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Green Status Pro sponsored a unique peer-to-peer webinar, May 31 Deadline: Conflict Minerals Lessons Learned, on May 1,2014. Leading practitioners described the challenges they faced implementing the SEC’s Conflict Minerals Reporting requirement in their companies; their solutions; and the improvements they will make in their programs during 2014.

Green Status Pro has announced a partnership with IBM that delivers the power of Green Status Pro’s cloud-based compliance management service platform through the IBM Cloud marketplace. Starting today, IBM clients can try the industry-leading conflict minerals reporting service for free. IBM clients can submit up to 15 EICC-GeSI Conflict Minerals Report Templates (CMRTs) and the service will provide them with critical RCOI (reasonable country of origin inquiry) reports valued at $4,500.

Learn how executives responsible for conflict minerals reporting at Plantronics, Quantum and Astronics are managing compliance with Dodd-Frank Section 1502. They will review their challenges and solutions. “Responsible companies recognize that excellence in conflict minerals reporting can provide a competitive advantage,” declared Rob Kasameyer, president of Green Status Pro. “Therefore we are bringing together leading practitioners in companies that are both filers and suppliers working within normal industry budget constraints to lead a real world discussion of best practices.”

The leader in automating and simplifying SEC Conflict Minerals Reporting, Green Status Pro, and public accounting firm specialized in governance and compliance, Candela Solutions, announced today a collaborative agreement to deliver a comprehensive solution for SEC Filers, which includes a cloud-based software. The initiative is intended to design and automate the reporting process for those who are required to comply with Dodd-Frank Section 1502.

Green Status Pro, the leading cloud-based software service for automating SEC Conflict Minerals Compliance Reporting, has authored a free White Paper to assist corporate executives in meeting the May 31st SEC Form SD filing deadline. Green Status Pro’s White Paper, A Practical Guide to Conflict Minerals Reporting, should be read by every Conflict Minerals Compliance Officer AND the corporation’s senior executive who will sign SEC Form SD to provide a common understanding of the regulatory requirements and business policy challenges created by Dodd-Frank Section 1502. It can be obtained for free by clicking here.

Green Status Pro has announced that it is offering companies the opportunity to test drive their Ingestor Service for free. No downloads and no software to install. To receive two Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (RCOI) Reports at no cost, companies simply provide Green Status Pro with their company and contact name and upload and up to eight (8) supplier EICC-GeSI Conflict Minerals Report Templates (CMRTs). The free reports can be selected from a comprehensive suite of available of RCOI Ingestor-generated reports. All information is uploaded using the intuitive Green Status Pro website. Within two business days, RCOI reports are emailed, after having been thoroughly validated, analyzed and smelter entries consolidated.

Green Status Pro is dramatically changing the way the 6,000 U.S. corporations that must file SEC Form SD on May 31, 2014, are preparing their RCOI (reasonable country of origin inquiry) reports. Companies are turning to Green Status Pro’s technology to quickly and accurately turn their suppliers’ EICC-GeSI Conflict Minerals Report Templates (CMRTs) into the reports they must have to be in compliance with Dodd-Frank Section 1502.

Green Status Pro, the leader in Conflict Minerals Reporting, announces the industry’s only processing service for both validating supplier EICC-GeSI Conflict Minerals Template Reports and delivering the resulting SEC-mandated Consolidated Smelter Report. Green Status Pro’s innovative Ingestor Data Review and Reporting Service for Supplier EICC-GeSI Conflict Minerals Reports batch processes a customer’s supplier RCOI reports; validates the data and reports inconsistencies with acceptable responses; and generates critical consolidated and aggregated reports. Green Status Pro (GSP) provides customers with 2-business day turnaround.

Green Status Pro, the leader in Conflict Minerals Reporting, announces the industry’s only software service, Ingestor, to automate the SEC requirements for Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (RCOI) reporting. Ingestor meets the critical compliance needs of 6,000 corporations subject to SEC oversight that must report their sourcing and custody of gold, tin, tungsten and tantalum (3TG) by May 31, 2014 and all their suppliers back to the smelter.

Green Status Pro, the leader in Conflict Minerals Reporting, released its RoadMap CM™ software service today. Roadmap CM for Conflict Minerals automates the SEC-mandated annual review of a company’s conflict minerals due diligence procedures. Roadmap CM is the only cloud-based application specifically designed to simplify SEC Conflict Minerals Rule due diligence reporting responsibilities.