Accenture Green Technology Suite

Going green is no longer an option and high-performance businesses and governments all around the world are responding to the need to reduce carbon emissions in everything they do. As a major contributor to an organization’s carbon footprint, the IT department has a crucial role to play in meeting these goals.

However, this is not a matter of mere compliance. Accenture’s High Performance Business research—an ongoing program to uncover the defining characteristics of high performance across 36 industry segments and more than 6,000 companies—reveals that high performers use IT innovation as a strategic tool to transform business processes and thus to outperform competitors.

In this spirit of harnessing innovation to improve the way the business functions, Accenture Technology Labs and Accenture Technology Consulting have created the Accenture Green Technology Suite, a set of complementary tools to help organizations transform their IT departments to reduce carbon emissions—and better enable new ways of working, such as mobility and telepresence—that will ultimately yield business benefits.

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Accenture Green Technology Suite—Data Center Estimator Data centers hold the dubious distinction of being one of the largest consumers of energy within an organization’s IT systems. Accenture Technology Labs has developed a decision support tool to help assess the current state of a data center’s energy consumption in terms of both environmental and financial impact. It then helps decision makers create and evaluate strategies for cost and carbon savings as tools to reach for high performance. Find out more by downloading our Data Center Estimator brochure.

Accenture Green Technology Suite—Workplace Estimator Energy-saving policies and computing paradigms like thin-client computing are seldom applied to personal computing. In addition, many work habits—such as traveling unnecessarily to meetings—contribute to a company’s carbon footprint. The Workplace Estimator applies the same principles as the Data Center Estimator to help organizations build green technology strategies and environment-friendly IT practices within their offices. Find out more by downloading our Workplace Estimator brochure.

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In conjunction with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a special interest body formed to address major public policy issues affecting the economic health and quality of life in Silicon Valley, Accenture published the Data Center Energy Forecast Report in June 2008. The report assesses the actual savings made by companies that implemented energy-saving initiatives in their data centers in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s report to the US Congress on the efficiency of server data centers.
Find out more by reading the executive summary.

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