Posted Tuesday 24 November 2009, by Bianca Wirth

And 60 makes Carbon Emission Management Software Tally

The development of Carbon Emissions Management Software (CEMS) has hit the growth curve across developed nations, where five years ago a business may have struggled to find a handful to help them manage their corporate greenhouse gas emissions.

Connection Research, an Australian-based environmental research company released a market research report in November 2009, focussing on where this software development surge came from and why.

According to their research, pressures such as:

• regulators

• customers and consumers

• shareholders

• employees

• energy costs

• the global community

have all worked together to create the increase in need for CEMS.

With over sixty CEMS products listed in their database there is a unique assortment of business backgrounds ranging from ERP, to BI to traditional software vendors. Product functionality also varies from consumer based hardware-software combinations to commercial data warehouse-based applications.

However even with the surge in requirements and development presently which they expect to keep increasing "the next 2-3 years", Connection Research believe there will eventually be a natural acquisition and attrition due to "competitive market forces".

References

Connection Research, Carbon Emissions Management Software - A New Global Industry, November 2009.

Source: http://www.greenitstrategy.com/news/2-software/209-carbon-emissions-management-software