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 over "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.
