Sustainable Solutions
Being a sustainable business is more than simply reducing your organisation’s impact on the environment. It’s also about looking towards the future and taking steps to maximise longevity in the market. Like many IT leaders, you may be under pressure to reduce costs, improve your business’ corporate image and keep risk in check. With this in mind, Dimension Data has developed a suite of Sustainable Solutions and Services to help you better manage your travel, energy and waste.
Travel Reduction
Our Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) Solutions help you reduce travel by overcoming the restrictions of geography. Our collaborative tools allow your dispersed teams to work together effectively, while visual communications make face-to-face meetings successful without the need for expensive and time-consuming journeys.
|
•
|
Unified Communications and Collaboration Development Model - helps you create a roadmap to guide you on the journey from your current UC&C state, into the future, based on strategic and operational imperatives that include the drive towards sustainability.
|
|
•
|
How Do You Meet Assessment –analyses existing meeting trends and provides a roadmap for how collaboration and visual communications can be used to reduce cost, increase productivity and improve sustainability.
|
|
•
|
Managed Services for Visual Communications – improves the experience of visual communications, and includes comprehensive reporting to identify the reduction in carbon, cost and time spent on travelling.
|
|
|
Energy Efficiency
Our ‘Virtualisation’ and ‘Network as the Platform’ architectures provide a range of Sustainable Solutions to improve energy efficiency, including:
|
•
|
Smart Buildings – involve the integration of building management systems by using the IP network as the platform to drive energy efficiency and simplify operations.
|
|
•
|
Next Generation Desktop Assessment – helps you identify strategies that work for your business, taking into account a wide range of factors such as mobility, security and energy efficiency.
|
|
•
|
Virtualisation Assessment – quantifies the savings in energy, heat and administration that you can make by reducing the amount of physical servers required.
|
|
•
|
Power and Cooling Assessment – helps you maximise computing per kilowatt, and identify, pre-empt and solve power and heat-related problems in your data centres.
|
|
|
Waste Management
Our global procurement services simplify international business across a wide range of geographies, and reduce waste through the following sustainable solutions:
|
•
|
e-Procurement – Dimension Data Direct, a global e-Procurement system, allows you to reduce the complexity and administration associated with traditional procurement, leading to less waste. Read more about building sustainability into your supply chain through e-procurement in our white paper here.
|
|
•
|
e-Waste – Available in multiple geographies, our e-Waste services ensure that you can dispose of redundant equipment in an ethical and environmentally friendly manner that complies with local legislation and standards for data destruction.
|
|
|