We've been busy enhancing our report features in FoundationFootprint™ over the last three months.

In the past we were very conscious not to inundate our users with reports that are configurable in every way imaginable as it often deterred the user from using them. I've seen it in many applications-it simply takes too much effort to understand how to use the features and get anything meaningful out of the system.

So we concentrated on having a selection of reports that were based on whatever business unit, facility, asset or supplier was selected in the page. Likewise with the emission sources. Two clicks away was the same in depth analysis whether it was electricity, gas, fuel, water, raw materials or mobile phone use.

And to compliment these automatic reports we created plenty of "half done" reports where the user simply needs to select the items of interest and two or three other parameters such as a date range and click go. Both methods gave users virtually instant access to really useful and meaningful information.

But that being said we were getting a steady stream of requests for a full blown report builder. So we did it. And as well as creating your own reports for personal use you can share them with another user, your team, your business unit or everyone and also have FoundationFootprint™ send the reports to you on a schedule that you define.

And users can now make real time reports available to the general public. Reports such as their absolute carbon footprint as well as the ongoing carbon intensity of their products, services or supply chain.