Shaping the Green Agenda

Accenture's Green IT program helps organizations align their IT vision and strategy with their sustainability goals to achieve high performance. By improving the IT infrastructure and capabilities that affect people and processes across the organization, we help our clients use IT to reduce their carbon footprint while increasing efficiency and productivity. From the data center to end-user working practices, the result is immediate environmental and business benefits, reduced costs and maximized value of our client’s IT spend.

Accenture’s practical Green IT solutions deliver on your organization’s need for sustainable growth while reducing your environmental impact.

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Data Center: Refreshingly Simple Solutions
Growing power consumption and rapidly escalating requirements for information storage and distribution are creating unsustainable demands on data center equipment, applications, power and cooling capacity. Accenture helps eliminate unnecessary complexity, consumption and waste to conserve energy, enhance business capabilities and preserve the environment.
Learn more about Accenture’s Data Center Technology & Operations services

Office Environment: The Planet-Friendly Workplace
Increase collaboration and reduce inefficiency and waste by automating common workplace activities and processes. Accenture’s skilled IT professionals design, build and deliver workplace solutions that reduce carbon emissions while increasing productivity and employee satisfaction.
Learn more about Accenture’s Workplace Technology & Collaboration services

Corporate Citizenship: Collecting and Protecting Information and the Planet
Unnecessary IT complexity increases vulnerability and wastes energy and human resources. Accenture’s Security group secures data and protects identities with simplified and integrated IT systems that efficiently manage resources while meeting the needs of regulators, customers, partners and constituents.
Learn more about Accenture’s Security services

Infrastructure: Design a Healthier Lifecycle for Your Enterprise IT
Strong companies are built on a sustainable IT infrastructure that evolves with internal and external demands. Accenture works with clients to develop a vision, principles, standards and a roadmap to guide the selection and deployment of energy-efficient technologies that support business needs while preserving the environment.
Learn more about Accenture’s Enterprise Architecture services

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The following information showcases some of our latest thinking on how organizations can begin taking a holistic approach to the environmental impact of their IT agenda.

Accenture Green Maturity Model: Take the First Step in Putting IT at the Top of the Environmental Agenda.
To help CIOs assess their current green maturity , Accenture has developed the Accenture Green Maturity Model. This tool is designed to highlight quick wins, quantifiable benefits and longer-term opportunities, thereby providing the CIO with the basis and rationale for further action.

Read Green IT: Beyond the Data Center
This white paper looks at the ecological impact of a business’s entire IT infrastructure and provides the CIO with a holistic prospective to a business’s carbon footprint. It demonstrates how the CIO can have a substantial opportunity to further the energy efficiency and corporate citizenship aims of the entire corporation.

Accenture Green Technology Suite
A complementary suite of tools created by Accenture Technology Labs and Accenture Technology Consulting to help clients easily create sound green strategies with business benefits that lead to high performance.

Hear from Accenture’s global Green IT lead, Steve Nunn
Hear Accenture’s global Green IT lead, Steve Nunn, discuss how Green IT can make a real contribution to the enterprise’s drive to achieve high performance.

Accenture's Green IT
Find out how the Accenture Green IT program can help your organization go green—while meeting its performance goals.

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Accenture Uses Cloud Computing to Create a Social-Media Platform for the Green Guardians Team in the Shell Eco-marathon 2009 Challenge.
Accenture Technology Labs used cloud computing and other new technologies to create a social media platform for the team it is sponsoring for the 2009 Shell Eco-marathon.

Public Service Green IT and Sustainability Virtual Symposium
View the joint presentation by Accenture and Microsoft for the virtual symposium held in March 2008. [PDF, 516KB]

Accenture Sponsors Dutch Student Team Developing Fuel-Efficient Hydrogen Car
Accenture provides its unique insight into the practical uses of technology to improve performance.

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