Reduce environmental impact of operations

Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Technical Summit May 2024

With the right data intelligence, organizations can direct targeted efforts to lessen the environmental impact of operations and plot a more sustainable and resilient course. Our global ecosystem of partners is delivering robust solutions powered by the Microsoft Cloud that use advanced analytics, machine learning, and virtual models to help customers optimize the efficiencies of their systems and processes. Integrated data solutions help you to examine and manage the footprints of your facilities, fleets, and production processes. You can then shift your employees' activities to be responsive to the changing requirements of a sustainable economy. With Microsoft Sustainability Manager, you can prioritize your initiatives and track and manage your progress.

Although it's important to identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption and emissions, it's also critical to adopt integrated systems to facilitate the transition to clean energy, efficient water use, and minimized waste disposed. For most organizations, it's not a straight path and requires flexibility to adapt to changes in markets, energy and waste infrastructures, and water resources. But intelligent tools can help you predict and adapt to changes while continuing to accelerate progress.

Energy management

Drive efficiencies and transition to clean energy. Advance your transition to clean energy and reduce your carbon footprint by deploying smart grid infrastructure solutions. Use energy management systems to optimally balance supply and demand. Incorporate renewable distributed energy resources into your power supply. Monitor, control, and optimize your energy consumption and emissions impact. Contribute to decentralization of the grid with solar panels, battery storage, and demand response.

Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability solutions to help you take advantage of this capability:

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Smart facilities

Decrease the impact of your buildings and spaces. Gain insights to help reduce carbon emissions, energy costs, water consumption, and waste disposal by analyzing data from your buildings and equipment. Optimize asset and equipment performance, improve energy and waste management, and drive smart water use. Reduce energy consumption, emissions, and waste. Maximize production efficiencies, enable autonomous operations, and enable data-driven operations management.

Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability solutions to help you take advantage of this capability:

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Collaboration and planning

Empower sustainability initiative stakeholders and contributors to seamlessly collaborate about sustainability goals, emissions data, and insights.

Microsoft Teams collaboration and chat in Microsoft Sustainability Manager facilitates communication between sustainability managers and various stakeholders. These stakeholders include business system and process experts, facility managers, c-suite leaders, energy providers, and value chain partners. They don't have to be regular users of Microsoft Sustainability Manager. The solution accelerates productivity by enabling, tracking, and storing sustainability conversations in context for easy access and reference—creating a living work thread to keep progress going.

Solutions to help you take advantage of this capability:

Partner solutions to help you take advantage of this capability:

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