Scale Up Your Support For Sustainability

Footprinter helps sustainability programs evolve from single, isolated footprint studies to a dynamic, growing and vibrant internal sustainability network – from spreadsheets to scalable enterprise-grade systems support hosted in the cloud. Develop and manage your own private sustainability network.

Footprinter has a multitude of features to make footprinting simpler and faster – to measure, manage and improve your sustainability performance – to engage your organization and supply chain. Ultimately your users will understand their sustainability performance better and spend more time innovating.

Footprinter brings your people, ideas, tools and data together to improve sustainability performance.

Network

Bring all your data, knowledge and work, together in one place – easily accessible in the cloud.

  • High-performance, high-availability* web browser application.
  • Use of familiar web page concepts limits the need for user training.
  • Invite new users and manage their privileges with a single click.
  • Create new network sites on the fly as you need them.

* SLA Guarantee 99.9% availability with zero scheduled down-time. Footprinter is hosted at a world-class cloud-based data center and employs industry-standard, enterprise-grade security processes and procedures.

Footprinting

Anyone in the organisation can footprint on Footprinter regardless of sustainability skill level and knowledge.

  • Lightning fast, powerful yet flexible tools for experts.
  • Molecular footprint models that are easy to build, explore and share.
  • Directed “step by step” user experiences for non-experts.
  • Customizable footprint templates.
  • Standards agnostic support for environmental metrics*, user-defined metrics, creation of own footprint and emission factor libraries.

* Footprinter maintains one of the world’s largest searchable databases of public emission factors.

Data Collection and Integration

The tools to bring all your data in one place, up to date and working together.

  • Customizable web forms for internal or supply chain data collection.
  • Customizable supply chain footprint templates and tools to protect confidential information.
  • Data import wizard with validation that supports large data harvesting.
  • API for direct systems integration.

Database

Footprints are the database – create and directly manipulate the schema-less, footprint-optimized database.

  • Add additional descriptions to your data with free form tags.
  • Incrementally build and add complexity without admin or overhead tasks.
  • Exceptionally fast data retrevial and computation.
  • Limitless scaling.
  • Enterprise-grade data security and automatic user data backup.
  • All user content including attachments is indexed for private keyword search.

Analysis

Generate insights in seconds to make sustainability informed decisions.

  • See the impact of footprint changes immediately*.
  • Easy to edit a copy and compare to the original.
  • “Cut your data” different ways with tags and the footprint-intelligent pivot table.
  • Track, benchmark and compare.
  • Use the charting wizard to quickly create report ready charts.

* Footprinter pages and tabs are dynamic. In most cases, user content is edited “in line” in Footprinter and automatically updated to Footprinter’s servers without user initiation and time consuming page saves.

Visibility

Roll up and drill into your data and analysis for top-to-bottom visibility.

  • Transparent footprint math - no hidden formulas or values.
  • Use pages and tabs to see all your data.
  • Web page based with permanent URLs.
  • Highly visual page designs with at-a-glance indicators.
  • Dashboard oriented.

Innovation

Model changes at the micro and macro levels, matching the complexity of real-world innovation.

  • Use the eliminate-reduce-substitute what if capability to model individual footprint improvements.
  • Powerful scenario tools to stich different improvement ideas together.
  • Easily compare alternative product designs or products across a category using the compare wizard.
  • Don’t reinvent the wheel – Share and search.

Collaborate and Discover

Sustainability happens throughout the business – work together, discover, share and keep up-to-date.

  • Full content search with tag filtering.
  • Social network features including comments and wall-like summary pages.
  • Add supporting documentation, notes and attachments.
  • Easy to integrate with existing internal enterprise wiki, collaboration or business intelligence systems.
  • More efficient for staff with limited time.

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