At Nexthink, we are committed to supporting our customers as they accelerate sustainable IT improvements in the global fight against climate change. Through our Sustainable IT solution, we aim to provides vital insights to help IT and EUC professionals embed sustainability into the core of their IT strategy. The great news is that doing this leads directly to operational efficiency and cost savings. We hope every company keeps this in mind as they accelerate their sustainable IT efforts.
Our solution translates endpoint-deep energy consumption data into actionable carbon footprint information to support GHG reporting, carbon footprint reduction efforts, cost reductions from abnormal and unnecessary energy consumption. The solution also provides campaigns to encourage employee behavioral change and impact sustainability goals.
Let’s take a closer look at four business benefits our customers gain from our sustainable IT solution.
1. Measure & Baseline Your Footprint
If you want to measure your progress, you first need to set a baseline. Our Sustainable IT Solution now includes powerful live dashboards with dynamic filtering capabilities for operating system, device models and manufacturer, and more, to give insights into your sustainability performance through any lens or level of granularity. This provides the raw data needed to report on CO2 emissions from your digital workplace and enables you to baseline performance for continuous improvements.
2. Reduce Hardware/Device Energy Consumption
Devices make up nearly half of digital technology emissions, so understanding device consumption is essential to any sustainable IT effort. Nexthink delivers information on Windows Laptop energy consumption, broken down by disk, display, CPU, and network, as well as estimations for desktop and virtual machine consumption.
With this, you can identify energy-intensive devices, take proactive measures to reduce their environmental impact, and incorporate sustainability criteria into hardware refresh and procurement decision-making. Furthermore, you can now track the energy impact of peripherals such as monitors, enabling you to drive improvements across the majority of physical devices.
3. Avoid Costs by Identifying Abnormal Consumption & Inefficiencies
Identifying inefficient, abnormal, and unnecessary consumption is the fastest way to cut down energy and reduce costs. We’re excited to introduce several new features that help identify abnormal consumption patterns, allowing you to take action on energy-intensive devices or processes. And with best practice compliance insights, including Windows power plan recommendations and macOS “always on” app awareness, you can ensure that devices are set for maximum energy efficiency. Additionally, you can identify devices running unnecessarily and inactive servers, both of which contribute to energy waste.
4. Influence Employee Awareness & Sustainable Behavior
Employees are crucial to lasting sustainability change and our solution sets you up to drive awareness and influence. Through surveys and quizzes, educational content, targeted communications, and self-help campaigns, you can understand employee sentiment and maturity related to sustainable IT, identify areas where awareness and engagement efforts are needed, and drive behavioral change to support your goals. Through engagement tools, you can foster a culture of sustainability within your organization and make sustainability a shared responsibility among employees.
We are determined to support sustainability and carbon reduction efforts and to that end will continue to innovate in this domain. Sustainable IT may still be considered a special initiative by some, but this is changing, and the truth is that all companies will embed sustainability into the core of their IT planning, procurement, service delivery, ongoing asset management and beyond – or fail to meet unwavering regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations. We want to support every customer to be able to meet and exceed these.
As always, we offer Sustainable IT to all Nexthink customers free of charge and are here to help and learn from you along the way.
Learn more about Nexthink’s Sustainable IT solution.
