South Australian rules require local governments to participate in emissions reporting and reduction efforts if they are to receive their share of Federal funding.

Campbelltown City Council was already using TechnologyOne Financials and Payroll modules, and has added Enterprise Budgeting and Business Intelligence to support its emissions program.

"We were working with a global climate protection program, but it required a lot of duplication, necessitating months of work manually rekeying data. TechnologyOne is helping us to streamline all of this and we can monitor how our emissions are faring in real time," said CEO Paul Di Iulio.

"The immediate benefit we could see was that by using TechnologyOne software, we would be able to capture all the relevant data in one place and keep it under our control," he added.

The necessary data already existed in the system, but Enterprise Budgeting and Business Intelligence frees it from the hands of accountants and presents it in an understandable form to anyone working for the council.

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One example is the use of gauge-style displays to show how the council is faring in terms of meeting a specific target; another is the generation of clear reports for the community.

"We will be able to run reports instantly in a simple, intuitive and appealing format that anyone with an interest can read and understand," Di Iulio said.

The new reporting system is expected to go live in the near future.

TechnologyOne executive chairman Adrian Di Marco said "The system we have developed can make up part of every employee or manager's personal dashboard, tracking the emissions against targets so they can see where they have to realise efficiencies and develop strategic plans to achieve this."