Integrating IT-for-Green Project through Web Services with the System of Sustainability Performance Evaluation

Corporate sustainability and sustainability management have become a key issues in modern organizations to achieve a balanced and sustainable development. Nowadays IT can support the sustainability behaviors in business processes to improve the sustainability performance in organizations. IT-for-Green is a project that proposes a new generation of Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems allowing to incorporate the strategic sustainability integration. The main motivation of this to provide a first approach of how to achieve communication, interoperability and integration with other platforms to improve the cover areas of IT-for-Green and accomplish one of the goal of this project “the integration with other applications”. The paper explores the communication and integration of IT-for-Green with the System of Sustainability Performance Evaluation using web services as a platform. A first web services definition was designed.