Using Microsoft Power Platform, Azure Cloud, and AI technologies
Sustainability
#1 risk to company growth
$30 Trillion
Global Sustainability Investment
face people
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
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TRUSTED PLATFORM
Built on Microsoft Power Platform
TRUSTED PLATFORM
Built on Microsoft Power Platform
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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
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AUTOMATED CALCULATIONS
Seamless use of global reference data
AUTOMATED CALCULATIONS
Seamless use of global reference data
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ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS
Organizations gain accurate and insightful results
ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS
Organizations gain accurate and insightful results
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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