Plan and prepare for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability in 2022 release wave 2
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The 2022 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2022 to March 2023. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability.
Overview
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability empowers organizations to accelerate sustainability progress by bringing together a growing set of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) capabilities from Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and solutions from a global ecosystem of partners.
Our cloud unifies data and offers an increasingly automated and comprehensive view into the emissions impact of their entire operations and value chain. It enables organizations to record and more accurately report their emissions, as well as continually test and optimize reduction strategies. The solution can be integrated with any business system, making it possible to embed sustainability in everyday business processes.
International availability of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability can be explored through the Industry Cloud availability report.
Updates to Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability 2022 release wave 2
Investment areas
Data integration and calculations
Provide a blend of data ingestion methods—from manual input or file imports to automated, direct connections to data sources—to collect data from any business system, enterprise resource planning (ERP) system or platform. Centralize this data and calculate the emissions using specialized factors and formulas.
System expansion and enhancement
Enhancements and expansions covered in this section include GEO expansions, API options, and more.
Value chain visibility
Provide scope 3 category calculations to help drive supply chain efficiencies, reduce emissions, and design out waste.
Reporting, disclosure, and automated insights
Leverage dashboards and analytics to accurately report and disclose emissions data for external and internal communications, annual reports, and sustainability reports. Track performance against goals and gain actionable insights.
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability below:
For application administrators
User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.
Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.