Sunday, December 20, 2009

Catalyst Resources Uses RIAs and SaaS to Shrink Carbon Footprint by 21,000 lbs of CO2 Per Month

Software-as-a-Service web accord plays a key role in blooming strategy. After implementing their new SaaS RIA web accord solution, Catalyst was able to abate their business biking and commuting above seven audience to accomplish an boilerplate CO2 abridgement of 21,000+ lbs per month, while accompanying abbreviation costs and accretion billable activities by about 20%

San Mateo, CA -- Catalyst Resources today appear a "green audit" of their software-as-a-service (SaaS) collaborative workspace activity that allows broadcast business teams of all sizes to plan around and seamlessly online. The Rich Internet Application (RIA) enabled Catalyst Resources to abate its carbon appulse brand by 21,000 lbs of CO2 per month, while accompanying abbreviation costs and accretion billable activities by about 20%.

Since 2002 Catalyst Resources has acquired and added their defended online collaboration, activity administration and certificate administration band-aid for use by limited advisers and baddest clients. Recently Catalyst began to clue how the web accord band-aid impacted the company's greenhouse gas emissions by abbreviation the charge for air biking and bounded commuting.

When we ran the analysis, we were admiring with by the cogent abridgement in our own carbon footprint. The catechism again became how we could augment the blooming impact, by accretion the band-aid from an centralized resource, into a customizable aggregation amplitude to be acclimated by our absolute applicant base. The Catalyst web accord band-aid is a abundant archetype of application RIAs and SaaS to break a accepted business botheration As governments move to cap carbon-based emissions, businesses will charge to clue their emissions and accept environmentally affable business practices. As approved by the Catalyst Resources blooming audit, a SaaS web accord band-aid can accommodated these requirements and save costs at the aforementioned time. "When we ran the analysis, we were admiring with by the cogent abridgement in our own carbon footprint." said Paul Giurata, Managing Partner of Catalyst Resources. "The catechism again became how we could augment the blooming impact, by accretion the band-aid from an centralized resource, into a customizable aggregation amplitude to be acclimated by our absolute applicant base."

While a "green strategy" to abate carbon emissions is acceptable a have to for businesses in both the accessible and clandestine sectors, alteration alone behavior is challenging. Catalyst accustomed that to get audience to accept the web accord solution, it would charge to accommodate a bigger user acquaintance and added abundance as compared to the acceptable action of email, contiguous affairs and harder archetype documents. The accomplishing would aswell charge to be scalable so that Catalyst could add added audience to the arrangement after abacus added abutment staff.

Catalyst redesigned their accord band-aid into a SaaS belvedere with an RIA interface. The multi-tenant SaaS accomplishing scales to any admeasurement and handles business needs both internally and above the firewall. Workspaces can be configured by anniversary applicant to absorb their own branding, as able-bodied as their own industry-related agreement and language. Permissions ascendancy who sees and has acceptance to what content. The RIA interface minimizes the training requirements, provides fast performance, and is accustomed to use.

After implementing the new SaaS RIA web accord solution, Catalyst was able to abate their business biking and commuting above seven audience to accomplish an boilerplate CO2 abridgement of 21,000+ lbs per month. (roughly the aggregate produced by 3 US households in one year). See abundant blueprint on the Catalyst Resources SaaS Blog.

Importantly, the web accord band-aid advised to cut greenhouse gas emissions, aswell accumbent with added business objectives including convalescent abundance and business agility, abbreviation costs, and accretion reach. In one ages alone, Catalyst adored 70% in biking costs and added billable activities by 20%.

Other allowances included:

Expand Recruiting Talent Pool - The web-based SaaS accord belvedere reduces the annex on recruiting bounded talent. Catalyst now has aggregation associates in Vancouver, Portland, NYC, St. Louis, and Atlanta.

Broaden Customer Reach - Due to the charge for common on-site meetings, barter had to be amid to aural 2 hrs of Catalyst's offices in NYC, Boulder, CO and Silicon Valley. With SaaS web collaboration, Catalyst now serves barter throughout the U.S.

Efficient Business Development - Without a animated biking schedule, business development agents can absorb added time anon interfacing with abeyant audience and beneath time in route.

Increase Efficiency - Without web collaboration, biking time was application up to 20% of agents time.

Increase Profitability- With the aforementioned capacity, Catalyst is able to access billings by 15%‐20%

"The Catalyst web accord band-aid is a abundant archetype of application RIAs and SaaS to break a accepted business botheration " said Giurata. "As governments move to cap carbon-based emissions, businesses will charge to clue their emissions and accept environmentally affable business practices. As approved by the Catalyst Resources blooming audit, a SaaS web accord band-aid can accommodated these requirements and save costs at the aforementioned time."

About Catalyst Resources
Since 1994, Catalyst Resources has auspiciously delivered user interface and accelerated appliance architecture for added than 250 software applications to arch all-around and VC-funded organizations. Catalyst's user-validated, active architecture access to UI minimizes banking and anatomic risks while maximizing abidingness and user satisfaction. Catalyst Resources specializes in the different UI demands of Software as a Service (SaaS), Financial Services, and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Headquartered in the Silicon Valley, Catalyst Resources employs able UI designers, advice architects, developers and business professionals. More advice about Catalyst Resources can be begin at http://www.catalystresources.com.

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