Enviance Launches Alliance Program, Enabling Cost-Effective Compliance Services Delivery for Engineering, Consulting Firms
Channel strategy builds on proven success in EHS compliance management and opens opportunities for value added consulting services
CARLSBAD, Calif., May 17 // -- Enviance, the leading provider of Internet-based, on demand systems for the management of environmental, health and safety (EHS) compliance activities, today announced the launch of its Alliance Program, to enable engineering and consulting firms seeking enhanced productivity, competitive advantage, service differentiation or new opportunities to support client compliance initiatives. The formalized program, which includes access to the Enviance Service Delivery Platform as well as marketing, technical, and implementation support, builds on a track record of successful engagements with many leading firms, such as ARCADIS, Dixon Environmental, Earth Tech, Malcolm Pirnie, Shaw Group, Stanley Consultants, Weston Solutions, and others who have already become Value Added Partners.
Enviance provides engineering and consulting companies with a suite of tools and templates to enhance the delivery of services to their clients. In addition to its proven air, water, waste, and emergency planning and community right-to-know capabilities, the Enviance platform enables a broader range of solutions, including health and safety, ISO 14001 and 18001, auditing and inspections, permit management, and commitment tracking. The platform also supports quality assurance and control, mobile field data collection, measurement and testing, construction progress, and status reporting.
The Enviance platform is readily tailored and integrated to address internal business operations as well as client- and market-specific solutions. The Enviance platform serves as a back office toolkit to process and report client data and information or when deployed, to support outsourced compliance programs or EHS functions. In addition, it is a central repository and management system for the myriad of commitments, obligations, and constraints affecting an engineering and consulting firm's administration and operations.
Using the Enviance Service Delivery Platform, engineering and consulting firms have an alternative to the development and maintenance of custom database solutions for compliance-based information. The Enviance platform provides the robust task management, notifications, workflow automation, and reporting required by engineering/consulting firms to build compliance and workflow solutions for their customer bases and for internal use. The platform fosters both internal and client-facing collaboration by creating a central repository of best practices and intellectual property accessible through a Web-based interface. Built using Microsoft®.Net, Enviance offers mobility with PDAs and pocketPCs, and interoperability with existing information systems such as enterprise resource planning and laboratory information management systems.
As a result, firms are provided with another way to be competitive and responsive to client needs with the added benefit of reducing the risk, cost, and technical burdens of developing and maintaining proprietary software and the supporting information technology infrastructure. Partnered with Enviance, these firms can count on training, customer service, and implementation services from Enviance domain experts. In addition, Alliance Partners can use Enviance to establish an institutional knowledge base of data, intellectual property, and process methodology to reduce training time and costs and mitigate the negative impact of employee turnover.
"Engineering services firms and software firms simply do not have similar cultures or business models. Engineering services firms focus on applying their domain expertise to support their clients' needs," said Grant Ferrier, Editor, Environmental Business Journal. "Because these firms are not software companies, they have not had an overall focus, or mandate, to develop cost- effective alternatives to spreadsheets and disconnected databases."
"Enviance's new platform, much like CAD and GIS in an earlier day, provides what looks to be a host of standardized platforms that engineering/consulting firms will use to supplement, or even replace their varied information technology tools and, as a result, improve their margins and productivity," added Ferrier.
"Our alliance partners have recognized that one way to increase their margins and competitiveness is to move away from the multiple, stovepipe databases and spreadsheets as the technology foundation on which to deliver their services," said Lawrence Goldenhersh, President and CEO, Enviance. "With numerous offices, and thousands of employees, each of these alliance partners needs to provide a standardized, scalable technology platform that can expedite, not complicate, the delivery of their domain expertise to their customer base.
Added Goldenhersh, "The Enviance platform, which is available anywhere there is an Internet connection, matches our alliance partners' need for powerful and distributable workflow automation capability, delivered on a technology platform that is evergreen and always on. And Enviance makes this evergreen platform available for a fraction of the cost presently being incurred by these firms to develop and maintain homegrown technology."
About Enviance
Enviance delivers software that automates and improves the management of environmental, health and safety compliance activities. The first and leading operator of Internet-based compliance software as a service, the Enviance System requires no hardware or software installations and is sold on a subscription basis, offering customers the flexibility to scale the solution as their needs change over time. Many leading organizations trust Enviance to help them reduce the time and cost of managing compliance activities, retain institutional knowledge, and confidently certify compliance. Founded in 1999, privately held Enviance is based in Carlsbad, California. For additional information, visit www.enviance.com/; to request a demonstration, e-mail demo@enviance.com.
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Source: Enviance
CONTACT: Michele B. Hincks, Vice President, Marketing & Sales Operations of Enviance, Inc., +1-760-496-0200, mhincks@enviance.com
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