Updates unfurled for two enviro software apps

Enviance and FirstCarbon Solutions, which both develop enterprise software for tracking various aspects of corporate environmental information, this week added new features to their offerings. Here's the rundown:

1) Enviance has released version 6.4 of the Enviance System and Enviance Quick Data 2.0. The main System now features customized dashboards. That means, simply, that whomever is using the application can create his or her own personal view of reports about environmental or regulatory compliance risks. The software also includes a way of facilitating links between the Enviance software and other applications under a company's control, such as the company web site. The Quick Data module has been extended with a Data Forms tab, which can accept information from various office productivity applications including Microsoft Excel, Word or a PDF document.

Here's a view of the new dashboard:

2) Environment outsourcing services company FirstCarbon has introduced an updated version of ghgTrack, an application it picked up through its acquisition of Enverity in 2009. New features include the ability to set custom metrics for corporate initiatives (such as water usage mandates or recycling goals), dashboards for visualizing greenhouse gas emissions trends, and filters so that reports can be expressed according to the needs of different job roles or to look at specific metrics.

Both of these companies delivering their software via the Internet, so that businesses can get them up and running promptly and so that the requirements of new environmental mandates can be reflected as quickly as possible.