GreenWare Environmental Systems Inc. is an environmental consulting firm that specializes in environmental information management systems. The following paragraphs describe some of the software products developed by GreenWare.
GreenWare Environmental Systems Inc. has developed GreenWare(TM), a line of software tools to assist its clients in managing their environmental information effectively. GreenWare(TM) products contain a generic software platform that can be adapted to automate a variety of environmental activities, including environmental auditing, reporting and management systems. The platform is based on the Caseware software platform, a audit and reporting software package used by accounting and auditing professionals worldwide to handle their working paper preparation, financial statement reporting and practice automation. The GreenWare(TM) platform easily lends itself to the development of industry-specific tools, particularly in the areas of environmental compliance, environmental auditing, accounting and corporate environmental accounting.
Each of the templates described below has been designed specifically to handle environmental issues, while retaining Caseware's ability to ensure data integrity and controls. Single user licenses for individual templates can be purchased for CDN$599 or CDN$199 for those already using Caseware. Full network and multi-user licenses also may be purchased.
This software product has features to meet simple and comprehensive audit requirements through tracking and monitoring action plans, recommendations, protocols and performance. A complete scoring system can be used to help measure environmental risk. Audit documents can include action plans, memos, protocols, review sheets, and free format forms, spreadsheets and word processing type documents. The system has the ability to link with audit documents created by other programs and new audit files can also be created from components of other files.
This template is an integrated, customizable auditing and monitoring system for solid waste containing checklists and protocols, as well as worksheets, forms and a tracking database which all can be completed interactively onscreen. It is also a capital budgeting and financial analysis tool that can itemize waste management costs by expense category such as capital, O&M, compliance, and future liability costs. Financial indicators such as Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, Payback Period, Profitability Index and Return on Investment can be computed as well.
WasteManager is companion software to 'Waste Management Systems: Guidelines for Implementation, Monitoring, and Reporting', a paper-based text authored by GreenWare Environmental Systems Inc. and published by the Canadian Institute for Chartered Accountants that provides detailed information on how to implement an effective waste management system. The 340-page publication may be purchased for CDN$55 plus shipping and handling.
Greenware is integrating its software platform with MapMosaic, a technology developed by the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. This new technology combined multimedia environmental information sharing via the Internet and allows data files of any description to be input, searched and interrogated by map coordinate reference, mapped object or hypertext. The software has been designed for use in outcomes-based environmental education and may be customized to meet the specific needs of industry, government agencies, environmental areas are being developed, including Wetlands Monitoring, Cultural Heritage and Hazardous Materials templates.
Greenware also designs and develops interactive World Wide Web home pages for its clients. The Web is a powerful vehicle on the Internet for communicating and sharing environmental information around the world.
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