Enterprise Sustainability Software Provider ESS Opens Beijing Office

Industry Leader Expands Marketing and Support of HSE/Crisis
Solutions in Greater China
TEMPE, Ariz.--(Business Wire)--
ESS, the leading provider of enterprise sustainability solutions
for Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) and Crisis Management, today
announced that it has opened ESS China, its Beijing-based office that
will offer the industry-leading software platform to organizations in
Greater China and throughout the Asia Pacific region.

To celebrate its new office, ESS will host a grand opening event,
featuring local executives and civic leaders, Wednesday, March 26 at
the Beijing American Club.

ESS has established its first office in Asia in order to grow its
marketing and support operations in a region where it already has a
strong client base, including global energy giants PetroChina and
China National Petroleum Company (CNPC).

"Businesses throughout Asia and, in particular, Greater China, are
positioning themselves to increase their market share through expanded
global operations," said Robert Johnson, ESS President and CEO. "Those
decision makers understand that their organizations must implement
standards that are aligned with international protocols such as ISO
14000, Global Reporting Initiative, OHSAS 18000, REACH and others in
order to compete in markets where HSE is recognized as an important
benchmark for enterprise sustainability."

For nearly two decades, ESS has provided customer-focused
solutions that reduce complexities, risks and costs that are
associated with HSE management so organizations can reach their
corporate governance goals for sustainability and operational
excellence. ESS China will continue that tradition by offering the
company's integrated software platform, which enables organizations to
efficiently address urgent business concerns such as greenhouse gas
management, Corporate Social Responsibility reporting, worker health
and safety, compliance reporting and emergency response.

"Organizations throughout China have experienced tremendous growth
over the past 10 years, and now they are facing daunting
environmental, health, safety and crisis management challenges,"
Johnson said. "ESS is uniquely positioned to help those organizations
manage their HSE issues more effectively. ESS' integrated software
platform enables users to efficiently collect and communicate critical
HSE and Crisis data at all levels of an organization and across the
enterprise. With technologies to support enterprise hierarchy and
multilingual localization, ESS delivers enterprise solutions that help
organizations leverage their HSE data to achieve a competitive
advantage, and support Governance, Risk and Compliance."

PetroChina's HSE software platform implementation represented a
major landmark as the first enterprise-wide compliance and risk
management software deployment of its kind in China. ESS' software
platform enabled PetroChina, the world's largest company by market
capitalization, to increase productivity by driving process
improvements that generated time and cost savings while also improving
management decision making. CNPC selected ESS based on the success of
the PetroChina implementation.

About ESS

ESS is the leading provider of Health, Safety and Environment
(HSE) and Crisis Management sustainability software solutions that
support Governance, Risk and Compliance and operational excellence.
The company has provided global and local software for thousands of
businesses, government agencies and other organizations worldwide. ESS
is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona with U.S. offices in Denver,
Houston and Washington, and international offices in Beijing, China
and Calgary, Alberta.

ESS, Tempe
Dawn Kehr, 480-346-5526
E-mail: ess-media@ess-home.com

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