Reed Elsevier Selects Hara to Enable Comprehensive Environmental Data Management and Drive Energy and Carbon Efficiencies

Hara Signs First Major UK-Based Customer, Leading Global Publisher and Information Provider Deploys Hara^TM EEM

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Hara, a leading provider of environmental and energy management software, today announced that Reed Elsevier, a world leading publisher and information provider, has selected Hara Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) to develop a dynamic system to manage, measure and monitor its global environmental performance. The Hara EEM deployment will track emissions and environmental data from Reed Elsevier’s 32,000 employees and over 300 facilities.

“Reed Elsevier is a recognized environmental champion and it is fitting that they are Hara’s first UK headquartered customer”

In choosing Hara, Reed Elsevier was looking for a more efficient and reliable way to collect, report, and forecast environmental data, particularly in light of growing environmental regulation. After an extensive search of providers, they selected Hara’s highly-configurable, software as a service application that could quickly adapt to Reed Elsevier’s high user volume and complex data capture requirements and meet mandatory reporting schemes such as the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme.

“Reed Elsevier is committed to reducing its environmental impact through proactive measures,” said Mark Gough, Reed Elsevier’s Global Environmental Manager. “Hara’s capabilities will be instrumental in helping Reed Elsevier implement our environmental reduction strategies.”

Deployed in over 90 countries, Hara EEM is designed to manage energy, resources and emissions as an enterprise-wide, end-to-end “report to reduce” business process. The company works with leading companies and government organizations to establish a verifiable, transparent and credible environmental and energy record, identify and prioritize reduction projects and leverage best practices across stakeholders.

“Reed Elsevier is a recognized environmental champion and it is fitting that they are Hara’s first UK headquartered customer,” said Amit Chatterjee, CEO and Founder, Hara. “It’s a testament to the scalability and depth of Hara EEM that a corporation the size and scope of Reed Elsevier has chosen to leverage our proven methodology around ‘Discover, Plan, Act and Innovate’ to drive reductions and minimize their environmental footprint.”

About Reed Elsevier

Reed Elsevier is a world leading publisher and information provider targeting the science and medical, legal and risk management, and business to business sectors. It provides high value and flexible information solutions to professional users, with increasing emphasis on internet delivery. In February 2010, Reed Elsevier reported revenues for 2009 of £6,071/€6,800m. Reed Elsevier Group plc is owned equally by two parent companies, Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. http://www.reedelsevier.com. For more information on Reed Elsevier’s approach to the environment visit http://reports.reedelsevier.com/cr09/environment/index.html

About Hara

Hara helps organizations grow and profit while optimizing natural resource consumption and minimizing environmental impact. The Hara™ Environmental and Energy Management solution enables organizations to manage and optimize their organizational metabolism – the collective resources consumed and resulting outputs across an organization and its value chain – including energy, water, waste, and carbon. Hara empowers an end-to-end environmental and energy business process from reporting to reduction to help organizations improve operational efficiency, maximize value and manage risk. Hara customers include leading organizations such as Aerojet, Akamai, City of Las Vegas, City of Palo Alto, City of San Jose, Coca-Cola, Diebold, Hasbro, Intuit, News Corporation and Safeway. The company is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, JAFCO, and Nth Power. For more information, please visit www.hara.com.