News, product announcements and tips from the Footprinter team

5 Key Sustainability Visualizations

Footprinter works hard on tools that bring data to life. It is not just a table of numbers - it's insight and conclusions. We are all visual learners - since we were babies. And a well-designed set of visualizations can make a huge difference in how well you communicate. Did …

5 Advantages of a Sustainability System

Adopting a sustainability system brings long-term competitive advantages to a business. Few businesses today would consider operating without a company wide financial system and business intelligence tools. We believe that increasingly the same mindset is felt with sustainability teams. There is increasingly powerful software emerging and the challenges in deployment …

RB Wins Awards - And FP Helped!

Reckitt Benckiser recently won two awards from 2degrees (the global sustainability business community)! RB was runner up for Solution of the Year, and won the Best Internal Engagement Activity award. And yeah ... RB uses our Green Design suite of products! Very cool!! It has been exciting to work with …

Lessons from BIG DATA

There is a quiet revolution going on in information technology. The world is become so digital and fast moving, that old technologies for storing and making sense of the data can't keep up. The IT revolution has the catchy name "Big Data". Here are some examples of BIG: every 60 …

Top-5 Reasons Not To Use Excel

Why are so many large companies still using Excel for their fundamental sustainability data collection and analysis? The answer is … because they can. Excel is relatively easy to use and everyone has it. So it’s great for special projects and doing something like an analysis or chart quickly. Sustainability …

Elopak: Engaging Front Line Teams

Company Elopak is a Norwegian company producing cartons for liquids, starting with aseptic gable top cartons for milk. The company ranks as the world's #3 supplier of packaging for beverages selling 12.8 billion cartons (2012), and boasts manufacture of the first paperboard carton for liquid foods, branded Pure-Pak. Elopak's carton …