Green IT Dashboard
Dashboard Spy Topic: Environmental Dashboard.
Green information technology infrastructure projects have been receiving increasing focus as more companies come under regulatory pressure to reduce their carbon footprint. Microsoft has released a Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX that helps companies with the monitoring of energy costs, consumption metrics and greenhouse gas emissions.
This environmental dashboard centers on a customizable page titled “My Role Center,” which displays environmental information with metrics such as “Actual Energy Costs,” “KPI List,” “Greenhouse Gas Emissions” and an “Energy Consumption” chart.
Data can be entered into the system by hand, or taken from meters or purchase orders. For example, an accounts payable clerk can open a new tab for a utility company and input the substance being consumed (such as electricity or gas), the units and quantity, and the dates over which the substance is being used, and then that data will be tracked.
Here is a screen shot of the Environmental Sustainability Dashboard demo video. Click on that link to launch the video.
For more information on this business intelligence dashboard, see Microsoft’s Environmental Sustainability Dashboard.
Update: This just in. There is a good article on Green IT called Software as a Service: The Secret Weapon for Profits and the Planet. It’s an interesting article. Here is an excerpt:
Now, companies in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) sector are leading a charge to show how SaaS is the ultimate secret weapon for reducing any client company’s carbon footprint. Arguably, it has always been integral to the ethos of SaaS to be green. At the core of SaaS offerings of any stripe are greater operating efficiency , lower costs, and shared resources among clients; all solid sustainability practices. Now, to measure their green impact, SaaS companies are tracking the planetary benefit of their performance in terms of saving trees, jet fuel, or disk space and demonstrating through conversations and case studies how their clients shuffle less paper, travel less, or store and access data more efficiently.
Framing cost reduction as a green initiative may also be a win-win for companies, their employees, and the environment. According to Jhana Senxian, researcher at Aberdeen and co-author of the upcoming book Green IT for Dummies, “Sustainability builds employee loyalty.” Senxian explains, “Acoforategreen/sustainability initiative gets a lot more volunteers than a typical cost-reduction initiative where a company would get just a few volunteers.”
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