ESS Finishes 2006 With Record Performance and Growth
Company's software platform successfully meets demand for global operational risk and sustainability management
TEMPE, Ariz. - March 5, 2007 - Robert Johnson, President and CEO of ESS, today announced a major surge in business activity in 2006 that resulted in record-breaking sales levels for the leading provider of software for Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) and Crisis Management.
The broad-based increase in organizations selecting ESS' software was across a wide range of sectors and included oil and gas, chemicals, aerospace, metals, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, food and beverage, utilities, technology, and government.
Representative customers include PetroChina, Newport News, Delta Airlines, BP, Caterpillar, Abu Dhabi Oil Company, Novartis, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, ConAgra Foods, U.S. Steel, Spectra Energy, PPG, Pfizer, Phelps Dodge, Portland General Electric, Puget Sound Energy, Invensys/Cheniere Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and USDA Forest Service.
These deployments, along with extensive expansion within our existing customer base, have established ESS as the leading provider of software to support organizational goals for operational risk reduction and sustainability.
"ESS software was selected following a rigorous selection process," Johnson said. "Each of these companies concluded that ESS was the only software provider that fully met their requirements for superior technology, greatest functional fit and supported their efforts to reduce operational risk."
"Our software continues to be selected by organizations of all sizes and from all industry sectors. They partner with ESS because we have the only fully-integrated solution set that enables organizations to manage the widest range of EH&S business processes on either a local or global basis," Johnson said. "Our software is now becoming the preferred platform for supporting organizational initiatives and ensuring standardization of processes for regulatory compliance and risk mitigation."
"Organizations have valid reasons to deploy local and global strategies for managing operational risks. The good news is ESS can help organizations reduce risk regardless of their choice of strategy," Johnson said. "No company has a greater depth and breath of software that can effectively address the wide variety of EH&S and Crisis Management issues that organizations must address today."
About ESS
ESS is the leading provider of Operational Risk Management software and services for Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) and Crisis Management. The company has provided global and local solutions to more than 17,000 businesses, government agencies and other organizations worldwide.
