Selecting the Right Monitoring Data Management System

If you’re using a data management system to monitor environmental or sustainability data, the system needs to make it easy for you to manage the data and ensure you remain compliant:

• Does the system provide accurate reporting and analytics easily?
• Can it provide clear, consistent, and validated reporting to regulators?
• Can it effortlessly integrate with other software suites or databases?
• Can it easily highlight compliance warnings?

Data compliance is a risk for any business and shouldn’t be something that can be left to chance. You need to ensure that the platform you’re using to record data is being used efficiently and securely:

• Do you have confidence in the way the data will be recorded and managed?
• What would happen to your data if your premises suffered downtime?
• Would you be able to access your data safely and securely from anywhere?

Every organisation and their environmental challenges are different so why should your data monitoring system be the same as everyone else’s? As your organisation grows, you also may need a system that grows along with you and can be altered to fit your needs. You need to ask:

• Is the system highly configurable?
• Is it scalable so that you can increase the scope when needed?
• Does the system give you complete control?

The main reason for monitoring environmental or sustainable data is to ensure you remain compliant and to take the stress out of compliance management.

• Can the system provide you with validated reporting to regulators and other stakeholders?
• Can it alert you effectively in case there is a permit or standard breach?
• Can it help you manage the requirements of obligations (permits and licences) and company policies?

While it is clear that a free spreadsheet solution is not adequate for your operations, you need to consider if a bespoke system is financially viable and ensure it will not cost you dearly later on. You need to consider:

• Does the system provide everything you need under one roof, with a corresponding price tag?
• Does your IT policy require software as a service (SaaS) or do you have an IT structure in-house?
• Are there hidden costs for expanding the system in the future?

Data management can be complicated…but monitoring doesn’t have to be. Trusted the world over, MonitorPro gives you all the EHS software tools to take the stress out of environmental data management and monitoring.