Microsoft adopts CarbonSystems Software as standard for environmental management reporting

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Microsoft adopts CarbonSystems Software as standard for environmental management reporting

Greentech Lead America: Microsoft has adopted
CarbonSystems’ Environmental Sustainability Platform (ESP) cloud application as
its new global standard for managing its energy, efficiency and
environmental-performance reporting.

CarbonSystems was selected based on its ability to use
cloud computing to simplify and streamline Microsoft’s global greenhouse gas
management and reporting to stakeholders.

CarbonSystems’ ESP will be implemented across Microsoft’s
global operations, which comprise over 600 facilities across 110 countries.

“Our business offering will mature as we collaborate
with Microsoft to advance the value that data and cloud computing provides our
customers. The scale and reach of their diverse, global infrastructure – from
corporate real estate to data centers – will drive ongoing enhancements in our
software platform,” said CarbonSystems’ CEO David Solsky.

Analyst firm Verdantix said Microsoft’s adoption of a
single software platform to manage its sustainability performance underscores a
global trend to standardize the capture and management of disparate
nonfinancial data such as energy, emissions, and other environmental metrics.

“Many organizations struggle to capture and
integrate sustainability data sourced from different localities as they strive
for a single version of the truth. By adopting the CarbonSystems’ solution
Microsoft will have one platform for managing and reporting non-financial sustainability,”
said Verdantix CEO David Metcalfe.

ESP is a cloud-based data management engine that allows
global electronic data interchange (EDI) with internal systems and third party
suppliers. Its deployment will deliver important benefits to Microsoft, including:

* Automating energy and sustainability data collection to
support CDP reporting

* Cutting the time and cost of managing corporate
environmental information by automating the capture and tracking of energy,
water and other environmental data from utilities and third party suppliers.

*
Providing up to date, auditable business and compliance reports via dashboards
summarizing energy, emissions and other environmental data.

* Informing
efficiency and cost-saving decisions by providing a wide range of environmental
performance analytics such as benchmarking, forecasting and marginal abatement
cost analysis tools.

* Verifying the impacts, return on investment and payback
from efficiency initiatives.

Adopting ESP complements Microsoft’s goal of leveraging
technology to reduce its energy use, emissions, and waste by harnessing data to
make more informed decisions about the company’s resource use.

“Microsoft is committed to measuring, transparently
reporting, and minimizing the carbon footprint of our operations. We view
CarbonSystems as a key part of our effort to achieve Microsoft’s business and
environmental sustainability goals. Carbon System’s ESP will enable us to
efficiently collect, analyze and share environmental data, delivering new
levels of understanding about the resources we use,” said Rob Bernard,
chief environmental strategist at Microsoft.

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