Dakota Software
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| Private | |
| Industry | Environment, Health and Safety, compliance assurance, software |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
Number of locations | 7 |
Key people |
Reg Shiverick, President Milan Dayalal, Vice President of Sales |
| Website | www.dakotasoft.com |
Dakota Software is a software company based in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] It developed an early software product for Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) auditing. For more than 25 years, Dakota® has provided EHS and sustainability management software to regulated industries, consultants and government agencies. Dakota's ProActivity Suite assists organizations in tracking and managing compliance with Federal, State and local EHS Regulations as well as analyzing the efficiencies of their system-wide energy usage and sustainability practices.
History
Dakota Software was formed in 1988 as a subsidiary of Rochester Gas & Electric in Rochester, NY. Their original software solution, Audit Master, helped to automate the EHS auditing process. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Dakota continued to enhance their software offerings and became an active member of the environmental and safety communities.
In 1995, Audit Master was replaced by Dakota Auditor, a compliance software solution that integrates translated Federal Regulatory content. In 1999 Dakota Tracer, a corrective action tracking and analysis tool, is released to compliment Auditor. In 2002, Dakota anticipates the value of online data access and storage for their multi-location customers and makes their products available online as Software as a Service (SaaS).
In 2004, Dakota Scout is released, providing Safety Professionals with additional tools for tracking and analyzing Incidents, Accidents and Near Misses. In 2007 Dakota Profiler is released. Profiler represents a sea change in attitudes toward EHS management. Rather than focusing on backward facing audits, it helps users build compliance profiles that 'proactively' identify applicable requirements and notifies them of any regulatory changes that affect that profile.
In 2008, Dakota Software releases the ProActivity Suite, which unifies their software offerings into one comprehensive product. In 2009, Dakota Metrics was added to ProActivity. Metrics simplifies data gathering, analysis and reporting on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) and other company-specific sustainability measurements. In April 2012, ProActivity was awarded Best Software Product by the Northeast Ohio Software Association.
Products
Dakota Software's ProActivity Suite of products, Profiler, Auditor, Tracer, Scout, and Metrics can be used in combination or independently to proactively manage compliance at the points of control. At the heart of ProActivity is a rule-based data system fueled by a library of expertly translated regulatory content. This content integration is unique to ProActivity and is Dakota Software's key differentiator.
References
http://www.dakotasoft.com http://www.dakotasoft.com/contact.asp http://www.cose.org/NEOSA%20Network/Tech%20Week/Best%20of%20Tech%20Awards.aspx http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220090043762%22.PGNR.