In 2008 Groom Energy identified the need of large organizations to the track, report and manage GHG emissions and named it Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA). To provide a clear understanding and analysis of this emerging area, Groom Energy publishes a market research report entitled Enterprise Carbon Accounting: An Analysis of Organizational-Level Greenhouse Gas Reporting and a Review of GHG Software Products. This report has been updated 3 times and is the most comprehensive report available today. The most recent report is based on meetings and demos with 27 software vendors.

Reasons to purchase the 65 page January 2010 report are:

- Refine your business case for investment based on 20 key ECA software features and case studies. Understand the 5 business pressures drive companies to calculate and report GHG emissions, including request from top customers (e.g. Walmart) and investors (80% of large firms to report to CDP over next 2 years)

- Shorten your research time to develop short list of vendors from the over 60 vendors that sell ECA software (see link below for the current complete list)

- Read profiles of the top 20 vendors, including for each a list the major customers, an estimate of the total number of customers, and product screen shots.

- Learn more about the dynamics of the vendor market.
   o In 2009, two vendors raised $46m in investments and 5 ECA vendors were acquired by larger companies.
   o Over 25 vendors entered the market in 2009, including Microsoft, Computer Associates and startups like Hara.
   o Partial list of firms that made purchases in 2009.
   o Worldwide unit sales of ECA software to large enterprises were 50 in 2009, and will grow to 1500 in 2011.
   o Energy management/bill payment firms, like Summit Energy and Pace, secured customers in 2009
      as customers are increasingly demanding solutions to manage both carbon and energy.

- Learn the 10 observations we had after 27 vendor demos and key questions to consider when considering if carbon management solution should also manage energy spend

- The report names 8 2010 Emerging ECA Market Leaders based on vendor financial stability, number of customer deployments, strength of technology and vision (listed alphabetically):

1. Enablon
2. Enviance
3. Hara
4. IHS
5. Johnson Controls
6. PE International
7. ProcessMAP
8. SAP