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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

CA jumps into eco software market; Plans to launch carbon tracking suite

By | October 21, 2009, 2:12am PDT

Summary: CA will unveil an integrated sustainability suite designed to track carbon emissions, environmental assessments, metering and compliance to policies in one dashboard.

CA next week will unveil an integrated sustainability suite designed to track carbon emissions, environmental assessments, metering and compliance to policies in one dashboard.

CA calls the suite ecoSoftware and will launch it Oct. 26, according to Christopher Thomas, vice president of energy and sustainability. I ran into Thomas at the Gartner IT Symposium where the carbon monitoring software caught my eye.

There are other efforts designed to track carbon emissions. For instance, Hara and SAP have various applications and others use metering to measure sustainability efforts. CA’s effort links the various tracking efforts in one dashboard. If successful, dashboard like these could put some hard return numbers behind sustainability efforts. Tesco, Europe’s retailing giant, is a customer of CA’s ecoSoftware.

The company aims to launch an ecoMeter line to provide baseline measurements for cooling systems, data centers, buildings and other environmental systems and a governance module to link the metrics with the sustainability plan.

CA created the suite from scratch—a notable change given the company’s history of acquiring product lines.

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

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JohnMcGrew@... 21st Oct 2009
They're just jumping on the bandwagon with everyone else.
Sooner or later everyone is going to have to justify
their "carbon footprint", so we might as well look for
ways to make money from it. It doesn't really matter how
accurate it is, because that's not the point. The point
is that they look like they're doing something about it.

"Look, we spend $1m on this system to monitor our carbon
footprint. Aren't we good?"
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Waste of time here
Lerianis10 21st Oct 2009
Because there are always little factors that are
missed by these softwares, thereby making them
less than reliable.
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It really doesn't matter anyway.
JohnMcGrew@... 21st Oct 2009
They're just jumping on the bandwagon with everyone else.
Sooner or later everyone is going to have to justify
their "carbon footprint", so we might as well look for
ways to make money from it. It doesn't really matter how
accurate it is, because that's not the point. The point
is that they look like they're doing something about it.

"Look, we spend $1m on this system to monitor our carbon
footprint. Aren't we good?"

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