March 30, 2007—Lawson Software recently announced a new initiative to provide organizations and companies software-based options to help them manage their growing array of environmental and social programs. Lawson’s Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative aims to harness information technology to automate and integrate the management of these programs to help companies meet their social and environmental targets, whether mandated by the government or set by the company.
Lawson’s initiative envisions an approach similar to the company’s preconfigured solutions for specific industries. Lawson expects to package particular pre-configured Lawson applications and its Lawson Business Intelligence suite with implementation methodologies specific to high priority environmental or social programs.
Lawson has mapped all its current products against more than 100 indicators of environmental, social and economic responsibility identified by the Global Reporting Initiative, to identify opportunities for which Lawson Business Intelligence could support a company’s corporate social responsibilities initiatives.
For example, Lawson Business Intelligence could provide a dashboard view of carbon dioxide emissions, both by facility and rolled up to the corporate level. Emission trends could be tracked over time, as well as against specific emissions targets, whether they are government mandated, company set or industry best practices. Better visibility can help companies make smarter choices about carbon trading credits or determine if additional emissions control investments may be required, notes the company.
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