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Verisae is a privately held company based in Minneapolis, MN serving the unique needs of Multi-Site facility owners. We have about 50 employees in several countries and close business partners dedicated to serving our clients with the best business process software.

Verisae delivers a powerful suite of web-based process management solutions for facilities, the assets in those facilities, the energy those assets consume, the carbon emissions they emit, and the people who manage maintain them.

The Verisae solution is the first web-enabled site and asset management software created to meet the unique needs of multi-site owners. We offer a powerful suite of web-based process management solutions for facilities, the assets in those facilities, and the people who manage them. We built our solution with one goal in mind: to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership, lowering operating costs of your sites and the equipment and energy within them.

Combining information in multi-site facilities to review asset procurement, maintenance on those assets, energy consumption of the assets and the entire building, and developing and lowering the carbon footprint of the enterprise defines our goal. By combining a robust site and equipment asset database, call center dispatching, and work order automation, we have built an integrated, retail-focused, Service Process Network. This network links your sites with the teams that monitor their performance and keep them maintained. Verisae delivers savings whether you maintain your sites with in-house maintenance, outsourced maintenance, or a combination of the two.

For the first time, you can see the operational status of the equipment in your stores on a real-time basis. By eliminating paper based processes, your team initiates and manages every step of the maintenance process faster and more accurately. Best of all, each member of the service chain gains great value and payback through the use of the system.

With the Verisae system, you will have the tools to substantially drive operating costs down and profits up. In a high volume, lower margin business, you know how important that is. Gain unprecedented control and new levels of insight into the "Total Cost of Ownership" on your stores and the equipment within them.

Who uses Verisae today? Our customers include these large, multi-site retailers:

* Albertsons * Aldi * A P Tea Co. * BJ's Wholesale Club * Brookshire Brothers Food and Pharmacy * Clemens Markets * Costco * Dane Technologies * Get Go * Giant Eagle * HEB Grocery * HyVee Stores * Ingles * Publix * K-VA-T Stores * Safeway * Supervalu * Tesco UK * Tesco Czech Republic * Tesco Ireland * Tesco Poland * Tesco Thailand * Village Pantry * Waldbaum's * Wal-Mart * Whole Foods * And many, many more...

Verisae's Delivery Model is Software as a Service: Software as a service (SaaS) is a model of software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided by Verisae to customers across the Internet. By eliminating the need to install and run the application on your own computers, SaaS alleviates your burden of software maintenance, ongoing operation, and support.

Using SaaS can reduce the up-front expense of software purchases. verisae hosts the application on our own web server, or this function may be handled by a third-party application service provider (ASP). This way, you reduce your investment on expensive IT hardware and maintenance costs.

How Will Federal Agency Sustainability be Achieved?

Feb 9, 2010 7:55 AM CST

(Justmeans.com / CSR News) - Pres. Obama has put his reputation on the line by calling for federal agencies to become sustainable in short order. This declaration is part of his mandate for change.

While we tend to think of large industrial complexes, the fact is that the federal government is in fact the largest carbon emitter and user of energy. There are so many individual departments, hundreds of thousands of employees, vehicles and buildings it is surprising the issue of agency sustainability has not achieved more focus in the popular press.

Presidential executive orders are quite rare, although some have addressed environmental issues before. Never have we seen an EO more sharply focused on the issue of carbon emissions than Obama's most recent. He demands that each Federal department now fully understands its agency sustainability.

There is little time for thought, as Obama has asked agency heads to come back to him within 90 days with their plans. He needs to know how they are going to take inventory of their emissions and what kind of plan they will put in place to monitor, report and reduce their liabilities. While this appears straightforward on paper, it is nevertheless a difficult problem.

Federal agencies will undoubtedly be pleased to find out that there are organizations in the private sector, already geared up to focus on these complex issues of sustainability. Solutions already exist and are in use within major distributed enterprises, allowing each individual asset to be monitored and overall efficiency reviewed.

The federal government has such a reach into communities around the country but meaningful measures to address its greenhouse gas emissions and energy usage will undoubtedly have a very significant and unfolding, knock on effect. As each individual employee is impacted by the changes, he or she is certain to carry the mantra back into the community at large.

They say that change begins with each individual and environmentalists expect us all to be "green." This may be the case, but if the federal government, being as intrusive as it is within our lives, does achieve the ultimate goal of agency sustainability, we can expect additional individual action as well.

Obama's executive order does not just focus on carbon emission reduction but also requires federal agencies to waste less, consider how they dispose of their waste and also take a good look at water resource usage. New federal buildings must also be ultimately sustainable.

The US has long been accused of inaction, but the Executive Order has certainly gone a long way to assuage the critics. Congress will ultimately follow with legislation forcing companies in the private sector to take more concerted action.

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