Enviance delivers software that automates and improves the management of environmental, health and safety (EHS) compliance activities. Recognized as the only Internet-based compliance software as a service (SaaS), 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.

Leading organizations trust Enviance to help them reduce the time and cost of managing compliance activities, retain institutional knowledge, and confidently certify compliance.

The value of partnering with Enviance is your ability to develop powered by Enviance solution(s) for you and your clients to:

Expand your practice areas

Provide clients with new services and solutions

Reduce your information technology investments

Ensure that your firm's best practices are integrated into every offering and client program

Founded in 1999, privately held Enviance is based in Carlsbad, California (approximately 30 miles north of San Diego).

Increasingly, companies realize a greater return on investment by selecting a service provider whose core competency is providing information management software, implementation services, and IT infrastructure support in a one-stop-shop. This significantly reduces implementation and development costs as well as ongoing support and training costs, while at the same time enhances business performance through best-in-class functionality. Benefits of true SaaS include but are not limited to:

• Reduced implementation costs: no hardware or software to buy
• Rapid setup and deployment: all you need is a secure User ID and password
• Accessible from any location with Internet access
• 99.95% uptime
• Ongoing support and real-time product enhancements

In fact, Timothy Chou in The End of Software quotes Gartner, Inc., a global analyst firm, "Customers can spend up to four times the cost of their software license per year to own and manage their applications". With SaaS, these out-year IT costs, which are often ignored or hidden in the sale process, are completely avoided.

At least as important as any of the other advantages described is the fact that SaaS has fundamentally improved the ability of customers to enforce software vendors' promises. In the SaaS world, the customer purchases and seamlessly accesses usage incrementally. If the application does not perform as promised, the customer can cancel the subscription and move on, having avoided the handcuffs of making a big enterprise purchase up front. This fundamental shift creates substantial protection and makes customer satisfaction job one. To avoid cancellation, SaaS providers have to satisfy customers every single day - from the time the system is purchased throughout implementation, adoption, and ongoing use.

An Internet approach based on Software as a Service (Saas) delivery marks a significant advance over less interoperable client-server alternatives. The upfront costs are dramatically reduced and implementation times are significantly shortened because the customer does not need to purchase or install hardware, operating systems, database applications, server applications, and system software.

SaaS also offers significant cost savings versus client-server upgrades as there is less reliance on IT professionals to travel site to site and struggle with systems, servers and installation discs; there are no system configuration or compatibility problems and no budget issues.

Because on demand systems are run by offsite, highly secure, centralized servers, SaaS providers are able to perform upgrades 'overnight', seamlessly, without burdening internal staffs, and at no cost to the customer. The reduction in maintenance and upgrade costs is passed to customers, who use the software application to solve issues related to their core business without having to become involved in software maintenance or support.

Allowing companies to avoid the very significant internal IT costs that would be incurred in out years just to maintain a client-server system is another advantage of SaaS. In fact, Timothy Chou in The End of Software quotes Gartner, Inc., a global analyst firm, "Customers can spend up to four times the cost of their software license per year to own and manage their applications". With SaaS, these ongoing IT costs, which are often ignored or hidden in the sale process, are completely avoided.

In addition, in order to keep pace with technological trends in the industry, most client-server systems are re-engineered and/or re-architected every 4-7 years. When these updated systems are released, you will often be required to repurchase your license for the system because the older version will no longer be supported by the vendor. And, you would also need to re-implement the updated system as considerable cost.

Over 10,000 users access the Enviance System from 45 countries including most demanding Fortune 1000 companies and government organizations.

The types of solutions you can manage with Enviance are virtually endless. From air solutions to water, waste, health, safety and corporate compliance, Enviance customers are finding new uses for Enviance every single day.

You can access the Enviance System through an Internet connection on a computer. All you need is Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5, service pack 2 or above. With the Enviance Mobile Solution, you can also access Enviance using a tablet PC or handheld device.

If you are a current Enviance customer or value added partner, you can sign into the Envision user group website and access Solution Seeker to find other customers using Enviance for a specific application area.

If you are considering Enviance as your compliance management solution, you can ask your Enviance salesperson to grant you access to our customer reference website where you can hear some of our customers talk about their use of Enviance. If you don’t know who your Enviance salesperson is, you can contact us.

To develop and deploy your Enviance solution as quickly as possible, you can use Enviance Professional Services or work with one of our value added partners. Regardless of who you work with, you will be assured of having a team of EHS domain experts helping you with project planning, solution definition, data discovery, configuration, solution deployment and adoption support.

Enviance is completely configurable to meet your unique requirements, obligations and work processes. And, with Enviance, you configure the System using the built in user interface, so there is no need for back end programming.

The Enviance System was engineered and designed with care to make sure it could seamlessly handle the growing, and changing, needs of our customers.

That’s one of the many benefits of Enviance. The Enviance System allows customers to enter data only once, and use it for multiple reporting requirements across a wide range of compliance programs including voluntary reporting organizations, national and state reporting agencies, organization stockholders and stakeholders, NGOs, and much, much more... If it’s in Enviance once, you can pull the data out as many times as you need.

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You can get a demonstration of the Enviance System by contacting your assigned account manager.