Defender

Environmental Decision Support Software

Defender is a proprietary software product which can be used to efficiently and accurately price environmental liabilities. Defender can be used for probabilistic cost estimating, reserve forecasting, decision analysis, and peer review. Defender is the nucleus of ERCI's consulting expertise.

The Defender software suite is comprised of three applications:

RemedyDefender	Single site analysis
PortfolioDefender	Multi-site roll-up/analysis
Due Diligence Defender	Multi-site forecasting for M&A

PortfolioDefender

PortfolioDefender aggregates data from RemedyDefender files.

Liability Forecasting: Available with PortfolioDefender or Due Diligence Defender

Features

Audit trail
Live summary of point estimates
Subtotals by site type, location, project manager, reserve account, regulation, technology, contractor
Spending prioritization
Comparison with actual expenditures, historical spending

Functions

Maintain a highly accurate, auditable reserve forecast
Report variances between actual sending, current and prior estimates
Justify long-term cost estimates (learning curves)
Apply inflation & discount rates uniformly
Provide detail via drill-down to Remedy Defender files

Benefits of PortfolioDefender

Spending prioritization (positive NPV or EVA first)
One set of books - project managers help set reserve forecast
Spending matched to reserve reductions, range of the liabilities
Simplified analysis of issues and business rules (outsourcing, LLCs, cost cap insurance, vendor consolidation, remedial technologies, insurer recoveries)
Reduced capital employed