1. S E E IT ALL –
MANAG E IT A LL
EHS Compliance. Carbon Management.
Control
Sustainability. Today’s demands on
Confidence
EHS professionals require awareness
Compliance
of applicable regulatory requirements,
forward-looking analysis, a verifiable
approach to compliance management
and tools for reporting on sustainability
initiatives that accurately document your
results. Dakota Software’s ProActivity® suite
is the answer to these pressing needs.
ProActivity provides a complete solution
to align the interests of corporate
management, site personnel and other
stakeholders. With the ability to quickly
understand applicable requirements and
proactively recognize compliance issues,
enterprises can have confidence in their
EHS compliance and sustainability programs.

2. As environmental awareness
reaches an unprecedented level, Plan with
Profiler helps EHS professionals easily and confidently capture
ProActivity allows companies
and filter all EHS requirements that pertain to their facility.
to extend compliance assurance
to their EHS, carbon manage-
ment and sustainability pro-
grams. ProActivity is a complete Execute with
solution that enables enterprises Tracer provides local activity execution and management
to plan, execute, verify, improve, alongside enterprise-wide visibility into compliance initiatives.
sustain and monitor all their
environmental initiatives using
a single platform.
Verify with
Auditor saves time and simplifies the process of conducting audits by
organizing and managing the auditing process to ensure quality reviews.
Improve with SCOUT
Scout transforms enterprise safety management from reactive responses
to proactive identification of issues and possible problems.
Sustain with
Metrics collects, reports, and analyzes carbon management
and sustainability data across the enterprise.
Monitor with
You can easily configure dashboards for monitoring and analyzing the status of
enterprise-wide environmental, carbon management and sustainability initiatives.
ProActivity’s simple yet powerful tools allow managers to build custom reports
that track priorities, progress and outstanding activities for the initiatives that
are pertinent to your business.

3. Get up and running – fast DAKOTA SOFTWARE Take the intelligent approach to
All Dakota Software products are available Compliance with confidence sustainability – ProActivity
through a Software as a Service (SaaS) Founded in 1988, Dakota Software For an online demonstration, call
subscription. With SaaS, Dakota Software introduced the first software product (216) 765-7100 or e-mail
is able to deliver more features, enhanced specifically designed to support EHS info@dakotasoft.com.
control, better security, superior integra- auditing. Now the market leader, we
tion and less risk over time. Also, SaaS use advanced expert system techniques
eliminates the need for customers to to determine the applicability of
spend resources on infrastructure, up- regulations and other requirements
grades and ongoing maintenance. Cus- and reduce the complexity of data
tomers can start with a single user at a tracking, documentation, and analysis.
site and easily ramp the software to the
entire team across all subsidiaries and Dakota Software offers proactive compli-
locations of the enterprise. ance assurance solutions to enable organi-
zations to have confidence in the
ProActivity provides secure online access effectiveness and comprehensiveness of
to help your enterprise improve processes their EHS compliance and sustainability
and increase operational efficiencies programs. Dakota Software’s products and
across multiple sites. To keep your services give the entire enterprise visibility
staff working at peak performance, into the applicable requirements and the
Dakota Software offers numerous training status of all initiatives in order to achieve
options: via the Internet, at your site, the intended results.
at regional training centers and at the
annual Users Conference. And if you
have any questions, Dakota Software’s
fast response customer service connects
you to real people ready to provide real
answers.

4. WHAT’S ON YOUR SUSTAINABILITY DASHBOARD?
If you want a successful EHS and carbon ture and filter site-specific regulations. Pre- includes a flexible, comprehensive data
management program, the perspective is sented in an easy-to-use format, local staff collection engine that captures govern-
simple. To stay ahead you must look can take decisive action on those items ment-required information while accom-
ahead… through the dashboard, not the that impact them the most. Also critical are modating company-specific metrics.
rear view mirror. It’s about vision, not site-specific citation lists, which help iden-
hindsight. And it’s about being proac- tify preventable issues and safeguard your Looking Ahead to Stay Ahead
tive… identifying necessary improve- integrity as a green company. Dakota Software continues to tackle the
ments and compliance gaps before they complexities of global regulatory compli-
Once you have identified which regula-
become problems. Customers expect it; ance and reporting. Site-specific EHS pro-
tions pertain to your sites, the next chal-
regulatory agencies demand it. files help transform site operations from
lenge is keeping up with ongoing changes
Successful sustainability programs are applicable to the sites. Traditional change- reactive to preventive. Priority, status and
built around the advanced solutions pro- tracking services provide periodic updates progress reports share pertinent informa-
vided by Dakota Software’s ProActivity and do not isolate the differences from tion with sites and across the enterprise
suite of products. These software tools ef- one version to the next. Again, productiv- to ensure and exceed compliance goals.
ficiently collect, analyze and distribute ity is lost weeding through minor wording Tracking diverse carbon management and
needed information throughout your busi- changes and updates that do not impact sustainability metrics is simplified with
ness... locally and around the world. This compliance. customizable data collection engines that
includes tracking traditional EHS informa- conform to government requirements.
ProActivity provides site-specific compli-
tion while capturing custom metrics for Combine these benefits with the immediacy
ance profiles that only communicate sub-
carbon and greenhouse gases, chemicals and cost-effectiveness of SaaS technology,
stantive regulatory changes that directly
and other pollutants, reuse/recycle initia- and you have a solution that distributes
affect site operations. Updated information
tives, and other sustainability activities timely, forward-looking information with
is delivered in real time, giving staff an un-
pertinent to your business. less effort and expense. With ProActivity,
obstructed view of current gaps and emerg-
To achieve compliance excellence at the ing situations that could be problematic. it’s easy to communicate your commitment
organizational level, you must empower to being an environmentally responsible
individuals to meet and exceed compli- Monitoring Your Carbon Footprint business and have the data to prove it.
ance goals despite the growing complexi- Carbon emissions and other sustainability
ties of environmental regulations. issues have become critical business con-
ProActivity can help by enabling global Globally Coordinate and Locally
cerns as climate change and dwindling
coordination and empowering stakehold- natural resources take center stage. To Execute Sustainability Initiatives
ers with clear, concise “dashboard views” address these concerns, leading compa- • Use site-specific compliance profiles
of exactly what’s needed so they can take nies are implementing sustainability to capture and filter pertinent
timely, appropriate action. strategies that integrate related activities regulations
across the enterprise. These programs can • Build proactive compliance plans
Driving EHS Responsibility address carbon and greenhouse gases, that identify gaps and track
to the Point of Control chemicals and other pollutants, reducing corrective actions
and recycling waste, using renewable en- • Provide enterprise-wide visibility into
One of the most difficult aspects of EHS
ergies and resources, and embracing more the status of sustainability initiatives
compliance has been identifying which
sustainable manufacturing practices. • Organize and streamline the auditing
regulations pertain to each site. Countless
process to ensure quality reviews
hours are spent plowing through tens of ProActivity addresses these business needs • Use integrated dashboards to
thousands of regulations from a multitude with integrated environmental compliance document progress and simplify
of sources. solutions for managing EHS and carbon re- sustainability and corporate social
ProActivity solves this productivity drain quirements. To effectively capture, aggre- responsibility reporting
with concise regulatory profiles that cap- gate and analyze related data, ProActivity
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