CA Technologies, an IT management software and solutions company, has announced the release of CA ecoGovernance 3.0, a key offering in the CA ecoSoftware suite designed to help customers with corporate energy and sustainability management.

CA ecoGovernance enables organizations to accelerate energy and sustainability business performance with automated data management, analysis and reporting. It features project planning and management, scenario planning, portfolio management and supply chain management capabilities that help enable corporate energy and sustainability transformation.

The new version provides a wide range of enhancements driven by the feedback of customers actively engaged in forward-thinking energy and sustainability best practices. These include:

Real-time key performance indicators that leverage automatic metrics management to monitor data streams for increased visibility, and better alignment of energy and resource performance with major business objectives;

Enhanced analytics in multiple areas, including facility performance normalized to weather data, business travel analysis, and project and portfolio cost benefit analysis specialized for energy, carbon, water and waste reduction initiatives;

Out-of-the-box survey templates for supply chain and building assessments to quickly gather and process data from external suppliers, or from staff who manage different facilities;

Enhancements to the GRI reporting functionality, including role-based GRI program management;

Enhanced support for EPA ENERGY STAR integration that includes new benchmark trending and site type efficiency analysis designed to help organizations get more from their ENERGY STAR benchmarks; and

Mobile energy and sustainability interfaces for people on-the-go, which range from survey data capture for roaming field staff to interactive dashboards for executives' mobile devices.

These enhanced features build on CA ecoGovernance's existing capabilities such as out-of-the-box support for multiple languages, the agility to adapt to complex customer needs via a highly powerful configuration engine which enables mapping to existing processes, SaaS and on-premise delivery options, and its proven ability to integrate with other enterprise systems.