Application service provider (ASP) featuring software for use in the field of facilities management, namely, software for use in designing business strategies to achieve more cost effective procurement and management of operational costs by performing multiple site resource usage and cost analysis or auditing of utility rates and by providing comparisons with benchmark data pertaining to the same, for use in analysis and auditing for others of facility operations accounts and bills, and utility service accounts and bills, for use in providing facility operating cost information by way of Internet web sites, for use in providing business cost information on facility operations costs, carbon greenhouse tracking and utility services for owners and managers of multiple site facilities with multiple service providers, for use in providing auditing and accounting information related to facility operations costs and utility services costs, and for use in providing business recommendations and solutions for cost savings related to facility operations costs and utility service costs