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Integrated EHS Compliance Solutions
Integrated EHS & Sustainability Management Solutions
Experienced Compliance Services
Hands-on experts combine practical EHS knowledge
with technical experience to leverage the
power of ProActivity
Comprehensive ProActivity™ Suite
Web based software utilizes applicability based profiles to ensure local compliance
while synchronizing global EHS programs
Superior Regulatory Content
Constantly enriched content prompts ongoing EHS
compliance while clarifying complex subject matter at
the points of control
“Dakota’s proactive compliance solutions have helped us remain committed to our corporate sustainability policy of People, Planet and Performance.”Veolia Environmental Services
Over 25 Years of EHS Compliance SolutionsAn exceptional business reputation doesn’t come from being reactive. In 1988, Dakota Software introduced the first-ever Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) compliance software tools. Originally designed to automate the environmental auditing process, we envisioned the need for preventative solutions and pioneered the proactive EHS compliance movement. The goal was simple - de-mystify the complexity of regulations and action tracking so you always know what’s been done and what’s coming around the next corner.
Applicability Driving Compliance
“A Dakota alert notified us that six of our Compliance Profiles may be impacted by a new EPA requirement. This prompted us to take proactive measures to ensure compliance.”East Kentucky Power Cooperative
At the heart of Dakota’s ProActivity SuiteTM is a rule-based data system fueled by a library of expertly translated regulatory content. Using proprietary Decision-Tree-LogicSM, ProActivity helps users determine which of the tens of thousands of regulatory requirements are applicable to their locations, facilities, or pieces of equipment.
Once created, these profiles prompt ongoing compliance by automatically notifying users of forthcoming and recent regulatory developments. This profile-based change tracking seamlessly integrates with Dakota’s task management tools to provide visibility into your organization’s global compliance status.
Why Dakota? Watch the video.
www.dakotasoft.com/video
Plan and maintain EHS compliance programs using Decision-Tree-LogicSM
Execute and track enterprise-wide compliance and sustainability activities
Verify ongoing compliance status by capturing audit data and identifying gaps
Improve performance by capturing and analyzing EHS event data, including incidents and accidents
Sustain success by monitoring and reporting on energy, GHG, and other sustainability programs
"I am not sure I can go on living without ProActivity. It answers questions I don't even know how to ask."McWane
The Path to Proactive EHS ComplianceThe ProActivity™ Suite makes it easier for companies to achieve and maintain EHS excellence. It puts your organizational EHS efforts in-step, providing visibility, insight, and guidance where and when it’s needed. Individual profiles allow varying levels of control and automated alerts ensure there are no loose ends. ProActivity is designed to eliminate uncertainty, so your company can move beyond EHS compliance and become a leader in corporate sustainability.
Environmental Management
ProActivity Applications
Dakota’s configurable tracking and analysis tools help you gain the insight you need to drive continuous improvement and protect your most valuable asset - your employees.
• Incident Management• Behavior-based Safety• Risk Hazard Assessment• Personal Protective Equipment• Training Management
Built on a foundation of compliance, Dakota’s sustainability tools help monitor environmental impacts and simplify corporate social responsibility reporting.
• Carbon & Energy Management• Greenhouse Gas Management• Energy Auditing• Supply Chain Management
Whether it's global or local changes, Dakota’s profile-driven solutions deliver the relevant information you need to proactively establish and verify ongoing EHS compliance.
• Site-SpecificApplicability• Compliance Calendars• EHS Auditing• Permit Compliance• Management of Change
Dakota’s Environmental Management tools allow individual sites to manage waste logistics and permit requirements while normalizing data for global analysis and reporting.
• Air Compliance• Water Compliance• Waste Management• Refrigerant Management
Proactive EHS Compliance Workplace Safety
Corporate Sustainability
Dakota’s constantly enriched content prompts ongoing EHS compliance while clarifying complex subject matter. Our approach to applicability-based compliance means regulatory content that is:
Superior Content Integration
Meaningful No punctuation alerts here. Our experts interpret the updates and only publish action-forcing changes.
Relevant Applicability profiles ensure users are notified only of the changes that matter to them.
Current Dakota's Regulatory Analysts continually research and analyze EHS-related legislation and regulations.
Accessible Dakota's Reference Library provides information where and when it's needed: In the field. Further reach is achieved via a dedicated mobile platform.
Regulatory ExpertiseDakota’s plain-language library of action-forcing citations helps users understand the spirit and the letter of current and pending regulatory changes. Our Regulatory Analysts continually research and analyze EPA, OSHA, DOT, and other agency regulations, identify the critical elements, and distill the information into easy to understand overviews, audit questions, and compliance tasks.
“In each of our internal EHS baseline audits using Dakota, we identified at least one specific regulation that neither the audit team nor the facility staff had previously recognized as applicable.” FMC
Dakota’s comprehensive regulatory coverage provides the level of detail you need to ensure EHS compliance with the regulations that affect you. Our coverage is both global and local, with a special focus on the requirements that impact the industrial sector.
