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ESP and EMSI Form Alliance to Bring Sustainability Software to Japan and Korea
ESP and EMSI Form Alliance to Bring Sustainability Software to Japan and Korea
Published 01-18-06
Submitted by ESP
Partnership Will Help Japanese and Korean Companies Meet the Growing
Demand for Software Solutions That Manage and Report on Enterprise
Environmental Compliance and Corporate Sustainability Programs
ESP (Environmental Software Providers of Mountain View, California), the leading provider of enterprise environmental information management solutions, and EMSI, (Environmental Management for Sustainability, Inc. of Tokyo, Japan), a leading environmental consultancy in Japan announced today that they have formed an alliance to bring ESP's global emissions management software to the Japanese and Korean markets. Under the new partnership, EMSI will serve as a reseller for ESP's opsEnvironmental and ecoAsset Manager software suites, which are rapidly being adopted globally by mid- to large-sized companies to manage corporate sustainability programs and local, national and regional regulatory programs including greenhouse gas and eco-efficiency initiatives.
"We are very fortunate to be working with the EMSI team as we open up these new markets for our offerings," said David Gloski, ESP co-founder and Executive Vice President. "Masahito Aizawa has formed an excellent team of leaders who are already impressing our prospects and customers in Japan and Korea. The EMSI team are also leaders in the area of eco-efficiency and they have even developed a modified methodology that we believe will allow industry to more easily adopt the eco-efficiency metric. We look forward to working with EMSI in promoting our technologies and incorporating their technologies to the benefit of our mutual customers."
Masahito Aizawa, Founder and CEO of EMSI said, "ESP has a proven product and they have demonstrated its value through their leadership in the global environmental software industry. This alliance with them is a natural extension of our commitment to helping government organizations and private corporations operate in the most environmentally sustainable ways possible. We are pleased to be bringing ESP's world-class data management solutions to the Japan and Korean markets."
Under the new agreement, ESP's software solutions will be offered in Korea by Korea Environmental Management Partners, Inc., an EMSI subsidiary.
The new partnership represents a major new advance into the Asian market for ESP, whose software is currently in use to manage enterprise environmental data in 40 countries throughout the world.
About ESP
ESP provides software solutions for managing environmental performance and risk from the facility level to the global enterprise level. Since 1992, ESP software has been helping companies track compliance, improve financial performance and manage corporate sustainability programs. ESP software is currently used to manage environmental data in more than ten thousand facilities, spanning 40 countries. It is also widely used to address both the compliance and financial aspects of emissions trading programs. For more information about ESP, please visit www.esp-net.com.
About EMSI
EMSI is an environmental consulting firm based in Tokyo, Japan, that provides services in research and development, consulting and environmental business incubation. Since its establishment in 1999, EMSI has offered solutions for environmental management, evaluation, and engineering. In the environmental evaluation field, EMSI's sustainability indicator tool, Eco-Efficiency Potential Assessment (E2-PA), is the technical foundation of several laws (Automobile Recycling Law, etc.) in Japan. EMSI is also a member of Inogen, a global alliance of environmental consulting firms representing more than 90 offices worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.emsi.co.jp/english_page/en_emsioverview/en_emsioverview.html.
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