, processes and economic impact of operations. Accurate analysis of emissions can lead to better programs for managing and reducing them.

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