100,000+ Action Forcing Citations
5,000+ Annual Revisions
Dakota Regulatory Alert Service
With Dakota’s Regulatory Alert Service, users can receive daily email alerts whenever relevant regulatory changes are published in the Federal Register. These profile-based e-mail alerts help users take action exactly where and when it is needed.
Available for iOS and Android.
Dakota EHS Pocket GuideFor on-the-go EHS professionals, the Dakota EHS Pocket Guide provides a searchable, plain-language digest of U.S. federal EHS regulations right on your mobile device.
Receive a six month free trial at
www.dakotasoft.com/freeapp
U.S. FederalContinually researched and constantly enriched by Dakota’s regulatory experts, our plain-language library of action-forcing citations provides guidance and clarification to EHS and non-EHS staff alike.
State & RegionsState exceptions highlight and explain the key differences between federal and state requirements with citations to the pertinent state regulations.
InternationalWith coverage of more than 200 jurisdictions, our International content is available in English and the local language and is built with the same applicability screening and topical structure as our U.S. coverage.
Management SystemsDakota allows users to verify implementation of EHS management systems with full coverage of widely accepted standards.
Local & Corporate RequirementsSeamlessly integrate your requirements into ProActivity’s auditing, task management, analysis, and reporting capabilities.
For a detailed list of Dakota’s regulatory coverage:
www.dakotasoft.com/regulations
"Dakota’s responsiveness, skilled technical support and flexibility enabled over 40 users to get up to speed from start to finish efficiently and effectively." AmeriGas
Compliance ServicesDakota’s Compliance Services team excels at making the complex simple. We can provide the extra set of hands you need to assist with specific projects or help develop detailed compliance programs. Additionally, by analyzing local and organizational requirements and building them into Dakota’s task database, we can help you consolidate EHS information and establish accountability for all your compliance obligations and activities.
EHS ExperienceDakota Software offers comprehensive, in-house services to help organizations design and deploy first-class proactive compliance programs. With a mix of formal regulatory education and hands-on EHS field and management experience, our Compliance Services experts combine ‘book smarts’ and ‘street smarts’ with a thorough understanding of Dakota’s EHS compliance tools to speed implementation, leverage the capabilities of ProActivity, and elevate your compliance certainty.
Less time to fully implement
Cost savings
Leverages all capabilities
Elevates compliance certainty
ScopingThe Compliance Assurance Process review features a multi-component report that documents the business and operational approach to EHS compliance at all levels within the organization.
TrainingDakota’s expert training staff provides everything from initial training to advanced administrator training. Our carefully constructed courses are designed to systematically increase user knowledge and skills.
ImplementationSuccessful implementations require a thorough review of your organizational structure and processes, accurate migration of legacy data, and a well-organized deployment plan.
ProjectsDakota’s Compliance Services professionals can assist with projects ranging from federal regulatory interpretation to determining the applicability of local requirements and permits.
• Regulatory Assistance• Audit Services• Custom Protocol Development• Compliance Calendar Creation• Risk-Based Auditing• Product Usage Assessment/
Optimization• Data Analysis• Lean Six Sigma Projects
SupportDakota’s structured, yet simple approach to support and project management emphasizes careful planning, thoughtful design, and effective team communication to derive repeatable results.
Dakota’s Blog - The EHS Voice The mission of The EHS Voice is to give EHS professionals a unique perspective on the trends and changes that shape our world. The blog features daily posts from Dakota's team of Regulatory and EHS experts on the topics of environment, safety, sustainability, regulation, and EHS management.
www.dakotasoft.com/blog
Manual Systems
Limited access and insufficient collaboration
Inability to provide users with varying security levels
Ongoing research of regulatory changes
Difficult to understand regulatory requirements
Nonexistent audit trails and compliance plans
Limited accountability and visibility into corrective actions
Staff turnover leads to loss of institutional knowledge
Lack of real time data views across the enterprise
Difficulty in generating custom reports
ProActivity
Login from standard desktop and mobile web browsers
Permission-based access by location, role, or personality
Site-specific EHS compliance profiles and updates
Integrated content for regulatory clarification
Streamlined EHS auditing process and related tasks
Automated alerts and notifications to close the loop
Event Log documents changes and tracks users actions
Roll-up dashboards allow multiple levels of insight
Simplified documentation and one-click reporting
“We replaced our paper-based compliance calendar with Dakota’s automated EHS compliance tools.” Bay Valley Foods
TheBenefitsofanEnterprise-LevelSystemSpreadsheets Don’t Work!
An EHS management information system is a central database of permanently documented actions - a virtual history book that always exists, even as personnel and procedures change. It keeps track of every step of your compliance process so you always know what’s been done and what needs to be done. In a world of constantly changing requirements, Dakota’s solutions just make sense.
