Logica launches sustainability performance reporting tool
SIRA to drive sustainability indicators reporting and reduce environmental impact
Logica, a leading IT and business services company, has today announced the launch of its sustainability performance reporting tool, which will provide an efficient aggregation solution to organisations currently measuring and managing their sustainability performance. Faced with increasing external pressures to report on sustainability indicators, the Sustainability Indicator Reporting Application (SIRA) will enable organisations to comply with current and future legislative reporting requirements and help companies identify how to reduce their environmental impact. It also helps organisations to understand where future cost savings can be made and to track initiatives to achieve these savings.
SIRA is a flexible, scalable and transparent solution and includes a broad range of sustainability and environmental impact indicators, based on internationally recognised standards. The fully auditable system aggregates and stores data, permitting customisation of reports. Organisations can then integrate targets, report and provide stakeholder engagement on sustainability issues. SIRA is underpinned by Kalido’s business model-driven Information Engine, which provides SIRA’s comprehensive information management and data governance capabilities.
Logica is implementing SIRA internally in 2009 to drive sustainability improvements further within the company. SIRA will build on current cost savings of approximately £3.6 million over two years in energy costs and £7 million in travel costs. In addition Logica has avoided almost £5 million in travel costs through increased use of video and teleconferencing. SIRA also incorporates best practices around reporting and monitoring. These practices have enabled Logica to secure a leading position on the Climate Disclosure Leadership Index provided by the Carbon Disclosure Project.
Judith Halkerston, UK Managing Director for Energy, Utilities and Telecoms at Logica said: “Organisations today need to navigate their way through a maze of international environmental regulation, with a number of FTSE companies now actively reporting on their sustainability performance. Often, this requires a significant investment in resource and raises challenges to present the data in an intuitive and engaging manner. SIRA is designed to be implemented quickly and flexibly and will help an organisation identify immediate improvements and savings in its sustainability reporting, as well as reducing risk and exposure to potential fines.
“We provide a broad range of business-focused services and solutions to assist our customers to improve their sustainability, reduce costs and environmental impact and we are now strengthening these through the addition of this application.”
SIRA follows on from services already provided by Logica within its UK Sustainability Practice. This includes sustainability and carbon management consultancy, wind farm management control systems, electronic invoicing, intelligent transport solutions and energy efficiency applications.
Logica, ranked sixteenth in the Sunday Times “Best Green Companies” list, is a member of FTSE4Good sustainability index and was ranked by clients in the top ten of “Green Outsourcers” worldwide in 2007 and 2008.
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About Logica
Logica is a leading IT and business services company, employing 40,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing services. Logica works closely with its customers to release their potential - enabling change that increases their efficiency, accelerates growth and manages risk. It applies its deep industry knowledge, technical excellence and global delivery expertise to help its customers build leadership positions in their markets. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at www.logica.com
About SIRA
Logica’s Sustainability Indicator Reporting Application (SIRA) is a sustainability performance reporting tool which is low cost, flexible and scalable to meet current and future legislative reporting requirements. It includes quantitative and qualitative measures and graphically engages customers, staff and other stakeholders. The return on the initial investment is quick, as it provokes strategy discussions & action plans, facilitates cost reductions, mitigates financial exposure to reporting fines (up to 20% of organisational energy spend) and is fully auditable. It has been built upon Logica’s long experience in success in tracking sustainability impacts for Fortune 20 organisations, development of emissions registries in a number of countries and achieving top 20 UK greenest company and more than £10M cost savings in two years.
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