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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Avaya Chooses Hara Environmental and Energy Management Solution

SAN MATEO, Calif.- Hara, a leading provider of environmental and energy management software, today announced that it has signed Avaya, a global leader in enterprise communications systems, software and services, as a customer for its environmental and energy management offering.

Hara will provide Avaya with a comprehensive environmental and energy management system of record, which will aggregate information across various data sources to provide the company with an overall view of its energy and resource consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impact. The solution will enable Avaya to manage and optimize reduction strategies supporting energy efficiency and natural resource usage, and automate manual reporting processes such as their annual Climate Leaders report submission.

"Avaya works closely with its customers to help them meet their environmental commitments," said Kevin Gould, vice president R&D and sustainability officer, Avaya. "As such, we are dedicated to finding new ways to improve the sustainability of our own operations. Hara's tools will enhance our tracking and reporting capabilities as we continue to deliver on our commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 15 percent by 2015."

"Hara is honored to have been selected by Avaya as they continue to set a gold standard for sustainability practices," said Amit Chatterjee, CEO and Founder, Hara. "Hara EEM's 'Discover, Plan, Act and Innovate' methodology is well suited to help Avaya and its customers and partners improve resource efficiency and minimize environmental impact through informed environmental and energy management in every facet of business."

In the growing market of environmental and energy management, Hara has emerged as a leader through consistent product delivery, customer deployments and domain expertise. Deployed in over 97 countries, Hara EEM is a cloud-based solution that enables organizations to strategically manage and optimize their energy and natural resource usage and identify and execute efficiency strategies across the enterprise and value chain. Hara works with leading companies and government organizations to establish each client's environmental and energy record, identify and prioritize reduction projects, and implement best practices.

For more information about Avaya's leading sustainability approach, please visit www.avaya.com/green.

About Hara

Hara helps organizations grow and profit while optimizing natural resource consumption and minimizing environmental impact. The Hara™ Environmental and Energy Management solution enables organizations to manage and optimize their organizational metabolism - the collective resources consumed and resulting outputs across an organization and its value chain - including energy, water, waste and carbon. Hara empowers an end-to-end environmental and energy business process from reporting to reduction to help organizations improve operational efficiency, maximize value and manage risk. Hara customers include leading organizations such as ADWEA, Aerojet, Akamai, City of Las Vegas, City of Palo Alto, City of Philadelphia, Coca-Cola, Diebold, Hasbro, Intuit, EMD Millipore, News Corporation and Safeway. The company is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, JAFCO and Nth Power. For more information, please visit www.hara.com.

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