Regulatory Content• Constantly enriched by Dakota’s
regulatory experts • Plain-language translations provide
guidance at the points of control
Online Collaboration• Permission-Based Access by Location,
Role, Group, or Personality• Journal Entries document user activity• Alerts and notifications prompt action
and establish accountability
Why Dakota is DifferentOur regulatory database ensures that users understand the meaning of EHS regulations. Our site-specific profiles help to eliminate the noise so users can focus resources on the requirements that matter to them. Our systems automatically notify users of regulatory changes while our personalized dashboards provide insight to decision makers. The result? Compliance just happens.
MobileWorkflows• No click data sync• Location-aware applications• Optimized mobile interface• Onboard regulatory content• Real-time collaboration
SmartForms• Configurable event data capture• Codified responses for normalized data• Improved control with workflows, group-
level access, and field-level permissions
Compliance Calendars• Profile-driven, user-specific action items• New and recurring tasks linked to
regulatory citations and audit findings• Roll-up visibility into global compliance
status
Business Intelligence• Parametric FilteringTM for
interactive trend analysis• Consolidated data for simplified
environmental and CSR reporting
Site-SpecificApplicability• Decision-Tree-LogicSM guides in creation
of perennial compliance profiles• Automatic regulatory updates prompt
applicability review
(216) 765-7100 | [email protected] | www.dakotasoft.com
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Tech Company of the Year Finalist
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2015 Nomination Questions
Most Promising Start Up o How long has your company been in business, when was it founded? o Describe your company’s core service(s) or product(s). What business needs are
addressed? o Describe your company’s current customer base (number of customers, beta vs. paying
customers, etc.) and most recent annual revenue. o Describe your company’s growth strategy and expectations for the next three – five years. o How is your company funded? What are your funding plans/strategies for the next 3-5
years? o What distinguishes your business from its competitors?
Best IT Services Company o Please provide an over view of your company (year started, target markets served, etc.) o What are your company’s core Services or products? o What certifications have your employees attained? o What percentage of your employees has attained a professional certification? o Please share two (2) customer success stories. o What distinguishes your company from its competitors?
Best Mobile App o Please give a brief description of the app: business purpose, entertainment, uniqueness, target
market (if appropriate), etc.? Does the app support internal or enterprise needs or is it for a broad market of users?
o Is this a proprietary app by your company or was it developed for a client? o Describe the mobile environment for this device: platforms supported, platform exclusivity,
distribution? o What market needs are addressed? What are the benefits to the customer? o Describe the market adoption for your app: downloads, active users, etc. What is your forecast for
downloads or users over the next 1-3 years? o What year was your business started? What year was this app originally introduced?
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Northeast Ohio Software Association
2012
Excellence in Technology and Innovation
Environmental Leader2013
CIO of the Year Finalist
Crain’s Cleveland Business2015
PLEASE NOTE: Award programs honorees will be featured in a special Crain’s Cleveland Business section appearing in print and online. A company or organization source will be asked to speak with a Crain’s reporter regarding the honoree.
Nomination FormNortheast Ohio is home to world class IT organizations, both for-profit and not-for-profit. These organizations are led by accomplished executives with strong, dedicated, talented teams. Crain’s Cleveland Business, in partnership with NEOSA, are proud to recognize accomplishedindividuals and teams with the CIO of the Year awards.
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Submission Deadline: Monday, February 2, 2015Program Information: www.CrainsCleveland.com/CIO
Use of Information Disclosure: Content provided may be published by Crain’s Cleveland Business. By completing this form, you agree to Crain’s use of the provided information in print, online and at the awards event. Nominator’s e-signature:
Nominations are open to the top corporate executive at any company, organization or wholly owned subsidiary based in Northeast Ohio who provides technology-related strategy/leadership. Job titles include: CIO, vice president of in-formation technology, CTO or other technology oriented titles. Self-nominations and previous-year re-submissions are strongly encouraged. Candidate must have held their position on or before January 1, 2014.
Eligibility:
Nominations are judged by an independent panel of professional IT practitioners and business managers. Consideration is given, but not limited to: leadership, innovation, challenges met and strategies implemented.
Selection Process:
Nominees selected as award finalists will be profiled in the April 6 issue of Crain’s Cleveland Business. Finalists selected as award recipients will be announced at an evening awards gala the week of April 13. All nominees, finalists and award winners will receive mention at the awards gala.
Awards Program:
1) Via e-mail: Submit your completed form as an attachment to: [email protected]
2) Via standard mail: Crain’s Cleveland Business – CIO of the YearAttn: Kim Hill, 700 W. St. Clair Ave., Suite 310, Cleveland, OH 44113
*All nominations must be received no later than Monday, February 2, 2015
Nomination Inquiries: Kim Hill @ [email protected] or 216-771-5182
Submission Instructions:
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Categories:Nominations are welcome from Public, Private, Nonprofit and Government enterprises.
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