Advantages of MonitorPro Over Other EDMS

Environmental regulations and reporting requirements are becoming increasingly complex, and the consequences of noncompliance are severe. Sites must provide fully auditable environmental data in the event of a breach or environmental disaster to avoid prosecution, and reports are essential for a site to remain operational.  The amount of data that must be collected, analysed, and reported to comply with these rules is vast and cannot be achieved easily with spreadsheets alone, and gaps in the data or human input errors often occur.  This highlights the need for sites to have a dedicated Environmental Database Management System (EDMS) to simplify data collection and reporting.

Dedicated software can help companies manage these liabilities. However, they are often designed for specific use cases, built from different starting points, workflows, or with a focus on environmental data collection and management as a subset of a larger suite of functions.  Even dedicated EDMS can differ greatly in their approach, usability and fit for your business requirements. Choosing the wrong system can be costly and time-consuming, and can even lead to environmental impact, non-compliance, and missed reporting. 

MonitorPro offers several advantages over many other systems, making it one of the leading EDMS on the market.

MonitorPro has over 25 years of continuous experience, with over 200 clients worldwide across multiple industries, including mining, metals and minerals processing, waste, utilities, governments and regulators, and consultants.

Working closely with our clients, we’ve put 25 years of constant development into the latest iteration of MonitorPro, which has evolved into a modern, browser-based system ideally suited to industry requirements. Our in-house staff are highly experienced in all industries, providing outstanding support throughout the user journey from the initial implementation right through to on going support.  This ensures exceptional client feedback and retention rates.

Other EDMS are often venture-backed, newly developed systems which have no long-term experience or system maturity. Support is often outsourced, lacks consistency, and generally relies on under-skilled staff.

MonitorPro has dedicated, in-house staff who are always happy to help and will support you throughout your MonitorPro journey. The experienced team at EHS Data comes from technical and environmental backgrounds and has a long track record of using, administering, and developing Environmental and Sustainability Data Management Software, which means they can provide exceptional training and support.  We don’t outsource to generic 3rd-party consultancies, and our clients often comment on the quality of our support.

Companies sell licences (often through resellers) and rely on third-party outsourcing or external consultants for setup and ongoing support.  Staff may have limited product knowledge, domain experience, and industry context, and they face competing demands on their time, including potential conflicts of interest. Support may be highly variable depending on your provider/geograph or industry. The support process can be highly triaged, meaning it can be slow and cumbersome to get a resolution.

To simplify field data collection, we have developed MP-Field to work alongside MonitorPro. This streamlines both field data collection and uploading it to the database.  It reduces data-entry errors, improves site navigation, simplifies staff onboarding, sample management, and lab integration, and lets you track field data collection progress and highlight missing data points.

Many EDMS don’t provide a field data-collection application and still require manual data entry, risking data input errors and missed data collection. Other standalone field data tools can be highly flexible but do not integrate seamlessly with the scheduling workflows set up in your EDMS. 

With over 65 years of combined implementation experience and 100s of MonitorPro projects, our in-house team of experienced implementation consultants ensures your implementation runs smoothly, using tried-and-tested processes for migrating legacy data and configuring the system for a range of industries.

Implementations are often outsourced to consultants, adding cost and complexity to the project and creating a lack of feedback and continuous improvement.  Limited experience with the software or industry can cause issues during implementation, making the process slow and cumbersome. A poorly configured system will likely never provide true value in the long run, often meaning churn to a new system within 2-3 years.

MonitorPro has been developed with the user in mind ensuring MonitorPro is user friendly both in set up and data management.  User experience is enhanced with intuitive dashboards, easy compliance management, modern UI with inbuilt mapping, and straightforward data access controls. Flexible setup options accommodate various site and industry needs, ensuring a tailored fit for different workflows and requirements.

This means MonitorPro provides rich functionality where it’s needed while being simple to access and use, meaning there is no need to rely on vendors or external consultants to help manage your environmental data.  Complex reporting requirements don’t require overly complex solutions.

Other systems are often unnecessarily complex, making them difficult for users to navigate without extensive support or requiring external consultants  to manage the system for them.

All we need are a number of users and their roles to offer a quote. There are no hidden costs, we provide you with one quote that includes your implementation costs without months of scoping and questions. This means with MonitorPro you know upfront what the total cost will be, and wont end up in a situation after implementation where you have bought a system which without additional purchases wont do what you need it to do.

Other EDMS often utilise an overly complex and fragmented pricing system with modules, add-ons, size restrictions, data limits, and API usage caps. In Additional many add outsourced implementation and support arrangements.

MonitorPro is scalable and adaptable to grow with your changing business needs, we have clients ranging from single-site operations to multi-national organisations, each with unique environmental data challenges and requirements.  Our knowledge throughout all industries is vast and our experience means we can offer you the best possible solution suited to your needs.

MonitorPro is also highly configurable, meaning you only need to invest in the features you need without compromising on functionality. The system seamlessly grows with your operation.  This means MonitorPro can continually grow to meet your business requirements as your needs grow ensuring that you get all the functionality you need, without having to invest in features you don’t.

Systems by other providers often have limited scalability, resulting in the need to invest in expensive software that either offers features you don’t need or lacks the features you do.

MonitorPro has a number of other benefits and features which make it stand out from other EDMS, check out our features of MonitorPro and Benefits of MonitorPro pages to discover more.  If you want to see why our clients choose MonitorPro take a look at our MonitorPro case studies.  For a free demo to see how we can help improve your environmental data management, contact us today.