ETHICAL TECHNOLOGY
Public cloud customers consume :
77 % fewer servers
84 % less power
“ Cost , efficiency , and improving resilience will always be major drivers of digital transformation , but sustainability is now firmly a part of that conversation ”
MATTHEW WOODCOCK RVP , CUSTOMER VALUE MANAGEMENT , COUPA
at Coupa . “ We ’ re seeing two major trends , the first being a rise in interest from businesses driven first-and-foremost by a desire to improve sustainability . The second is the increasing adoption of tools that help improve sustainability in organisations after they ’ ve gone through a transformation , which may have been primarily driven by other factors .” and reduce carbon emissions by
88 % ( AWS )
Beyond box-ticking The benefits of a properly executed ERP system are undebatable , but it ’ s all too easy for cynics to believe that these solutions are rolled out purely for profit and compliance reasons . Frances Sneddon , CTO at Simul8 states that “ Sustainability still mostly tends to come up when companies are being audited on their carbon emissions and need to demonstrate that they have the tools and procedures in place to measure and document carbon output – or else face severe fines . Unfortunately , this can often make it more of a box-ticking exercise and organisations initially just want a digital tool that can easily cover this to remove the risk .”
We ’ re at a point now , however , where companies are realising that new and existing transformative ERP solutions can provide
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