CSC launches Carbon Managed Service

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face="Arial, sans-serif"> style="text-decoration: none;">on-demand
solution from SAP AG including data integration, security and
support. The first managed service of its kind to be delivered to the
enterprise, empowers companies to develop a proactive and profitable
carbon management process that captures source emissions, establishes
an accurate and provable foundation of carbon footprints, identifies
opportunities for an effective reduction program, and supports
ongoing changes in facilities and operations. The CSC Carbon Managed
Service is a focal point of the company's growing portfolio of
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delivered to customers via the color="#000080"> face="Arial, sans-serif"> style="text-decoration: none;">CSC
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face="Times New Roman, serif"> face="Arial, sans-serif">In
addition to offering the reporting power of SAP Carbon Impact as a
cloud service, CSC provides a comprehensive suite of carbon emissions
assessment and startup services to help ease the burden of managing
carbon and other environmental emissions and reporting. These
services include automated data capture of facilities, utilities and
activities information; customized management dashboards; and ongoing
advisory and global help desk support. face="Arial, sans-serif">“ size="2">Companies
are beginning to realize that adopting a business strategy that
emphasizes strong elements of sustainability, such as reducing CO2
impact, is not just good for the environment, it's also good for
business,” said Bob Welch, President-Chemical, Energy and Natural
Resources Group, CSC. “There are five key areas driving this
shift-the desire for brand differentiation, energy reduction,
consumer pressure, investor pressure, and an escalating and complex
compliance environment. Our Carbon Managed Service featuring SAP
Carbon Impact helps companies improve their sustainability faster,
generating both financial and competitive advantages,” he added.




Major
retailers and manufacturers now require suppliers to report the
carbon content of their products and to work collaboratively to
establish more sustainable business processes. The CSC Carbon Managed
Service, which includes support for SAP Carbon Impact, enables
businesses to meet these increasing customer demands by implementing
a single solution that integrates with plant process controls systems
and work flow. This unified approach creates color="#212100">
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levels of consistency, transparency and accuracy of greenhouse gas
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In addition to
customer-oriented benefits, a unified carbon management solution
implemented across the enterprise allows businesses to reap
significant returns on sustainability programs. Through an automated
process of the data capture, storage and retrieval, CSC Carbon
Managed Service reduces the program's start-up and lifecycle costs,
eliminates duplicate efforts, enhances data accuracy and mitigates
the risks associated with non-compliance. The solution enables
companies to achieve new levels of materials and operating cost
savings, and makes new products more attractive on the market by
providing provable carbon content information. CSC has adopted the
Carbon Managed Service internally as the basis for its own facility
data capture and reporting, and is experiencing first-hand the
simplified process and ability to concurrently manage energy
reduction and carbon emissions improvements. style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> face="Arial, sans-serif">“ size="2">Market-leading
companies are aggressively adopting sustainable business practices to
drive competitive advantage from both an operational and brand
perspective,” said Glenn Wada, Global VP and GM-Sustainability,
SAP. “Through increased clarity in their operations and the
operations of their supply chains, our customers are growing top-line
revenue, improving efficiencies, mitigating risk and increasing
shareholder value. In short, they are realizing significant returns
on sustainability,” he commented. face="Arial, sans-serif">“ size="2">As
in any core business strategy, sustainability requires goal-driven
processes-target setting, progress measurement and monitoring
achievement. That's why we created the CSC Carbon Managed Service”
added Welch. face="Times New Roman, serif">

As
the enterprise increasingly becomes aware of the competitive
advantages of a holistic sustainability program, CSC is working with
partners and clien face="Arial, sans-serif"> style="text-decoration: none;">ts
to transform sustainability business and enable green IT processes.
Earlier this year, CSC was awarded a color="#000080"> face="Arial, sans-serif"> style="text-decoration: none;">2010
SAP Pinnacle Award color="#000000"> style="text-decoration: none;">
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the category of sustainability for its efforts to implement
sustainable solutions for clients and accelerate co-innovation with
SAP.

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