Key Green Solutions

I like the fact that the software is easy to use, versatile, up-to-date, and that our data is visually appealing and accessible to all employees. Those features promote progress in sustainability because we can see how we are doing, where we can improve and make better business decisions, cut costs, and save energy. They help us establish realistic targets and overcome complacency. When we see how we’re doing in comparison with other facilities this pushes us to a state of continuous improvement and/or reminds us to celebrate our successes. Because data is accessible, it encourages transparency. If there’s a concern, we can address it sooner rather than later. Being open and honest about our business operations also demonstrates respect for our employees.

One difficulty is pulling our colleagues together for a digital meeting in order to provide training to Key Green Solutions. However,Key Green Solutions offered an incredible amount of dates to take advantage of this training.

In the past, getting the data that I need for the Practice Greenhealth award and any other application that requires data on energy, water, waste streams or purchasing was like trying to dig a hole to china. The hole just kept getting bigger, but most of the time, the data wasn't actually there. The fact that Key Green not only has the data, at my fingertips, but also automatically uploads it into the application, has freed up a lot of my time. Time that I can spend doing the work that needs to be done on our environmental programs.

Really, it's the thing that i like least about most softwares. It's very user friendly for me, because I understand the questions that it provides the answers to. But for folks who aren't familiar with the questions, it can be more difficult to navigate. As I said, this is common to most softwares, and it falls to us doing the work on the ground to solve it. Honestly, Key Green does a very good job of giving us the tools to educate on this.

The software is great spot for getting all the data you need for an organization. This includes building area, utility use, and utility providers.

Some of the best features include area normalization and rate normalization.

The multi-year reports are really good. These could be improved with an ability to select the exact years you want.

I wish the report selector was more intuitive. I spend a lot of time going through all of the options looking for the correct report. This could be improved by having default options already selected so you can see what the report is and then use filters to click the specifics that you want (facility, energy type, etc).

I also wish there was more data analysis done automatically to make sure data is correct. There are several times that we see a report where one month of data is obviously wrong (either input incorrectly by the utility or by Key Green or data was never transmitted). Ideally, a monthly or weekly report to the owner showing data anomalies would be generated.

An Open API interface would be great.

Finally, a comparison of facilities against each other would be great.