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Facts
Challenges

Sustainability

#1 risk to company growth

$30 Trillion

Global Sustainability Investment

people believe business are not doing enough

87%

customers believe corporations should place at least equal weight on business and supporting their communities

60%

millennials state that a sense of purpose is a key reason they choose to work for their current employers

Sources: “Millennial Survey”, Deloitte, 2016; “Purpose in Practice”, Claremont

Analyzing carbon emissions from energy usage and company travel can be daunting and time-consuming

Business requires accurate data to take wise decisions on sustainability and carbon emission tracking

Data collection is complex due to various data sources such as IoT Sensors, spreadsheets, cloud, third-party data sources, on-premise databases

Requires huge effort and cost to combine entire data into a single platform and generate KPI dashboards out of it

Tackling carbon accounting audits take months – not weeks or days

Key Features

Transition to carbon neutral status

TRUSTED PLATFORM

Built on Microsoft Power Platform

TRUSTED PLATFORM

Built on Microsoft Power Platform

VARIOUS DATA SOURCES

Carbon emission, electricity, fuel, travel, water data from real time and offline sources

VARIOUS DATA SOURCES

Carbon emission, electricity, fuel, travel, water data from real time and offline sources

AUTOMATED CALCULATIONS

Seamless use of global reference data

AUTOMATED CALCULATIONS

Seamless use of global reference data

ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS

Organizations gain accurate and insightful results

ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS

Organizations gain accurate and insightful results

MOBILE FIRST

Access data from any device

MOBILE FIRST

Access data from any device

Power Platform Benefits

Simplify Carbon Data Collection

Data collection from various data sources – real time and batch
Automatic calculations
Global standards

C-Suite Ready Dashboards

Custom Business Analytics Dashboards
Sustainability metrics – corporate energy use patterns, emission trends, etc.

Involve Your Employees

Employees can check their contribution on Sustainability initiatives
Share achievements on Social Media

Investor Friendly Sustainability Reports

Regulatory reporting
Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) compliant reports
Asset Managers, Data Aggregators, Asset Owners, and Advisors

Well defined Workflow & Approval

From data collection to extrapolation
From validation till optimization
From internal auditing for normalizing till external auditings

Detailed Auditing Report For Each Entity

Monthly/ Quarterly/ Annual energy consumption
Carbon source data
Renewal energy data
Data quality metrics
Auditing results

Solving Problems

Carbon tracking challenges
Integrated data platform
Auditing
Replacing old forms

Calculates emissions from various sources

Electricity & FuelBusiness
Business Travel
Supply Chain Emission
Waste, Health & Safety

Avoids many issues with traditional carbon emissions accounting such as

Incomplete Records
Manual Data Tracking

Offers easy-to-use, executive-ready, dynamic dashboards using PowerApps & Power BI

To visualize entire carbon emissions & identify major carbon emission contributors
Provides trends and recommendations to take appropriate actions using Azure ML models
To upload emission data and electricity bills and extract data using Azure AI layer

Emissions Data Platform on Azure Datalake

Avoid silos - Entire sustainability & carbon emission data in one data source
Entire data on Azure Cloud – easy integration with applications in ecosystem
Auto generated auditing reports for internal & external auditors

Swiftly implement workflows using Power Automate

Leverage Power Automate to add more automation like triggering tasks, alert, approval workflows and notifications
Reduce time to collect data & calculate data from months to days
Take appropriate actions proactively

Carbon Accounting Auditing in Weeks, not in Months

Collect data in a secured manner by implementing Data Security features
Generate reports automatically by following pre-defined data formats compliant with auditing agencies
Streamline data gathering and climate action plan with embedded guides and user flows

Access data from anywhere

Entire data is on Azure Cloud, everyone has access to data
Use smart phone, other portable devices, or desktop/ laptop
Immediate notifications using Microsoft Teams, Emails or Smart Phone notification features

Go Paperless

All paper bills and reports uploaded to Data Platform
Securely stored using SharePoint or Azure Data Lake
Power Platform AI models extracts data from paper bills and dynamically updates dashboards
System generates e-bills accessible via dashboards
No more paper bills or reports

Sample Usecases

Wants to monitor Carbon Emission, Renewable Energy and Sustainability KPIs of current calendar year

CORPORATE CEO

A Retail chain aims to replace entire paper-based electricity bills by digital format.

“BEST” fetches energy data from IoT devices or it can be entered manually to incorporate into dashboard instantaneously

RETAIL- PAPERLESS INITIATIVE

An external auditor needs organization‘s sustainability data.

Rather than consolidating entire data manually into spreadsheets and share it via email, external auditor can log into “BEST” and perform auditing!

EXTERNAL AUDITOR

Microsoft Cloud Based Technical Architecture

CRM / ERP

“BEST” fetches CRM/ERP data from trusted data sources.
Out of box connectors

User Interface

PowerApps as UI for end users Microsoft Teams embedded

Cloud based

Azure Datalake - data storage
Power BI – dashboards
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ML/AI – trends/ predictions

RPA

Update Legacy System from “BEST” by using RPA

Potential ROI

Speed

6 weeks

Reduce carbon accounting from six months to 6 weeks

Accuracy

60-80%

Upto 60-80% increase in data accuracy

Productivity

200%

Upto 200% productivity increase due to time savings and single data platform

PnL Impact

40%

Upto 40% spending reduction sustainability specific initiatives