Green IT: Your Status Quo Assessment for Sustainable IT

Why is Sustainable IT Important?

Sustainability in IT means using resources efficiently, reducing energy consumption, maximizing the lifespan of devices, and minimizing environmental impact at the end of their lifecycle. These actions help improve a company's carbon footprint, minimize compliance risks, and reduce costs in the long run.

IT Asset Management (ITAM) plays a supportive role by creating transparency and promoting the optimal use of IT resources.

This topic is especially relevant with the European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). This regulation requires companies to clearly define their sustainability goals and report on them regularly. It demands detailed proof of how ecological, social, and governance-related aspects are implemented in all business areas, including IT.

The requirements of the CSRD and other ESG guidelines make it essential to have a precise understanding of your current IT processes. Therefore, the Status Quo Assessment is the critical first step. Only when you know exactly where you stand can you set clear goals and initiate the necessary steps to achieve your sustainability objectives.

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Green IT Status Quo Assessment: The Starting Point for Your IT Strategy

The Green IT Status Quo Assessment forms the foundation for any sustainable IT strategy. It involves assessing and evaluating the current state of your IT processes, with ITAM serving as a supportive tool.
Our assessment provides you with a comprehensive analysis of your ITAM practices concerning sustainability, resource usage, and compliance with regulations such as the CSRD.

Why a Status Quo Assessment?

Assessment of the Current State

It is crucial to first conduct an accurate inventory of your IT infrastructure and related processes. This is the only way to make informed decisions for optimizations.

Tailored Strategy Development

Based on the results of the assessment, we can develop tailored recommendations for a sustainable ITAM strategy that aligns with your specific business goals and requirements.

Certification and Compliance Requirements

The assessment provides the necessary data to ensure that you meet all legal requirements, such as the CSRD, and remain transparent to investors and stakeholders.

How Our Status Quo Assessment Works

Our Status Quo Assessment is a flexible and comprehensive process tailored to the specific needs and resources of your company. We conduct audits, review process documents, and perform analyses to evaluate the current state of your ITAM processes regarding sustainability.

Our analyses are based on international standards such as ISO 14001 (Environmental Management), ISO 50001 (Energy Management), and the requirements of the CSRD, as well as industry-specific guidelines. We review your IT processes for compliance with these standards and offer clear recommendations on how to implement them.

Every company has its own goals, structures, and requirements. Our Status Quo Assessment is therefore individually tailored to your needs, resources, and preferences. The focus can be adjusted flexibly to emphasize specific sustainability priorities. Whether you want to reduce energy consumption in data centers, increase recycling rates, or minimize CO2 emissions, we adapt our assessment to your priorities.

Our Status Quo Assessment covers all key areas relevant to a sustainable IT infrastructure. These include

Integration of Sustainability into IT Processes: We analyze how well your IT processes are optimized for sustainability. We examine whether your IT policies reflect ecological and social sustainability and whether measures are already in place to achieve these goals. ITAM helps monitor and optimize these processes.
Resource and Energy Efficiency: A key focus is examining the energy consumption of your IT infrastructure and the efficiency of your hardware. We assess whether existing devices are operating efficiently and explore ways to reduce energy consumption.
Lifecycle Management and Reusability of IT Assets: ITAM plays a central role in managing the entire lifecycle of an IT asset—from procurement to operation to disposal. Through targeted use of ITAM, we evaluate the reusability of your IT equipment and identify opportunities to maximize the lifespan of devices, contributing to a more sustainable IT.
Compliance and Legal Requirements: A key element of the assessment is ensuring compliance with legal regulations such as the CSRD. We review whether your ITAM processes meet the requirements and identify potential risks to avoid penalties and reputational damage.

During the assessment, we systematically collect all relevant data related to your IT assets, from energy consumption and CO2 emissions to process documentation and governance structures. We work closely with your team to ensure all necessary information is gathered and accurately interpreted.

Based on the assessment results, we develop a tailored action plan for you. This plan includes concrete steps to make your ITAM processes more efficient and sustainable. These steps include:

Cost savings through optimized resource usage
Long-term sustainability goals: Setting clear, measurable goals to reduce the ecological footprint of your IT
Training programs for your employees to promote sustainability practices in the IT area
Technological recommendations: Selecting energy-efficient devices and IT systems that save costs and energy in the long term

After the initial assessment, we won't leave you on your own. Sustainability is an ongoing process. We offer regular reviews to ensure that your ITAM processes remain up-to-date. We continuously evaluate the progress of your sustainability strategy and adjust the action plan when new technologies or legal requirements emerge.

Your Benefits of the Status Quo Assessment at a Glance

Tailored strategy development:

Our assessment adapts flexibly to your business goals and specific sustainability requirements.

Optimized resource and energy efficiency

You save costs by optimizing resource consumption in your IT asset management.

Legal certainty and compliance

Avoid penalties and reputational damage by meeting all relevant legal requirements, including the CSRD.

Transparency and trust

Increase transparency with your stakeholders and enhance your reputation through measurable sustainability successes.

Long-term competitiveness

A sustainable IT infrastructure is key to securing your long-term competitiveness. By optimizing the efficiency and environmental friendliness of your IT processes, you gain clear market advantages. ITAM helps you achieve these goals effectively.

Increase your sustainability with the following measures

Collaboration and Remote Work

Sustainability requires us to work together in a more intelligent, efficient and resource-conserving way. This offers real advantages: Avoid travel and replace it with virtual collaboration. Avoid redundancies and unnecessary repetitive activities through knowledge sharing and collaboration on shared documents.

Intelligent Document Processing

With Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), requests can be automatically recognized and classified, specialist data extracted and directed into a digital workflow. Digitize and automate manual processes. Produce the desired output in better quality and with fewer resources. Save paper and reduce your CO2 footprint.

Business process optimization

Sustainability reporting gives you greater transparency and valuable insights that you can use to optimize production and purchasing, for example. In purchasing, companies already use numerous parameters to determine the best suppliers. As part of the Supply Chain Act, factors such as CO2 emissions also play a role.

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Sustainability pays off

Perhaps you have been dealing with the topic of sustainability for some time - or perhaps the current legal situation is forcing you to take appropriate measures in the short term. The fact is: Sustainability pays off - even beyond mere legal compliance! According to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, sustainability not only includes goals such as energy or resource savings, but also education, equality, innovation, inclusion and production. In all these areas you can

act responsibly for the benefit of people and the environment,
but also differentiate yourself from the competition and generate added value for your company:

Reputation

Employees prefer companies that already act sustainably today - and focus, for example, on equal pay, inclusion and further training. In the future, investors and customers will also avoid companies that resist these trends.

Efficiency

Greater sustainability also includes making processes and the use of resources more efficient. This not only makes your company greener, but also saves you time and money.

Savings

Sustainability helps to save costs. By planning intelligently, you can, for example, reduce expenditure on IT procurement and operation. Efficient hardware, long runtimes and intelligent deletion plans to save data conserve IT budget and resources.

Legal compliance

Last but not least, the fulfillment of obligations to the legislator is also essential for many companies. It is foreseeable that further requirements will follow in the future. Be prepared today for the challenges of tomorrow.

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