In addition, the Cloud for Sustainability helps users to minimise the environmental footprint of their operational systems and processes, by transitioning to clean energy, leveraging the cloud to reduce the environmental impact of buildings and equipment, and enabling seamless collaboration about sustainability goals and progress. Finally, businesses can use the Cloud for Sustainability to create sustainable value chains. This includes increasing transparency, developing more sustainable products and services, and optimising materials and product logistics. “Much of this important work is being achieved through collaboration with our global ecosystem of partners who have helped us land our ambitions and transform our business,” said Alysa Taylor, corporate vice president of industry, apps and data marketing, and Elisabeth Brinton, corporate vice president of sustainability, at Microsoft. “Today, they’re also pivotal to helping customers advance sustainability through robust, innovative solutions powered by the Microsoft Cloud.” Launch partners for the Cloud for Sustainability include ABB, Bentley Systems, Blue Yonder, EcoVadis, Honeywell, ICONICS, Johnson Controls and Transparency-One. ABB has built its Ability solutions on the platform to empower real-time, data-driven decisions for safer, smarter operations that maximise resource efficiency and contribute to a low-carbon future. EcoVadis has created a Sustainability Intelligence Suite to help businesses measure and demonstrate their own performance – and the performance of their trading partners – and share it with optimal credibility, confidentiality and control. Honeywell is also building on the platform with its Forge Energy Optimization and Predictive Maintenance solutions. The former helps building and real estate managers use heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system data by leveraging advanced internet of things (IoT), analytics, and machine learning technologies. The latter analyses asset performance to identify issues before failures occur, improving performance, reducing downtime and minimising maintenance costs. ICONICS and Johnson Controls are working to improve building sustainability too. Smart Buildings by ICONICS helps facility, real estate and digital transformation 53 COV E R S TOR Y “ To stabilise our future and build more quickly toward a global net-zero carbon economy, organisations of all types, sizes and sectors are facing the need to transform common practice”
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