ecoAnalytics

ecoAnalytics

Capture, plan, report, analyse and manage all of your organisation’s Climate Change imperatives — environmental, social and regulatory
 

  • Packaged analytics: Get interactive insight and answers to your financial performance questions quickly from multiple sources such as J.D. Edwards, Oracle E-Business Suite or PeopleSoft ERP — as well as non-ERP sources
  • Configurable: Snaps easily into your existing technology environment
  • Adaptable: Adapts to your changing needs quickly and cost effectively simply by reconfiguration, not redevelopment
  • Fast implementation: Get solutions to your Financial Performance challenges — and fast return on investment — in weeks, not months
  • Self-service and ad-hoc reporting: With a few simple tick boxes, any analysis or report type across any measures and dimensions in the entire application can be delivered immediately
  • One platform: Built on the world’s leading Business Intelligence and Performance Management technology, IBM Cognos
  • IBM Cognos power, SMS expertise: SMS can maximise the value of IBM Cognos 8 Financial Performance Analytics at lowest cost and with fastest implementation


     
It is now widely accepted that Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions are the primary cause of global warming, a major Climate Change issue facing all Australians. Improving your organisation’s understanding of its GHG emissions is now more than an environmental or social concern - it’s a business imperative with far-ranging commercial impacts.

Compiling a GHG inventory of all sources of energy, consumption of all sources of energy and high-quality greenhouse emission estimates helps you achieve key business goals, including: 
  • Managing GHG risks and identifying reduction opportunities
  • Public reporting and participation in voluntary programs
  • Participating in mandatory reporting programs 
  • Generating report presentations in multiple formats
  • Participating in carbon trading markets
  • Recognition for early voluntary action
But more than simply collecting data, you also need to turn that data into actionable information and interactive insight.

SMS ecoAnalytics is the complete Environmental Performance Management (EPM) reporting, analysis and planning solution, and it is available now. This analytic application from SMS and IBM Cognos overcomes all the hurdles your organisation faces in accounting, reporting, analysing and planning for Climate Change issues such as: 
  • GHG emissions 
  • Carbon accounting 
  • Carbon auditing 
  • Carbon liability 
  • Carbon risk 
  • Carbon trading 
  • Energy efficiency 
  • Social responsibility

     
A configurable application that snaps into your existing business and technology environments, ecoAnalytics delivers actionable information, and business value, fast. With ecoAnalytics from SMS and IBM Cognos, you receive:

Reference Data, Emission Factors and Methods 
  • Pre-loaded with default Department of Climate Change emission factors, standard codes and reporting hierarchies such as Australia and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) codes
  • Pre-loaded United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reference data, emission factors and methods for the six sectors for reporting human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, energy, industrial processes, solvent and other product use, agriculture, land use and waste
  • Pre-loaded alignment between UNFCCC reference data and National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Guidelines (NGERS) reference data, such as a concordance of UNFCCC sources of emissions and ANZSIC industry classifications
  • Ability to maintain your own organisation’s emission factors and reference data
  • Ability to maintain reporting hierarchies
  • Embedded rules to apply emission-estimation methods


Data Adapters, Data Capture and Common Data Models Creator 
  • Data adapters to connect to existing GHG inventories (your data sources)
  • Provides additional capture of data not held in your organisational GHG inventories: 
  • Direct emissions. Emissions from fuel use in facilities and from transport or mobile sources
  • Indirect emissions from purchased electricity and allocation of emissions from a combined heat and power plant
  • Other indirect emissions from employee commuting, business travel and transport or mobile sources
  • Common Climate Change data models
  • Capture organisational and other types of targets

     
Forecasting and Scenario analysis 
  • Planning models to forecast your Climate Change metrics
  • Scenario Analysis models, allowing what if? changes to, and analysis of, activity data, emission factors and methods

     
Audit and Data Quality 
  • Full data audit capabilities and accuracy checks for activity data
  • Embedded inventory quality system, enabling internal and external reviews

     
Emissions Reporting
  • Reporting/analysis of the greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)
  • Reporting and analysis of the three GHG Protocol ‘scopes’ of emission categories:
  • Scope 1: direct emissions from sources within the boundary of an organisation such as fuel combustion and manufacturing processes
  • Scope 2: indirect emissions occurring principally at electricity generators as a result of electricity consumption at another facility
  • Scope 3: all other indirect emissions that are a consequence of an organisation’s activities but are not from sources owned, such as commuting and travel
  • Reporting and analysis against activity data and target in alignment with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and UNFCCC
  • NGERS reporting and analysis against activity data and target in alignment with the Australian Department of Climate Change, National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act
  • Online System for Comprehensive Activity Reporting (OSCAR) data load facility
  • Easily adaptable to other reporting programs

     
Carbon Trading and Carbon Liability 
  • Reporting and analysis against carbon pollution caps and liabilities
  • Reporting and analysis against carbon trading
     
Energy Efficiency 
  • Reporting and analysis to assist businesses identify, evaluate and report, both internally and publicly, on cost-effective energy savings opportunities

Social Responsibility Dashboard 
  • A visual dashboard of all Climate Change performance against regulatory levels as well as against your organisation’s targets
  • Promote your organisation and receive recognition for your action
     
Adaptability and Extensibility 

  • Adapts to changing organisational needs and regulatory requirements quickly and cost-effectively by reconfiguration — not redevelopment
  • Easily extended to incorporate additional data sources or custom analytics and reports
  • Integrates with the IBM Cognos 8 Workforce Performance analytic application to provide a complete view of the carbon footprint of your employees and departments as well as workforce strength, talent acquisition, talent development, talent retention, employee performance and workers compensation
  • Integrates with IBM Cognos 8 Financial Performance Analytics to provide a comprehensive view of your organisation’s carbon footprint including actual costs – in real-time – from your financial systems, helping you answer key environment-related financial questions
Integrates with future Cognos 8 Analytic Applications

ecoAnalytics–the ideal solution available now to help you manage your EPM issues and programs related to greenhouse gas emissions, carbon accounting, auditing, liability, risk and trading, energy efficiency and social responsibility.

For more information about SMS’s ecoAnalytics EPM solution, please visit www.SMS.net today or call us for prompt, expert assistance on how SMS can help you achieve your Climate Change planning, reporting and analysis goals.

References:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty — the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. http://unfccc.int/2860.php

Kyoto Protocol — An international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialised countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php

Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) — The most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.ghgprotocol.org

Department of Climate Change — Established in December 2007. http://www.climatechange.gov.au/

National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Guidelines (NGERS) — Developed to help corporations understand their obligations under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (the Act). http://www.climatechange.gov.au/reporting/index.html

Online System for Comprehensive Activity Reporting (OSCAR) — Web-based data collection tool for recording of energy, waste and greenhouse data for Government program reporting. http://www.climatechange.gov.au/oscar/index.html

Garnaut Climate Change Review — commissioned by Australia's Commonwealth, state and territory governments to examine the impacts, challenges and opportunities of climate change for Australia. www.garnautreview.org.au/

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme — Will provide both the cap on carbon pollution and the ability to trade. The cap achieves the environmental outcome of reducing carbon pollution. The ability to trade ensures carbon pollution is reduced at the lowest-possible cost. http://www.climatechange.gov.au/emissionstrading/index.html

Australian Government's Energy Efficiency Opportunities Program — Encourages large energy-using businesses to improve their energy efficiency by requiring businesses to identify, evaluate and report publicly on cost-effective energy savings opportunities. http://www.energyefficiencyopportunities.gov.au/

 
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