Emerge Knowledge develops and delivers software as a service (SaaS) to enable efficient recycling and solid waste data management and provides specialized information to the public, governments, and organizations.
Our vision is to bridge the gap between environmental data and the information that people need. Our primary software as a service offerings are Re-TRAC™ and MyEcoVille™.
SaaS Characteristics
The main characteristics of SaaS that we deliver include, but are not limited to:
- Recognized best practices as we actively listen to our user community, engage in peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, and take pride in implementing industry best practices.
- Remote access via the web to reliable, maintenance-free, and secure software.
- Feature requests from users, new feature releases, and centralized feature updating to deliver the services that you need while simplifying technology use by eliminating the need to download updates and patches.
The SaaS Advantage
SaaS achieves efficiencies, and offers benefits and long-term value. The advantages of SaaS to our customers include, but are not limited to:
- Lower IT costs as the primary support function, maintenance, and daily data back-up is included (no internal IT department support is required).
- Lower hardware costs as there is no need to purchase a new server, operating system, and/or software to use SaaS.
- Target budget on increasing capacity related to processes, data, and information rather than increasing infrastructure.
- Save time and increase staff satisfaction with the efficiencies our SaaS delivers in the essential program areas of data collection, aggregation, management, reporting, and publishing. Our sophisticated database facilitates data aggregation queries, trends, bench-marking, and data mining for individual customers, and in the aggregate across our customer base. This innovation makes it possible for users to increase their knowledge and use technology for decision-making that has a positive impact for organizations, communities, and society.
- The pay-as-you-go annual subscription model is very low risk compared to in-sourcing custom software development and maintenance (which require expensive overhead, salaries, health care costs, and other liabilities and/or outlay of up front capital costs).