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Independent analysis of Locus Technologies customers shows that deploying Locus’s cloud-based EHS and ESG applications delivers measurable ROI in less than six months. Customers consistently reported significant process automation, reduced reporting costs, improved productivity, efficient headcount, and the retirement of costly and fragmented legacy systems. A unified data architecture gave management improved visibility and decision-making capabilities that competitors could not match.
Locus at a Glance
Founded in Silicon Valley in 1997, Locus Technologies pioneered multitenant SaaS for environmental compliance, sustainability, and ESG reporting. Today, Locus supports some of the world’s largest enterprises and government agencies, across industries such as energy, utilities, life sciences, technology, and manufacturing.
Applications include:
- EIM (Environmental Information Management): laboratory and field analytical data at scale
- Water Suite: drinking water, wastewater, industrial water quality, PFAS, and produced water management
- Waste: cradle-to-grave waste tracking, manifests, shipments, and cost optimization
- Air & GHG / ESG / Sustainability: emissions tracking, CSRD compliance, climate disclosures
- Locus Platform (LP): compliance, tasks, audits, and workflow automation
- OneView: real-time analytics dashboards across all applications
- GIS+ and Digital Twin: spatial visualization and predictive modeling
Key ROI Drivers
1. Automation of complex workflows
Customers reduced manual compliance tracking and reporting labor by up to 60%, lowering reliance on spreadsheets and consultants.
2. Headcount efficiency
By streamlining sampling, validation, and reporting, customers avoided hiring additional staff while expanding regulatory coverage.
3. Retirement of legacy systems
Customers reported eliminating overlapping point solutions for water, waste, and emissions—cutting both licensing and IT maintenance costs.
4. Faster, higher-quality reporting
Locus’s centralized database and metadata-driven configurability allowed customers to complete regulatory filings and ESG disclosures in a fraction of the time.
5. Improved visibility and decision-making
Executives and environmental managers cited Locus OneView dashboards as critical to spotting trends, optimizing spending, and avoiding penalties.
Customer Outcomes
- A Fortune 100 energy company reduced per-sample data management costs by over 40% while integrating water, waste, and GHG data into a single system of record.
- A major US government laboratory eliminated over a dozen legacy databases, consolidating compliance data into Locus EIM, reducing IT overhead by millions of dollars annually.
- A multi-state water utility automated compliance and reporting workflows, cutting staff time per report from days to hours and reducing audit preparation costs by 70%.
Why Locus Delivers Faster ROI than Roll-up Competitors
Unlike private equity rollups that assemble siloed modules, Locus is built on a single, multitenant SaaS platform. This provides:
- A single source of truth for compliance and ESG data
- Rapid deployment with minimal IT overhead
- No costly middleware or integration projects
- A continuously updated, AI-ready system
Conclusion
For organizations seeking a future-proof compliance and sustainability platform, Locus consistently delivers ROI in under a year by lowering operational costs, eliminating redundant systems, and providing executives with actionable intelligence.
Locus is the only self-funded water, air, soil, biological, energy, and waste EHS software company that is still owned and managed by its founder. The brightest minds in environmental science, embodied carbon, CO2 emissions, refrigerants, and PFAS hang their hats at Locus, and they’ve helped us to become a market leader in EHS software. Every client-facing employee at Locus has an advanced degree in science or professional EHS experience, and they incubate new ideas every day – such as how machine learning, AI, blockchain, and the Internet of Things will up the ante for EHS software, ESG, and sustainability.
